Fly Fishing and Reading The Green

Today on the Doug Pike Show is a live broadcast from Galveston, as Doug talks about fishing stories, shrimp, and fly fishing with special guest Eric Trout. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Go live from thirty Gardens.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
I'm sitting here overlooking Office Bio and West Bay and
it is an absolutely first Academy.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Day down here in Dallas with a beautiful.

Speaker 5 (00:11):
Beautiful place.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm at Moody Gardens for the International fly Fishing Film
Festival and International Fly I think it's a fly fishing
film tour.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
There are two separate bodies of work.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Being represented down here in this giant MG three D
theater where we were last night and we'll be again
this evening.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
If you would like to come down, by all means,
please do. You won't be disappointed.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
And these aren't These film festivals are a little bit
different from watching a TV show on fishing. For example,
in television fishing, they've got thirty full minutes in which
they try to pack as many sponsor mentions as they can,
they try to pack in as many jumping fish as

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they can. And those are fine commercial television programs and
I like to watch them as much as anybody.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Else who fishes does.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
But the difference with these films is that they have
messages in them. They have more than just incredible fishing from.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
And for example, one of the films features a guide
down in Mexico who, before you think, oh, just another
fishing guide in Mexico, this young man was born completely
deaf and before his His parents.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Are from a very small, small village down in Mexico,
a fishing village obviously, and so they didn't even know
there was an issue until he was.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Pretty developed.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
He was, he was pretty old before they really understood
that he.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Could not hear them. And because that, he never.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Even learned to speak. So he is coming at life
from a very different perspective than most of us. And
his story is it centers around his job, which is
permit fishing guide. And from what I saw on that
video or that film last night, I don't know how

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many other people see as well as he does. How
many people could see the fish the way he does
and help the fisherman he's got in his boat be
alerted to the fish, where they are, how far to cast.
He's developed his own sign language, and it's very simple, simple.

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He's not trying to not trying to solve fancy equations
or anything. He's just letting his fishermen know where the
fish is and win to throw, and whether or not
to strip and all that, and it's just an amazing story.
Woven into that story is some of the most incredible
permit fishing I've ever seen. The whole thing is fantastic.

(03:08):
There were you'd have to come down, and you're welcome
to do that too.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
By the way, I may have some I may have a.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Few pairs of tickets that I could put at will
call if I get If I get a good call
today from someone who would really like to come down
here and take a look at this film festival with
me tonight, I could I could arrange for that to happen.
I have a few tickets left over. I can put
them and will call for you, as some did Michelle
yesterday evening.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
She and her son came down after.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
We had a little snaffoo with her tickets last year,
so it it got kind of wonky, and I didn't
want to do that to her again.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
She very politely reminded me of it a couple.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Of weeks ago with an email, and I didn't It
didn't hurt my feelings to be reminded that it got
messed up last year. That was there were a lot
of lot of fingers in that pie that could have
made it go better than it did. But the bottom
line is I made sure that she got her tickets
last night, and I got to meet her and her
son after the presentation was over, after the films were done,

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and it was Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Was glad to see him there, I really was.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
I have got Eric Trout gonna We're gonna talk to
him in the eight o'clock hour.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
He owns Galveston Fishing Company.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Down here and was there last night, and I find
it kind of ironic. And even even Evan who's doing
the producing this morning, Evans to his name is Trout?

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Really?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, his name's Trout, my name's Fish or my name's Pike,
and I don't know who knows. Maybe we should just
get a podcast going, the Fish Brothers. I think it
could be called Master's Weekend. I'm not gonna ignore that.
I am happy to talk to anyone who wants to
talk about it during the show at any time. This

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is not this is.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Not your run of the Middle tournament.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
This is the Masters, and I am going to be
talking quite a bit about it. I've got a call
into Art Strickling, my golf writer, full time golf writer guy,
and he's over there at Augusta, and he has a
way of sniffing out stories that most people miss, and
so I'm going to try to get him on the
phone this morning. As you can imagine, it's a pretty

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busy Saturday morning over there, and he's already let me
know that it is nearly impossible to find a place
where nobody cares if you're on your phone over there.
So we're going to see and hopefully I've got the I've.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Planted the seed with art and that's all I can do.
All I can do. I'm going to be back over
in the theater again.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Like I said, I hope some of you already have
plans to come down and experience this with me.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
It truly is remarkable, front to back, side to side.
And this is the.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
First, the first real this film festival is the first
real shot with the new and improved Moody Gardens three
GMD Theater or MG three D theater, excuse me, and
it I don't know what that technology cost him to
put in, but it was worth every penny.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
From what I saw last night, I will take let's
go ahead and take a Let's go ahead and take.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
A look at the Master's leader board since I went
ahead and put it up here anyway, I honestly didn't
see this coming. Justin Rose, of course, went out just
gangbusters he had at the seven after round one. He
shoots a very journeyman like one under party yesterday. But
with his experience, he knows that just all he needed

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to do really was maintain that lead. And by the way,
Justin Rose is the only man to have led that tournament. Oh,
hold on, I got my statistic wrong. I'll come back
to that, because there's some really cool stuff about how
many people have won after leading through one, two or
three rounds. So Rose is at eight now, he bumped

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himself up one Strit De Shambo, Bryce and Deshambo four
under par yesterday, finds himself alone in second place at
seven under par. Then you've got Corey Connors and Roy
McElroy both at six under par. McElroy didn't have a
good first round, there's no question about that.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
He shot even parr, didn't do.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Himself any favors at all, and was a long ways
off the league when they was seven shots back.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Didn't look good. Roy McElroy shoots six under. Now he's
in tye. He's tied for third place for Connors.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Scotty Scheffler is the next name on the list, then
Terrell Hatton and Mike McCarty, all Or and Shane Lowry,
all of them at five under par and definitely within
striking range. And then it just continues on down the fours.
I think even let me see who the fours are
and I'll tell you, uh, Hoyguard and Victor Hoblin both

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might have it. Jason Day he's at four under par
as well, and then a bunch of guys at three.
I'm the threes and that's that's Patrick Reed, Colin Moore,
Kaua Sunye m and Ludwig Oberg and then maybe others
thatd be way down the screen. But the bottom line
is one of them catches fire and goes six seven

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under to day at least, I think they might find
themselves in contention tomorrow and with a chance to win.
But that that that means they've got to put back
to back great rounds in to knock off the likes
of McElroy and Scheffler.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
They're not going to go backwards today.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I cannot see either one of those those guys going
the wrong way.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
McElroy has righted his ship after.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
A disappointing I'll wrap that in quotes for all of
us who would be thrilled a disappointment pointing even par
round on Thursday. It's gonna be a good tournament. I'm
happy to talk about it. I'm not quite ready to
crown anybody champion yet, and I truly do hope it
comes down to a on the eighteenth hole on Sunday evening,

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a side hill six foot putt for the wind, and
one that actually I would for icing on the cake.
Go ahead and let it just pause at the side
of the hole like Tiger Wood's most famous putt ever,
and just let that golf ball label hang on the
in the frame for a little bit longer than you

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think it should. And then just whatever dimples clinging to
the turf gives up and lets the ball hole. That'd
be fine. Stage is set. The stage is set, all right.
Oh here's my stat I had from that. I wanted
to mention Justin Rose on Thursday became the first man
ever to lead the first round of the Masters five times. First,

(10:01):
when I said it the first I was trying to
say it the first time, and I thought that doesn't
sound right, that sounds too incredible.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
He's led the Masters round one five times. Nobody's ever
done that.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he's led or co led around it Augusta eight times,
the most of anybody who's never sealed the deal.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
He's just been there so many times.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
He had a quote the other day, I think it
was yesterday, he talked about how he feels like he
could win, but he's probably felt that same way four
other times after round one. So we got two rounds
in the books now. And by the way, another interesting stat.
There are twenty five players who've led that tournament by

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three shots or more after the first round. And I
talked about this yesterday briefly on fifty plus and eleven
of them have gone on to win the tournament. Eleven
of twenty five have gone on to win. I was
listening to the PGA Tour Network guys yesterday and they
were talking about.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
How hard it is, Oh, it's so hard to close
the deal. Well, it's happened eleven out of twenty five times.
That's about what.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Forty percent maybe somewhere in there. And considering the pressure
of the Masters, and there would still be fifty four
holes to play after that first round. I'm a little
surprised the number wasn't lower.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
If you went to.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Back twenty five times in the World Series and got
eleven hits, they'd have a statue of you in Cooperstown
before the sun set. There's there's no I can't believe
they said it was just that hard. I mean heard that.
This is This is golf. This is the hardest game
in the world. Baseball, you get more than one attempt

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to make a good swing, you get foul off ten
pitches in a row, ten pitches in a row, and
you still get another pitch. In golf, and you hit
a foul ball, you gotta go find it.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
You got to go out in the woods and the.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Pine straw and the ditch in the creek, in the
lake wherever you need to figure out where that ball landed.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
And if you can't find it, then you have to
drop a ball or go all that.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
You have to do that walk of shame back to
the first tea bot or wherever tea box you came from,
and then you have to add another stroke to your
round before you even get to swing again. Just get
penalized all over the place for hitting foul balls. Not
in baseball. Now that foul ball, let's try it. Let

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him throw you another one kid. Fouled it off, let
him throw you another one kid. And that makes it
for some epic battles at the plate between the hitter
and the pitcher. But in golf, you have to go
find and play your foul balls, and that makes it
very difficult, very difficult. Got to keep hitting that ball too,
until you get it into a little teeny tiny hole

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on a very irregular surface, garf salt.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
It's hard.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Okay, We're gonna talk more about that later very quick.
By the way, that Thursday round, the reason Roy McElroy
shot even parr is because he had back to back
doubles late in the round. He's still he came back
and I told somebody yesterday I can't remember who it was.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
We were just kind of passing in the halls, said
who do you like?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
And I said, I'll take Scheffler and you can have
the rest of the field. I still think Scottie Scheffler,
after the way he played in Houston.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
I still think he's he's.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Bringing himself into a place where he's he's ready to
grab that three out of four green jacket and become
the only guy other than Nicholas to do that. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. The only thing I don't
have around here is as a clock, a normal clock.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Where I can see normal times. But I think I
have it right. All right, let me go ahead and
take this first break of the program.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
On the way out, I will tell you about Shooter's
Corner Paul More Highway twenty Night Street in Texas City.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Owner's an old buddy of mine.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's Jerry Well, Jerry t K and his son co
owns with him, probably the coolest little gun store you'll
ever go to, right down there in Texas City. If
you don't know what an old school gun store smells like,
close your eyes before you walk into or into a
shooter's Corner, and then when you get inside.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
The door, don't trip over anything. When you get inside.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Just take a deep Brech's and that's what a gun
store should smell like. And that's what this gun store
does smell like.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
You'll hear things too.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
You'll hear conversations about the shooting, sports, about hunting, about
law enforcement. A lot of law enforcement hang out there
because they get a discount.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
At Shooter's Corner. Anybody who wears a badge.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
For a living gets a discount. And those guys are
in there all the time. Almost every trip I've made
down there in the last couple of years, there's been
somebody from law enforcement in there, at least for a
few minutes. You tell a story, everybody will listen. Then
you got you're obligated to listen to their stories. And
if you told somebody you'd be back in about fifteen
minutes from Shooter's Corner because you're just gonna pick up

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some AMMO, they'll learn that that means about an hour
to an hour and a half. It always does for me.
I can't just pop in there and pop out. I
always find somebody to talk to about something. Whether you're
brand new to guns, or you've been shooting all your life,
or no matter what type of shooting you like to do,
Shooters Corner's got what you need. The shooters cornertx dot com.

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The shooters cornertx dot com.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Let's let's start with that.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Then.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, we're having a little well I say we, I'm
having a little difficulty down here turning the right knobs
and getting them in sequence. But bye, god, oh, I
see what I had to do. How's that that? Hello? Yeah, okay,
it's better here too. I playing it to you what

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I did later. Uh a rookie mistake obviously, first time
they let me have this equipment on my own, and
I was pushing or turning a wrong knob. So this
is way better now I've got it now, I'm an
old pro. It didn't take very long. Seven one three
two point two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
Diheartmedia dot com. Evan said, I sounded like I was

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in a bathroom in that first segment. It won't happen again.
I'll stay out of that room. I'll stay in here
where I can see all the way across off its bio,
all the way across Galveston Bay. My advantage here doesn't
give me. I'm not quite high enough to see the
Gulf of Mexico from here. But it's a beautiful day
down here on the island. And if you get a

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chance to come down here today, please do. Right after
the show, I'm gonna go do a little snipping around,
a little recon and see if I can't figure out
where there might be a fish to catch down here.
I made a couple of phone calls yesterday. But I
suppose these guys I called are working, by the way,
If you're not aware, let me see if I have
it in my notes here.

Speaker 7 (17:04):
I may or may not have it.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I talked to I talked to Byron Fisher yesterday
over at Pelican Rest, Marina, if you haven't heard yet,
And I was following up when I stopped there on
the way in. Pelican Rest is right over there on
I forty five, just as you come into the island.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
Oh we do. Okay, let me get this story out
real quickly, then I'll talk today.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Thank you. I stopped there on the way in yesterday
because I wanted to talk to Byron about this fish
that was photographed over there at Pelican Rest this week,
a fish that weighed eight hundred and eighty four pounds
and has a Once it's recognized and certified by the

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State of Texas, it will be the new state record
bluef in tuna. This fish was caught. I had the notes.
I got to find out where I put them. What's
the man's name, Essinger? I think Essinger, and I can't
remember David Essinger, I believe it is the man's name.
Caught it on a vote called the cat A Lac

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and they I found out from Byron that they were
about a little over one hundred miles out deep water.
Bluefin tuna's a deep water fish, primarily at least in
the Gulf of Mexico. It is the water's just not
clean enough to keep them happy up in here close
as a rule, but this bluefriend tuna came from about
eight hundred or about one hundred and something miles and

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to Byron's best recollection was taken on a live blackf
in tuna. That's an eighth and eighty four pound fish.
Eating a black fin, it'd be like you were me
eating a peanut, butter and sandwich. We'd still have room
for more. Those fish are just amazing. They are extremely powerful.

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Byron said, if he recalled correctly, that Essinger spent about
five to five and a half hours in the chair,
and by in the chair, I mean he's the only
guy fighting the fish. Anytime something that big is hooked,
people tend to be aware. Anybody who's fishing out there
and doing what they were doing is pretty much aware

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that if you're going to ever set an IGFA record,
you have to.

Speaker 7 (19:35):
You have to keep everybody else's hands off the rod.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
If anybody else touches that rod and reel while you're
fighting the fish, and.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
It makes the record null and void.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
So hats off to David Essinger, and hats off to
the whole crew of the Cadillac out there, one hundred.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
And something miles into Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't care how big the boat is you're on
when you're out there fishing. When you get one hundred
plus miles off shore, you realize how small that boat
really is in the ocean.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Let's chee up, Dave, see what's on his mind? Can
we do that?

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Evan? Dave you there? Hello, Yeah, I heard the Dan. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
Hey what's up?

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Man?

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (20:14):
Hey, not too much. Hey yeah, I'm up here as
a counter. Eight thirty, But I've got fishing the sin
As I get off, we'll run run back to the house.
The wife should be ready by then. We're gonna go
do it. Probably about it. Eight hour tour around Sam
Late Sam Rayburn.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Just look around.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Good for you.

Speaker 8 (20:36):
It's packed over here right now. I mean this place. Hey,
when I pulled in here. There's boats and trailers everywhere,
and then there was there was there's about twenty deep
waiting in line to launch.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wow. Man, well that's a beautiful day. It's a it's
a pretty Saturday morning. A lot of people have been
wanting to get out in all week long.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
We had great weather, but most of us that also
had to work.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
So this is this is the day they're gonna let
it all hang out, and good for them. You know,
you've ever been one hundred miles off shore? David?

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (21:13):
Yeah, Well I think nine hours out and nine hours
back that's pretty far.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's pretty far. Yeah. I don't care if even if
you're paddling a canoe nine hours out, it's gonna get
you pretty far.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah. And I've never got sid.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
But there's this one guy on a jet ski over
here and this is a no wake area and he.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Is burning out here like crazy.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (21:36):
One guy out here by the boo looks like he's
floating on his bike with no life, jacking on or not.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Where's the game order when you need it?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I know, you know, do you have uh and not
for something like this necessarily, but do you have Operation
game Thiefs Number?

Speaker 7 (21:53):
In your phone.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
We're all just pick it up and call it.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
I need to put it on my speed doll.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah you really do, and real quickly. Go ahead, what's
the I don't have any I don't have it in
front of me. It's on your honting and fishing license
and it's in my found but yeah, look it up.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
Put it in your phone.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
That way, when you see something like that, you just
call them and tell them and they'll they'll come take
a look, get there as quick as.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
They can get Officer Pike game Warden Pipe's personal phone number,
probably because he's one that patrols around here, you know.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Junior game Warden Pike.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
You know it's no man, don't do that to the
the the fishing wildlife of the state of Texas deserves
better than to have me in charge. They get way
better too. Lord.

Speaker 10 (22:42):
Hey, but no, but there is there's some really old,
cool looking one boat just went out of here that
looks like the ss menom yes, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Not kidding you. The same kind of color.

Speaker 8 (22:55):
And that bass tracker that just went out of here.
What a candy apple red sweep. It looked like it
was brand new.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
I had the racing, steering wheel and seet, you know,
and look like hold about two people maybe like a
bass and ski boat problem.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
To each his own. You know, I was talking to
I was talking to Byron yesterday. But go ahead, yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
No, Well, I'm.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Talking to Byron yes talking to Byron about boats down here,
and he was telling me the kind.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Of boat he's got.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
He's he's a pretty simple guy, got a simple boat,
but he loves to fish and so it works for him.

Speaker 7 (23:34):
But we were talking about.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
These bay boats now, the bay fishing boats that are
getting faster and faster and lighter and they can run
and shallower, and there are well there's at least one
boat company making making carbon fiber hules that are lighter
and stronger than anything out there. And can they can

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float in a on on dewey grass, it seems like,
and we'll go just lickety split because they don't weigh anything.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
It's just but I.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Said, that's got to be expensive, right, he said, A
pretty good one.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
And we're not talking about thirty feet a boat here.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
We're talking about a smaller boat, but just a much
faster boat close to one hundred grand. Oh little skinny
water boat. Now, if that's your thing and you hit
the lottery, drop a little of your money on a
carbon fiber bay boat. But that they're getting a little

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too fast for me, and that is gonna ultimately end
up in more accidents on the water and more lives
lost on the water. And I'm not saying we need
speed limits on the water, but when some of these
tournament boats go running down the ditch at the crack
of dawn at ninety and one hundred miles an hour,
that on the water, that's dangerous because there's stuff floating

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in there that you can't see, and you're not going
to be able to slow down.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
For Oh, we got to take a break.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Oh yeah, holy yeah, man oh man.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
All right, I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'll be listening all the way out the all right.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Okay, good, yeah, thanks Dave.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
I'll see man boy.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I get to yapping about boats and fishing, and I
just I lose track of time. I swear a quick
reminder that we are still down here at Moody Gardens for.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
The second night.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Now it will be this evening of that fantastic collection
of internationally acclaimed films from around the world. And this
is the only venue where you're going to see both
the International fly Fishing Film Festival and the fly Fishing
Film Tour at the same event. Each of those is
about an hour and an hour and a half long.

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Three or or four I think one of them has three.
One of them has four films that are ready and
will be viewed again tonight, and then you can vote
actually on which ones you like the best. It's a
pretty it's a national vote that goes on Moody Gardens
showing in Moody Gardens audience. It's gonna determine who wins

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all this stuff. Every place these films are being shown
that pre reel and then post about how to vote
on your favorites shows along with it. And if I could,
I'd vote for every one of them, each very different
than the others, a lot of there's a lot of
thought and a lot of creativity that goes into the

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themes of these films that most of us when we
think of fishing videos or fishing movies, it's just a
bunch of bunch of people standing in a bass boat
catching bass, or a bunch of people down on the
bay catching.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
Trout or redfish.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
These things are just so much more, and again, if
you'd like to come down and call and.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Let's talk about it.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
I have a few pairs of tickets and all I
have to do is write your name on the envelope
in which they are and you can pick them up
at We'll call when you come down this evening to
Moody Gardens.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
It's a fun, fun night. It's not gonna cost you
a whole lot.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
We've got great door prices again to give away little
raffle tickets being sold down there at the front of
the place. That all goes to charity, all goes to
the Moody Gardens, cause none of this is going in
anybody's pocket. It's just we're all down here to have
a good time.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
And do a little bit of hooting, a little.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Bit of hollering. Last night's audience was kind of quiet.
By the way, if you come down tonight and you
see something cool that happens in one of those videos,
let it out, man, let it out. It's fishing, and
we're not fishing. We don't have to stay quiet. We're fishermen.
We like to be quiet when we fish. Well, A
lot of people do, a lot of people like their
stereos but in that hall, in that theater, you can

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hoop it up as much as you want. There's some
hooting and hollering to do too, and some very insightful
stuff too in those films. Anyway, you got to come
down here to see them. Moodygardens dot org for details.
You can still get yourself a hotel path. I could
you come down, watch the films and spend the night here,
and then maybe get up and go play golf down
at their golf course. It's only about five minutes from here.

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Moodygardens dot org is a website, Moodygardens dot org. E
eight on SPORTSOF seven ninety. Good morning, Welcome to you all.
I'm in such a good mood right now, overlooking the
sun's finally up. I can see across off its fio.
I can see out across the bay, and I don't
see anything that even looks like a white cap. I'm

(28:28):
looking at a lot of palm trees and not seeing
the fronds of those palm trees moving a little bit,
probably a ten to twelve mile an hour breeze. I
would guess I'm gonna go over to the beach front.
I haven't even looked at the surf cams. I guess
I could do that and cheat, but it's only about
a ten minute drive from here to the beach.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
So why would I.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Why would I look at cameras when I can just
go up there and park on the on the seawall,
or park down toward the end of the seawall and
just stare out over that beautiful golf of Mexico, roll
the windows down, get that little salt smell in the air.
I love it down here, I really do. I don't
get down here often enough. I'm gonna have to start

(29:10):
making a habit of this I've got. I've got a
bird's eye view too, of a friend's place on the
other side of the of offics bio.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
I don't know if he's awake yet.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
I may have to text him in a little while,
tell him to come out there and stand on a
pier and wave seven three two seven ninety. Email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com forgive me if you've sent
me an email and I haven't responded yet because I
had a lot of stuff I had to do to
make sure I got this right, and I made one

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technical error in my first foray.

Speaker 7 (29:45):
As a solo.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
I am a host and producer of this show this morning.
I'm not the producer that would be Evan back in
the studio, but I'm the on site producer at least.
And I made one error, but I got it right now,
so you don't have to worry about that anymore. I
finally figured it out. Where do I want to go
from here? Let me get my notes back over here,

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because I had so many different things going on. Oh,
by the way, I made a good call this week.
I called down to Cliff Web down there in Corpus.
I wanted to know about when I should plan a
trip soon to coordinate a little early surf fishing. I
want to get in the water down there, and I
don't necessarily have to be the first one to catch

(30:31):
a fish out of the surf down there. Probably too
late already for that, but I would certainly like to
be next. And he gave me a pretty good timeline
to work with on.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Making that trip.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
But he also wasted no time letting me know that
he and I think two or three clients, probably three.
I would bet we're in the boat with him for
them to have done what he said they did and
what he said they did was god out made a
few ways through the day and caught I believe the

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number he told me was about one hundred and twenty
big trout. It might have been a few more, it
might have been just one hundred. But they got onto
a school of really good fish, not the stuff like
he and I had years ago. And I won't retell
that story. I'm not going to bore anybody with that.

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But these were quality trout, which tells me that most
of them probably were between twenty and twenty six inches,
more than a hundred of them on the day, all
on top waters. And if that doesn't if that doesn't
move your needle, I don't you might.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
Need to just check your pulse.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
That top water bites like that are so rare and
they're so amazing. And I'm so glad to hear that
coming back, because it'd been a while since i'd heard
any thing like that from anybody down there, that kind
of quantity and quality in the same school of fish, basically,

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And if we well, let's go talk to LJ. Then yeah,
go ahead and find him up. LJ. What's going on? Man?

Speaker 11 (32:18):
Hey Dello thinking, Hey, we've got a we have a
hunting lys have for years, dere and and this guy has.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Got a lot of land.

Speaker 11 (32:28):
We were just one of like three or four groups,
different groups that are on there. But all of a
sudden he's decided we need to find insurance to hold
him completely harmless. Even though the state I believe has
some sort of insurance surety to the landowner if they
lease property with all the permits that they, you know,

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have have.

Speaker 9 (32:52):
Some brighter security and not be ensued.

Speaker 11 (32:55):
But he wants us to have an individual thing to have.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Have our release.

Speaker 11 (33:01):
You I guarantee it. Do you have any ideas of
where I'd go to do have who I would look
for what we need.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
I'll hang up and.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Listen, okay if you want to, you know, okay, l J.
I would recommend something must have triggered that. If you've
been on that lease a long time and he's never
said anything, and you've never said anything, If you've got
if there are several different groups, several different groups, then

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what happened probably is that somebody did sprain an ankle,
or somebody did get tangled up in some barbed wire
and did sue him, and that that's the only thing
I can you think that's it. It almost has to be,
because I was.

Speaker 11 (33:49):
Go ahead, no, no, it's just that that was I
think no one in I group, I mean, you know, uh,
no one and I group didn't anything.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
We know no. And And as a hunter, if you
if you've been on Dear Lisa's long enough, you know
that every now and then somebody is going to twist
an ankle or something like that.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
But mostly it.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
You know, grown men are out there in the woods
doing stuff something. If somebody gets hurt, it's it's an
accident and it's not the landowner's fault. If something happens
in the middle of the in the middle of the forest.
I don't think that could I this just a society
we live in. I don't think you know, you might
pull your money and just go spend an hour talking

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to an attorney who does stuff like this and and
just say, okay, can you draw up a very simple,
hold harmless document for us that that will satisfy this guy.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
That we're not going to do anything.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
And the next thing you can wait for now, because
if somebody did go after him and he had a
judgment against him, he's probably gonna want to get a
little bit more money for.

Speaker 7 (34:59):
That least now too.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
So just be ready, just be ready, what a mess up?
Every year?

Speaker 11 (35:07):
At least go for every year because you know the
pressure that's that's on there, and and actually the expense
is for him too, He's got to cover other stuff,
keep the roads up, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Sure, Yeah, well it's a value, it's a yeah.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
I would not worry too much about it.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I don't think he's going to try to trick you
into own him money for something that you didn't do.
So as long as it's just you know, if I
sprained my ankle, I'm not gonna come after you. It's
just going to be.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
My sprained ankle.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
I'd sign that. I don't have a problem with that.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
I know.

Speaker 11 (35:40):
Well, anytime you go on a commercial hunt, you know,
they they make you.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Sign up each and every time.

Speaker 11 (35:47):
Sure's there's there's something out there, there's going on, sir.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Well, yeah, it's just you know, we have a lot
of attorneys in this country and they've all got to
make a living.

Speaker 11 (35:59):
By my brother in law did criminal defense a lot
of time, and a lot of time I said the same,
Thank John. There so many attorneys out there, and that
and that a problem is that there's just not enough crime.

Speaker 12 (36:14):
So anyway, it was all right, Well I got a
run man, all right, thanks for the call.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'll see you. I might bring that back up a
little later. We gotta take a little break here. Holy cow,
this day's going fast. Man coming up in about the
I don't know about at the first basemark, not at
not up to bat in the eight o'clock hour. By
the way, we're going to talk to Eric Trout from
Galveston Fishing Company down here, and.

Speaker 7 (36:43):
That'll be a good call a little.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
I think I can open some eyes about what's available
down here, especially on the fly fishing side, because so
few people fly fish along this part of the coast,
and there's better opportunity than you think. I believe.

Speaker 7 (36:59):
On the way out, I'm an tell you about Timber
Creek Golf Club. I may play some golf today.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
As a matter of fact, I might call up there
and talk to Billy or talk to Mike about that.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
FM twenty three, p.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Fifty one in Friends with Timber Creek Golf Club. Been
there since right about the turn of the old century,
so probably creeping up on thirty years now. And every
time I go down there, I love playing that place.
Twenty seven holes. They kind of meander through the woods.
There's a little water here, a couple of bunkers here
and there, but not so much to intimidate any golfer.

(37:33):
This is a fun golf course to play, whether you're
scratch or whether you're like me, not scratch at all,
not even close. They have a great teaching staff over
there with JJ Woods and his crew, and that big
ten building adjacent to the driving range. They have a
huge putting green to work on your short game there

(37:53):
before you go out and play. And then there's good
food and water and well, I'll wrap quotes around water
and on how you like to lubricate your swing on
the way through around a golf timber Creek Golf Club
dot com FM twenty three fifty one in friends would
very easy to find and pretty darn close to where
I am now, about halfway between here at home. As

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a matter of fact, make your tea time, go play.
It's a beautiful day for it. Timber Creek Golf Club
dot com. Doug Bike Show on sports Bock seven ninety
seven fifty one on this am and a beautiful am
it is.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
We're in a nice little stretch of weather here.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I hope some of you, I hope all of you
actually are getting a chance to get outside to get
some vitamin D pumping through you. And I know somebody
who's vitamin D level was just super super low recently,
enough so that they had to start taking supplements and
getting it back and getting outside and taking walks.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
And it's working.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
It'll make you feel better, it really will, that little
bit of exercise. It's just it's just not a good
idea to let that level get low. And thank goodness,
now we have sunscreens where you can protect your skin
from all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
Knock on wood.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
I have been very fortunate not to have had any
major skin issues. I know so many people, so many golfers,
so many fishermen, who have had all sorts of things
burned off of them, frozen off of them, sliced off
of them. I've had a couple of a couple of
things that required a double check with the lab to

(39:27):
determine whether they were scary or not, and so far,
so good, nothing scary to report, but dog gone. It's
just it's there's no reason to allow your skin to
get just fried like like I did as a kid.
We didn't know any better back then, and man, oh man,

(39:48):
was I a hot mess of sunburns over the years.
It just did. It didn't phaze me when we would
go down to my grandparents' house in Florida, that I
was gonna because I fished on the pier down there.
They would send me up to the pier and either
my dad would hang out with me and bring me
back home right away, or as I got a little
bit older and they understood how much I liked fishing

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and how little I was going to pay attention to
anything else when I was there, they dropped me off
and just let me go fish on the pier till
about noon, one o'clock or so, and then come back
and pick me up, give me a little bit of
money for food, which I would spend on bait. Of course,
surely my parents knew that when they handed me that
five dollars bill, which back then would have been like

(40:33):
handing a kid of twenty, that I wasn't going to
use any of that for food, because I knew I
wasn't going to starve to death before noon, and I
would much prefer to invest that money that I had
in live shrimp which, by the way, in Florida back
then and I think still today, are sold by the

(40:53):
peace and not by the pint or quart or whatever.
And I've had a lot of commonversations with people who've
gone down there. A good friend of mine just recently,
Jeff Cooper, I think it, was talking about how he
was in Florida somewhere and went in and asked for
a pine of shrimp, and the guy just looked at
him like he had two heads. He said, what, yeah,

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I need a pine of shrimp.

Speaker 7 (41:18):
Uh where you're from?

Speaker 3 (41:21):
And that's that's where the conversation always starts.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
Same over here. I talked to a couple of.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Bait camp owners when when that subject comes up, and
every now and then they'll have somebody from over there
come over here and walk in and say I need
three dozen shrimp, and it just goes back and forth.
The price has actually come out about the same when
you get down to it, and I guess that's because

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the price of shrimp live, shrimp off the boat probably
is about the same wherever you are speaking of shrimp.
I'll remind you guys that there's been a study going
on for a couple of years now to help domestic shrimpers,
help local shrimpers on the Gulf of Mexico get a

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little bit.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Fairer shake than internationally shipped.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Shrimpers or shrimp companies have with their product in that
and there are laws that say if you are presenting
your shrimp as golf caught, then they have to be
golf caught, and a lot of establishments.

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Don't adhere to that rule.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
And the compliance rate is actually, according to the studies
I've gotten in the information I've gotten from the people
who are doing those independent studies, is that the compliance
rate is somewhere probably between like maybe sixty fifty to
sixty maybe seventy percent in some of the better cities,

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and there are a few higher ones I believe. Well,
I don't want to speak out of turn. I can't
remember exactly who was best and who was worst. But
there were some places where they'd go in and test
shrimp from twenty thirty establishments, and only six or eight
of them would come back clean as truly golf shrimp.

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They can tell by genetic testing of that product. So
just ask when you go into a place, just ask.
And if you're like the average person and you're going
to bury that up like I did last night down
here in the restaurant at Moody Gardens and a bunch
of Alfredo sauce and noodles. My shrimp tasted like good shrimp.

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I don't know where they came from, but if I
was going to eat a shrimp cocktail, if I was
going to eat just a more purely shrimp product, I
would certainly prefer that it come from the Gulf of
Mexico and possibly not have been flash frozen and thrown
onto a cargo ship to be shipped over here. A

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lot of flying of seafood going on now too. By
the way, I've told the story before, but I'll tell
it very quickly again. I made the grave mistake of
ordering a shrimp cocktail in Cedar Rapids, Iowa about thirty
years ago, maybe forty years ago. No, it had to
have been at least forty years ago now, and I
will never do that again. Despite the fact that they

(44:22):
can get their seafood a lot faster. That just literally
and figuratively left a bad taste in my mouth. That
was one of my worst culinary decisions of all time.
Shrimp cocktail, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. No seven forty sevens full
of seafood coming hither, yon anywhere, from wherever. All right,

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we gotta take a little break here all the way out.
Riceland Waterfowl Club is owned by a guy named David Pruitt,
and he quite proudly is in his fiftieth year of operation.
Proudly and quietly. He's not a terribly boastful man. Now.
You can get him to answer questions that make him
look really really good if you ask the right question.

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But mostly he's just going to tell you he's in
it to make sure that the people who are club
members out there get the best water fouling experience they can.

Speaker 7 (45:14):
And to that end, what.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
He does is lease up some of the best water
fowling property out there on that prairie around Eagle Lake.
He makes sure that he has plenty of water on
all those properties so that duck blinds can be put
up to accommodate all the members without having to use
them all at once. He tries to rest as many
places as he can every chance he gets to make

(45:38):
sure everybody has a good experience out there. The blinds
are a quarter mile apart four hundred and forty yards
except for that one that someone jokingly just out of
curiosity through a rangefinder up on. It's four hundred and
thirty yards, so he missed by thirty feet. That's not
going to bother any two duck hunting groups. It shouldn't anyway.

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Only club members and their guests get access to all
these properties too. He does no guided hunting at all
on his properties, and I bet if he did, there'd
be a lot of people waiting to get in his
blind because he is a many times over a champion

(46:22):
duck and goose caller, and I got a hunch if
you asked him to, he could probably pull a duck
call out of his pocket and start blowing it for you,
just to let you know whose company you're in.

Speaker 7 (46:34):
Great guy.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
It's taken me a long time to get to know him,
it really has, and I'm so happy to have him
in the family now because he represents what waterfowl hunting
should be. He really does. He's got room for a
few more groups this year. That's why we're talking about
it now, because this is when people are thinking about
where they're going to be duck hunting now, and if
you don't get on board pretty quick, you might miss

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out on an opportunity to shoot a lot more ducks
this year than you did last year. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot
com is a website, Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
Bine, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
They don't reel sports Talk seventy ninety on.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
This absolutely dropped.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
At Premium beautiful morning on Galveston Island.

Speaker 7 (47:18):
Really looks nice out there.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
I gotta tell you I found the picture, or the
not the picture, the notes I made yesterday when I
was talking to Byron Fisher over there at Pelican Rest
on that eight eighty four, and I mispronounced David Eslinger's name.
It's David Eslinger, not Essinger. And in the photograph. The
reason I didn't I didn't have it right on top

(47:43):
of my head because in the photograph, the writing on
the whiteboard that they used to put the name of
the boat, the name of the angler, the way of
the fish, all of that stuff, it was messed up.
It was really poorly preed, and it's it was illegible.
I could I couldn't make out the letters. But I

(48:04):
have it in my own handwriting, which isn't a whole
lot better, but at least I can read it. David
Eslinger aboard the Cadillac, and the length of that fish.
In case you're wondering how long an eight hundred and
eighty four pound bluefin tuna is, the length of that
fish was one hundred.

Speaker 7 (48:23):
And sixteen inches.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
I was guessing about one hundred and eight to one
hundred and ten, so I didn't miss it by much.
But man, oh man, one hundred and sixteen inches of fish,
that's almost ten feet That is four inches short of
ten feet long, and for a tuna, that is just staggering.

Speaker 7 (48:47):
Just staggering.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Holy cow. Oh. By the way, David's nickname and we're
not sure it was on the board, so I guess
it's it's official. They put his nickname in parentheses next
to David Eslinger. His nickname is Boo Boo.

Speaker 7 (49:02):
That's just guys being guys.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
I don't know where that nickname came from, but Booboo
has got himself a potential state record. I may try
and call Cameron Plog and see if I can get
him to come and talk about how hard a fight
with a big fish like that is, because he was
a board the boat not that many years ago. Now,
that took the state record. The current state record bluefin

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tuna that was eight hundred and twenty pounds if memory
serves me right. And he also Cameron Lucky Cameron being
right place at the right time. And the reason, by
the way, he's got this other credit to his name.
He also was on the boat when the state record
blue marlin was caught. So the reason he's been in

(49:48):
the right place at the right time is because he's
that good at what he does. People who go out
chasing records like that don't just put anybody in the
cockpit to work back there and try to make that
fish and that catch come true. And to his he's
the son of James Blog by the way, if you
hadn't if you didn't know that, or or it just

(50:10):
didn't ring a bell, And James taught him very well.
And Cameron is just he's picked. He's taking the batona
and is sprinting all over the world fishing. Last time
I talked to him, I left him a voicemail and
about and I don't know this. About an hour later
I got a call back and he let me know
he was in Costa Rica, down there fishing with somebody else.

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It's not a bad life. It's a lot of fun
if you can get on a good boat, but it
is a very hard job. The glamour part is when
you do get a giant fish like that and you
come in and everybody they hoist that fish up, and
you got the the name of the boat and the
name of everything on there, and how long it took
and how long the fish was the weight, and everybody's

(50:56):
smiling and happy. But then once all that so over,
the boat owner goes wherever the boat owner's going, and
then that crew has work to do before the next
day's fishing, and it can take hours to prep everything
for tomorrow, and then after that you do it again

(51:17):
and again and again. It is definitely hard work. And
just being on a boat bouncing around in the Gulf
of Mexico when it's a little bit choppy will wear
you out, just flat wear you out. I have a
lot of admiration for people who do that for a living,
the captains, because everybody on board is looking at you

(51:38):
and wondering, hey, when do we get a bike? When
are we going to get a bike? And ironically, somewhat
it takes a long time to get to billfish water
in the state of Texas, it really does. Legitimate Blue
Martin water is way out there, at least sixty seventy
miles on really good days if you're little, maybe a

(51:59):
little bit close down south, but up here you're talking
about seventy five to one hundred and fifty miles is
where a lot of these guys are fishing. And the
next boat that fishes someplace two hundred miles out will
not be the first. These guys have big time fuel capacity,
they have faster boats now, and they're just they're going

(52:21):
where the fish are and Texas. The irony part of
it is that for the long boat ride, you get
rewarded with in many cases, less time between billfish bites
than in a lot of more popular venues, more popular
places to fish. For them, we have the fish. They're

(52:43):
just way out there, way out there, and it's a
different world out there, it really is. It's so beautiful
and so peaceful. When it's nice like it looks like
it is today, it can be frightening. It could be
very frightening. There's a story from many, many years ago
about a guy who was back in the cockpit working.

Speaker 7 (53:06):
This is probably a forty year old story.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Right now.

Speaker 7 (53:09):
He's back in the cockpit.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Everybody else is taking a nap there, moving the boat
from one place to another during I don't know whether
it was tournament fishing or just day fishing. And this guy, somehow,
on a kind of bumpy day, got bumped out of
the boat. He's in the back, the captain's up top
looking forward, and everybody else is inside, either sleeping or

(53:32):
making a balooney sandwich or something. And this guy goes
out the back of the boat and watches the boat disappear,
just watches it get smaller and smaller and smaller until
it's gone. And at some point, not shortly, not too
long after that, I hope, somebody looked around and said, hey,

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where's Bob. I can't remember the man's name offhand, but hey,
where is he? Nobody could find figured it out. He's out,
He's in the water. And because they the people on
board that boat were very experienced fishermen, the captain very
aware of didn't have GPS back then, but they had

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tied charts. They had just good salt water knowledge, and
they thought about the wind, they thought about the current,
they thought about everything they could probably put together and
then turn the boat around and prayed, I guess, and
he was in.

Speaker 7 (54:35):
That water for a very long time. But they found him.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
They found him tread and water and probably saying words
I can't say on the air when they got him
back in the boat. What an amazing story that man's
had to tell all his life. He may have passed
by now it's been that long ago, but nonetheless, what
a backstory.

Speaker 7 (54:56):
Anything ever happened to you out there on the water?

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Well, sit down, let me tell you about this time
that I got bounced out of the boat and watched
the boat drive away. God, that would be a lonely feeling.
It's bad enough being on anywhere from forty two to
sixty something feet a boat like I was a lot
of times back in those days.

Speaker 7 (55:19):
You really feel, you feel how small they are.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
I talked about this the beginning of the program. You
kind of feel how small they are when you're out
there all alone, and to be out of the boat, man,
what an amazing, amazing feeling that must have been, And
not a very good one either. Seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety Email me Doug pick at
iHeartMedia dot com and tell you what I'm gonna go

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ahead and go to this break early a little bit evan,
because I want to make sure I've got time to
get Eric Trout on the phone, and we're gonna talk
about a little more inshore stuff.

Speaker 7 (55:53):
We're not going we're not going out deep with this call.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
We're gonna talk about the fly fishing opportunities around Galveston
with a who knows them as well or better than
anybody here. He was at the film festival last night.
He's going to be right back out there again this evening.
He's got he's the owner of Galveston Fishing Company and
be Eric Trout.

Speaker 7 (56:14):
We'll get him when we get back.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
All the way out, I'll tell you about Berry Hill
Baja Grill. This is a it's a family run restaurant.
I've been going there for God since I moved into Sugarland,
really found the place, fell in love with it, and
my wife and I are in there probably more often
than we should be. It's at Sugar Creek Boulevard and
fifty nine, very easy to find, and what you're going

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to find inside is a very family friendly, very comfortable
place to get some of the best Mexican food you'll
ever eat. Their signature dish if you will as far
as I'm concerned anyway. As those fish tacos, and it
sounds like kind of a basic thing. Oh, if you
had one, you've had them all, not until you've had
Berry Hills fish tacos.

Speaker 7 (56:57):
They're that good.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
They truly are. And one of the reasons they have
such a good, consistent menu of fine, fine Mexican food
dishes is because the same cooks have been in that
kitchen for many, many, many years. They have carried on
traditions that they started a lot of years ago and

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still work very hard back there to put out that
delicious variety of Mexican food favorites. If you are new
to sugar Land, go over there, walk in, just start
talking to somebody. Hey man, I'm new around here. Tell
me give me the scoop on this place. What's the
best food they got, And you'll be welcomed into the

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berry Hill family if you will, or you can bring
your whole family in there. It's not a fancy place.
You don't have to you don't have to dress up.
You can just come in there kind of as you
are and then order your food and go sit at
one of the tables. They have a couple of private
rooms toward the back of the place. One of them
got pool tables, one of them doesn't, and you can

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bring your group in there for whatever activity you want. Really,
just a fun, fun place to go eat Mexican food.
And it's right down there, and Sugarland has been for
a long long time, family owned and operated. I interviewed
Wendy Brooks just this past week as a matter of fact,
and talked to her about berry Hill and how she
and her family are keeping that keeping that brand alive

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and doing a fine job of it too. One of
my favorite, my favorite is the seafood enchiladas uh uh,
crab and shrimp. Yes, thank you very much. Berryhill dot
com is a website. They do a ton of catering.
They'll go just about anywhere around town and bring you,
just like they brought us a couple of weeks ago now,
a delicious Mexican food meal for as many people as

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you need to feed. Berryhill dot Com is a website.
Berryhill dot com in West Bay. And if I stand
on my tiptoes like a icey clear lake somewhere I
don't know's, I'm way up, way up high, in an
absolutely beautiful view.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
This morning.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
In this segment, as promised, we're going to talk to
Eric Trout, the owner of Galveston Fishing Company, who I
presume is on the line. Now you there, I am,
Good morning, Doug. Ah there you are? Yeah, good morning
to you man. How come you're not fishing this morning?

Speaker 9 (59:22):
Well?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I guess I kind of burned you on that, didn't I.

Speaker 13 (59:26):
Yeah, I'm asking myself the same question as I look
out here.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
It's a beautiful morning down here.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Holy, yeah it is? Indeed it is. Indeed, when did
Eric Trout, Galveston Fishing Company?

Speaker 7 (59:39):
When did you start fly fishing?

Speaker 9 (59:40):
Eric?

Speaker 13 (59:43):
I probably started fly fishing about ten years ago, ten
maybe ten to fifteen years ago, fishing down here on
the coast, and it's just something that's gotten in my
blood and I've stayed with it and love.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
To do it.

Speaker 7 (59:58):
Once a fly fisherman.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
All as a fly fisherman, I pick up traditional stuff,
conventional stuff a lot more than fly fishing now. But
really the only reason is because not that many of
my friends fly fish. If I were hanging around you more,
I probably wouldn't pick up the other stuff nearly so often.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Right, Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 13 (01:00:21):
It definitely makes it easier if you get to a
community or a group to get into fly fishing and
stick with it, especially on the coast.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
A lot of times it's kind of a two man sport.

Speaker 13 (01:00:32):
But down here at Galaston Fly Fly or Galaston Fishing Company,
we can help out with that and we try to
build that community so that people have a place to
do it, in place to go hang out and type
flies and top Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
I think it's it's like a lot of different things
that are kind of niche that you don't really realize
how many people around you like to do it because
you don't have a sign on your head that says
I like to fly fish. So unless unless that comes
up in conversation, you might be standing there talking to
somebody who loves it just as much as you do,
but you never know it. And I guess I like

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what you're doing with Galason Fishing Company and kind of
giving people an avenue, a place to go where they
know they're going to be talking to somebody who likes
to fly.

Speaker 13 (01:01:18):
Fish, right, yes, sir, That's what we're trying to do
is foster that community and also get people into the community,
get people to come down. We have casting lessons and
fly tying lessons and everything to kind of get people
going on this journey.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
I wish I had the patience for fly tying. I
really do. I've bought two or three fly tying kits
over the years and gone in and actually invested in
specific stuff that I needed to make, certain flies that
I wanted to make, and it all just ended up
in a big box out in the garage. I'm embarrassed
to say.

Speaker 7 (01:01:54):
I tried, Eric, Oh God, I tried.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Well, I'm with you.

Speaker 13 (01:01:59):
Some of us definitely prefer the fishing over the fly time, but.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
They are those that love the fly time. But for me,
it's all about being out on the water.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Let's talk about being out on the water around Galveston
Island for fly fishing. What are without giving up any
real your best secrets, but what kind of areas do
you look for when you want to go fly fishing,
not in a boat, talk about some places where somebody
could just walk out or walk in and fly fish.

Speaker 13 (01:02:30):
So what you want to look for you if you
don't have a boat to get around in, is you
want to go and look for areas that are going
to be marshy and shallow enough and that hold fish.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
So good places.

Speaker 13 (01:02:49):
To go that I would like down here, of course,
down on the back of side STANINOI Pass. The state
park we have on Galveston is a great one. And
then you want to go and be fishing anywhere from
twelve to eighteen inches of water, because ideally, what we're
trying to do is hunt the fish and see the

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fish first before we make a cast or try to
catch it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Yeah, that's a big part of fly fishing and one
that I think keeps a lot of people from even
trying it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
They want to be chunking.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
And wine and then chunking wine and that's just not
that's a very successful strategy for conventional fishing. But if
you're just throwing blindly in sixteen to eighteen inches of water,
you're not doing yourself a favor.

Speaker 7 (01:03:39):
You need to see that fish as best you can, right.

Speaker 13 (01:03:43):
Yeah, it definitely makes a big difference. We can catch
them wine casting, but it's definitely a different experience and
you're more likely to catch a fish if you're actually
hunting and stocking and trying to find the fish and
present to the fish where the fly needs to be.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Yeah, and along that same line, it hunting doesn't have
to be for the fish. If you've got a boat,
for example, and you'd like to go catch some trout
when it's the right season, you find a bunch of
birds working over those trout, even if you can't see
the trout themselves, and then just kind of try like
hell to slip that fly line in between seagulls and

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drop it on a trout's head.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
Yeah, you can do that.

Speaker 13 (01:04:28):
And then as you get more into the sport and
that are at it, you notice certain ways that are different.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
You'll be able.

Speaker 13 (01:04:34):
To differentiate what's a redfish, what's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
A mullet and all that.

Speaker 13 (01:04:40):
So it's all about just kind of getting out there
and enjoying the day and learning something new, and they're
having a passion for it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Let's dispel one of the myths about fly fishing and that, oh,
you just have to be rich to fly fish. It's
really a super expensive sport. It certainly can be, but
so can any sport when you get into the elite
level tackle or elite level equipment. But there are still
some really affordable, really good combos of rods and reels

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for fly fish, and arn't there.

Speaker 13 (01:05:14):
There definitely are, and I would say especially to anybody
who's just getting into it at first, that it's not
something that you want to go and just spend a
few thousand dollars on or anything like that. You want
to spend what you're comfortable and for all the fish

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around here. You can get into comfortable rod and reel
for not that much money and still go out and
have a good time. But it's not something that's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Just for the.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Just for the wealthy. It's kind of like hunting.

Speaker 13 (01:05:51):
You can spend what you want to on it as
far as like hunting and buying guns, And it's the
same with fly rides.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
You buy you can buy less.

Speaker 13 (01:06:01):
Expensive to do a great job, or you know, the
kind of skis limit as much as you want to pay.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Yeah, I don't know if the sky is a limit
for me these days, but I have some good gear.
Talk about the sizes of the weights of the rods
you recommend for somebody getting into salt water fly.

Speaker 13 (01:06:19):
Fishing with the salt water game down here on the
Texas Coast, our go to rig is going to be
an eight weight.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
It's big enough to handle most of the fish we'll
run into.

Speaker 13 (01:06:33):
But the other advantage it has is we deal with
a lot of wind, and that helps breastcasting wind. Having
it a little bit a little bit heavier. Button eight
weight is usually where we where we'll start people at
and where if I run trips, that's what I'm caring
for my clients.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Yeah, that makes it a whole lot easier to push
a fly out into a breeze, and a lot of
times you just have to be able to do that.
If you're going to catch at fish and you don't
want to waste an opportunity just because.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
You're a little six weight, you broughtt won't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Get that fly out there exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:07:10):
So let's talk about another.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Way to do this, and that's walking those little rock
groins and walking the jetties. What do you what would
you do differently? If you're waiting in eighteen inches of water,
that's one thing. If you're walking those rocks, how are
you approaching that? That's that is a little bit more
blind casting, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:07:29):
It is in that situation just because you're kind of
locked into those rocks, you can't move as much.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
I would say definitely you're going to be doing a
lot more blindcasting. You're still going to be looking for birds,
looking for bait.

Speaker 13 (01:07:45):
Looking for bigger fish crashing bait. The other thing is,
I'd recommend anybody that wants to do that is to
get a line belt or one of our casting belts,
just because when you're fly fishing andlling out all your
line and.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
You're on those route growings, that line gets caught up
in those rocks.

Speaker 7 (01:08:04):
And yeah, that's a very good point.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
You go to make another cast, a big fish show
is just right in front of you, and you go
to make another cast, you try to pick it all
up and all that line at your feet just Clint
just grabbing that granite. Uh, that's a bad feeling, man,
That's a really bad feeling. So where is your store exactly?

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
So?

Speaker 13 (01:08:26):
Our store is located at twenty fifth in market and
downtown Galveston, just where the parking is still free before
you get to the paid downtown market.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Man, free parking. That's been a while. Holy kil I
kind of joke about it. There was a fantastic knife
show out in Belleville at the Austin County Fairgrounds this
past weekend, and I pitched it really hard because that's
one place and now I know too, right in front
of your store where there's free parking and way in Houston.

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You just don't get that anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
There. You go, come down to the island.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Maybe at the grocery store, talk about the talk about
the variety of fish you catch, eric and where you
are you know, I mean, how many different species have
you caught based out of galash.

Speaker 13 (01:09:19):
Got uh, pretty much everything we have to offer in
the bay.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Red fish is usually our target species. It's just threave
the feet makes it easier easier for us to side
fish them. But you can also.

Speaker 13 (01:09:35):
Catch specled trout I picked up sheep said, flounder. In
the summer, when it's the weather it's a little bit commer.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
You can go light offshore and get into some triple
tail under the bueze.

Speaker 13 (01:09:49):
And then when the jacks start running towards a little
bit later in the summer, there are blast to catch
on the fly rods.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
They are Yeah, that fly rods make it fun catch jack's.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
I caught so many of them when I was younger,
on on plugs when I was trout fishing, and.

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
They just, man, they make me mad.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
If you're trout fishing and you hook a jack, you
just your buddies get to catch three trout while you're
still running around trying to get half the line back
on your reel before before the fish wins the whole deal. Man.

Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
They're tough, aren't you?

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
They are because that's probably the strongest fish we have
in our bay system around here, isn't it. It's gotta
be I.

Speaker 13 (01:10:31):
Would say pounds and pound at least stuff where we're
at Jack's.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Uh yeah, definitely pick the cake for strength.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Out of curiosity, where do you do your sheep's head fishing?

Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
With that fly?

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Run?

Speaker 13 (01:10:45):
It's the same, it's uh here in the bay and
usually you run across some fishing for red fish. Yeah, okay, yeah,
they'll be on the they'll be on the wisteriest a
lot of time, and they're they are hard to catch.
You can catch them all day on dead strimp, under
or popper, but with a fly, they're really spooky and

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really kind of weird to if they want.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
To eat it or not. So it's uh.

Speaker 13 (01:11:12):
It can be a good challenge, especially break up if
you have a red fishing good go after some sheepies
and see what you can't make happen.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
Oh, it'd be frustrating. I think I didn't realize they
were that suspicious if you will, I haven't. I haven't
caught one on a fly ride yet. Maybe you and
I can go do that sometime, for sure, I'd love
to have you likewise. Man. So, so what's coming up?
What season are we in now for fly fishing? I
guess pretty soon you got to point all just everything

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at trout right.

Speaker 13 (01:11:45):
Yeah, Well we'll be going for UH for reds here
pretty quick.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:11:51):
But I've been hearing from UH this week after these
early week wednesdayed it's the basement fishing really well. A
lot of the lot of the guides are doing well
on redfish, and it's looking like is this water and
weather continues to warm up, we'll get into the full

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kind of summer redfish pattern in the early summer pattern,
and everything right now is taping up to be a
good summer. So knocked down wood, that did it stay
this way?

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
I'm sitting here in the world's tallest polling platform right now,
the ninth floor polling platform, looking over the water and
wishing I was on it. Man, it looks so good.
It does Golly, I was expecting it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:36):
I'm glad this wind died.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
I was expecting it to look like this, But I
was just kind of holding my breath as the sun
came up this morning because it looks like a really
pretty pretty day on the island. Man, Eric Trout, Galveston
Fishing Company down there. What what were the street?

Speaker 7 (01:12:51):
What's the street on again?

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
It's a twenty fifth in market?

Speaker 7 (01:12:56):
Twenty fifth in market? Yeah, I had market.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
I couldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:12:59):
I couldn't pin wint the number.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Uh are you gonna be around there this afternoon?

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
I am this afternoon.

Speaker 13 (01:13:05):
We have the shop, will be having all day and
then we have the Midy Gardens Film Tour tonight and they'll.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Be yeah, you're coming back over here.

Speaker 13 (01:13:14):
Yeah, I'm coming back over there, and they'll be showing
the S three T film And it's just a bunch
of short fly fishing films that follow different filmmakers around
the country that like to fly fish.

Speaker 7 (01:13:28):
What do you have a favorite from last night?

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
I would say The Last Giants for Vali god.

Speaker 7 (01:13:37):
Man, Oh holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
Yeah that those I have not caught them yet, but
GT's on my bucket list before I get too old
to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
It's on mine too. It's uh yeah, that's that's my
that's my next But.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
You better be holding on.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
Yeah, it's a time at a time, eat the console
or something to keep me in the boat for one
of those things HiT's too hard. That'd be fun. Man.
All right, Eric, I'll see you tonight man for sure.
Thank you for your time this morning. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Bud, thank you. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Yes, sir audios. Oh man, that was a good conversation.
I like talking to that guy. He's very quietly. He's
one of the best fly fishermen on the island. And
like he said, they do lessons over there at the shop.
They will help guide you into the equipment you need
to get started in fly fishing, and it's nothing to

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be intimidated about. It's very similar to bow hunting as
opposed to rifle hunting. It's just a different way to
do it that requires a little extra level of discipline
and of patience, because when you're fly fishing, you don't
get as many opportunities as the person who has the

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conventional gear. There are situations in which fly fishing actually
can be much more efficient and effective and successful than
conventional gear. But by and large, you immerse yourself in
this and only this way to go fish for a day,
a week, a year, the rest of your life, whatever.

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And it's just it's something different, and it's a lot
of fun. And it gets way more fun the first
time you actually catch a fish on that fly rod.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
It really does. I strongly recommended.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
I've been doing it for the better part of close
to fifty years now, and any chance I get, I'll
take it and I'll go fly fishing. I gotta get, man,
I gotta get where Eric and go do it down here.
We gotta take a little break here on the way out.
El Coubano's Cigars. That's my buddy, Manny Lopez. He was
at Memorial Park golf course. He was sending me pictures

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of where he was set up over there, and in
the picture there was a little snack area, there was
a bar. This is for a golf tournament. He was
over there rolling cigars for these people, a snack area
of bar, and of course his cigars, the El Cubano
brand cigars that are made right down in Texas City

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at one of only about four dozen actual cigar manufacturing
places in the whole country, and one of them we've
got right here in Texas City. You can go down
there and watch them roll their cigars in the lounge
at the Texas City store, or you can go over
to the League City and just sit back and enjoy the
same cigars just down the road a little bit from

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the other place. Very comfortable, very fun places. A lot
of business gets done in those places. A lot of
shooting the breeze gets done, an occasional card game, just
you name it. Just people who like that sit back
and have a cigar and just talk about the world
and how it's turning.

Speaker 7 (01:16:52):
Real fun. El Cubano does a lot of custom.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Orders too, even branded bands and boxes for special occasions.
If you've got a big event coming up, if you've
got clients you need to take care of who likes cigars.
If you've got a reason to have Manny come out
himself and personally roll cigars right there in front of
your guests and hand them to them, he'll do that

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for you. He ships thousands of cigars every week all
around the country too. So don't let geography keep you
from getting the opportunity to buy some of the most
amazing cigars that everybody I've given them to absolutely loves them.
They absolutely love them. Where did you get this? Where
can I get more, and that's what you'll be saying

(01:17:37):
after you get your first box from him. We're your
first one. Just go to one of those two places,
League City or Texas City, walk in, tell them I
sent you, and.

Speaker 7 (01:17:47):
Tell them what.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Kind of cigar you like, and if Manny's there or
whoever's there, they'll pick something out for you from their
big giant humidor Elkubanos cigars dot com. Great for you,
great for your guests for those special occasions. Like I said,
Elcoubonocigars dot com. I am so happy to be down
here in Galison. Just got word at a buddy of

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mine pulled in down here too.

Speaker 7 (01:18:11):
He sent me a picture from his room.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
He could if he knew which room I was in,
he could probably look into my window from where he is.
I think he could.

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
The hotel is kind of l shaped, and I think
his vantage is that which might be overlooking me. I
can't get up and go over to the window right
now because I don't have that much court on this headset.
But if I could have would I'll run into him
sometime today and at the worst case scenario is tonight

(01:18:40):
over there at the theater because he and his lady friend.

Speaker 7 (01:18:45):
I believe there.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Yeah, they've been together a long time. I don't know
what he calls her, but he better call her good
things because she's a good influence on him. Anyway, we'll
see him tonight or this afternoon or sometime, and when
we do, it'd be the first time we've ever met.

Speaker 7 (01:19:03):
Talking about Aaron, my.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Guy who he probably puts more miles on a vehicle.
He and Rick Bice, between the two of them, probably
drive a half a million miles a year. And I'm
really glad finally gonna get to shake the man's hand.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
It's gonna be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me check this
email over here. Make sure I'm not missing anything. TikTok, TikTok.
Sorry about that. I got that taken care of. I
got that. Oh yeah, Billy wade in, he said, I'm
assuming once they pull it in they hooked the leader

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or something to a crane on the boat and lift
it in through this is it just hand until I'm
not sure. I'm trying to figure out exactly what he
wants to know about this. Actually know that the big
fish like that typically come through a door in the stern,

(01:19:59):
and a fish that big would have been a lot
to handle, a whole lot to handle. And he's asking
me to be careful and curious about some listeners being
sensitive to the fact that the fish is killed when
you're talking about a state record fish and releasing most

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of the other ones that are caught, so long as
as somebody's abiding by all the rules that are set
forth by the Parks and Wildlife Department and by the
US Fish and Wildlife Service or inland coastal fisheries. Every
governing body has its rules for different things like this,

(01:20:43):
and if it's a fair, fair game catch to bring
it back to the dock and way, then I don't
have a problem with it. I like that we're releasing
most of the billfish we catch, now that we're releasing
trout longer than twenty inches, that we were releasing more
and more fish, and that is becoming the norm rather

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than the exception. It wasn't that long ago, twenty maybe
thirty years ago, when still most people were boxing all
the legal fish they caught, and some people were boxing
even more than what they could legally catch.

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
And that still goes on today.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
But amongst all the guides I talked to, amongst all
the people I talked to who actually fish, most of
them are tossing everything back except for maybe one two
fish every now and then a lot of them will keep.
But by and large we're not taking nearly the angler

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for angler, not taking nearly as many fish as a
lot of people think. And anybody who thinks that sport
fishermen are doing that is mistaken. The recreational fishermen today
keeps fewer fish by far than what was being caught,
caught and kept by fishermen in the from say, well

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in the twentieth century, let's go to the twentieth century,
nineteen hundreds. Everybody's catching lots of fish, keeping lots of fish.

Speaker 7 (01:22:18):
Boy, it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
This fast forward twenty five years now, and cleaning tables
are just pretty pretty boring to stand around anymore. Not
a whole lot of people bringing stuff over there to
carve up and take home. And again that if the
lib's three, If there are five guys on the boat
and you put fifteen fish on the on the cleaning table,

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speckle trout within the legal length length limit not a problem.
That's okay. You can keep those fish and the loss
as you can if you bring in twenty of them.
We need to go. Oh my gosh, Holy cal thank
you for telling me that, Evan. I'm sitting here just
it lost in my thoughts once again about how good

(01:23:05):
a job we're doing with conserving the fish we have
and that's why it's getting better. I might go into
that a little bit when we get back from this break.
On the way out, I'll tell you about American shooting
centers out there on West Timber Parkway between Katie and
Highway six, roughly about the middle of that road, somewhere
a little bit closer to Highway six probably than to Katie.

Speaker 7 (01:23:24):
Can't miss it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
It's on the north side of the road weaving through
the park there, and these big berms are They look
like pyramids rising out of the desert, almost so that
they're not nearly that big. But once you get onto
the property, you will realize that this is the biggest
non military shooting facility in the entire state of Texas.

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A fantastic place to go enjoy sporting clays. There's three
sporting places, Courses ten, Trap and skeet field. There are
five stands setups in several places, all kinds of stuff
for you to do to enjoy the shooting sports. And
if you're not hitting enough targets where you want to
hit them, if you're not breaking enough clays when they're
flying past.

Speaker 7 (01:24:04):
You get some instruction.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
They have professional instruction available for all the shooting disciplines
out there. The rifle and pistol ranges by the way,
five yards that's home defense stuff. To six hundred yards
that's some pretty technical shooting. And if you go out
there on a morning like this and watch these people
shoot at six hundred yards, there will only be one

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or two of them down there, usually because it's such
a long ways down there. But bring some binocular or
maybe let ask them to use their spotting scope if
they haven't already set up, and just see how well
these men and women can drop bullets into targets six
hundred yards away. It's a fascinating part of the sport
and just one of many parts of a fun sport,

(01:24:49):
the shooting sports. American Shooting Centers dot Com. They got
a nice selection of higher end rifles and shotguns, plenty
of ammo for everybody, and like I said, plenty of
instruction and a very safe, very controlled environment. American Shooting
Centers dot Com is a website American Shooting Centers dot
com to thanks.

Speaker 7 (01:25:07):
For listening to Dust Pike Show on sports.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Overlooking off its bio, overlooking Galveston Bay or West Bay
and if I could, if I could get over to
the window and look out to the left, I'll bet
I could see the Gulf of America. It's gonna take
me a while to get used to that name. I
don't I don't have a problem with a doll. I
don't mind calling it that. That's what it is. It's

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the Gulf of America. Let's go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:25:36):
Tony Boxes on the phone. I want to see what's
on his mind.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Let's click him in there at all, right, Tony, what's
up man?

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Good morning.

Speaker 14 (01:25:45):
Oh we're getting ready for our the Fire Club International
Houston banquet in four weeks mate, Thank you guy.

Speaker 7 (01:25:51):
It's only four weeks out now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Oh yeah, And uh, we're lining up our auction items.
We've got more thirty items and we'll have on auction.

Speaker 15 (01:26:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
We have some really cool raffles lined up.

Speaker 11 (01:26:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
Someone asked me about a tired, and I told him
boots and jeans for doing this casual.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
Yeah, that's good, That's.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
What I wanted to be comfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Folks. You can put on a tuxedo if you want.

Speaker 14 (01:26:13):
To, but putting a uh Rose Royce gas cap on
a VW still makes it a VW.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
I saw something just real quick on a side uh.
I was watching some old episode of Cops or something
like that, and they pulled pulled this guy over and
he was probably he's probably fifty five sixty years old,
looks just like a pretty humble not a rich guy
at all. And he had a BMW emblem on the
on the back of his car, you know. Assist sedan

(01:26:44):
talking about Yeah, what was it?

Speaker 7 (01:26:47):
It was a Toyota or something.

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
What.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Yeah, he just glued that BMW emblem on the back
of the Toyota. Wasn't fooling anythum dressed you and press Yeah,
that's exactly right. Yeah. Do you drive BMW? Oh yeah
kind of. Yeah. Well, so tell me more about the
banquet where and how much.

Speaker 14 (01:27:10):
It's one hundred and fifty dollars per ticket. We are
gonna have a Tahita style fiesta dinner. We're open bar
there is going to be some unique hunts on here.
We have a black bear or cougar hunt. In Idaho,
we have a hunt, yes, thank you. We've got a

(01:27:31):
number of African hunts. I've got six here in the US.
We've been working on two Neil Guy hunts.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
In South Texas.

Speaker 14 (01:27:38):
We've got some things that aren't offered at other places.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
And gonna make it just as fun as possible.

Speaker 14 (01:27:45):
We're gonna start at four pm, so you'll get home
in a reasonable hour.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
That sounds good.

Speaker 14 (01:27:51):
Well, I'm trying, and I'll tell you part of the
reason behind that. The last one we hosted, we packed
everything up and they said, oh, by the way, mister Box,
we're using your truck put everything in and I said, heiny, great.
It was three am before I got home from storage.
Oh let's you know, let's get this word. By the
time we unloaded, we get home at midnight at least,

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so you know you don't have to spend a lot
of time there. You can still go and do something
once you leave there, because we're gonna be finished about
nine pm. And it's right next to Energy at the
Windham Hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Very nice, Yeah, a good deal man.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Look it up.

Speaker 14 (01:28:30):
At Siuston dot org. We'll take payments through Zel. You
can always come to the door, but I would refer
to get in advance because we will run out. I
only have one premium table left at this point. Where
they're get they get pretty spiffy prizes those tables. We're
doing a custom rifle and a custom pistol for our

(01:28:53):
top end tables. We have a shooting bitch that is
going to be really nice. That's being that of air
craft aluminum and can be Uh. We made it in
such a way a left or right handed shooter will
be comfortable at that bench.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Good for you.

Speaker 14 (01:29:14):
Oh, the top tables. If you're a fan, the top
tables will get Trump wine.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Oh, way, there you go.

Speaker 14 (01:29:23):
I elected the cabinets for that, so it is a
very nice easy bottle.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
But yeah, we're gonna have a little fun.

Speaker 13 (01:29:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
There may be a few celebrities in the crowd.

Speaker 14 (01:29:33):
I can't give that list out just yet, but if
you want to put your camera get a picture with
a few people that you only see on television mostly
they'll be there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
Very nice. I gotta run, Tony. It's good to hear
from you, though. How can they find all the information
in the Where do they go?

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Sci Houston dot Org.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Good bunch, good bunch, man, they got the right guy
in charge to Thank you, Tony Box.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
I'll see you, my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Thank you all right? Man? Audios? Holy cow, that sounds
like fun. That does sound like fun. I'm I have
to consider that. Oh, my schedule is so busy, but
I love everything I do, so it kind of balances out.
We're gonna go ahead and go to the break a
little bit early, Evan, if you don't mind. I'm sure
you'll be thrilled with that, so we can get your

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network obligation handled on the way out. I'm gonna tell you,
I'll tell you what. Yeah, we can just do this one.
We'll just do this one straight out and you'll have
plenty of time. No, no, no, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna tell you about Phoenix Knives. Phoenix Knives, out
there in Belleville on Main Street, has been around a

(01:30:41):
very long time.

Speaker 7 (01:30:42):
Cowboys of Maanski.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
The man who owns the place, has been making custom
knives since the late seventies, the very late seventies, seventy
nine in fact, and he's out there on Main Street
now in a bigger location than he was in up
until last year, and they are making great strong in
just making Phoenix Knives bigger and better and continuing their

(01:31:05):
tradition of being one of the top knife makers. He
is anyway in the entire country, has several journeymen working
under him now and learning the craft, and together they
offer more than a thousand knives for sale right there
from that store. You could actually go out there pretty
much anytime. It's kind of a first come, first serve
when somebody is available, go out there and build your

(01:31:30):
own knife. You can hammer that hot steel and you
can turn a piece of metal into a knife that
you and only you have your hands on. Welle that
you're gonna get some help from a professional. Yeah, mine
would just be a piece of hot metal if I
tried it myself.

Speaker 7 (01:31:48):
But with their help, you and anybody else who wants to.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Go out there, even some young people, they can be
led through the process of building their own knife, and
that's something be really cool to have for a young
man to put away. He's old enough to take it
out into the field at the deer lease or somewhere,
or maybe a the lay knife. They have all kinds
of knives bottom line at Phoenix Knives. Phoenix Knives dot

(01:32:12):
com is the website out there in Belleville. You could
they do group tours, they do individual knife building, like
I said, and you can even sign up to kind
of shadow if you will. Cowboys Lemanski himself through a
better part of a day sometime if you really want
to immerse yourself in custom knife building. It's a fascinating,

(01:32:33):
fascinating profession. Phoenix Knives dot com, Like I said, P
H E N I X Phoenix Knives dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Knock.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
The good news is we've got ourselves the horse race
we wanted at the Masters. Well, the bad news is
most of the guys we're really wanting to look at
aren't on the golf course yet. They're gonna go out
a little bit later than ten o'clock this morning, and

(01:33:02):
it'll be fun. It's gonna be as it should be.
It's gonna be a fantastic leader board and there will.
I still I can't turn my back on Scottie Scheffler.
I just can't. There's no way, there's no reason at
all to think that he can't do what he's got

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to do as well as he's been plenty after.

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
You don't get to be the world's number.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
One by being pretty good at golf. You get that
designation from being the best. And that's what he is
right now and where he sits at five under par,
just three off the lead. Justin Rose hung on to
his lead yesterday. I talked about this earlier. I'll talk
about it again. Justin Rose did not what he wanted

(01:33:49):
to do yesterday, but what he had to do. He
posted one under par seventy one to go along with
the sixty five he shot on Thursday and maintain his lead.
And that's not as big a lead as he had
after day one, but he maintained lead of the tournament
and that still puts him in a pretty good spot

(01:34:10):
for today and tomorrow. However, when you look down behind
you and you've got Deshamba one shot back, you got
Rory McElroy two shots back, Corey Connors, there he is.
He's also six under par, just two shots off the lead.
And by the way, Justin Rose is going to be

(01:34:31):
playing with Bryce and Deshambo and those two guys don't
exactly have the same type of game or same type
of mentality when it comes to golf, so it'll be
interesting to see how they play alongside each other. You
got Matt McCarty, Shane Lowry, and Scotty Well, Scotty Scheffer
and Terrell Hatton all at five under par and honestly,

(01:34:54):
you can't write any of those guys off just yet.
And then you've got Hoy Guard and High Goblin and
Jason Day at four. They're kind of on the outskirts
of town trying to get back onto main Street. But
it's going to take a pretty herculean effort by one
of those guys to pass the eight people in front

(01:35:17):
of them, because the eight people in front of them
represent some of the best players and most experienced Masters
participants in the field. Looking down a little bit farther,
Colin Moore Kali at three, I don't know who else

(01:35:37):
I'm looking. I'm still scrolling and I'm still not seeing
any name that really jumps off the page at me.
I would love to see some of these guys a
little farther down do better and finish better, and they
may but to come from any more than about four
under when.

Speaker 7 (01:35:54):
They tee off today, it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
A very big hill to cline for these guys because
with with Scheffler and McElroy both sitting up there behind
the leader and behind the shamba. H. That's that's where
it's gonna come from. It's gonna come from five or better,
I think, to win it tomorrow. No matter what these
guys do today, one of those people is probably gonna

(01:36:19):
put together two good rounds.

Speaker 7 (01:36:21):
And walk it off.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
And I would not be surprised at all to see
Scottie Shuffer make it three out of four for the
second time only. I'm sorry, what was the name? He's there?
Put him on quick before he has to hang up
his phone, Art Strickland, what's going on? My friend? Hey? Art,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Man?

Speaker 15 (01:36:44):
I didn't know if he had our time scross, but
it's the land and no cell phones.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
It's hard to cordon.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
Oh no, man, I told Evan a little while ago,
I said, you know, if he calls put him on.
We gotta we gotta go before they find you hidden
in the phone booth wherever you are in the in
the outhouse, somewhere out there where you could use your phone.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
It was yesterday on eighteen I had in the bushes there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
Oh god lord, So what's the story that nobody's talking about?
Yet out there at the Master's. I know you're bragged
on you and your ability to find the story within
the story.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
So what's going on?

Speaker 15 (01:37:25):
Well, I think that this proves once again that the
Master's rewards experience like no other major, no other tournament really,
because you know, I'm not mister Joe Gamber, but I
wouldn't imagine you could have gotten great odds on Justin
Rhodes when in the Masters dude put down a hundred,

(01:37:47):
you know, on.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Tuesday or Wednesday.

Speaker 15 (01:37:49):
But yeah, he has been there seventeen times to send
a second twice. He's one major at Marion, which is
super hard golf course, played in the right of cup
a ton of times, so he has got the experience
and he is your quintessential Masters winner.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
You know that uh played great forever.

Speaker 15 (01:38:12):
You know has knows of course, like the back of said,
this is why you can never pick a guy like
a Ludwig Ardberg who's in his second.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Year and is a great player.

Speaker 15 (01:38:23):
He's going to be a great player, but he has
two years of Master experience.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Justin Rose has seventeen you know, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Justin Rose his hit balls into places Oberg hadn't hit
it yet, and he knows how to get out of them, right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
So that's what masters you need.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
It is, So why why are you writing off my
boy Scottie Scheffer already?

Speaker 15 (01:38:47):
Oh that is my pick at the beginning of the year,
beginning of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
It's still my frick.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
Yeah, Yes, he.

Speaker 15 (01:38:56):
Got experience, he knows, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
But I just think that you got to go with
You just got to go with people that have done
it before.

Speaker 15 (01:39:07):
And because I guarantee you the pen placements today are
the exact same place they are every Saturday, in the
exact same place Sunday, And Rory told me last year
at San Antonio. You would think that would give me
the advantage, wouldn't it, because I know where the pin
places are. But if you have so much scarteitching, so
much experience that you just never can tell.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
It's a fascinating tournament, it really is. And you bring
up a very good point. These guys that have been
there fifteen, eighteen, twenty times, they know that court. It's
almost like going back to your home course after playing
all over the country. And a lot of these tournaments
are at the same course every year, but most of

(01:39:52):
these guys don't play all those tournaments. So being this
is this is a comfort zone for a lot of
these guys, despite the the hype, despite the the significance
of winning the Masters, there's some comfort to be had
in knowing those courses, just like it's your own backyard.

Speaker 15 (01:40:14):
I'm percent agree and good in bad And Rory told me,
he said, I have had good experiences and bad experiences here,
and that is the case. We look on Thursday, uh,
you know, chips into the water on fifteen, so you know,
but this is the second nine. They never call it
the back nine, the second nine of ago. Oh yeah,

(01:40:37):
the greatest tournament course every by because there's a disaster
or there is every.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Ward waiting to happen on every hole.

Speaker 15 (01:40:48):
You know, you can make You can make Ego Jack
shot thirty on the back nine and he was ft
six years old, you know, but you can also shoot
you forty real easily out here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
You know, Brooks kept up, who is the big game? Hunter?
Is the greatest you know, pressure pointer.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
Of all time? Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Maybe eight on number eighteen? Yesterday it eight?

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Oh my gosh, so.

Speaker 15 (01:41:15):
Uh you know, the back man second nine is an incredible,
uh tournament examination. You got the patrons here, I mean,
the weather's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:41:28):
I remember one time I played at Pebble Beach with
my dad, uh, and the Kenny told me, he said,
you're really fortunate because we only get about five of
these perfect days a year, and you're lucky to get
one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Well and again they get a more than five perfect days.
But it's shaping up to be a perfect weather weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
It's a great leader board.

Speaker 15 (01:41:51):
And you know, I'm still sticking with my scuttie chef
were picked.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
But just the road's not going away. I just said,
just Through is not shooting eighty today. I can promise
you that. You know, he may not win.

Speaker 15 (01:42:06):
The putts may not go in, he may not hit
a shot, but you know he's not going away.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
You know. For for every every shot everybody else hits,
just justin Rose, just like you say, he's only got
a he's only got to beat the field by one
shot today, whatever that comes into to go into tomorrow's
round with the lead. And I think even if he
dropped down to maybe somewhere top three, four five, Uh,

(01:42:34):
that might just tick him off enough that he'd go
out and light it up tomorrow. Who knows, but I
still I can't walk away from Scheffler. I like what
you said, by the way, Art about that that second
nine at the Masters, because it there's a reason they
don't move those pin placements. There's a reason they set
it up exactly the same every year is because it

(01:42:57):
is already proven that it doesn't need to be tinkered with.
And I'm glad they're not doing that well.

Speaker 15 (01:43:04):
And you just look at thirteen yesterday Jordan speeds hits
in the water on the Race.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Creek in front of their tenth Green people.

Speaker 15 (01:43:13):
I mean that creek has been there one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
But you know the way they said it up. This
is so good.

Speaker 15 (01:43:22):
Uh, you know the way and obviously the pressure.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
I remember Fuzzies. I asked Fuzzy z R. One time.

Speaker 15 (01:43:29):
I said, Fuzzy, which is the best major to win
the Major? You know, Fuzzy won the US Open beat
Horman in the Open one Masters, And I pointed it
out because I don't want you to lose your wife
today play the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
But Fuzzy from me said, are you freaking kidding me?
He goes the Master Gordon ticket. Nobody even remembers who
was the US Open Jimmy it is.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
But god, you know that's pretty true.

Speaker 15 (01:43:58):
That That's another thing that he's on these guys' mind,
is that very rarely very you know, I can think
of maybe Tremble treble way more men. Uh, maybe Danny
will when Speed's very rarely does a non.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Name player win the Masters. He's usually a guy at
the top of this game, uh, you know.

Speaker 15 (01:44:20):
And so that's what makes Rory so fascinating this weekend. Rory, clearly,
you know, uh, is the most talented guy out here.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
I think, you know, Scotty.

Speaker 15 (01:44:30):
And Rory would be one two on most donns, you know,
and when he gets to going, nobody can get it
going like that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
But you know, so much guards tissue.

Speaker 15 (01:44:41):
You know, he saw what happened on Thursday. You know,
I thought his interview yesterday afterwards and came in the
media center, he said, I just have to remind myself
on point really good golf and I'm a really good golfer,
and I think both of true. And but you know,
there is we've discussed before, Doug. There's a reason why

(01:45:02):
sports psychologists are multi millionaires because the mental aspects of
this game at that level, it's so so tough.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
Mm hm they just have to get out of their
own way, really, and that's what those psychologists are there for.

Speaker 7 (01:45:19):
It's it's gonna be fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
You bring up a very good point I was thinking
when you talked about how it takes a very experienced player,
and it's usually a brand, a big name at the
top of the leaderboard on Sunday afternoon when it's all
said and done. You look at the PGA Tour all
year long, and there'll be what's five, six, seven, eight
guys win their first tournament during the during the year.
But that really doesn't happen if the Masters does. It

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never does.

Speaker 15 (01:45:43):
I mean, you know, Buzzy was the last guy to
win the Masters the very first time he ever played
in it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
And yeah, I think guys.

Speaker 15 (01:45:53):
We've been our bird, you know, some days, because they're
going to be great players, and I great.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Thanks, But I don't think.

Speaker 15 (01:46:01):
It's too much to ask to win the Masters, which
is the ultimate experience. I mean, I think people forget
Jack finished sixth here when he was fifty three years old,
you know, and uh, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
Just uh it's great.

Speaker 15 (01:46:15):
So you know, uh, I think Rory is fascinating, you know,
it's almost like that meme you said, you said, are
you willing to be hurt again? Are you willing to
put all your faith in knowing? Did get in disappointment time?

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
God so?

Speaker 15 (01:46:35):
But you know, if I had to rank it, I'd say,
the three guys that are going to be at the top,
you know, in some order, will be Scottie and Rory
and Jason.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
Right, yeah, you know, yeah, And you're right, there's it's
way too early to tell which order, but I think
that's what it's. It'll be a shootout where Why do
you think the Shambo falls out of the mix.

Speaker 15 (01:47:03):
Well, I think that he is really good. I just
think that a lot can go wrong. I got that's
got you know, he said yes in the media center,
he's got about a hundred swing thoughts.

Speaker 7 (01:47:14):
Before you do that's not good at the.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
Master ten or fifteen. You know, I'm certainly he could
do it.

Speaker 13 (01:47:23):
He is.

Speaker 15 (01:47:24):
You know his quote, I think the first time you
ever played here was you know this is a par
sixty eight for me?

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
Because I hit it so far. He's certainly warned that
that's no longer the.

Speaker 15 (01:47:35):
Case got to be for Shiite, you know, I asked
Fazio one time it's the tom What do you think
about bright and proof and the masters?

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
He said, we don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 15 (01:47:46):
Because if you try to cut over the dog legs
and the masters most of the holes, most of the
dog legs go away from the holes.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
Then you're just hitting further in the woods. So you know,
Price didn't con certainly hit.

Speaker 15 (01:48:00):
It further than anybody, but sure Daddy Willitt and nothing
great guy, I mean not.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
I'm sorry, Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:48:10):
You know the European I'm blinking out it from there.
But anyway, you know, I don't like guys that are
up and down all the time. I White guys are
steady and certainly Scotty s shepher you know from then
and just on the roads pools that experience. Rory obviously
has the experience good or bad. I saw, uh when

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I was walking on the tenth Fairway the other day
there was somebody peering out of the cabin that Rory.

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
Hit his ball into. You know, Uh, they.

Speaker 15 (01:48:43):
Were on the they were on the balcony of the
cabin that Rory.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 10 (01:48:51):
Great.

Speaker 15 (01:48:53):
I'm having a closer personal record on the eggshalling sandwiches
and Georgia Peach.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
This is great as the Masters.

Speaker 15 (01:49:03):
You know what I had for one the other day, Doug,
I had a sandwiset oak. I had a baggage chips.
I had a Georgia Pj's cream sandwich, and I had
a Master's moon pie. You know what else I had
change for my ten dollar bill. You know, kids, I
don't write the confessions are.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
Here Holy cow Art All right, man, Well, look you
enjoy that beautiful weather you got for the next two days.
I will see you Tuesday. Bring me an excel and
cent that probably wouldn't travel well, would it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
Hey, I enjoyed it, my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
All right, Art Strickland, thank you very much, man, I'll
see you audios.

Speaker 7 (01:49:46):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
That guy.

Speaker 7 (01:49:49):
I love talking to him.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
He is so immersed in golf and so passionate about
covering it, and I knew I could count on him.
I might try and squeeze him one more time for
tomorrow morning, if if he can get back into those bushes.
They really are strict about phone use over there, especially
well just everywhere, and so it was not easy for
him to do that, and I do appreciate it all

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the way out. Speaking of golf, I'll tell you about
black Horse Golf Club. Up there off two ninety go
two ninety to Fry Road hangs south and a couple
of miles down, you'll start to see golf course on
your right. When you see golf course on the right
and the left, turn on your west blinker and pull
into the gate there at black Horse, And once you
get up to the clubhouse, you'll realize that pretty much

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anybody who's there and has a name tag on is
there to make sure you have a good time. And
that might be somebody who's in the pro shop, might
be somebody who's in the dining area, might be somebody
who's out there on the course riding around with a
cart full of goodies and beverages for you. But whoever
it is, they're going to make sure you're having a

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good time. A fantastic practice facility and a great teaching
facility at the far end of that enormous run because
they have two courses there, they can warm up for
these big tournaments they've had. They built that range to
warm up forty fifty people at a time. There are
a lot of golf balls flying when they're getting ready
for a big tournament out there at black Horse.

Speaker 7 (01:51:13):
Now what they've done.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
For twenty twenty five is turn the South course private,
which there's still memberships available, and a couple of those
membership options get you not only access to that South course,
but they also include because it's a family affair around here,
both courses at Golf Club of Houston and Blackhawk Country
Club out there in Richmond, where I play a lot.

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All you have to do is ask about the options
and somebody there will be happy to explain them all
to you. You can probably find a lot of that
information online. North course still daily fee as it always
has been, and one of the finest, most fun places
to play, especially if you like to swing hard and
don't really have the discipline to hit it straight every time,

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or the swing you can a little bit on that
North course to still go find your ball and hit it.
It's one of my favorites actually around here, especially up
there on that north side where there are a lot
of golf courses to choose from. Black Horse is certainly
my favorite. Black Horse Golf Club dot Com is website
black Horse Golf Club dot com. Allaston have Moody gardens,

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to be specific, and every time the sun just gets
a little bit higher. It just makes the day look
a lot better. What a fantastic view I have out
of this room. I'm not gonna lie. It's not so
hard to be me sometimes, and this is one of
those times. I need to get over to the.

Speaker 7 (01:52:34):
Corner of the room.

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
I don't know if I can do it. Let me see.
If I gonna walk around here, Yeah I can. Good.
I'm gonna get over here and open these drapes just
a little bit wider, well, actually a lot wider. I
want to whereas Oh, that's going the wrong way. I
want to go that way, and I want to go
that way. I need all of this opening I can
get in here. I want to just embrace the entire

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island experience down here at Moody Gardens. I am going
to try and play golf in a little while, and
I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (01:53:02):
To track down.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
One of my friends down here to see if he
can go play with me.

Speaker 7 (01:53:09):
I don't know if he can or not.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
He may be working today, and if he is, I
would certainly understand. But one way or the other, I've
got to take advantage of this weather and get a
crack at that golf course when it's not blowing fifty
miles an hour. That's gonna be uh. I'm gonna find
out whether my driver is truly fixed or not. I
think it is, but I'm not entirely sure. Seven one
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Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. We've still got time to
get in plenty of talk about the Masters, and I
would love to hear from you to figure out whether
you agree or disagree with arts options and my options about.

Speaker 7 (01:53:50):
Who's gonna win this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
I like the way he put it, justin Rose Roy McElroy,
Scottie Scheffler, and then then the rest of the field.
One of those three guys.

Speaker 7 (01:54:01):
My gut tells me one of those three is.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Gonna win as well. And even though these there's some
pretty good names and there's some pretty good sticks in
the top fifteen or so, it's still hard to imagine
that those three won't be the guys to watch tomorrow.
The only thing that would be better than however that
would unfold, is if they were to all three go

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out at the same time, all three within a shot
or two of each other, and just let them duke
it out in the final pairing as it stands right
now if they started play well, they will start today
with Rose and Deshambeau together McElroy and Connors, and then
let me scroll this down past the big giant ad

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right in the middle of my leader board. Yeah, it's
gonna be McCarty and Lowry at one twenty and then
Scheffler and Hatton at one ten coming back earlier. But
the leaders don't go out until one forty, which is
about right. They'll have plenty of sunshine, They'll have plenty

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of I think I think the wind is fairly light
over there. I haven't looked at a forecast from Augusta,
Georgia this morning. Let me see if it's on here. Yeah,
it's a south wind at eight miles an hour. That's
not man uh, somebody, I don't know who's gonna go low,
but somebody's gonna go low. And probably the overall score,
the average score is probably gonna come down close to

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a shot today without that, without any more wind than that,
that's about the only chance those guys have to take
advantage of that golf course. Just like Art was talking
about and I was, it's set up to it's set
up to make the cream or allow the cream to
rise to the top, and it's gonna be somebody who's

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got experience on that golf course. Everything he said, I
one hundred percent agree with. This is not a place
where rookies come to win their first tournament or even
the first time they play the Masters. It's been a
hot minute since Zeller did that, and I don't foresee
it happening this week, not with the caliber of players
who are in this field, and the guys we're talking

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about McElroy, Scheffler and Rows.

Speaker 7 (01:56:18):
Of the two McElroy and Scheffler, certainly.

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
They're not that old. They're not that old at all.
They've got a lot of good years ahead of them
and already have the experience and the ability to put
that to work. It's not their first Masters, that's for sure,
and I'm I'm sticking with Sheffler, And ifse if Art
had said anybody else, I would still say that. I

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can't see anybody else taking this away from him. I
think he's in kind of right where he needed to
be to motivate him this morning, As if he needed motivation.
Is if the guy doesn't know how to win or something,
I don't know how he thinks I just wish I
had that thought process of my game. I'll probably play
a lot better that just a little bit of his

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swing ten percent of his swing. And to whine a
little bit, I'm still suffering with my putter. I'm I'm
a great putter on the practice green and then I
think I've figured out what the problem is though, And
today when I play over at Moody Gardens, I'm going
to put that thought into turn it into an action
plan and see if I can't actually put better. It's

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gonna take a little bit more time on the green.
What I think I've been doing is not weeding the
greens as closely as I need to. I've been kind
of casual about it, and that's cost me. Now, that
doesn't explain the missed four and five footers. I've missed
a few of them lately too, and I used to
not do that. But that's a different issue that I

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also think i've identified. So we'll see how that works
out anybody who's.

Speaker 7 (01:57:55):
New to golf.

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
That's one thing. I still get this question a lot,
and it's not a question, it's more of a statement
from people I'm talking to about golf. And that statement
is this I'd love to start playing, but I don't
want to embarrass myself. And what I emphasize every time,
And in fact, I just got a text message from

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Jerry Hammichik from Moody Garden chair. She's headed over to
the course right now to hit some balls and maybe
eat a couple of breakfast tacos. And what I tell her,
and what I would tell anybody else who's kind of
new to the game, is don't worry about what your
scores are. Don't put that on yourself so early, because

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it'll just be demoralizing. If you're trying to play by
all the rules and hit every shot, you're just gonna
be humbled by the game. You're gonna think it's unfair,
but it's not. It's not fair to golf to be
like if somebody wanted to race F one cars someday

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and the first time they got out there on the
track they tried to keep up with the guys who
had been racing for years, they'd wind up in a
wall somewhere tearing up a million dollar car. When you
go out there as a as a new golfer, if
you're on a public course and you're playing with people,
you've never met before, you're by yourself, and you want

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to go play. Go play with those three other guys
that that said, sure you can join us, but tell
them say, I don't play much golf. I'm not very
good at it. And if I'm messing up and trying
and start to slow you down, I'll just pick my
ball up and go to the next tea box. Let
them play at their speed, and so long as you're
playing at the same speed. And that may mean when

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you're new to the game, it may mean just picking
up a ball and putting it in your pocket, or
picking up a ball out of the woods that you
finally found and going up there and meeting them on
the green and maybe putting from this place where the
closest of those people happened to be putting. Make it
fun for you so you'll keep coming back to the
game and eventually if you'll find a way to get

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a little instruction. You could try to get some instruction online.
You can try to get some instruction through reading magazine
pieces and online stuff. But you can if you can
just devote a little bit of money to even if
it's group lessons from a real legitimate golf instructor.

Speaker 7 (02:00:26):
You'll start getting better.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
Faster, and once you get a little bit better, go
ahead and try to play. To play by all the
rules of golf. Most golfers don't, frankly, but try to
play by as many of them as you can. You
got to keep it fun. Just keep it fun for
you and me and anybody else whose business card does
not say professional golfer under your name. YEA, make it fun.

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Holy Cow break time again. One more time. I am
going to remind you of where I am and why
I'm here.

Speaker 7 (02:00:58):
The where is Moody Goard down here in.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
Galveston, and the why is because of the Fly Fishing
Film Festival that we're in our fourth year of right now.
And I've been blessed by being asked to be the
MC of this thing for the last three years. And
I'm right back here doing what I do and absolutely
enjoying being here working with everybody here who's put this

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thing together to make sure that it's enjoyable and fun.
I even have I've got a four pack of tickets
to one of the Astros games that iHeart Houston donated
to the cause, and we put that into the raffle pile.
Last night, and somebody's gonna win that somebody did last night.
Somebody's gonna win four seats plus parking to an Astros

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game in May, which ought to be I'm hoping that's
about the time they step into a little bit bigger
stride and start doing a little bit better. But I'll
be down here, and I'll tell you what if you'll
if you'll send me an email and if you can
get here this evening you want to come in. I've
got a couple of pairs of tickets. I could leave it.
We'll call for somebody who's truly gonna be down here.

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But you've got to promise that if I put your
name on one of those envelopes, you got to try
to show up. And you gotta find me. And I'm
easy to find. I'm sitting right in the lower corner
of the theater doing all my microphone work there. And
you gotta promise me you'll shake my hand and say
hi when you get down here. You won't regret coming
to Gallston Island today, I can assure you. And then

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we'll we'll tee up the movies. About six point thirty
they open the theater, I think, and by seven o'clock.
We'll get started. It'll be a lot of fun, all right.
We got to take a little break here on the
way out. On the way out, I'm clean, I'm good.
I'm gonna go ahead and take this break. I'm gonna
go over there and fix myself another cup of coffee,
and then we'll be back more than Dug Pike Show

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on Sports Talk seven to ninety coming up.

Speaker 7 (02:02:54):
All right, welcome back in my.

Speaker 3 (02:02:55):
Back, Yes, I'm back, Welcome back. I'm down in Moody
Gardens still and having a blast. And I found out
that the breakfast buffet stays open until eleven thirty, so
that means I will be able to go clean up
first as soon as I finish the show here, jump
in that shower, freshen up dress for golf. Go down there,

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eat breakfast, bam, head over to the golf course by
way of by the way, by way of the beach.
I've got time to run up onto that sea wall
and I'm gonna have rods in the car, and if
it looks really good, I may have to call the
golf course and just say pass, because I would like
to be among the first to catch a speckle trout

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out of the surf this year.

Speaker 7 (02:03:40):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
I may be a little bit premature, but I just
I just have to believe that those fish are gonna
be there, and I think the conditions are set for it.
I'll have to take a look when I get over there.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I was joking
with Evan during the break about my golf game and

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how I've managed to regain little control of my driver
but lost the putter. Sometimes it's my short game, sometimes
it's my mid irons that give me trouble, or long irons,
whatever it is. It's almost impossible. You got fourteen clubs
in that bag, and it's rare, if ever, that all

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fourteen of them want to play. And what I told Evan,
and it makes pretty good sense. It'd be like trying
to keep fourteen wives happy. It's hard enough just to
keep one happy, I trust me, I know, and to
keep all fourteen of them happy is just about the

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same odds as having all fourteen clubs in your bag
working for you. I think the probably the greatest admiration
I have for tour players is in their short games,
these guys, and they should be good. They hit balls
all day long, every day. That's what they do for
a living, and so they are very good at it.

Speaker 7 (02:05:12):
But that's not nearly as easy as they make it.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
Look to pick balls off of very tight lies and
just flip them up there onto the green where they
either take one big balance and then just shut down
and stop, or maybe even pull back a little ways,
or to just land as soft as a feather and
hop two inches and stop. All of these shots that

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they have in their repertoires are not nearly so easy
to hit as they make them. Look. I go back
every time I watch somebody hit one of those shots.
I go back to a long ago Shell Houston Open,
when one of the pros out there at Golf Club
of Houston said, come over here, look at this, and

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I want I want you to tell me what you
see and win to the practice area. If you're familiar
with the golf course up there, there's a little chipping
green and the play. This was on Saturday or Sunday morning,
I can't remember which, but the players had been over
there all week long readying for that tournament, hitting chip

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shot after chip shot a little farther out, a few
pitch shots available over that way, and he said, what
do you see here? I said, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah,
he said, what's missing? He said, I don't know. He said,
show me a divot, And there'd been. They started the
week with one hundred and something players. They whittled it
down to a few dozen or seventy whatever at the

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cut and not on one of those guys had left
a divot over there. I'd never seen anything like that.
I couldn't imagine it because I'm man. When I'm working
on my short game, I'm laying some side over. I
got it on the on the wrong swing, and I
make a lot of those on the wrong swing.

Speaker 7 (02:07:02):
It's it's not pretty.

Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
So hats off to all of them for being able
to do what they do. Back to fishing. I want
to go back to fishing for a little bit. And
we've got a couple of minutes. And by the way,
I was kind of hoping to hear from from faux
Pro this morning. Forrest Wilkinson, however, he is on well
this morning. He is at Curse Lake. He was actually yesterday,

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I think he was at Kurt so I don't know
why he hadn't called this morning to brag, unless something
went horribly wrong. But the weather should have been really good.
I bet money he was throwing a frog too, at
least till the sun got way over the trees. Oh,
here's here's some good news. I had this lined up,
and this is something I want a lot of A
lot of you guys who have night vision capability do

(02:07:51):
a lot of hog hunting or for whatever reasons. That
technology is not just for hunting. Certainly, there's a lot
of use of it in rest operations. And just as
a feel good I'll drop this on you. There was
a two year old. A two year old went missing
in Michigan over the weekend this past weekend, and I

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mean little teeny tiny tyler walks out of the house,
gets out somehow two years old, dressed only in a diaper,
and the sun goes down and they still haven't found
this kid. And a helicopter equipped with night vision, equipped
with heat sensitive instruments found that little kid quite a

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ways away from the house, actually near a ditch near
a highway and happy ending. It all turned out okay,
But that's good use of all this technology. Certainly, that's
speaking of technology. I'm still having not debates, but just
discussions with people about forward facing SO ANDAR. And I

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think the way to look at that is, if you
want to use it, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (02:09:04):
If you don't want to use.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
It, don't. I'm looking at sold on a minute, I'm
looking at seagulls over off its bio that I think
they may be. There may be a little activity going
on out there and not a boat in sight. Those
fish are those birds?

Speaker 4 (02:09:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
Those birds are diving on fish. Holy well, they're What
they're diving on is probably shrimp. But there are fish
down below driving these shrimp to the surface. I wish
I had a pair of binoculars right now. I'm here
to tell you I'm ninety percent sure that I'm watching
a really good place to fish go unfished under these birds.

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Oh man, I'm getting fired up. I don't know what
I'm gonna do after I after I finished this show.
I don't know whether I'm gonna go fish. I don't
know whether I'm gonna go play golf. But I tell
you what, I'm gonna have a lot of fun until
we get ready for that second episode, second night of
this fly Fishing Film Festival that I am so happy

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to be to have been asked to host again in
MC down there.

Speaker 7 (02:10:12):
I'll be over there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:13):
We've got more great Raffle prizes to give away, We've
got more great films to see tonight, and it's gonna
be a blast, I know it is. We'll take a
little break, we will come back to wrap it up
here on the Doug Pike Show, I was gonna try
and say something other than I was trying to find

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something wrong with this day. There's nothing wrong with this day.
It's absolutely gorgeous. Get outside and have some fun. We'll
be back in a couple of minutes to wrap it
up The Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety
overlooking off its bile where there is a big pile
of birds working a big school of fish right in
front of me. Well it's not right. It's about probably

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six seven hundred yards away, but it's there, And there
was actually during the commercial break, a jet ski went
rolling through and just right through the middle of the
whole thing, it looked like, and the birds lifted.

Speaker 7 (02:11:09):
The jet ski turned around and went back.

Speaker 3 (02:11:12):
I guess because the guy was too far from where
he rented it. Or whatever.

Speaker 7 (02:11:16):
But they're right back at it and they have not stopped.

Speaker 3 (02:11:19):
They are on one spot and they are pounding whatever's
out there. They're probably close to eighty ninety birds in
this bunch, and they're not playing around.

Speaker 7 (02:11:32):
They are diving.

Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
And feasting on whatever's being run up to the top.
There they go bam, bam bam. Oh my gosh, holy cow.

Speaker 7 (02:11:43):
Oh I so want to be there.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Put faux Pro on the line before I lose my mind, please, Evan,
thank you? What's up? Faux Pro?

Speaker 9 (02:11:52):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
Buddy?

Speaker 9 (02:11:52):
I text you a couple of pictures. You got to
take a glance at it.

Speaker 3 (02:11:56):
But oh my gosh, I don't know if I want
to see them.

Speaker 9 (02:12:00):
Potential lake record.

Speaker 2 (02:12:04):
When you see it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
I'm not saying when did you send these pictures? Allegedly
I did.

Speaker 9 (02:12:09):
I just did it. It may take a minute now.

Speaker 3 (02:12:11):
Yeah, it got to get all the way to Galveston.
You know how that longs. I love it.

Speaker 9 (02:12:15):
You know how that goes?

Speaker 7 (02:12:16):
So how did it go yesterday?

Speaker 3 (02:12:17):
Just tell me?

Speaker 9 (02:12:19):
Well? I started out.

Speaker 16 (02:12:19):
I started out kind of slow, and I finally I
started to throw that wacky wordbird U. Since it was tough,
caught a couple, but so uh it was just tough,
tough a bite early, so I picked up I could
always pick up a drop shot at this lake.

Speaker 4 (02:12:33):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (02:12:33):
So I picked up a drop shot and I had
all that work done on my forward face and sonar.
So I went out there to just turn it on
to make sure it worked. And the spot that I stopped,
I wanted to fish a certain bank. I turned it
all the way off shore. I turned it on and
I saw something down there. It kind of looks like
croppy and uh, all has a drop shot had no
croppy gear or nothing like that.

Speaker 9 (02:12:52):
So I dropped the drop shot down there.

Speaker 16 (02:12:54):
Tick set the hook one pound ten and a half
inch readier blue gill.

Speaker 7 (02:13:00):
Yeah, I just got the pictures only cow the toad.

Speaker 3 (02:13:04):
Oh my word.

Speaker 16 (02:13:06):
So that's actually pending lake record once I get on
the documentation to figure it up.

Speaker 3 (02:13:11):
Good for you, man, you gotta get your get your
name in the book. If you don't put your name
in as faux pro Wilkinson, I'm gonna be very disappointed
in you.

Speaker 9 (02:13:19):
You know I probably will.

Speaker 3 (02:13:21):
You should. That's not so.

Speaker 16 (02:13:25):
I got on a drop shot bait that was just
stupid for a walk cat. I sat on that spot
for half an hour catching those guys, and took took
a few homes that it took a bunch of I
probably took probably took eight or ten home to fill
a and I'm literally filly, and that's pretty awesome. And
the bast bit got kind of stupid on a drop shot.

Speaker 9 (02:13:42):
And uh.

Speaker 16 (02:13:42):
Later that evening, I had one spot I generally finish
up on it.

Speaker 9 (02:13:46):
I went over.

Speaker 16 (02:13:46):
About six o'clock, started throwing my frog, got bit real
good on a frog, probably caught my best fish three
and a half pounds.

Speaker 9 (02:13:52):
Maybe no giants, sorry, but but.

Speaker 16 (02:13:56):
I stopped at the mouth of this slew and I
just made a I had them cast with the drop
shot in bluefield. Were all on that point like it
looked like land mines out there, all the beds.

Speaker 3 (02:14:06):
Oh my god.

Speaker 16 (02:14:08):
I sat there on the spot locked for half an
hour every cast, and I'd get mad when I'd catch
a bass, I was like, dang, that's a.

Speaker 9 (02:14:13):
Bass, but uh yeah then uh.

Speaker 16 (02:14:18):
And so after that I had one stretch of deep
briefs right at the boat ram, but I always finish
up there. So I pick up a beaver, flipping a
beaver half ounce wait to flip the stick every third flip.
I was catching a fish and you'll see it. I'll
post the video here when I get it all hited up.
But I was literally exhausted. I was like, do I
want to catch another fish? I'm like, yes, I did.

Speaker 3 (02:14:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:14:39):
I was like it was almost still a point, like dang, man,
I need a break.

Speaker 2 (02:14:42):
But there, you know.

Speaker 9 (02:14:43):
So it's one of them days that started out rough.
But you know, I went back to him and I
turned off the forward face and shoulder.

Speaker 16 (02:14:49):
After I had a little fune with that, I went
back to what I like to do, pick up that
frog and that flipping stick and just crushed them and
it was fun.

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
I am. I am mesmerized by this school of trout.
I'm sure that's out under the birds that are still working.
It's just they're taunting me. Forrest, if you ever fish trout.

Speaker 16 (02:15:11):
Under birds, I have what I've done. But we were throwing.
We were throwing a wooden popping cork with the strip
with my dad. That's how old actual cork popping cork. Yeah,
my dad was a kid.

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
The only time my turn, man, I am, I'm staring
at one of the longest enduring schools of fish under birds,
and I can actually see that the surface blowing up.
This is killing me.

Speaker 9 (02:15:40):
Oh, set off and get out there, mate.

Speaker 3 (02:15:43):
You know what, if I could walk on water, i'd
run out there.

Speaker 7 (02:15:47):
I need I need to make a phone call.

Speaker 3 (02:15:49):
I got to get somebody out here to work on
these fish before I could go crazy. Forest. Thanks for
the call, man. I hope we can talk again tomorrow.
I'm gonna keep looking at your pictures. Send them a buddy, Yes, sir,
All right.

Speaker 7 (02:16:01):
That's gonna wrap it up for today. Rounding third.

Speaker 3 (02:16:04):
Head it home. I'm gonna either get on a golf
course or go up to that beachfront and take a look.
If I had a canoe, I would paddle it out
there under those birds. It looks like they're gonna just
keep eating all day. That'll do it. Get outside, have
some fun with your family. It's an absolutely drop dead
gorgeous day down here and all over most of the
state of Texas. Find something fun to do. Stay safe.
I'll be back in here tomorrow morning at eight.

Speaker 7 (02:16:25):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (02:16:26):
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