Hunting, Fishing, Living

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck? How many feathers in our bag? That's how
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Sunday edition of the program starts right now.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Got the tag teamers in the in the production studio.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
That would be Will.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Melbourne and the one, the only, the new guy, Frankie Westmoreland.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Thanks for coming in, boys, I do appreciate it. We are.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We are buttoned up and ready to go. Nothing could
possibly go wrong this morning. I'm not worried at all, boys,
So we'll say. And if if that's the case, if
we make it all the way through to ten o'clock,
we may be making history.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Right Will, has this ever happened.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That We've made it through a show perfectly.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Huh. Another way, I'm gonna jail. We were already a
minute and a half in. Look at us go only
what only one hundred and eighteen and a half to go?
We'll be all right, all right, moving into the out
of doors.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
One of the interesting things that came up yesterday or
either late yesterday or early this morning, I can't remember
which was a text message I got from Captain Scott
and Noll or it may have been an email. It
doesn't matter which. But the bottom line is, and this
is something that kind of gets overlooked really by a
lot of outdoors people, and that is that he's been

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sitting for days now, not twenty four to seven. But
he goes in and comes out and gets back in
and comes out of places where he is hoping to
get photographs that will win him more awards in the
field of outdoor photography. And what he noticed yesterday was

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a significant influx of birds, all kinds of different little birds.
And those are the ones that are migrating back north now,
headed back towards their nesting grounds and passing through the
coastal region of this great state of ours in pretty

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significant numbers. I noticed some when I was down in
down at Moody Gardens a couple of weekends ago to
do the Life Fishing Film Festival. I did see some,
but not a lot like I have in the past.
And according to Scott, and Scott's paying attention out there
and that and that blind all he's staring at a

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pond basically and waiting for birds to come by, and
and bobcats and and snakes and all kinds of neat
things to come by and get a drink of water.
And he he pretty much said straight up, Hey, there's
a lot of birds out here. Now you might want
to tell your bird watchers in this audience. Uh, And
so I'm telling you now, and and I'm bringing that up.

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He sent me a bunch of pictures, by the way,
a couple of them actually of birds that I hadn't
seen before, at least don't recall seeing. And there are
plenty to see in Texas, thanks in part to it
being such a big state, and equally because it's a
big chunk of the Central Flyway. We're just it'd be
like the logic behind seeing more automobiles on I ten,

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then on your street where you live. It's just it's
a flyway. It's a thoroughfare for birds, and they're pretty
darn good at.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Sticking to it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
By the way, I was fascinated a few weeks ago
when somebody sent me the migration route of a duck
that had been collared with a radio trade kind of
a it's like life three sixty for a duck hanging
around its neck. And this duck, when it flew down
the flyway in the fall, took a specific route and

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it was marked every almost every wing beat of the
way by satellites, and they superimposed that route imparted me
on a map of North America. And then in the
spring a few a month or two ago, this bird
turned around and went back to whence it came.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
And it is remarkable.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
It was remarkable to me to see that bird almost
stayed on exactly the same path, with the same turns
at the same places. It's very much like they have
maps in their heads and they know exactly how to
get where they're going. I was fascinating from the time
I started waterfowl hunting. I thought birds just hung around

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all the time. As a little kid, I didn't know
any better. And then I started reading and learning and
learning and reading and getting out and going dove hunting
and going duck and goose hunting, and I learned that
they migrate all the way from way the heck up north,
way farther than Dallas.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Okay, they're up in the Dakotas.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
They're up just in all that beautiful, plolate country and
even into Canada, a lot of it. I've hunted geese
up in Canada, and it's fascinating to me that they
just they just pack up and leave as it starts
to get as it starts to get super cold up there,
and then they turn around when it starts to warm
back up here, and well, the first thing they do

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is shed all that weight they're carrying, all the fat
they carried to get them through winter. And then once
they're done doing that, and they do that with a diet,
they change their diet to do that. By the way,
I don't want to get into the weeds on that
when we're just right at the doorsteps of incredible fishing
around here. But the bottom line is the birding thing
is really cool. And he sent me a bunch of
pictures and they were all pretty nice Texas, by the way,

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in case you're wondering, depending on what you look at,
what source you look at, takes credit for anywhere from
about six hundred and seventy to six hundred and eighty
one if you trust AI different species of birds that
have been spotted, confirmed, verified, in the state of Texas,

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and the only state I believe that has more is California,
which I honestly don't quite understand, except that it logically
would have more of the cooler climate birds and more
of the higher elevation species. But still, Hey, we're Texas, okay,
And I think the Texas part of me, which is

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about one hundred percent, says we probably have more, but
we're so busy having fun when we're outdoors, we may
have overlooked a couple of dozen species. That's kind of
how I see it birding. Well, as long as I'm here,
by the way, feel free to jump in if you
if you've seen some cool birds lately, are seen more
birds lately at your feeders, or I think I'm gonna

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get one of those feeder cameras.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
They're very cool. It's a little.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
WiFi set up and you hang it in the backyard
and when birds come by, they there, they stop and
they look in the camera and they eat some seeds.
And that'd be a good way to introduce birding for
those of you who who like the technology of that.
But it's a big deal all over country too. There
are millions of people watch birds, some more, some more

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competitively than others, but one way or the other, it's
a wonderful way to get families and kids involved just
in doing something outdoors that's constructive, it's fun. There's a
little bit of competition, and all you really need is
a decent pair of binoculars and a book of Texas birds.
That's it. The books are easy enough to find, and

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they're in the bookstores. There are plenty of bird books
in the bookstores. But you don't have to look very
far in a secondhand bookstore to find a birding book.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's not hard.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I took about two dozen books to Goodwill yesterday, some
of the I'm kind of purging some things around the house,
making space where there is none. And it bothered me
a little bit because these books had been well taken
care of. They weren't beat up, they weren't paperbacks. These
were hardcover books, still with their original jackets on them,

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and I had about a dozen of them in a box,
and when I took them up to Goodwill, I watched
the guy took the box from me, and then he
took a few steps back into the plays there, and
I watched him just turn the box upside down from
a little more than waist high and just shake them
into a big bin of other stuff that I'm not

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I'll just tell you this, I'm not taking any more
books to Goodwill if they're not gonna treat them any
better than that, because the books that I have are
pretty dog on good books. They don't realize what they're getting,
I don't think, and this guy kind of that rubbed
me the wrong way. I'll still take them clothes and
stuff I find out in the garage that I can't
use anymore, don't need, but I'm I'm gonna take my

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book somewhere else. That was that's a little sidebar there.
It really disturbed me to watch him just treat books
that way. Books are pretty important. So back to birding,
back to getting the kids involved. The binoculars. You can
there's a lot of ways to find binoculars, but one
would be to get on the Internet, take advantage of

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the technology we have and just compare different brands in
their different price ranges. You don't need to invest one
thousand dollars in beginner birding binoculars, not even you don't
even have to put five hundred in it. You don't
have to put two hundred in it. But I would
recommend not going cheap. Cheap binoculars aren't good the same

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as good binoculars aren't cheap. And if you invest just
a little more money than entry level, you'll you'll have
a means of identifying birds, a reliable, definitive way to
identify birds, and some of them are not that different
from others, wherein you do need good glass to be

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able to magnify their image in your eyeballs so that
you can tell one sparrow from another.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Or something like that.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
You know, it's very I don't want to get off
in the weeds on how binoculars work and what they do,
but look for something that's about ten power ten magnification,
and then something that will gather as much light as
you can afford to have it gather, and that you
can read about how that works too, because you.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Don't want to be out there.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
If you have to be out somewhere early or late
in the day and the lights starting to go down,
you don't want that to keep you from being able
to identify another species.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
You'd be surprised. It doesn't take long.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Just driving around Houston or walking to a park with
the kids, or walking to a store, even in the neighborhood.
You could probably check off two dozen species walking any
neighborhood in the city of Houston, if you walk it
enough and you pay attention. Most people don't pay attention

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to birds at all. Pete and repeat in there, do
you guys bird at all?

Speaker 6 (11:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I can't say I do.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh, I expect when you stood up, Frankie, I expected
you to be the one who said, yes, yes, I
like birding.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'll tell you I love just seeing any of the
birds of my neighbor I love just watching them and
how they you know, interacted.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
But you haven't named anything.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
I have a passing interest.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, okay, but I cary I actively go out, well.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you will. Technically you're you're a casual birder, yeah,
will Are you too busy taking care of the dogs
A little bit of that? Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
I actually watched after a family friend's dog for a
long time last year. So a little bit of that's
going on too.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, you and will have something in common, then you
might want to you might want to share that story
during the break.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
All right, we'll take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Speaking of let me tell you about Manny Lopez and
El Cubano Cigars. Manny has he found his way to
this country with his dad many many, many years ago,
many for Manny, if you will, And they both came
out of Cuba and had both worked quite a bit
in Cuban cigar factories.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's where Manny learned to roll cigars.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And in fact, he now owns one of only about
four manufacturing facilities in the entire country where this is done.
And his place is right down in Texas City. It's
not a big factory, it's not a giant place. It's
just a couple of tables with a couple of devoted
crafts people who know how to roll cigars and who

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do that almost all day every day, many ships, hundreds,
if not thousands of cigars all over the country every
day out of his place down there.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
And it's really a fascinating thing.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I got the behind the scenes tour when I went
down there the first time, and it's just amazing how
the tobaccos are received, how they're cured, how they're put
on hold for a little while, and then finally the
leaves get unfurled and they get cut just exactly so,
and they wind up becoming any one of more than

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one hundred different varieties of cigars that Many makes down there.
And the cool thing about his place is because they
are the man manufacturer. It's very easy if you have
a special event coming up, or if you have clients
that you'd like to wow with something different as a
gift for them, Many will. He'll hand roll all the cigars,

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of course, and then he'll also make special bands with
your company name or their company name, or congratulations to whomever,
or first place in the XYZ golf tournament. There's all
kinds of ways that you can use cigars to say
thank you to people, and a lot of people, even
increasing numbers of women.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
They really do. You can watch them roll cigars down
there in Texas City, or just hang out in that
lounge or the one he's got in League City, maybe
watch a sports event, maybe shoot the breeze. Maybe do
a little business. The next poker game to break out
at either one won't be the first. Just a very relaxing,
cool way to go Caribbean old school cigar smoking. Just

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relax it really. When I've been down there the two play,
I went in both places and you just you see
people just very relaxed and have very casual conversations because
they all enjoy what they're doing. They'll come to your
event and roll cigars for your guests too. That's pretty cool.
Don't forget about that. Elcoubano Cigars dot Com is the

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website Lcoubano Cigars dot com.

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Speaker 2 (15:53):
Thanks for listening, starting to do appreciate it. Uh, we
figured out what happened. I know exactly what happened.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Wats this? I'm gonna make it magic work.

Speaker 11 (16:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
What's up? Chip?

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Well?

Speaker 4 (16:03):
I was called in to inform you that we have
a birding thing going on at the Brazouria National Wildlife
or San Bernard excuse me, National Wildlife Refuge outside of Churchill, Texas.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I was just looking at your email when I saw
that come up, and I thought, well, that's a coincidence.
The two guys want to talk about this thing. But
that's perfect. So explain what you're doing out there today.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Well, what we have is it's basically an open house
at the San Bernard Refuge, and we have approximately one
hundred volunteers that are assisting people and teaching them how
to enjoy or informing them how to enjoy the outdoors
and particularly around birds. And I noticed that you had

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talked this morning about birding. Absolutely thought that it might
be a appropriate. Yeah, it's completely appropriate. Does it cost
anything to get in? Absolutely nothing. It's free. You can
get in. It's very easy to get to from Houston.
You take two eighty eight south to FM ninety or FM.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Two thousand and four.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
I know where that is.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
It goes across the Brasses River, then it crosses Highway
thirty six and becomes twenty six eleven. You follow that
and you're going to go across the San Bernard River
and then follow the signs. There are signs up there
leading you to migration celebration.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Awesome, you know how you know how all this entire
audience is going to get there? Well, they weren't writing
it down when you said all that.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
They're just going to punch it in GPS.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
You're like me, You got you telling everybody every single
road because you've driven them so many times and you're
passionate about it.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
How many birds you got on your list?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hip? Oh, I have tons of birds.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
We have feeders, We go to the refuge off the
view birds and take pictures of them and everything else.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
What's the what's the one on your list? It's like,
holy mackerel, I can't believe I just saw one of those.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well, we actually had a pair of Baltimore orioles.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh wow, that.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Wintered at our house, uh this year. And also a
rufous hummingbird. Those are fairly rare here during that the
you know, the winter.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well that's yeah, those are two pretty good shots right there.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
And the birding it's not hard, it's not expensive, and
it's just it's just fun. Man. You put a if
you if you can't afford binoculars, just build a little
feeder box and put it right outside your kitchen window.
That works for us too. Man.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Do you have one of those fancy camera feeders.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
No, I don't. Yeah, I think I try to eat.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
I try to take them with my cell phone and
it doesn't always work.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
The feeder would be a great thing to have. Yeah.
They have little feeders where you can with Wi Fi
you can watch on your phone or on your laptop.
You can watch inside what's coming to your feet. And
that's pretty cool. I like that idea, like a game camera.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
That's that's all they are. They just took a game
camera and tacked it to a box that holds food.
All right, Hey, Chip, thanks a lot. So Sam Bernard
National Wildlife Refuge down there in Brassouri County.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
This is his second day of it.

Speaker 8 (19:34):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
So you're wrapping it up.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Today, Yeah, we wrap it up today.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
It goes from eleven o'clock till four o'clock this afternoon.
One of the features is we actually have a demonstration with.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Birds of prey.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh yeah, that's fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
And they actually fly the birds. Yeah during the presentation.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's really cool. Chip, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
People love it.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I know they do. Thank you, Chip. I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (20:09):
Man.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Uh huh bye bye bye. Yeah, that's a good You know,
if you're sitting around wondering what you're gonna do after church,
or wondering what you're gonna do this afternoon, think about that.
It's not very far if you're on the southwest side
of town, especially, it's not far at all.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Let me get to Andre here, Andre, thanks for hanging on, buddy.
What's up?

Speaker 11 (20:31):
Ay?

Speaker 12 (20:33):
This is Andre Johnson. Oh, I know the first the
first win of the weather temperature.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
That's right. You were the first time we ever played
that Texas Temperature game.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
You you teed it up and you won, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
But the gift card did go through the company.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
The company went out of be.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh lord, that's.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I owe you something. If you ever come by here,
let me know I got I'll tell you what I
can do.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
But but this is this is.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
What I call it.

Speaker 12 (21:07):
Okay, I have not been feeling good, been in and
out of the hospital. Grant that the grandfather would literally
come to my elementary school and take my brother and
I out of school and take us fishing park. Yeah,

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worm men on the on the hook. That's how we
learned how to fish.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, you did I'm here, my mama fouck. Oh no.

Speaker 12 (21:51):
I was like, didn't even go down.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
And I looked at my brother and he was like, no,
you just keep your mouth shut and let the two
grown ups work it out.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
You're just into some bystanders.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Hey, but that's how we got started. That's funny.

Speaker 12 (22:15):
Tateline cork. Yeah, men, and that's how we got started.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I talked to a guy the other day. He was
asking it might have been yesterday. This guy called, I
think it was early in the show yesterday, talking about
taking his four year old and wondering if that was
too young to take him fish, and I said, lord, no,
just don't put a rod and reel in the sense.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, a cane pole. That's the key.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Everybody wants to jump over that. The cane pole is
the greatest fishing tool and also greatest way. I told him,
and I'll tell you again today. I'm sure I've told
you before. When my dad and I were fishing, he
had a cane pole in my hands. He knew I
was staring at that cork no matter what until it
went down, and he would always use that time while

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we were waiting on a bike to talk to me
about how the world works, you know, and.

Speaker 12 (23:08):
You had to deal with the neutral rats and the
water moons.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, you had to worry about them too, But.

Speaker 12 (23:15):
They don't even know what a neutral rat is.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, No, not too many kids seeing beaver. Yeah, yeah,
a long tailed beaver. But what my dad would do?
What I was going to tell you what my dad
would do, I think I'm pretty sure I have to
ask him when we get to heaven together, is that
he would intentionally not put any bait on a hook
if he had a real important message to tell me,

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because he didn't want it to get interrupted by fish.
So I'd just be staring at that court, just waiting
for it to go down, and he's just talking in
my ear. Now, this is how the world works, son,
This is how you got to go out and get
a job. All this stuff, just whatever he was telling me.
But I think sometimes he didn't put bait on the hook.
Talked about that yesterday. Man. I'm sorry that your health
is failing you a little bit and not feeling so good,

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but I hope you can get through it, man, I
really do. It's life. But let me say this.

Speaker 12 (24:07):
My grandfather had a spot up near Tomball.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, I'm not gonna name.

Speaker 12 (24:13):
This, No, don't not even They put a whole subdivision,
of course where the two ponds that we used to
fish here, And I'm like.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Why would y'all do that?

Speaker 12 (24:26):
Because that could be a community builder. But I guess
with the insurance and say.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
That you know, that's a big part of it. If
they would just put a put a little some sort
of electronic device where all these neighborhood lakes are that kids,
kids love that they need that. And if they just
put have some way to register and say, I'm not
going to hold you responsible if I fall in the lake.

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I'm not going to hold you responsible. If if I
get a hook in my finger and just let me
go fishing, it would be there's so much easier that was.

Speaker 12 (25:04):
There was a small pond, and there was a big
pond with an island in it. Oh man, covered they
covered all of that up with a whole subdivision.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
They didn't even leave the lakes. Huh, they didn't even
leave the lakes there.

Speaker 12 (25:20):
No, it's nothing there, it's nothing there. Well, I went
to the developer and he was like, huh, what are
you talking about?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Wow, I'm like, dude, I.

Speaker 13 (25:34):
Fished here for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
They totally covered it up.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh that's horrible. And the fact.

Speaker 12 (25:45):
Matter of fact, if you could go way back on
Channel thirteen out Witness News when Marvin's gentler was still alive,
they did they did a they did a thing about
this fortunate that was there. Wow, they literally came out
there and they did because my my grandfather had a

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church and they we did a fishing tournament.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, sure, that's cool, and they covered it.

Speaker 12 (26:16):
It's like it's gone.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
It don't exist.

Speaker 12 (26:20):
The people that live there don't have no idea that
that were sitting on a beautiful spots Like, how do
y'all do this?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I hate Andre, I hate to do it to you, man,
but they're they're kind of looking at me.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Cross out over there.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Thank you. It's so good to hear from you. I
hope your health gets better, my friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
stay in stay in touch. Andre. All Right, buddy, audios.
That's a good man right there. His grandfather taking him out.
That's so awesome, taking him out of school to go fish.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
How cool is that? All Right, we gotta take a
little break here.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Let me tell you about Riceland Waterfowl Club down an
Eagle Lake. They're they're not covering up water, they're putting
in more water. And by they, I mean David Pruitt,
the guy who has owned an operated Riceland waterfowl club
for fifty years.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
He knows what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
He knows how to attract ducks, he knows how to
hold ducks. He knows when to hunt a spot and
when to rest it. And he's been doing that for
the members of his club and their guests for fifty years.
It's a long time they're putting it. He told me,
he's eyeballing. I think, I don't know, like another thousand
acres of water something like that, which means more blinds,

(27:34):
more opportunities to get on the birds. All of his blinds,
by the way, are a quarter mile or more apart,
except for the one that somebody shot a range finder
on and it was four hundred and thirty yards and
not four forty. And David and I both agree that's
that's getting a little picky. Bottom line is if you
didn't have the season you wanted to have last year

(27:55):
when you were out there duck hunting, if you stared
at a lot of empty sky and maybe we're shooting
somewhere off in the distance but not much around your
own blind You might want to call David Pruitt and
see if you can't still get on and be hunting
with Riceland Waterfowl Club this season. It's gonna come at
us like a freight train. It's gonna be here before
you know it, and if you're not on that train,

(28:18):
you might end up stuck where you hunted last time.
Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com, Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com.

Speaker 8 (28:28):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, sports online at Sports.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Seven ninety dot com. Back to The Doug Fike Show.
Hey fifty four on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug

(28:54):
Pike Show, Thanks for listening, certainly, do you appreciate it.
I know Dan's listening this morning, and he is not
the only one who's had this same question.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
According to Frankie, Frankie heard it.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Frankie hadn't been around here but a hot minute, and
he's already heard this question from somebody too.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
So we're gonna try to.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Solve it, and I'm gonna ask about it during the
normal work week when all the big wigs are around here.
So he's listening to the show this morning on the
iHeartRadio app. But he can't get Astro's games on the
iHeartRadio app d during play. And I think it's because,

(29:29):
and Will pointed this out, We're not certain that the
streaming side of the station carries the game that would
have to be that would have to come from the
broadcast side. And I'm sure there's a twenty six page
long explanation of why that is. But I'm gonna try
to find out, and once I do, I will either

(29:49):
talk about it on fifty plus, and I know Dan
listens to that as well. I'll either talk about it
on fifty plus or we'll maybe we'll bring it up
again next weekend on this show and make sure that
anybody in ever, everybody in this audience who wants to
listen to an Astros game kind of like I do
when I'm driving around, has a way to do that
without having to go out and sit in the driveway
in your truck. And that's gonna get pretty that's gonna

(30:11):
get pretty toasty come summertime. I wouldn't want to have
to do that. Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety. Thank you guys for the the technical explanation.
I know it wasn't complex, but it I think that is.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
The the conference in the in the control room over
there took care of it. And we're still, by the way,
batting a thousand on technology today. I'm I'm happy to
report that, and I'm going for broke will. This is
gonna be the day. This is gonna be the day.
I'm looking forward to it. So pardon me back very
briefly to the birding thing, and the San Bernard Refuge

(30:47):
would be a great place to take the kids. They're
gonna be down there from eleven to four today, got
lots of activities and I'm sure there will be a
big banner or poster or sign at the entrance to
tell you which way to go, or you could just
ask when you drive in which way to the kids
celebration and they'll get you there. If you're just trying
to kind of break into get your kids outdoors, get

(31:09):
them off the TV, get them off the the iPad
or the phone or whatever it is, just get a
piece of paper, go old school, get a piece of
paper and a pencil or a pen, and then just
walk around the neighborhood with your little bird book. And
the kids and and tell them if they see a
bird to let you know, and the two of you

(31:30):
can look at it. And there you go. Let's go
see what's on Longhorn Scott's mind. So, hey Scott, what's up?

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Man?

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (31:39):
Dog in mine?

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I hear you just fine.

Speaker 9 (31:43):
Hey, I'm heaving Santonio at the moment to uh play
some golf at the JW. Marriotte Resort. Uh this H
two O five tea times.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
So I'm you got and down.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, you got a good you got a good day
ahead of you. I love that place, I do.

Speaker 9 (32:03):
I've never played it, so I'm excited. I regentally played
out at uh Boss Pines for the first time and
that was a nice treat as well. Hey, not not
why I called you know as usual, I'm you're writing
Shotgun with me. I'd like to do every Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But thank you.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
So.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
The reason you cannot hear the Astros game through the
seven ninety stream is that there's this thing called m
l BAM and that's like Major League Baseball Advanced Media,
and they are very restrictive about where and how you
can access anything Major League Baseball related from a digital standpoint,

(32:49):
and so they want you to go listen to their
stream essentially, and really it has literally anything related to
the digital side of all that. Back in the previous
life I used to interact with those guys and anyway,
it's very, very restrictive. But anyway, that's the answer. Unfortunately,
you can't just go to your normal seven ninety stream

(33:11):
and just dial in like you know, tip like you
normally would, or any other content. But yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Well that explains it.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Then.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, I knew there had to be a reason, and
I suspected that was part of it, because all of
these big sports franchises and leagues and whatnot are very
protective of everything they have and rightfully, so I don't
blame them. I don't blame them, but I just wish
there was a way that more people could listen. Oh,
good heavens, I got to get out. Hey man, go
have a good day. Tell me I want to report

(33:39):
on that course. Shoot me an email, Let me know
what you think of it, Let me know which one
you play games. Yeah, thank you, Scott, see man, All right,
good heavens. I'm running late Lions, Tigers and Bears and
all that stuff. The good news is I can go
straight to the break and that'll keep us a little
bit more on time. We'll take a little break here,
We'll be right back The Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
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Speaker 2 (34:15):
To members and their guests. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
here we go, nine o'clock dollars starts now, thank you
all for listening.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
I really do appreciate you hanging around.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Oh I'm so sad to have to send down in
that email and let him know if he has checked
out of the show for a minute and didn't hear
what Scott had to say.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Boy, that's too bad.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Major League Baseball, all of these leagues and associations, the NFL,
the NBA, National Hockey League, I'm sure all of them
are extremely protective of their brand and they don't take
kindly to people using it without permission. And that's apparently
what the streaming issue is. There is a streaming service.

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I believe that's offered up by the leagues, and in
each of them where you can see it on your
TV if you if you scroll way down to some
of the obscure numbered channels, you'll find all these different
sports options that all require a couple extra bucks a month,
a little bit here, a little bit there, and all

(35:22):
of a sudden, it adds up to more than a
mortgage payment just for entertainment. And I'm I pulled back
on my direct TV thing. I took off a lot
of channels. The only thing I try to save is
PGA Tour Network. I try to save, or the golf
channel is what it is on TV, the golf channel,

(35:44):
one or two outdoors channels, and then the rest and
I can. I can get network TV around here with
a TV that I've got that doesn't have any kind
of an antent on it, so I don't worry about that.
But sadly, the goods stuff costs a lot of money.
I'm gonna have to look into one of those little
sticks or something like that. I keep saying that, but

(36:06):
I am I'm really really like molasses in January. When
it comes to converting from a trusted, known source of
electronics and than to something else.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
But if anybody can.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Shoot me an email and tell me which way to
go to get the most channels for my money, I'd
be interested. I know what I'm paying now, and if
I can pay less and get the same stuff, I'm
gonna be all over that. I'm gonna have to go
ahead and get a new TV too, because mine is
very old. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety email on me, Doug Pike atiheartmedia dot com. Let's go,

(36:45):
shall we to the Chevron Championship going on up there
at the club at Carlton Woods, and man, what a
golf course that they're playing on, the Nicolas Course. Let
me get to the leaderboard scroll down here and it's
I talked about the changes that were made up there
and said it was going to be a difficult competition

(37:06):
for these women. The best in the world is what
they are, and they're still nobody's even double digits under
par yet going into this final round. Her and Rue
Yu I think it from South Korea is and Miles
Saigo I heard her name pronounced on TV yesterday, so

(37:27):
I'm probably right on that one. They're both nine under
par and forgive me. I'm not not making fun of
anybody's name. They're just difficult for me to pronounce. But
I'm doing the best I can because I know names
are important. That goes all the way back to my
newspaper days. We had to make sure we spelled them right,
and if you misspelled somebody's name in print, it was
a bad thing. Lindy Duncan is at eight under par,

(37:50):
Sarah Schmelzle seven under par, Yan Yu seven under par,
Lexi Thompson, Ruining Yen, and Carlotta Ganda all at six
underpar going into today's final round. I'm I'm gonna take
the easy way and say that anybody who's less than
three shots or more than three shots off the lead

(38:12):
is just playing for a higher finishing position. But the
talent at the top of this list is such that
it's gonna be hard for anybody to catch these women.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
They flat can play. It's fun to watch them play.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I've gotten to play in a couple of pro ams
ahead of women's events, and it's always just amazing how
and it's it's also a relatable game if you're interested
in watching professionals play the game, kind of how you
and I would approach the holes well that now they're
gonna hit it straighter and and and better. But if

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you want to watch golf that you can relate to,
it's it's a good thing to walk the course of
an LPGA event more so than the Men's Tour, the
PGA Tour. Those guys are just they're superhuman. I don't
know how they do well. I do know how they
do it. Years of practice that they have the time,
and they devote it to practicing their craft, just like

(39:11):
anybody who's good at anything, and they become way just superhuman.
Good anyway, that's that's that tournament right now. And let
me let me go get Richard on the phone. He's
got some information for us. What's up, Richard, Richard, I

(39:31):
hear you. Good morning there you are, good morning, yeah,
good morning. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (39:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (39:35):
No.

Speaker 14 (39:36):
I listened to the Astro games all the time, and uh,
I'll share something.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
But don't tell anybody.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Oh god, no, don't do this on the air, man, No,
because I'm not get in trouble. Let me I tell
you no.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
It's it's iHeart Radio.

Speaker 14 (39:49):
If you yeah, when you go to the iHeart settings
phone settings, iHeart settings, you know a little call the
gear looking thing, change location, changed.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
You so you'd be out of the zone.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yep, you'll be interesting.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Major League Baseball.

Speaker 14 (40:08):
Thanks, you're you're you're in the area, will allow you
to listen to it.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Curious word, I'll be ding. Okay, yep, that's interesting. Well
that hey, thanks man. Okay, that's the way. We're not
condoning it. We're just okay, Richard, let me get I'm
bailing out. I gotta go, Thank you man.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Audios.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Okay, Yeah, that's you know, it's iHeart radio. That's that's
interesting that he came up with that little work around.
I'm not condoning it. I'm not recommending it. I'm just
telling you I didn't know what he was going to say,
but that's interesting that. Okay seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Yeah, that's and that's something everybody

(40:53):
can I don't know, walk Away, Doug walk Away put
down the shovel. Uh yeah, Like I was telling you
about the chevron going on up there. Yon Lou hits
her t shot on the par five five hundred and
five yard eighth hole on Friday.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Apparently she hit it three hundred and thirty yards.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
She only had one seventy five out, pulled seven iron,
landed it on the front of the green, and then
watched it roll into the cup for a nice little
two on the card, and I was I mentioned it earlier,
but I'll do it again because it's pretty special. That
was only one of five double eagles on the books
until yesterday in a women's major the PGA Tour.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
I found my statistic here.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
By the way, their tally is only fourteen in all
the history. Bear in mind, though the women's majors haven't
been around as long the men's have been around for
a very long time, and there are only fourteen double
eagles out of all the rounds that have ever been
played in.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Majors on the PGA Tour. That's just crazy. That's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
And the Tour champions also a shorter, smaller sample size
in his but that's only been done three times at
that level. So a tip of the cap to her
three hundred and three yard drive, by the way, three
hundred three or three thirty three thirty and jarred it
from one seventy five. That's pretty awesome. I haven't hit

(42:15):
a shot from the fairway in the hole in I
had one earlier this year. As a matter of fact,
I did. I did have one earlier this year. But
before that, I'd bet it. I think it had been
four or five years. The over there in New Orleans,
the PGA Tour at Zurich Classic. This is that two
man event where these teams play foursomes in four ball,

(42:37):
and Andrew Noak and Ben Griffin trying to get their
first PGA Tour wins and being chased by some pretty
powerful people. It's different. I think if neither of them
has ever won a PGA Tour event, and if one
of them was partnered with somebody like McElroy or Scheffler,
uh that then it would it would kind of be

(42:59):
nam one. But I have I was kind of getting
propped up by somebody really good. These two guys, neither
of whom has ever won an event. If they can
pull it off, that'd be a pretty special way to
break into the Winter Circle.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Let me let me get to Alan here. See what's
going on? What you got Alan?

Speaker 6 (43:15):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Good morning, Doug?

Speaker 6 (43:16):
Real quick? Hey your podcast? Every time I seen to them,
they're always way behind. Is there? Oh that's something? Is that?
How does that work?

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm staring right at Will right now, Will you want
to explain that?

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Oh boy, this ought to be good.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Ellen.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
I'm just curious. I'm just curious, you know, because I
like to sometimes of a misshew on during the weekend
and when I go on Monday morning when I go
to work, I like to listen to but they're always behind.
I'm like, well, know how that works?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I think what's going on?

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Will?

Speaker 3 (43:48):
I'll let you off the hook.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Will's really good about putting the podcast up for fifty flus.
In fact, we have more than eight hundred of them
up there. The ones here. For a couple of weeks
recently I had so we had I had a change
of producers, and the guys who were coming in here
probably forgot because they're not accustomed to the schedule in here.
So now that Frankie's on the task, I think it'll

(44:11):
be back.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
Yeah, okay, I'm just I'm just wondered how that works.
That works? So I was wondering so real quick, like
for I'm okay, what size for a four to ten
for turkeys? Would I be using?

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Size shot?

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Probably sixties.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I don't know why not.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
You know, you're you're taking you're taking a little bit.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Of a chance when you come off to a smaller bore,
smaller gauge shotgun. But it's more comfortable, it's easier, it's lighter,
and all that good stuff. And if you're a good shot, yes,
and you're patient enough to let them get close. It's
kind of like almost going to a four to ten
is almost like it's close, not quite, but it's almost
like going to bow hunting.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
You know, you've got to be patient.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
I'm with you there, yeah, I mean, I just like
using a fourteen as much as I can for everything.
Good for you man, just for the fact that it's
so much lighter.

Speaker 12 (45:03):
You know.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
So do they make how how deep do they go
from sixes? Do they make fours?

Speaker 2 (45:09):
I'm sure you can find anything up to like a
buckshot load probably have about seven pellets in it, but
I bet you.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Could get it.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I called called down the Shooter's Corner because anybody who
answers the phone there is going to be able to
answer your question about what they've got and what's available.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Basically, yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
Okay, I mean I found some sixes. I went ahead
and bottom yeah, up in Lewiston, and uh, you know,
it's funny down here. We got all of our shells,
you know, locked up over there. They got them just
they just got them on the shelves like buying socks.
That's funny.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, people in the country don't worry about thieven.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
Yeah, well anyway, I know, so one more, one more
quick thing. Yeah, you know, the other day we had
this big storms come through. I used to have a
weather wrap that if big storms coming up, you know,
it would it would buzz me or beat me in
something like that. And for some reason, I'm just careful
what kind of weather apps to use.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I watched the Weather Channel, and when I when I
know something's coming, I'll go there for my radar stuff.
I trust them and radars radar, you know, it's it's
there's either a storm or there's not. What I don't
like to go to is the network stuff because they
tend to be kind of sensational and what they want
to tell you is the absolute worst bomb shelter case scenario.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
But I mean, like on your phone.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Yeah, on my phone channel, I'll start with the Weather Channel.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Got yeah, that's I think.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
So there might be one or two more on my phone.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
But I don't I like I like an app that
that will warn me, hey, there's there's lightning here.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, you'll you should get those from your
county that you're in, and you can. You may just
have your notifications turned off on that particular rap or something.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Yeah, you might be read. That's what I was kind
of thinking. I'm thinking somehow my notifications aren't working, yeah
to how they used to work. I couldn't hear what
I was doing wrong.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
But oh, man, yo, you and me technology.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
I appreciate it. I'll call them and see if I
can find some fours or day with sixes.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Yeah, thank you all. I appreciate the call. Buddy audios.
All right, we got to take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
On the way out, I will tell you all about
Belleville Meat Market, and I'm glad to do so. I've
been talking about them for many, many years, and I'm
having a blast doing it because it's such a great
place to take your wild game, such a great place
to find a full menu pecan smoke barbecue meal Monday
through Sunday ten to seven. They've got pulled pork and
homemade hot dogs on that menu as well, bulk pricing

(47:51):
on fresh ground beef and all that pecan smoked sausage.
They've got in there more than two dozen flavors, and
of course the homemade hot dogs, the original well and
with cheddar cheese, a hamburger, patties, stuff, pork tenders, stuff,
pepper stuff, mushrooms, Bellville meat Market, backyard barbecue, and block
party headquarters says so right here and so much more.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
I mean, I could go on for days.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
And they are introducing now they're chuck wagon patties.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
These are kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
This is for the grown ups in the audience who
are who can handle a big burger. Okay, these are
half pound patties, well seasoned and loaded with cheddar cheese already,
so you can't possibly forget to put the cheese on
the burger before you put it on the bun.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
It's already in the meat.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
And of course that wild game processing year round, you've
got to try that stuff. That's a fantastic place that
people come from far and wide, not just far or wide,
but far and wide to bring their wild game year round.
As long as it's legally taken, you can take it
to Bellville. Make sure that they know you're coming too,
so that you can decide whether or not that's something

(48:58):
they can handle for you. Belleville MeetMarket dot com is
a website there on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes
north of Seay, fifteen minutes south Hampstead. Been there for
forty something years. Belleville MeetMarket dot com.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
We are sports Talk seven ninety. Are you ready listen
online at sports seven ninety dot com Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Must nine one on sports soft seven ninety The Doug
Pike Hill, Thank you for listening. By the way, the
Astros lost yesterday. I many they've got to start scoring
some runs. I very quickly before and then I'm gonna
jump on Matthew's call here.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
Man.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
You can't you can't win if you don't score any runs.
And they're they have a rubbling number of games already
under their belts where they've scored three or fewer runs,
and they've lost. Most of those. They've gotten lucky because
they have really good pitching. They've gotten away with that
a few times, scoring one, two, three runs, but mostly

(50:16):
if you don't score more than three runs in a
major League baseball game, you're not gonna win.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Let's go talk to Matthew.

Speaker 15 (50:24):
What's going on Matthew, Hey, Doug, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
But I'm all right.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (50:30):
Hey, listen, I know you've probably been over this a
million times and I love listening to your show. I
think you got the best outdoor show there is the world.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 11 (50:40):
Could you always just tell people do not feed alligat?

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Oh my god, yes, you know there.

Speaker 11 (50:51):
I mean, listen, they will their belt, they'll kill you
in a second. They're faster than you are. Do not
feed them. I know you think it's cute. I know
you think it's you know whatever. I had no idea,
but people seed alligators? What do you do with it?

(51:12):
Then you got to call somebody and that somebody's gonna
ask or wrestle that gator. Yep, and that's fun.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I saw I saw a video or I saw I
didn't watch the whole video, but I saw the snapshot
of what was about to happen an incoming class of
game wardens. They're they're not wardens yet, they're wardens almost, okay.
And one of the things that they had they were
just standing there at a in a vacant a big
open space out on somebody's ranch somewhere, and the veteran

(51:44):
game wardens who were teaching this part of the course
had cut loose about five or six alligators of different sizes,
and it was the recruits job to get in there
and put them back in the truck. And I, in fact,
I may go back and try to find that video.
I bet that's pretty interesting.

Speaker 11 (52:04):
The same people that that seed alligators are the same
people that don't get a fishing license and don't go
make sure that they're all registered and get their super combo.
And you know, gostunt it. This is probably a conversation
for fifty plus, But gos stunt like, don't y'all like,

(52:25):
we love the outdoors. We're the biggest outdoors We're the
biggest environmentalists in the world.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
We're invested in Yeah, we're invested in it. We are.

Speaker 11 (52:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Well, the allegoric thing, the alligator thing, Matthew, is going
to require you and anybody else who sees people doing
this to call game wards and get them out there
and let the game wardens write them a ticket for
being stupid. I wish there was a ticket they could
write the police, the game wardens, all law enforcement. If
they could write tickets for just somebody being foolish, then

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they'd run out of inc the first day. People do
dumb stuff and they're gonna get themselves killed. And that's
you and I and everybody else who talks about this,
and this entire audience.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
We're kind of preaching to the choir.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Most people who are listening to this understand that if
you keep feeding alligators out of your back door, eventually
they're gonna come up there and you're gonna be out
there water in the yard or something, and they're gonna
go that, then where's my chicken? And if you don't
have a dead chicken to throw them, they're gonna just
take your arm instead.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
That's fine, they don't care.

Speaker 6 (53:32):
Gosh done it.

Speaker 11 (53:33):
I wish people knew that. I wish people knew that
they're faster than you and I are. Like, I'm quicker
in a rattlesnake, man. I mean, I mean, I'm pretty quick,
but I can't run out. I can't out run it out.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Nope, No, And it happens every now and then.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I saw a story about a week ago of some
older woman down in Florida walking her little bitty dog
right next to the lake, and the alligator took the dog,
dragged the woman in kind of inadvertently and decided, you know, okay,
I had a snack. Now I'm gonna have a meal.
And it was just it had a very bad ending,

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very bad.

Speaker 11 (54:11):
Ending, got start it. I get.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Wildlike, yeah, yeah, I saw another I'll tell you another
one I saw. And this is a little bit of
a pet peeve too. Oh look at that cute little fawn.
It's all alone, and we can't leave it here. It's
just it's mother's gone. It's abandoned.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
The mother is probably within fifty yards of where you
are and gonna be back soon enough. If you don't
mess with the baby. You can't take wildlife out of
the wild either. You have to call somebody if you
think there's a problem, and then let somebody who knows
come by and assess the situation. Man, don't get me started, Matthew. Whoo,
let's do this next week. Call early next week on Saturday,

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and we'll do five hours on it.

Speaker 11 (54:55):
Hey, you got the best show on radio.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
But thank you, thank you very much, Matthew. I appreciate that, buddy.
I'll see man, audios great.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
All.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
I tell you what, We're gonna take a little bit
Rick hang on. I want to give you the time
that I want to give you, and I can't do
that if I don't go ahead and knock this breakout early.
Stand by, Rick, I'll bet you're you know, you'll be
first up as soon as we get back on the
way out. Shoot a Corner Palmer Palmer Highway at twenty
nine Street down in Texas City. Just set somebody down
there looking for four to ten m O. And I'll

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bet you Jerry and Jay have it down there. That
store has been there a very long time, forty something
years and is run by a father and son team
along with a staff that are as good.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
As they come when it comes to the shooting sports.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
They have pre owned firearms, they have brand new firearms.
I got a couple of shotguns in there on consignment.
I need to see if they've sold one of those yet.
I bet they will before September. Whether you are brand
new to guns or been shooting all your life, Shooter's
Corner is going to take care of you and make
sure you're gonna be able to enjoy the shooting sports

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a little bit more tomorrow than you do today.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Really really good people.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
It's an old school gun store guns Ammo, Camo, reloading supplies, optics,
you name it, if it's if it's for the shooting sports,
it's there. And if you wear a badge for a living,
which I think is pretty cool. I wish every retail
outlet did this. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner, The Shooters Corner
TX dot COM's website, The Shooters Corner TX dot com.

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Your rockets and astros live here. We are Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (56:34):
The conversation continues this as the Dougpike Show, Old.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Man, look at my life time a lot like nine
on four sex Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Thanks for listening, certainly, do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
As promised, I will go directly direct bis and see
what's on his mind this morning.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
What's going on, lamb man.

Speaker 13 (57:13):
Good morning? Uh god, I just wanted to come in
on the Gentleman and it's called in I think a
couple of times about shooting turkeys with fourteen. Yeah, you know,
personally i'd recommend to go to least men on twenty.

Speaker 15 (57:27):
But if he wants to shoot it a little with the.

Speaker 13 (57:29):
Four ten, I'm a four ten freak and I'm probably
to a lot of people surprised to be surprised what
game man was I've killed.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
With the four ten.

Speaker 13 (57:40):
Yeah, sure, but I'm gonna make I'm gonna make this
suggestion to him. Make sure it's a full choke borrow.
Oh yeah, make sure it's inside forty yards and and
number six is will do it. But if you shoot
him in the mid body with number six, you probably

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ain't gonna find him or he's gonna get away. If
you do a nick or a headshot, all you do
is at one pellot to get it in that region
and he'll go down.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah ayah, don't shoot at the bulk of the bird.
You gotta shoot at the head.

Speaker 13 (58:16):
It's gonna happen. Draw him something about the size of
the coke bottle, and that's his target. But anyway, just
a suggestion on that. The other thing is we were
talking about for me bird feeders. Okay, I've always fed.

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Birds, but.

Speaker 13 (58:36):
Bird c per se can get very expensive. Okay, so
I'll just share what I do now. I don't put
birds seat out in the evenings because at night, you know.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
The dude the market.

Speaker 13 (58:58):
I put it out in the mornings. Uh, But I
have about three ingredients and that's all I use it.
And I'll tell you they'll eat it before they all
eat that maize and milow. I will promise you what
I do if if you have access to crack corn.

Speaker 15 (59:15):
Crackcorn is the combination of three things.

Speaker 13 (59:18):
If you can only get a hold of a little
deer corn or something like that, put it no guitared
day sock and hit it with a hammer and crack
it all up. Okay, crack corn. Uh, maybe a little
bit of white rice dry, right, wife? But the big

(59:43):
deal is good old Quaker oaks oatmeal. That's like cocaine to.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
One thing about the rice rick that I've heard, and
I mean, I need to look it up. Maybe both
should Is it that when it gets in their systems
will bloat them way too much and it can cause
problems for them.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
I don't know. That doesn't make.

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
Sense though, Well I've heard that.

Speaker 13 (01:00:11):
I've heard that before.

Speaker 11 (01:00:12):
There may be.

Speaker 15 (01:00:13):
Some truth to it, but it may be something.

Speaker 13 (01:00:17):
But the uh, the other.

Speaker 7 (01:00:20):
Thing is.

Speaker 15 (01:00:23):
I have I feed horses every morning, and I feed
other critters and stuff in the barn.

Speaker 13 (01:00:32):
And I have this speed that's I've told you before.
On Earth, I have these pellets that have all kinds
of things crashed for they got blah blah blah. One
of the things they have in is a little bit
of small oak a yes, okay, I have right. I

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wreak it down every every morning so I know what
comes that night. And I have racos, all of sudden's,
I got cows, you name it, birds, everything. There is
not one thing that will touch that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Wow, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
They will not.

Speaker 11 (01:01:13):
I have no idea what I have.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
Maybe somebody does.

Speaker 13 (01:01:17):
Anyway, Well, hey, man, I know you've got time to
go here, but appreciate taking my call.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
And yeah, heck yeah, man, you too. Enjoy your Sunday.
It's going to be a pretty one. You're fishing, your hunting.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
What are you doing? What are you doing today?

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
Rick?

Speaker 15 (01:01:30):
Well, well, I've been playing with my camera since daylight.
Had too much of luck. But I'm gonna go home.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
And and uh, I got some woodworking that I'm gonna
really screw up.

Speaker 15 (01:01:42):
So that's what I'm going on.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
All right, man, I'll see you be careful. Audios all yeah, yeah,
that's good stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
He spends more time outdoors observing wildlife than a lot
of people I know. I can count a handful who
might be out there more than him, and I think
I put Scott along in that class. But once you
get past those two, I'm not sure who gets the
next nod. I got an email from Bridget and it's

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pretty cool. It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Check this out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
My father in law received a camera bird camera with
a bird feeder or bird feeder with a camera a
couple of years ago, and he was really enjoying it.
One morning, the feeder was knocked down. He was trying
to figure out what happened. He reviewed the feeder video
from the night before and found that, low and behold,

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one of the visitors to the feeder was a black bear.
They were shocked. There in a regular neighborhood. They could
see his huge claws and nose. What and now I
don't know where. Oh, they're in Mariesther, Florida, Holy Cow,
close to Fort Walton Beach.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
I actually know where that is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Okay, even if.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
They'd have said East Texas, I had of going, okay, yeah,
that we had bears there. West Texas. Yeah, we got
bears there. And they're they're kind of expanding their range
in Texas too, slowly but surely coming out of Louisiana
and Arkansas most of them, and then the ones over
in the Big Bend are coming out of Mexico. But
they're they're re establishing themselves. At the turn of the

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twentieth century, there was actually a bear hunting season in
on Galaston Island, a time when you could and could
not hunt them. That's kind of crazy, but yeah, Fort Walton,
Holy Cow, regular neighborhood. Not regular anymore. Now it's a
neighborhood that also has bears. Thanks for that email, Bridge,
That's kind of cool. I hope, I really hope that

(01:03:42):
I do not see I do not see a bear
at any bird feeder camera I put up in my
backyard Mojo weighing in on bird food. I use wrote
used generic rolled oats. I like that Quaker Quaker, it
says in the in the in the subject line. That's

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pretty cool, Captain Scott. Let's see, okay, got that going on?

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
That going on?

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Uh, golf, that's okay, Well, Billy wade In got that covered.
That's covered. Alan Alan just wrote to Bragg. He's a
he's a good player. I've played golf with him once
now and hopefully we'll get to do it again sometime soon.
Hold a bunker shot on eighteen for par at Memorial yesterday.

(01:04:33):
Best part it's a brand new sandwich and it had
never been used out of a bunker. I got a
brand new gap wig and I haven't hold out anything
with it yet.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
It's gonna take a little time. It's gonna take a
little time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Seven one three two five seven ninety email on me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. By the way, I want
to thank Hal Sutton for jumping on the show with
me yesterday. I spent ten minutes talking to him about
putting and the new putter he for the first time
in his career, and he's he's got a pretty If
you don't know who how Sutton is, look him up

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and you'll understand. I don't want to. I don't have
time to go over everything he's won in his lifetime,
starting with the Masters and the Ryder Cup stuff, all
of these amazing accolades. He has one more than a
handful of tournaments on the PGA Tour. Really great guy too.
I've always enjoyed talking to him and actually got to

(01:05:31):
play some golf with him more than once. So anyway,
he spent time talking to me yesterday about well, he's
for the first time he's endorsing a putter brand. It's
called make Field, and it's a pretty pretty interesting amount
of technology in those things worth a look definitely if
you're struggling and thinking about a investing in a new

(01:05:52):
putter that can maybe you can make it back in
two dollars nassauce from your buddy. It'll take a little time,
but it'd be worth it. But we were talking as
much about putting practice, and I asked him how he
went about getting ready for a golf round when he
was and some of the practice that he did too,
and what kept coming back up was practicing longer putts.

(01:06:15):
And I see a lot of my friends who I
play with on Mondays doing most of their practice putting
from anywhere maybe four to six feet from the hole,
and they'll hit a couple of longer ones, I guess
just to say they did. But what what How pointed
out was that if you'll practice those longer puts a

(01:06:37):
little more in your practice sessions and your warm up sessions,
if you'll roll a few more of them to make
sure that you've got the speed of the greens figured
out and that you can you can accommodate it uphill, downhill,
side hill.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
You get a real feel for how far it will go.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
When you hit it with a certain amount of force,
you're gonna have a much better chance. It's not three
putting something, because it's great. If you can make three
and four and five footers, that's really good. However, if
you're forty feet away on your first putt, which is
an easy distance to be on a lot of the
bigger greens that are out there. Now, if you're forty

(01:07:18):
feet away and you leave it six or seven feet
off mark, now you've got a predicament. You're outside of
that little comfort zone you established when you were warming up.
And the reason you're outside of that zone is because
you didn't check the speed of the greens.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Now we've got a brand new putting green.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
That boy, the whole thing out there at Blackhawk has
been really gussied up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
It's beautiful now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
They kept half of it closed for a little while,
then the other half closed for a little while, and
now the whole thing's back up and running. And I
did some practicing there the other day before it had
been cut, and it was really interesting because as beautiful
as it looks. It looks like artificial turf, it really does.
And as beautiful as it is, it still was. It

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wasn't cut down just yet. They're making sure everything is
right and taking care of that turf. I bet it'll
be shaved down by tomorrow morning when I get back
out there to go off with the with the old
guys I play with, well, i'm their age. I'm about
in the middle of the pack. We got guys in
their eighties and guys in their fifties all playing together

(01:08:23):
and we all have a good time. Holy cal I
got to take another little break. Speaking of golf, Black
Horse Golf Club up there off two ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
You go two ninety to Fry Road, go south on
Fry Road.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
And a couple of miles down the road, you're going
to see golf course on your right. And then when
you see golf course on both sides of the road,
immediately put on your west blinker and put your brakes on.
Slow down a little bit, and then turn right into
the gate a black Horse. Once you get there, everybody
on the staff of mister Craig Hicks, he's the GM

(01:08:57):
out there. Everybody on that staff is going to do
everything they can to make sure you have a good time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
If you're hungry or.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Thirsty, there's going to be somebody coming around every few
minutes to make sure that they take care of you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
In that regard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
If your game is horrible, either before or after, you
might want to think about driving down to the far
end of the range and getting yourself a lesson or
two or three.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Depending on how bad it is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
They may be able to send somebody up to the
front to help you with a lesson.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
I'll have to ask Craig about that next time I
talk to him. Now, if you haven't been to black
Horse in a while, what you probably you may not
know anyway, is that the South course has been taken
fully private and the members there depending on which membership
option you choose. In addition to having all the benefits
you get by having that limited access on that golf course,

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you also get access to Blackhawk. You get access to
both courses at Golf clubbe Houston and of course the
North course right there at black Horse. So what you
get for the price have one membership and one set
of monthly dues is access to five premium golf courses
right here in town, each in a.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Different part of town, all of them fun to play.

Speaker 13 (01:10:10):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
I don't know how many times I've been on every
one of these courses, and I love them all, I
truly do. It's a good organization that takes care of them.
The North and the South both have independent maintenance budgets,
so both of them are gonna look good all year
around the best they can. All you got to do
to find out a little bit more is go to
the website, where you also can set a tea time

(01:10:31):
if you're interested in doing that and taking advantage of
the next couple of days. Black Horse Golf Club dot com.
Blackhorsegolf Club dot com.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
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Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
What's upon a time to dress so fine? To the
bumps of time?

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
In nine fifty one, Holy cow, this hour went pretty quick.
Final segment of the hour, and to tee it up,
I'm gonna bring in faux pro see what's on his mind?

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
What's up Forrest?

Speaker 12 (01:11:15):
Hey man?

Speaker 16 (01:11:16):
I know about the armadilla, but remember that remember that hour.
I remember what that ad was about. I remember, I
know about Armadilla, had no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
What's up.

Speaker 16 (01:11:26):
Well, I'll just let you let your I was gonna
say your viewers, your listeners. I guess some of them
are looking at the radio.

Speaker 6 (01:11:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:11:33):
But uh, but the catfish, you know, Lewison has a
if it hasn't changed. And that's what Please don't quote me.
Look it up at the livings that live it or
for catfish has always been fifty.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Okay, so because because we.

Speaker 16 (01:11:47):
Got so many. But my neighbor across the street, he's
been out he's out there now that he's been out there.
You know the big bridge, big Trigger River Bridge grows
across the big big bridges, like we just caught the
big bridge.

Speaker 6 (01:11:58):
Right.

Speaker 16 (01:11:59):
So if you on the Auto Alaska side of the
bridge is a little area to park. You can't park
on the bridge, but some people take their bike. Some
people take a red wagon and go down the bridge
about halfway. It's not that bad of a walk. All
you need is a cast net, a few corks and
basic catfish equipment and get out there right at sunrise.
And then three trips this week he's brought back over

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one hundred up to five pounds good lord by himself,
and I think yesterday he took it, he took his grandson.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
But there out there today the cast that I presume
he's used to get his bait.

Speaker 16 (01:12:32):
Yeah, just cast get to get you to get your
big water. One cast should be all you need because
it got the shads. Paul going on now on the
Catfisher golden bsserk.

Speaker 6 (01:12:40):
What side?

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Oh yeah, they're gonna and they're gonna gonna be right
there under the shad, aren't they.

Speaker 16 (01:12:45):
Yeah, I mean they're literally you could literally you can
literally go out there with the cane pole and catch
it in it because you're not casting out. Yeah, they're
they're they're blowing them right up against him. Or if
you got a boat, you got on the bulkheads right
at daylight and throw a cork up against the boalhead
about a foot deep. And oh yeah, I always use
always use a circle hood. That way all you got
to do. Let them load up and read them cleaning jerk. Yeah,
anybody wants to get in on that. They're they're going

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but dirt.

Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
Course.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
I did a couple of trips up to Lake Conrode
this time of year to do that. There Conroe's got
probably as many catfish as Livingston does, I would bet,
and a long time ago share that with the whole country.

Speaker 16 (01:13:22):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
It was a fun experience to do that field and
string printed something that I wrote about the Conroe's catfish.
And and they're still going off like that today. And
that bulkhead thing is a cool phenomenon. That's exactly what
they're doing. They're coming in, they're chasing all these shad
and man, they they're hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
They're fattening enough.

Speaker 16 (01:13:44):
You you run across the big one every now and
every now and then when you're fishing the bulkheads using
an open hook, every now that you'll catch one in
the tail because you'll see the big ones go up there,
and they go up there and they slap the shad
against the bulkhead with their tail. They spin around to
eat them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:13:58):
Pretty cool to watch. But you know me, I've been
I've been going after them big red ears. I've made
one last trip this last week and made my last
freezer full. I don't know if you saw my poster
my deal I sent you, but I got one of
the court backs as Dougs brill.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
Oh baby, I'm on my way. I know, right, Yeah,
next time my condo's.

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
Made to order.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
If I had to pass, how far off I can't
remember exactly how far off fifty nine you are?

Speaker 16 (01:14:24):
How about thirteen miles?

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
Oh that's yeah, that's hop skipping a jump, man.

Speaker 16 (01:14:29):
I can then from here you can you can go
out of Alaska, come out in Moscow, and save you
twenty six miles going back toward Lufkin.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
So this's a pretty good short Okay, Well I'm I'm
looking at a casting casting drive coming up. That's two
reasons to come north again. Man, I didn't know that.

Speaker 16 (01:14:46):
Yeah, just stay with man, you know me, I'm always
I'm always ready to eat some fish tackles with you
without you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Yeah, I know, yeah, I know You've had more without
me than with that's for sure. Uh, But my time's coming.
I got to get back up there. I really missed
visiting with you and fishing with you, and I'd love
to do that catfish thing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
How long is that going to go on for us?

Speaker 16 (01:15:05):
It should go out here, I would say the better
part because usually usually it goes through my first second
week of May. As long as the shadder coming in,
the catfish are going to be there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Yeah, our our shad at the little lake sadly where
I'm at all the time. They had a hatch about
I want to say, about maybe two or three weeks ago,
and I was seeing shad that weren't a quarter inch long.
It just looks like glitter in the water, you know.
And as soon as they get big enough to eat
the you know what, you're gonna eat them.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
It's gonna really make me mad too.

Speaker 16 (01:15:39):
I'm thinking of a trip. I want to do it,
and I can schedule on a day you're off, if
you if you're interested. But I've been wanting to go
down there and do some of that top water corpus
trout fishing. Try it, but oh, I don't wanted to
do it fishing during the day. Put the fish on
the ice, said, I'm really carefully keep it any week,
throw them back. I got plenty of fish. I just
want to go catch them. Then I was going to
go that evening over to a water break field and

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watch the watch the across the what they called the
That'strouba team out there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Oh yeah, this is the skinners you're talking about, the
or the space Cowboys, not the hooks.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Oh the hooks down the corpus.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 16 (01:16:16):
Feel pretty cool?

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Hey, I gotta run, I got one thing I gotta
catch before I go, And yeah, thanks man, I'll talk
to you soon, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
That, right, buddy?

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Audios?

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
All Right, the one quick thing that just came in
from Steve Dean.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
He's watching something about a tournament up on sam Rayburn
this weekend, big fish by the hour thing, and somebody
who says here called an eighteen pound bass, but it
was disqualified because the guy didn't have a fire extinguisher
on his boat. I'm gonna do some research on that,
and I may put something on Facebook if I can

(01:16:51):
find the story and verified it. I'm not doubting you, Steve.
I know you do your research, but I need to
see more for sure, especially if it's an eighteen pound
because that goes into Bury Saint Clair Territory. Who the
eighteen point eighteen pound bass that's held the state record
for good Lord, probably through five or six at no

(01:17:15):
more than that, probably six or eight presidential administrations. So
I'll do that once I get off the air, and
if I get over there and I can find a
story about that, I'll let you know these winning tournaments
where you can you catch a big bass every hour.
It's a fun way to get your money back, that's
for sure. But if somebody had an eighteen pounder, that

(01:17:38):
person was going to be in line also for the
overall grand prize. I would bet I can't see it
not being there, and so hopefully the fish. If it's there,
the fish is well taken care of. And probably even
though it's a little late, I bet they'd want to
take that one up to the Freshwater Fishery Center in Athens, Texas,

(01:18:01):
not Athens, Greece.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
All right, good, hell are we about done?

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Boys? Oh there, you got a look at that? The
music came up just as I was thinking that. All right, well,
thank you all. So I'm very much for listening over
the weekend. We have next week the Inspirity that's also
up in the Woodlands on the tournament player's course. So
all the older gentlemen on the tour champions coming in
and I say older with fun quotes wrapped around it,

(01:18:26):
I'm smacking the middle of that myself.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Thank you all for listening. I truly do appreciate it,
you know I do, And I'll do my best to
find this giant.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Best be safe, get outside, have some fun, do some
bird watching, do some hiking, do something outside.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Get that sunscreen out now too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Be safe.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
I'll see you next weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Tuesday, on fifty plus i'll be back, and then Saturday morning,
god willing, I'll be right back here.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Thank you all so much, appreciate it. Idios