Into The Wild

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
we keep score around here. Sportsmen and women of all
skill levels, let's disconnect from the day to day grind
and stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and

(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
And their guests. Now here's dog Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Push that button, maybe it'll work. Hold it down.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Works a lot better when you push the button and
the light comes on. All right, Welcome to Saturday Morning
Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly do
appreciate that came sliding in here sideways. I had to
go start a pot of coffee. I got to bed
a little bit later last night than I wanted to,
and I don't have the coffee yet, but i'll have
it soon and at that point I'll feel a whole
lot better.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I got to do a little golf yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I actually broadcast fifty plus live from out at a
task of set of golf club and had a good
time playing golf afterward with with some guys I know
pretty well. We play well together. We thought we had
a really good chance at winning the whole event, and
at one point before the last couple of teams came in,
we were in first place. We were in first place,

(01:40):
and we wound up after those teams came in in
third place. Oh those scrambles. I may talk a little
bit more about that and other golf related things. There's
a lot of golf going on in Houston too. I'll
get to all of that probably probably in the nine
o'clock hour, and it's a straight up nine o'clock hour.
I'm going to be interviewing Hal Sutton again. I've known

(02:03):
how for probably I don't know, twenty five thirty years
or so somewhere in there. And every time I turn around,
he keeps doing something different and you unusual, and it's
all golf related stuff, and you would think just about
the time he'd think he couldn't do anything to it
to say, oh wow, he's at it again, something really good.

(02:23):
Not only well, I'm gonna ask him a little bit
about the darm War Club because he started that and
open it up, I say, about the middle of last year,
maybe a little bit earlier than that last year. And
I want to see how that's going out there on
seventy one. And then he's also, for the first time
in his entire career, he's endorsing a Putter brand, and
I'm going to learn more about that, and so are

(02:45):
you with him? And while I've got him talking about putting,
I'm gonna ask him how he practiced. I'm going to
ask him how you and I should be practicing. I've
got a lot of good questions for a man who
will know the answers to those questions. If you're wondering
what's going on fishing wise, it's pretty easy. Oh, by
the way, welcome to the program, Frankie Westmoreland. He's in

(03:07):
there learning everything he can from Brett.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You and the god know we're learning a lot today.
All right, yeah, you know this.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Is this is like my show I was thinking about.
I was thinking about how, uh, producing radio shows. Doing
what you're doing in there is kind of like being
a boat owner a boat captain. All the boats are different,
but they all have the same basic components, and your

(03:36):
only job is to keep us afloat okay, yeah, man,
keep us above that water and keep us going. All right, skipper,
thanks man, you got you got capable help in there too.
So I have no doubt that this is going to
go way better than the first part of that broadcast
I had yesterday. We had a little issue with I

(03:56):
don't know, there was some sort of connection issue.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's it's irrelevant. Let's stick with trout fishing.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's a lot more exciting, uh, pretty much up and
down the coast if you want to, if you want
to talk about trout fishing heating up and more and more, uh,
where we're getting believers and disciples into the conservation of
speckled trout zone. Everybody is starting to see already the results,

(04:22):
the favorable results of something that was started less than
a year ago, and that is the.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
The change in the size limits on trout.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You you can only keep three a day, and if
they had left it three a day with no size restrictions,
I still think that there would not have been near
the the expeditious recovery that we're witnessing right now. We've
got trout being caught well mostly now and maybe for

(04:54):
a couple of more weeks. All the big trout news
is going to keep coming from South Texas, U at
least from Matta Gorda South. We're up here on the
Galveston system, and sadly, for some reason, and it can't
be that we're taking all the twenty one and twenty
two and twenty three four five inch fish out of
the fishery, because that's not lawful anymore. So there's something

(05:17):
in the water up here that makes them grow a
little bit slower maybe.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
And that hasn't always been the case though, either.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
When I started at the paper back many many years ago,
I don't want to if you don't know how old
I am, I'm not gonna let you. You just gonna have
to guess. The bottom line is when I started fishing
with a lot of the guides who were up and
coming youngsters back then, just as I was an up
and coming reporter and columnist, there were tons of big

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fish in the Galveston based system, no question, I'm talking
about trout, big stringers of big trout being caught by
the guys who knew when and where and how to
go get them. And then that just kind of went away.
And I think a lot of it is pressure. The
freezes that we've had certainly haven't done that resource any favors,

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but we just got a lot of people. We're in
a city, well a metropolitan area of six million plus people,
and on some days it seems like five million of
them are out fishing in Galveston Bay, and it's.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hard to work around them.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's hard to I think that just the the sheer
numbers of people on that water and running those boats
and throwing those lures, I think it changed. It changed
the dynamic of that fishery to a degree that it didn't.
I'm not going to go so far as to say

(06:43):
that a lot of people on the water stunted the
growth of those fish, but they just had a lot
of things stacked against them. And even up here, I'm
starting to hear hopeful glimmers of good news and the
people who are up here or saying, well, yeah, we
don't want to talk about it too much, we don't

(07:03):
want to jinx it, but yeah, it's getting better.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I had to put a little chapstick on my old
dry lips.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It was nice out there yesterday playing golf. It really
was and there was actually a fishing element. I'll jump
right on that at that golf tournament yesterday. This is
something that I've been wanting to do for a very
long time, and they did it at a different level
than I want to do it. But if I ever
do start my own golf tournament, one of the places

(07:31):
that people are going to stop, instead of a tea box,
it will be a stretch of lake shore at which
they will be given I don't know, let's call it
ten minutes, ten minutes on the clock, because that kind
of keeps in pace with playing a short golf hole
and it would only add ten minutes to.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
The tournament time basically.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
But you're going to stop, and you can either bring
your own equipment or you can use something that will
be provided there. Now we're not going to provide super
deluxe equipment, but the bottom line is for every for
every foot of bass that you catch during those ten minutes,
and you may not catch any you may catch two,
who knows. But if you can manage to catch a

(08:14):
foot long or an all together added up foot of bass,
then you get one stroke off your net score. And
I think that'd be kind of fun. Yesterday there was
a stroke offered for just catching a fish, and I
may put mine on Facebook. They had about a half
a dozen rods and reels over there, I think one

(08:34):
or two bait casters, and by the time my team
and I got around to it, several of the rods
that they'd lost their rigs somehow, and it was late,
and the bait caster had it probably had twenty pound
mono on it, and most of that was backlashed, but
I managed I and Mike from pattern Pro Concrete managed

(08:58):
to get We found two that still were functional, and
there were some There was some sad looking expired night
crawlers in this bucket of peat, moss or whatever they
put those things in. I don't know what that mult
it looks like. And his bait was first to go

(09:18):
into the water and almost immediately the little cork danced
around and went down. And those fish had been fed
all day long basically and thrown back, so I was
confident there'd be some there. He got one. We had
to get it to hand to get that stroke, and
we almost had it, and just as he lifted up,
it came off the hook. Well, the rig that I

(09:40):
picked up had a smaller hook and that turned out
to be a good thing, because the fish that took
it took me. I had to wait almost ten seconds
for that's cork to start dancing around it. Finally did,
it went underwater. I lifted up. I got that fish
out from over the water very quickly brought it to hand.

(10:00):
We got our snapshot, and away we went one stroke
to the better, but still somehow got beat by a
couple of people.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
We had two pars, that's all we had.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
We had two bars, an eagle and the rest were birdies,
and we still lost to two teams. It's hard to
win a scramble these days. Maybe I'll try to. I'll
pull the audience for a way to make scrambles a
little fairy. The fastest way I think would be to
put when you have the A and B teams on
each hole. I don't know whether it would slow it

(10:33):
down or speed it up. To have two forces on
each hole and have them keep each other's scores. That
would eliminate a whole lot of that's six foot or yeah,
that's good, we'd make it, or we're out of Mulligan's.
But if we had one, I know we'd have made that.
So just put down a birdie. A lot of that
goes on in scrambles. I'm not saying it did yesterday.

(10:55):
These were all pretty good, good friendly people, but it
does go on, and it is frustrating for those of
us who who don't consume alcohol and don't cheat on
the scorecard. The guys who've played with me over the
years know that I don't like to fudge.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I just think that's wrong in golf.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
So anyway, we made it through and we had a
good time, and everybody contributed. A couple of guys more
than others. Rob and Mike pretty much carried us off
the tee. I had a couple of good drives. Rich
had a couple of good drives. It was fun, it
really was. It's a good time. We raised some money
for wood duck boxes that a young man over there
is putting.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
He's been doing it since he.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Was a teenager, basically, and he has he's no longer
a teenager.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's in his twenties now and he is still.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Soliciting help with materials and then with some help from
his friends.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess there's maybe some.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
People over there, people who care about that lake and
about the natural resources around building wood duck boxes, and
if you've never done that and put one out and
then gone back in the springtime and seeing those birds
up in there actually nesting. I see wood ducks all
the time out at Blackhawk where I play, not all

(12:15):
the time. Early and late. That's about the only time
you'll see them. Good heavens, there's a lot going on
in town. We've got the Chevron Championship going on. That
is the first women's major of the LPGA season, and
it's on. They didn't quite get finished yesterday before dark.
I think there are maybe two or three groups that

(12:38):
are maybe two groups even not any more than that.
I don't think that didn't quite finished. I think the
most any of them have left to play today is
maybe two holes, and once they're done with that, they'll
they'll be well. They'll be teeing it off I think
probably at normal time, depending on where those others were.

(12:58):
They have to make sure that the cut line falls
right and that the group the pairings are right and
all of that. So everybody else will be on hold
until they finish. But the course, we'll be ready to
get them, and we should have weather that will afford
them the opportunity to catch up to where they want
to be seven one three two one two five seven
ninety email on Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I have

(13:21):
to check my emails for one very important thing. If
I can get this little mouth to get over here
and get to here and get way back up here, what.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Did you whisper to me?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, yeah, I do. That's the first time anybody's ever
used that. Well done. This is just an upgrade. Every
time I get a new producer, they they do a
little some extra and then they do a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
So well that was for me. Just wait until you
see what Frankie has. Oh my god, I know Frankie's
got it dialed in. All right, we're gonna lead this
time with Shooters Corner.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Thank you very much. Brett Shooter's Corner, Palmer Highway at
twenty n Ice Street down there in Texas City. Very
good place. If it's an old school gun store. Okay,
if you've never been in an old school gun store,
if you've bought your guns in places where they sell
tennis shoes or places where they sell washing machines or
anything else like that, used to cold buy them in sears,

(14:20):
used to could buy them in just about any shop
you went into that had more than two or three departments.
Now the best place to go buy this gun of yours,
your next gun is going to be Shooter's Corner down
there on the South Side. Have been for a very
long time, owned by Jerry and j TK and they
are two of the best gunsmiths you'll ever meet, and
best custom rifle makers you'll ever meet as well. They

(14:43):
turn out some beautiful, beautiful work when they're there during
the hunting seasons, both of them are off quite a
bit traveling around all of North America and guiding big
game hunts. But man, when they're in there, or even
when they're not, the guys who are still there, still
man in the shop are very capable of taking care
of just about anything you need in the world of guns.

(15:06):
Brand new handguns, used handguns, brand new rifles and shotguns,
pre owned rifles and shotguns. Plenty of AMMO, plenty of CAMO,
a little bit of reloading supplies, they've got optics, They've
got everything you need to enjoy the shooting sports today
a little bit more than you did yesterday. Shooters Corner,
Palmer Highway, twenty ninth Street. If you wear a badge

(15:28):
for a living. You get a discount at Shooter's Corner,
and I think that's pretty dog one nice. The Shooters
CORNERTX dot com, The Shooters Corner TX dot com.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports fan
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Speaker 2 (15:45):
Back to the Doug Fike Show. All right, welcome back

(16:11):
seven nineteen on Sports Talk seven nine at the Dogpie Show.
Thank you all for listening. I truly do appreciate that
got Frankie in there with Brett this morning. They're gonna
get us through this one way or the other. As
they say that man that ought to be our theme song.
One way or another around here, we're gonna get stuff done.
Holy cow, sometimes it gets done better than others. Yes, Frankie,

(16:31):
I can see you leaning into the microphone.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
I'm on.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
It gets you, gets you, gets you, gets you.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh god, yeah, yeah, okay, good, let's get this done.
For Heaven's sakes, where do all want to go? Oh
my gosh, got that guy that got that, you know,
going back to the trout fishing. I can't help it
because I've been around a long time and I've watched
I've watched it go from no limit and just get

(16:58):
out there and knock yourself out back. When I started
trout fishing and was old enough actually to drive myself
to the beach, drive myself to some of the places
I walked into the bay.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I learned old school hardcore.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I didn't have. My dad didn't fish much, so I
had to learn from friends and friends, dads and whoever
I could get around to go fishing. He took me.
He started me fishing when I was very small, but
he just wasn't an avid fisherman and wasn't nearly so
just rabbit about it as I am and was then

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and still am today.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
And so it was a little more difficult.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
But I did see a lot of different things, and
what I saw was pretty much almost to guarantee if
I looked at and you had to make phone calls,
you had to make a long distance phone call to
one of the piers down here were down in Galveston
to find out how the water conditions were. And there
was actually one of the peers I called the most

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practically if there had been speed dial back then they
would have been on It was the San Luis Pass Pier,
which is no longer thanks to one too many hurricanes,
but that place was a fun place to go as well,
and there were just so many trout to be caught,
and such good quality trout in Galveston Bay that it was.

(18:20):
It was almost unbelievable, it really truly was. But we
lived it, and I lived it, and the people who
were there alongside me at various stages of the of
the of that time would attest to the same thing.
It was really really good. I know guys who caught
trout on cane holes. I know guys who caught trout

(18:42):
in places you would never dream there were speckled trout.
I watched more than one person. I actually did this
a couple of times with some friends. Along the beachfront
down at Surfside, there were places where you could rent
a beach saine. You could rent like a one hundred
foot or a two hundred foot sane and just get
your tallest guys in your group to walk out to

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the second bar, maybe a little farther if they could.
If it was low tide, they could walk the third bar,
and the shorter guys that'd stand in closer to the beach,
and you just drag that sane for two three hundred
yards down the beach and then get the tall guys
to turn and come on in.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
You pull all that stuff up.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
And I watched guys on more than one occasion, not literally,
but practically load up the beds of pickup trucks with
speckled trout just in one halt on the right day.
There were that many fish. Now that wasn't all big fish,
but nonetheless there were that many, and I don't recall
that there was even any restriction on them back then.

(19:46):
It was just amazing, And I think we're moving back
in that direction. I really do. I'm very encouraged by
the number, not just the quality of the trap, with
the numbers of them too. It's just amazing how leaving
so oh many fish in there was so many quality
fish in the water, anything over twenty going back, And

(20:07):
that's that's a really big bonus for that fishery, for
that stalk to have that many of those fish that
have survived, fish that are they're gonna be a little
smarter than the little ones. Little ones will eat anything.
There was a there was a night on the Surfside
pier also before it gave in to one too many hurricanes.

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There was a night I remember, I was in high school.
A good one of my best friends in high school's
dad had taken him and me and his two little
three little brothers all down to camp out on the beach.
We were going to spend the night on the beach
at surfside, right close to the pier. And of course

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it was Jimmy Hammond was his name, and we were
on that pier from the time his dad stopped the
car on the sand. We didn't care about pishing the tent.
We didn't care about anything but fishing. We got out
there and all those fish wanted to eat. There were
tons of trout being caught, but the only color they
would eat was white under the lights off the pier.

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And we had a handful of white soft plastics, not many,
but we had a handful. And we got out there
and we were fishing, and we were catching trout and
having fun, and every now and then one would tear
the head off or tear the tail off of our
jigs and it's okay, we got a couple more. Well,
it didn't take long before we got down to the

(21:33):
last jig we had between us. Both of us were
just limping along, hoping to keep some white plastic on
the hook, and then even that got ripped off. So
we go running back up to the little pro shop
at the little tackle area at the base of the pier.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Sorry, man, we're out. We don't have there's nothing in
this whole place. It's white.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well I looked at him, and he looked at me,
and we were wearing white T shirts. And I don't
remember which of us had a knife in a tackle box,
but one of us did, and we cut white strips
of T shirt off, about three four inches long, and
just hung them off the back hook of those leadheads
and went right back to catching trout.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
They didn't care what it was. They just cared what
color it was.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Now, I don't think trout are that particular about color
most of the time, but they were that night, and
if you weren't throwing something white, you weren't catching fish,
and the.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
People around you who did have it were.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
So it's always it's always good to have some extra
colors in the box just in case, But it's impossible
to carry all colors all the time now that there
are colors named after things that don't even have colors.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
The soft plastic industry had no choice.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
After they used up red, orange, yellow, green, blue, INDI
go violet. They ran the spec and then they started
naming soft plastics after barnyard animals, after after flavors, all
these things, fruits and vegetables and.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
And you you name it there.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
If you want to name something weird, it doesn't have
to look anything like what you call it either. That
that's I've found to be true across the board. Bottom
line is they all catch fish. They all will catch
fish under the right circumstances. And the hot color today
is still gonna work twenty years from now.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I just won't be the hot color.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's that's one of the reasons I have such a
hard time throwing away some of the soft plastics I
have in my garage. They're not in favor right now,
the shape or the style, or the style or the color.
But they'll still catch fish. And that's why it's very
difficult for me to to hold them over a trash
can and then let go seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I'm gonna take a little break here, and
when we get back, I'm gonna I'm gonna start talking again.
This is a really good time of year to introduce
mostly kids, but also some adults to fishing. And if
if you're if you're been, if you're charged with doing

(24:16):
that for someone no matter their age. Uh, there's kind
of a right way and a wrong way to get
them introduced to fishing too where they'll probably like it
for a very long time.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's not to take them on a trip halfway around
the world to catch a species that they'll probably never
see again. Uh, it's just starting in the backyard and
letting them realize that you don't have to go far
to catch fish.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
And then as you as.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
You grow in the sport, you you learn to appreciate
what you've done in the past, not for what it
was even so much as for how it helped you
evolve as a fisherman, to get better and be able
to catch more and bigger fish. I'll talk about that
when we come back. On the way out, I'll tell
you about black Horse Golf Club. This is the club
that I've been playing since it opened up, probably twenty

(25:03):
something years ago, at least twenty something might be now.
I'm not quite thirty yet, But black Horse has been
around a very long time, two full eighteens, one of
which the South Course was taking private back in at
the start of this year, and membership's going well. I
talked to Craig Hicks, the general manager, not that long ago,

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and he said they are just steady filling up the roster.
If you're interested in playing that South Course as a
member's only course and having easy access to the tea times,
there's gonna be a lot of work done over there,
especially to that what formerly was kind of the halfway
house of that golf course. They're gonna gussy it up

(25:44):
a little bit so there's a little extra stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
In there for you when you make that turn.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Or you can do what so many people are still
doing and just taking advantage of the North Course and
it's wide open, daily fee tea time. All you got
to do is make your own tea time. At black
Horse Goolf Club dot Com, everybody there wants you to
have a better time and become a better golfer. It's
just that simple. They're gonna feed you, They're gonna water you,

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and I'll wrap quotes around water. Whatever beverage you want,
they can get to you. And they can even give
you wonderful lessons at the far end of the range.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com is a website, black
Horse Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
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Speaker 7 (26:31):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
This is the Dogpike Show. I'm down around the bat.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Damn, it's down.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
On the.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Oh, pushing the wrong button, pushing the wrong button. I
wonder why I couldn't hear myself. I was yelling at
you two in there. I came sliding around the corner
and the music was already playing. I had to get
in here as quick as I could, and that was
about quick enough. So I want to get into talking

(27:17):
about getting kids started, mostly kids. I run across a
few adults from time to time who have never caught
a fish, which leads me to Frankie.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Frankie, have you you? Are you a fisherman at all?

Speaker 4 (27:31):
I have not done it lately. I'll tell you that lately.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, So you have caught a fish, yes, sir, okay,
I have Okay, do you remember exactly how big or
what kind it was?

Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's not a test, you don't. There's no wrong answer.

Speaker 9 (27:44):
I know this is I'd say it was about like
seven inch catfish.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Seven inch catfish.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, now that when you held your hands out there,
you were showing like fourteen inches? Man, was it a
you could you could show seven with one hand? Basically, well, uh,
I'm not the best message. Yeah here here, well here
it did it was between seven and fourteen inches.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
We'll go with that. Yes, yeah, it was probably a catfish.
Oh no, it definitely was a cat It was whiskered.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Okay, yeah, yeah, well yeah, okay, we'll go with that.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
So you're a fisherman, uh technically, but you just haven't
been in a while. That's correct, I have not been
in a while. Now, what is your what is your
stoke level? As we used to say along the beach
front for going back. Do you do you like fishing?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Is it something that you think about at all?

Speaker 9 (28:41):
And yeah, you know I have, you know, I got
a you know, my grandpa and my dad both love fishing.
That was something that they really wanted me, like what
you're saying, you know, to take him out and show
him how to work it and uh, you know, here's
how you put bait on it and all of that stuff.
It was it was definitely a thing that we did,
and uh, we'd go, you.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Know sometimes on Saturday morning.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Man.

Speaker 9 (29:04):
I mean it was it was a it was a
fun thing. I loved it. Good bonding.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
And you just abandoned them, your poor dad, your poor granddad.
You just left them at the dock. I'm kidding you,
you know. I am all right, man. Well that's good.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
So I don't have to worry about having to take
you down to the ditch over here and catch your
first fish. We're in good shape. You've already you're a fisherman,
and it's just you're a casual fisherman.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
And there's nothing wrong with that either. So thanks for
sharing your story.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Believe it. And it's I find it fascinating to listen
to people's recollections of their first fish.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
We'll see who we can get lined up here.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
There is a reason I'm talking about this too, and
and I'll get to that and say, hold on, I
got to get to a couple of phone calls here
in just a second.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
We're working our way there. Oh, that's Rick. Yeah, let
me talk to him. There we go. Thanks, Rick, Hey,
what's up man?

Speaker 10 (30:06):
What do you think I'm doing?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Now?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
You're probably staring at a crow trying to figure out
if you can get a clean shot at it.

Speaker 11 (30:15):
No, this is not crow season.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Oh okay, are you fishing?

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (30:19):
Again?

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Are you fishing again? No? Come on?

Speaker 11 (30:23):
What have I been doing all way?

Speaker 5 (30:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
For good?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
You're addicted to photography? Now, it didn't take long.

Speaker 11 (30:32):
I'm an addict.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
What did you.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Set yourself up a little blind.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
To sit in?

Speaker 11 (30:38):
No, I'm a I'm a stalker. I'm a stop okay,
all right, and I'm cheating a little bit. I know
what they're looking for, order and stuff like that. Some
of it's artificial. But I'm gonna tell you what I'm doing.
Here's my problem. I'm using on an iPhone sixteen proacts.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay, yeah, you're in.

Speaker 11 (31:00):
Okay, I mean it's it's it's pretty good. I sent
you some pictures some of and others yea and THEE.
I mean I'm learning, but uh, you know, it's so thin,
it's hard. It's hard to hold. Okay, it's hard to
hold steady.

Speaker 10 (31:18):
I'm having a hard time holding it.

Speaker 11 (31:21):
Steady in addition to my my slight uh old age
trimmers like understand, so I've got my gunsmith. I found
an old beat up J. C. Higgins twenty two in
my barn. I heard a rush bucket. I took the
stock off. It's a one piece stocked for arm. Yeah okay,

(31:45):
and I'm having it cut down and we are figuring
out how to my phone on there where I can
still reach the on and off and the camera button zoom,
where I can hold it with two hands and aim it.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Can I give you another another option?

Speaker 11 (32:06):
Please?

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Tripod by ay?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Do what.

Speaker 11 (32:14):
Fulky?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
No, no they're not, and you set it up quick.

Speaker 10 (32:19):
My shots are quick? Oh okay, yeah there wait, I'm
shooting fast.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah. There are there are like rifle stock camera mounts
that you can buy, so you might want to look
at that.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
I think it worked better for me if I was
shooting at one spot in the blind. Yeah, Tripod bipod mono.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Would be great, but I'm I'm moving Okay, Yeah, I
understand that that would be I have to set.

Speaker 11 (32:43):
It up and and you know, I'm still laughing at
your comment about my rabbit with the weed in his eye.

Speaker 13 (32:53):
I'm gonna.

Speaker 11 (32:54):
I'm going to share that on there right quick. Then
I'm gonna, okay, I send this picture of this jack
rabbit up close and personal.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
His ears are.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
Laid back, he's down in the grass. It's a beautiful picture.
I must say it is. And I send it to Dounk.
I was so proud of it, and he popped my bubble.
He said, the only problem with that picture there's.

Speaker 10 (33:20):
That one blade, that little bitty.

Speaker 11 (33:22):
Thin blade of grass right in front of his eyeball. Well,
I responded to you, and I said, when I'll tell
you what, Doug, the next time I get that shot,
I'm gonna run over there and tell old Jack Tay,
can you move over about a half an inch and
weight to dr up there and let me get back
to my camera. I still laugh at that. Yeah, it

(33:43):
was funny, brother.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
It's a good shot.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Okay, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna take anything away
from it. It's a good one. You got him hunkered
down hiding. But as someone who's judged photography contests and
has as someone who's had hundreds of my own photographs judged,
that's the kind of thing they're looking for. So and
it's I'm not.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
It's a good shot, rick it, it really is.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
But if if if I'm going all in on and
and and saying, okay, this is the only thing that's
wrong with that shot. Uh, maybe wait till the wind
blows a little bit or maybe and maybe the jack
rabbit jumps off before that happens. But that's the kind
of thing that How long.

Speaker 11 (34:25):
Is a jack rabbit going to scepter when you're nine
feet from me?

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Lord, not many? What you sneak o? You crawl up
on him?

Speaker 5 (34:32):
Where you are?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Holy cav have you got with nine feet of a
jack rabbit? You're a ninja.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
You're not a stalker. You're a ninja.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Well look at them.

Speaker 11 (34:42):
Look at them, those cottontails. I've just eat up on
them and I'm just got them, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
And you're looking, you're yeah, this is kind of cool
because you're in places where the wildlife isn't really scared
of you. I mean, man, if you did that in
a lot of places, places where there's kids, those jack
rabbits wouldn't let you within one hundred yards of them.

Speaker 11 (35:03):
That's kind of right. The opposite and not the opposite.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you why I'm shooting around
my house. I mean, you know, you know words population
and the bird baths and people are feeding them.

Speaker 10 (35:16):
Yeah, those are those are That's the way you need
to start.

Speaker 11 (35:22):
Where I'm at. They are as wild as a buck deer.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Buddy.

Speaker 11 (35:26):
They do like me cool. Nothing wants to hang around
for a picture.

Speaker 10 (35:31):
You're definitely fast. That's my point. All right, man, Yeah,
that's what I am. I'll see you later, okay.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Rick, thank you, thanks for the call, buddy.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Audios.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
All right, let me go, let me get you Rick
before we have to go to break here.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Rick, what's up?

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Man?

Speaker 8 (35:46):
Hey Doug, Yes, sir Plaine, how's it going. I'm good man,
How are you good? Hey? I just listened to you.
I was just talking about taking kids fishing.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Man.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
Me and my I know, I send you in forest
pictures of my grandson and.

Speaker 5 (36:01):
I all the time.

Speaker 8 (36:03):
I can't get him to play golf with me, but
every time I pick him up at school.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I'm serious.

Speaker 8 (36:08):
I'll pick him up at school and had the fishing
gear and the you know, in the bed of the
truck and I'll say, hey, you want to go fishing?

Speaker 10 (36:15):
Absolutely, let's go.

Speaker 8 (36:16):
And we got to place up west to here and
Simon's and a buddy of mine's got the ranch up
there and they've got some pretty good you know, he
stocked it about twenty years ago. And it is so
much fun taking that kid fishing. But I can't get
him to play golf with me. So oh, so fishing
really is you know, teaching a kid to fish is

(36:36):
really a good time. I'm blessed. My dad took me
all over Texas to fish.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
When I was a kid.

Speaker 11 (36:42):
We'd go to.

Speaker 8 (36:43):
Galveston, we'd go freshwater, salt water. We'd go wait and
we'd go out in the boat. We'd go to Corpus
Christ you go to bath and Bay, I mean, and
and for him to introduce me to that, it's just
been a real joy in my life to be able
to get out there on that water. So, I mean,
I highly recommend it. But if you got a boy
or earl, you know, just get them out there and
let them catch a few fishing. Man they will it'll

(37:05):
you know, they'll have a lifetime of fun.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Amen to that man. And it's so easy to do.
You don't have to be an expert. A lot of
people will call and say, well, gosh, I don't know
what to do because I don't do much fishing either.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, that's an opportunity to learn together.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
You're you're both students at that point, and so you
get on And the advantage now is that you can
get online and you can sit there with a son
or daughter or a niece or nephew and watch fishing
videos and email people, call people, talk to people. As
a team, you and that little kid, and you can

(37:41):
learn together. I mean, there's no really wrong way to
go about learning to fish. You just you just get
out there and do it and start them with the
appropriately small gear and chasing little bitty fish.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
And it works every time, man, it does.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
It's good man, have a good day. Man, let me
know if you need some help with that, Simonson Fallond
sometime any time.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
Man, All right, Sea, all right.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
See Lane, audios.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
I got a hunch he's pretty busy out there trying
to get Meadowbrook Farms up and running.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
This morning.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
On a pretty good day, I will expect their t
sheet is pretty full. That's where Lane is. He's a
good guy. I've known him many many years, and I'm
glad his son is enjoying fishing like that. So to grandson.
I think he said, grandson, Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.
I got a hunch that's what it is. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
On the way out. Tell you all about Belleville Meat Market.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Holy cow, this place has been around for forty some
odd years. I can't remember exactly how many. They talk
about serving the greater Houston area. I honestly think that
Bellville draws from probably most of southeast in Central Texas.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
There might not be too many people coming from.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
El Paso back to Belleville, but any place a little
bit closer than that, there's probably somebody from that part
of the state who's been there. And the reason they
attract a crowd like they do is because they have
excellent beef, chicken, and pork. They have two dozen plus
flavors of premium pecan smoked sausage. They'll ship darn near
anything in the store directly to your door. They'll cut

(39:13):
you some beautiful thick pork chops or steaks, whatever you want.
They have appetizers and cheeses and spices, and oh man,
they have well handmade tomalies. That are just like it's
just huge and delicious, all of that under one roof,
and they serve an absolutely delicious lunch and dinner from

(39:34):
ten am to seven pm, seven days a week. The
strategy I like to offer up is this, get the
whole family, load them up in the minivan or whatever,
and then head for Bellville Meat Market. And on the
way somebody on grab a phone and bring up everything
they have to offer, and start looking at well, we
need a pound of that, we need two pounds of that,
we need some ground beef, we need whatever, pork chops,

(39:59):
whatever it is you need. Make a list, and then
when you get there, hand the list off and then
go order the family some lunch or dinner and sit
out there on the patio, enjoy that nice breeze that
comes through there in the summertime, enjoy your meal, and
then go back inside. They'll have everything boxed up and
ready to take back home so you can enjoy it

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This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports online at
Sports seven ninety dot com. Back to the Doug Fike.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Show, the light.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
All right, good, good song selection? Is that yours? Frankie? Yes, sir,
not a boy. Yeah, we're on the same page. I
like that kind of stuff, I really do. I grew
up with all that music. You didn't, You're about I
don't know, you're well, you're a lot of years younger
than me, But that's okay. If that, if that's a
song you like, then play it man, like I've told Brett,

(44:09):
I told everybody who stood where you're standing.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Unless it has foul language and the lyrics, you can
play it if you like it.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
If it's a it's a song that half at least
half this audience will well recognize, maybe, then that's great.
Play it on. So back too, getting kids fired up
about fishing, Thank you, Franky. Back to getting kids about
enthusiastic about fishing. Laine talking about how his his grandson
doesn't want to and doesn't want to do any golfing, but.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
He'll he'll go fishing at the drop of a hat.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I ran into another kid recently, the grandson of one
of the guys I play golf with out at Blackhawk, Uh,
a young kid named Luke Sturman. He's thirteen, okay, so
and his his dad is apparently a pretty good fisherman,
because Luke is as well.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
And he didn't learn that on a street corner.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
And so, and he's got the patience of a worm
fisherman too, which which I don't have. So it really
worked out well when I talked to his grandfather about
maybe setting up a little catfish trip out there, and
with the hope in and amongst whatever catfish we might catch,
of catching one of those big, old, giant carp that

(45:23):
hang out out there. And we've got a significant number
of carp in these lakes, and to up until last week,
I hadn't even seen one hooked yet. I'd heard rumors,
but nobody fishes for carp out there, and only a
couple of people fish for the bass, and even fewer
actually try to catch catfish. So I went out there

(45:45):
and I baited up three little holes, and Luke and
I and Jerry, his grandfather, were going from spot to spot,
just trying to trying to figure out when and where
these fish would find the chum.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
And they did, and we were catching catfish.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
And at one point Luke's little cork bounced a couple
of times and then went down and he sets up
on it and he's throwing a bait caster. He's got skills,
and that bait caster, I want to say, had at
least oh gosh. I don't remember exactly how strong the
line was, but it was plenty strong, and the long
and the short of it is he set back on it,

(46:24):
figuring it was about a one pound catfish, and almost
got the rod yanked out of his hands. He had
indeed hooked one of those big old carp Well, we
got it close. It turned out. Where we were fishing,
we had really no plan of having to bring something
that big up. And I'm not going to carry a
dip net to a golf course pond.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
I can't do that. That just doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
So I'm scrambling down from the bridge level where we
were at the corner to water level, trying to get
down there and get this beast out of the water,
and I trying to get my fingers up in its gills,
and it just it just refuses to let me have access.
And I'm doing everything I can, and one thing led

(47:08):
to another and the fish popped off.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
But I've already decided.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
That even though I'm not, there's no way i'm and
there was no way I could get my fit my
thumb in that fish's mouth because the hook was it
was very well exposed and pretty big, and I just
didn't want to have that in my thumb. And I
don't think Luke's barb was mashed down, and that's probably
on me. I should have insisted. But the long and
the short of it is, I'm going to take a

(47:33):
Boger grip. Now I can put that in the same
little bag I put my lure boxes, and that will
turn the tide back in Luke's and my favor. And
at some point we are going to have an official
picture of our first giant carp out of there.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Let me get to these calls here, Felipe, what's up.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Morning, Doug, Good morning, soho every morning, Thank you man.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Hey sock.

Speaker 20 (47:57):
I just want to add on to the topic about
getting on and the young kids and yeah, fishing, I'm
not I'm not the best fisherman myself.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
That's learning.

Speaker 20 (48:04):
Yeah, And so recently I've been taking my older brother
and my cousin and they've never they've they've never even
touched the fishing pole, okay, much less thought about going fishing.
So they're actually more interested into getting it, getting into
it now.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah good.

Speaker 13 (48:20):
So, I mean I like it, I enjoy it, more
people to go with.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
And uh, but my nephew, he's only four, and every.

Speaker 20 (48:25):
Time I call my brother, say hey, do you want
to go. My nephew will hear us on the phone
and he wants to go. Huh, yeah, he's in, he's interested.
But the problem is I feel like he's a little
too young at this point.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Now.

Speaker 8 (48:37):
I don't want to take him to where he's probably gonna.

Speaker 20 (48:39):
Get hurt or and and my question is, what do
you think is the best age to start them off
to get into fishing.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
I started at three. I know a lot of kids
who started at three and four is not too young.
What you got to do, though, is take the adult
fishing out of your head and go back to kid
fishing and go find yourself. Academy Still, I think Still
sells cane poles. It'll be like a two piece cane pole.
But go get a cane pole. Go get some very

(49:09):
small baits. If you don't mind your fingers stinking a
little bit, get Berkeley. Berkeley makes these little power bait
nightcrawlers that are they're very They're not much bigger in
diameter than like the lead of a pencil. They're a
little bit bigger than that, but not much maybe like
a toothpick size. And all you gotta do is get uh,

(49:31):
get some tiny little quarks the ones that are like
barely the size of your thumbnail, and put about a
number eight or a number ten long shank hook about it,
maybe a foot and a half below that, and then
thread that little about a half about an inch long
piece of one of those up onto that hook where

(49:51):
the whole the point of the hook all the way
to the bottom is exposed. And then just drop that
thing into a little spot near some brush in the water,
or like around a bridge piling or something like that.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
And it actually bait it up first, trying to chum
it up with.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Take can of corn, put some vanilla extract in it,
Drain all the drain all the water out, put some
manilla in there, dump it in a zip lock bag
and throw a handful of that out and then wait
five minutes, and if there's a fish in that lake,
it'll be on it and catch a little bitty fish,
you know, the fish for a four year old only.
My son's first fish was only about three and a
half inches long. But he thought he'd call Moby dick.

(50:31):
You know, it doesn't matter, but man, they'll start seeing
that little Yeah, go ahead for me.

Speaker 20 (50:36):
I just you know, I've been I've been to a
point where I went fishing, I didn't catch even a bite.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
I was feeding the fish more than I was catching them.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. If you're putting worms and stuff
on there, they'll just suck those right off of there.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (50:49):
So so, I mean I felt heartbroken.

Speaker 20 (50:51):
Was like, man, you know, I feel like a failure
going out there, but it hasn't stopped me from going
to fish.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
No, man, no, you thread that, you thread that.

Speaker 20 (50:58):
I just to go out there and get like like
like no, get that heartbreak and like man, I suck
at fishing. No, no, no, bring him down. I want
him to keep going and knowing that it is a
learning process. Not everybody has, you know, we're not everybody's
sure farming fish on their first try or even their second.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Or what part of town are you in?

Speaker 5 (51:16):
I live in Spring and I do salt and fresh water? Yeah, okay,
you know my limits.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Are You've got neighborhood lakes around you somewhere, Okay, where there.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
I definitely do. Yeah, yeah, there's probably been going to them.

Speaker 13 (51:28):
I've got the Jesse Jn't just Jontes Park.

Speaker 20 (51:30):
Oh yeah, okay, I can go to Livingston Lake, Conrod
or wherever, and well, I just don't want it to
be where.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
He's not able to, uh have fun himself.

Speaker 20 (51:39):
I know he will, but I just don't want him
thinking fishing is about catching fish.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
You're gonna catch fish all the time.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Well, a couple of things I don't want to. Yeah,
I'll tell you what, do me a favorite?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Can you hold on through the break because I got
a couple of things that I can tell you that
will really help you make sure he stays happy about it.
Do you mind doing that?

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Yeah, I'm listening.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Okay, cool? Yeah, hang on, I'm gonna I'm just gonna
put you on whole. I'll bring you back when we
get back. Hang on, man, all right, we gotta take
this little break here on it.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
Sit.

Speaker 21 (52:05):
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Speaker 2 (52:23):
Now here's Doug Pike, all right, eight o five on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it. Let me get Felipe
back on the phone.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
All right, man, let's get your four year old some fish.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Okay, So you've got a place where you feel like
you you know, there would be some blue gills and
red ears.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
And little panfish in it, right, correct?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Okay, So you got to you gotta go find a
cane pole somewhere, and if you run out of places
to look, call me.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I got three or four of them in my garage.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
But it shouldn't be too hard to find that.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
So you find a cape pole, you take the rigging
that comes with it, if it's got it, and just
throw it in the trash because it's all going to
be too big and too heavy, and tie some like
maybe six or eight pound test line off the end
of it and stretch it out to about the same
length as the pole, and then tie on. Get some

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number like I said, number eight, number ten long shank hooks.
It's going to be a really small hook, and the
first thing you do is take your needle those flyers
and mash the barb down flat on that hook. Because
if for God forbid, somebody's in the way, or somebody
moves wrong, or the fish messes with you and ends
up stabbing a hook in somebody or something whatever.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
You don't want that to ruin the whole fishing trip.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
That that barb is mashed down flat, you can just
grab that hook and push down a little bit and
just back it out the same hole it went in.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
So that's that's a no harm, no foul.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Bring some neosporn with you in case it happens, and
you really won't lose that many fish. It surprises people
when they start doing this how few fish they actually
lose just because.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
That barb is not there.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
So the first when you first get to the place
you're gonna fish, you bring your chum with you. Take
a whole can of corn, dump the water off of it,
put about three or four about two tablespoons of vanilla
extract on it.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Zip it in a zip lock bag.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Take it with you. First thing when you get to
where you're gonna fish, throw a big handful of that
chum out in front of you, but not really farther
than you can reach with the cane pole. Okay, and
then sit down and say, okay, let's get these rods.
You know, these cane poles rigged up, and I'll rig
one up on my rod and reel and just take
your time, because what you want is for all those

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little fish to start feeding under there and get all
excited about what you're doing while you're distracting. And if
your son doesn't want to do that with you, bring
a soccer ball, bring anything to distract, Bring one of
his little buddies with him, Get one of the other
dads to come with you, and let them go off

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and burn a little energy while we're trying to get
these fish in front of them. And then once you
get everything rigged up, set the hook, depending on how
deep it is right there where you're fishing, just somewhere
to keep it a little ways off the bottom. That's
all you gotta do. And set that tiny little cork
up there, bait your hook with that. Either you can

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use little dough balls, you can use one kernel of corn,
you can use about anything. Baloney, bloonney man, they'll rip
that off the hook, though I learned that the hard way.
You can cut a piece of bolooney into about three
hundred perfect perch baits. But the perch you're gonna get
about two hundred and ninety five of them before you
even know they're there. So that's why I ended up

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going to those little Berkeley power Bait nightcrawlers, because once
you thread that thing on the hook and you can
catch fifteen or twenty of them on it before they
can ever even think about getting it off of there,
and that makes it a little easier and faster transition
from one fish to the next. Even And just like
I said, keep if he's only four, you're gonna have

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maybe forty minutes. You about ten minutes per year of age,
so you got maybe forty minutes to really keep his attention.
And then at that point, bring out a snack, bring
out the soccer ball again, just do something, Go count
wildflowers for a few minutes, and as you walk away
from fishing, or as he walks away, throw another big

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handful of chum out there and bring in the next
wave of a little bitty fish.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
You keep the keep the little fish happy, and you'll
keep the little kid happy. That's kind of the way
it is.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
And you got to keep them there with You got
to account for the distraction because they don't have the
patience you and I do. He's got You got ten
minutes for every year of age, so you got less
than an hour. That he's gonna be super enthusiastic, or
you gotta do something different for a little while. That
makes sense.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
I'm throwing a lot of at you.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
No, I'm kicking, and you gotta send me pictures because
if you do that in a place that actually has
some fish in it, that little cork might go down
with a four inch perch, and it might go down
with a foot long catfish. And every now at the
little lake that I took my son to when he
was super little, there were a few pretty good bass

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in there, and every now and then, because I had
that place so chummed up, we'd be lifting a little
perch out of the water and a five or six
pound bass would just come over and just annihilate it.
And it was, oh man, you'd think somebody dropped a
washing machine in the water. And his little eyes he'd
gets so big, like, oh my god, I want to
catch one of those.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
It's fun.

Speaker 6 (57:42):
Man.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Hey, anytime shoot me emails, man, I'll overload you. You'll
get tired of me emailing you with information. Because I
want your son to catch his first fish. He's plenty
old enough. But don't try to do it. Don't try
to fish like a grown up. Let him fish like
a little kid, Let him sit there and stare at
that cork. And before I let you go, one more
thing real quick. My dad, I am convinced to this day.

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We did a lot of cane pole fishing when I
was three four years old, just like you're talking about.
And my dad would always bait my hook and then
just lift it out there. Not always, but he'd do
it for me sometimes. And I am convinced to this
day because when I was looking at that cork, I
was hyper focused. I wasn't distracted. And he would sit
there and talk to me and tell me things about

(58:26):
life and about growing up and all. He had some
really long, pretty good lectures for me, just very calmly
talking to me about becoming a man, and even when
I was a little bitty kid. And I'm convinced to
this day that a few times when he had a
really strong point to make, he didn't put any bait
on the hook. He didn't want me to be distracted
by fish because he had something he had to tell me.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
So anyway, yes man, yeah, I.

Speaker 20 (58:55):
Want getting getting into and now they were a hobby,
and you know I rather I rather have them out,
how the young.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Was oh, absolutely, yeah. If you want to feel what
it's like to be a little kid again and get excited. Yesterday,
no fool, and I was at that golf course and
I saw that little cork bouncing.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Around and I was so excited.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Oh my god, I got one. So get two K poles.
They're not going to break the bank. Get two K
poles and join him. Just be right there with him.
All right, man, I'm gonna let you go. I know
a bit of your ear about halfway off your head.
I appreciate the call, though, and anytime you shoot me
an email, yes, sir, I appreciate. Oh my pleasure.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Man.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
All right, audios, All right, let me catch David before
the break and i'll get David in the second two day.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
David, what's up man?

Speaker 22 (59:40):
Yeah, real quickly, Doug. You were talking about going online
to learn how to fish. One thing that was very
helpful to me when I went on the salt uh
on online learning how to tie specific not. Oh yeah,
I've never known how to tie two lines together, and
so I went on YouTube and looked it up. And
that's what's something that uh, you know, older kids can

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learn themselves, but you know a parent can can get
on YouTube learn how to tie these knights and then
spend time teaching their son or daughter how to tie
a specific knot. And it's something, Doug, that you'll use
at the deer leaves. I know there's times. Oh sure,
why haven't I been tying ropes together?

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Left? And some of them?

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Yeah, some of the things you can do with rope
are just crazy, man, aren't they? Holy cow?

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
But left? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
That's great about it, Thank you, David. I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
All right, all right, well, well, Frankie and Brett aren't looking.
I'm gonna talk to Dave real quick.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Dave, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
Man?

Speaker 12 (01:00:37):
Hey Ben, I'm out here at that Knights clubs here
haul here out of Heah seventy seven at the state
peddle Championships.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Oh man, I forgot about that.

Speaker 12 (01:00:46):
Yeah. Hey, it's foggy, but it's the barbecues, move man,
And I still got to talk to you, to Cigga.

Speaker 13 (01:00:51):
I'm gonna go out there and visit with you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
You should you really should know, man, this is so cool.

Speaker 12 (01:00:56):
Yeah, and okay, but hey, I'm looking at all these
barbecue pits and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
And you're making me hungry.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:01:05):
The briskets are don't come get something, but I know
I just went in there and put my guitar in.
I talked with the Stuart Frar sure is not here yet, Yeah,
but uh yeah there. Their mom and daddy started this
get you something years ago and yeah, so it's gonna be, uh,
it's gonna be a wonderful event. And so many charities
that the nice Columbus.

Speaker 13 (01:01:24):
Helped take care of.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
And the ladies that make all the pies.

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
In he r something.

Speaker 11 (01:01:29):
Man.

Speaker 12 (01:01:29):
I ate some chocolate meringue pie last night. Oh lord, man,
I was thinking about.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
My mom just like that. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 12 (01:01:38):
Yeah, So anybody y'all come on out and see us
and and uh and enjoy the festivals. And I'll let
you know uh next week then probably who's uh who
wins the contest?

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
All right, yeah, fiddle on fiddlers, All right, thanks, thank you,
cause I say, man, audios.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
All right, we gotta take a little break here. I'm
in trouble. These guys are gonna choot me out.

Speaker 8 (01:02:03):
I know.

Speaker 12 (01:02:03):
They are.

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Check the website to make sure of that. Now, if
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Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Are you ready listen
online at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Hey twenty on sports SOX seven ninety the Dugpli Show.
Thank you for listening. I truly do appreciate it. I'll
lead off with the guy who's been holding long enough,
that's Tony Box, and then I'll get the brand and
Tony Box, what's going on man?

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
More than Doug.

Speaker 13 (01:04:13):
Well, I'm glad you're talking about fishing with kids.

Speaker 23 (01:04:16):
Because we're going to offer one as an auction item
at our Saphari Club International.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
May kimp can't pole fishing or higher end however they
want to throw it out on those fonds.

Speaker 23 (01:04:29):
I have my good friend and partner, Kurt Dursett Dorsey
do the cooking. Okay, We're going to cook some hot
dogs and hamburgers for the kids to come out that
day and just try and to show them a good
at times with them.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
So you just it's an auction item and it's just
bring as many kids as.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
You can fit in the minivan.

Speaker 23 (01:04:47):
It's one of those deals that I'm not gonna limit
them on kids as long as we keep it under
double digits.

Speaker 13 (01:04:53):
It's a big thing. If if you can count them
and call their names, well we can do it.

Speaker 23 (01:04:57):
If you can't call their names, it sounds like mink
ladof sitting on the porch just going down the list
until he gets to what he's looking.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
For where somebody's little supercharged lake somewhere.

Speaker 23 (01:05:11):
Uh, we're gonna take him to my little place and
beat eyes. Oh, I got an abundance of fish right now.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
Good for you.

Speaker 23 (01:05:18):
And whether we take it, and I'm going to give
him an option on when we do it, whether we
do it, uh this this spring, this fall, whenever, We'll
work out a date with him and go up and
give him an afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
You're not fishing at Lake Irene, Pardon? Are you fishing
at Lake Irene. No, do you know where that is?

Speaker 13 (01:05:36):
My place?

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Nice, Yeah, I when I was along, let's just say
a long time ago.

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
Tony my hospital in the last century.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Yeah, really, go well way back into it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Uh, my high school best buddy and I his cousin
lived in beat Eyes and he turned us onto Lake Irene.
And take a guess what we had to pay for
an annual fishing pass a fishing lease on Lake Irene
back then?

Speaker 13 (01:06:06):
Was it fifty dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
Back then?

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Almost thirty bucks for the year to fish that lake.
And there were no barn dominiums on it, no nothing. Man,
it was beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
Oh it was.

Speaker 13 (01:06:17):
Beautiful, plenty lids and shallow.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Where you go?

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Man, well we we we were fancier than that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
We had a There were three of us, his cousin,
me and him fishing out of a ten foot jump boat.
And we didn't kill each other at all. It was fun, man.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Good.

Speaker 13 (01:06:35):
Yes, we've got at.

Speaker 23 (01:06:36):
Least twenty nine items listed on auction excellent. Got six
North American hunts that are going to be great. We've
got African hunts, We've got New Zealand hunts, and we're
just trying to do this thing as well as we can.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Yeah, and here we go.

Speaker 13 (01:06:50):
Well the Chateau Crystal May tenth.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Okay, May tenth okay, Yes, shoot me a little something
on that if you haven't already, and I'll we'll give
it another couple of licks.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
I appreciate it, Doug, absolutely, man, you doing all right?

Speaker 13 (01:07:04):
And if I'm not going to complain.

Speaker 23 (01:07:06):
You know, when you're planning these fundraisers, it's it's very
time consuming. I probably put in uh, nine to twelve
hours a day just on it right now and it's
still two weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
A waiting word.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Holy cow, I'm here for you.

Speaker 23 (01:07:21):
Got some really, We've got some really good folks that
have taken tables with us. I wish to really thank
mister Brian Welker for stepping out with this generous sponsorship.

Speaker 13 (01:07:30):
Good uh fine, gentleman, if there ever was.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
One, Yep, yes, indeed, all right, partner, But no, my.

Speaker 23 (01:07:36):
Guys on the committee are definitely a dedicated bunch. We
very much appreciate all their efforts. But Kirk, with his
cooking skills, it's gonna be a lot of fun. Plus
he can tell NBA stories.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:07:49):
Pay for Charlotte Hornecks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Yeah, he's a good guy.

Speaker 13 (01:07:52):
A half oh yeah, six foot nine and it's not
tellverybody he just fighty. All I've got to do is
stand up. He's the tol this guys.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anybody's seeing him out you stand up there.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
He is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
He's a guy who go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:08:07):
It's a lot of fun. I'm hoping you could get
out that evening and bring your young man with you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
You know, I'm tempted, Tony. I'll ye shoot me details
and let me check my calendar because it's it's crazy
for you, know how I am. Thanks Tony. It's always
a pleasure, and I'll do it again between now and
May tenth. Don't worry now and then Doug buddy, Yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
Audios.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Tony is one of the most enthusiastic.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
And a really good guy to have at the Helm
or something like this, because he's able to juggle a
lot of balls at one time. I greatly appreciate that
he's retired from the jewelry business a while back and
taking on doing cool things for people who appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
And that's what he's doing with this banquet.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Let's go talk to Brando what's up, Brando?

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
I'm doing okay, man. I got to play golf yesterday.
I got to catch a fish yesterday, so I'm in
good shape.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:09:05):
How'd you do in golf?

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
We did pretty well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
It was a scrambled tournament over on Lake Houston for
the Lake Houston I think it's there's a foundation over
there that does a lot of good work.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
I don't recall the name of it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I'm so sorry, but anyway, we helped them raise a
bunch of money for that and we finished in third place.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
That wasn't so bad.

Speaker 6 (01:09:27):
Hey Withitsen, Well, you talk to as car work? Yeah, well,
I will try to come support him.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Okay, I'll try to get you in touch with him. Okay,
I can do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Check with check with your mom and see if you
might be available on May tenth, and then we'll talk again.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Okay, that'd be good.

Speaker 21 (01:09:51):
I saw it.

Speaker 20 (01:09:53):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
I will support him.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Oh, what's wonderful. Appreciate Well, Now, what about the Toronto game?
I saw that you went to the game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Where you're going to the game.

Speaker 6 (01:10:10):
Wednesday? We swept?

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Yes, we did, didn't we That was kind of nice.
That was kind of nice.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
How do you think now that we've got what a
couple of dozen games under our belt here, how do
you think the team is going is it? Are they
better or about the same or worse than you expected
them to be so far?

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Last night? I think last night we was yeah, I know, Hey,
it's all right, we can get them back in.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I think we're gonna be okay, I really do. I
don't think we're firing on all cylinders just yet. And
once we get to that point, our pitching is saving
our bacon a lot. The problem we're having now is
with offense, and we're just not scoring enough runs. I
think almost half their games they've scored three or fewer
runs something like that, and it's that's not going to
get it done in Major League baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:11:04):
It's just not.

Speaker 8 (01:11:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
We're used to scoring an average of six or seven
and that's that's where you start winning more games than
you lose.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
But not with three or fewer. That's not going to
cut it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:16):
Yeah, we need to know a new player, another new player.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
We've got enough. We've got a whole field full of them.
Seems like, what do you think we need to report?
Who do you who would you replace.

Speaker 6 (01:11:31):
No, we're not. We're placing nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
No, I don't want to. I'm comfortable with the lineup
that we have right now. I just need them to
start kicking in. And we've we've gone through seasons in
the seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
You don't think al Twova should bat second?

Speaker 6 (01:11:51):
No betting second?

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Oh you're don Yeah, yeah, I kind of agree with that. Yeah,
that's not my favorite place to see him. And and
same with I think Cam Smith's a good guy to
lead off. I wish he had the speed that Altuve has.
I don't think he's quite as fast as Jose. Then again,
Jose's getting a little older. I don't mind either one
of them, uh in the one hole and then from there,

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and I think they're interchangeable as one and two and spot.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
I can put no one was put to be on
first or for playing being first?

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Yeah, oh where'd you go?

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Brandon?

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Okay, there you are. Yeah, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
And Joey spot it. He's he's got a season under
his belt now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
I think he's gonna be okay, he's he's got a
handle on these guys.

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
But inak side parade as betan second, Yeah, okay, I
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
You know that guy.

Speaker 11 (01:13:00):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
I'm impressed with the way he hits.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
I really am. He's so strong, man, He's gonna hit
a lot of home runs once he figures out how
not to yanket down the left field foul line if
he can, if he can just wait a tenth of
a second more to hit a lot of these baseballs,
he's just gonna be filling up the Crawford boxes.

Speaker 6 (01:13:18):
Hey, I got a Did you watch the draft?

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Uh no, not much of it, Not much of it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
I know we.

Speaker 6 (01:13:26):
Jason's got picked.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Oh yesterday who they picked?

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I don't either. I'll check on it during the break, Brando,
I gotta bounce, buddy, all right, man talk, I.

Speaker 6 (01:13:42):
Will hey dance. Doing good with Sean?

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
He sure is he?

Speaker 24 (01:13:47):
Sure?

Speaker 16 (01:13:47):
Is?

Speaker 8 (01:13:49):
He?

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Sure he is?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
He's settled right into their In fact, I expect to
see him sometime this morning. He's got a remote to
do somewhere, and I had that equipment with me yesterday
over there at a task casita.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
All right, I got to get out, I really do.
I'm running late now, Brandon.

Speaker 11 (01:14:02):
Thank you, though, man, I need to see you.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
All right, welcome, have a coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Okay, we can get it right here. Man, Thank you Brandon.
I'll see man. Audios all right, I got a break
on the way out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Berry Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Boy, you want to go get one of the best
fish tacos you ever ate, Berry Hill is a place
to go.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
Do it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
They have been out there in sugar Land at Sugar
Creek Boulevard in fifty nine for the better part of
I don't know if it's all of the time that
I've lived in sugar Land, which is more than thirty years,
but it's sirt. I can remember when my wife and
I moved in out there. We were driving all over
sugar Land trying to find places to eat and stumbled
on Berry Hill and haven't unstumbled from it yet. This

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place is very family friendly, very casual atmosphere. As long
as you are not indecently dressed, you are welcoming berry Hill.
Come in.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
If you're brand new to that area.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Just saunter over to one of the tables in the
bar area where the TVs are and stuff, and just
introduce yourself. You'll be welcomed in. It's the very welcoming atmosphere.
I've actually watched it happen. Somebody came in and said
something about being new, and somebody at one of the
tables said, well, come over and sit with us, learn

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about the place, learn about the neighborhood out there. It's
a very comfortable group in there, and you see people
in the main dining area with the tables and the
boots and stuff. You see them coming in with their families.
And there's also two i think it's two, maybe three
meeting rooms, private meeting rooms back towards the back of

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the of the facility. There the kitchen. By the way,
the two Maine cooks in the kitchen have been there
for more than a decade apiece, and they have turned
out some of the best traditional Mexican food. What it's
tex Mex, it's tex Mex food, and they do an
outstanding job. I'm partial to the seafood enchiladas. I tried

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one of the seafood burritos once and it was almost more.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
Than I could eat.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
And I'm I'm not delicate when it comes to seafood
and burritos and enchiladas, but that thing was I had
to focus to finish that off and I ate every
bite of it. And the tacos again, my wife gets
the baja chicken, tacos, just anything and everything that's on

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that menu will just melt in your mouth.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
It's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Plus, they do both chocolate and vanilla treslechez, which is
absolutely to die for. When I so we had them
cater a meal here a while back, and when somebody
asked me whether I like the chocolate or the vanilla.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Best, I just said yes, That's all I could say.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Go see for yourself Sugar Creek Boulevard at fifty nine
or fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard on the inbound side,
big old shopping center there. Berryhill sits out front, all
the way up next to the freeway. You can't miss
it when you get in there. Berryhill dot com is
I think that's it. I'll double check Berryhillgrill dot com.

(01:17:13):
I believe it is. I don't have the paperwork in
front of me. I'm just doing all this from the
top of my head. Try just just google berry Hill.
It'll show up, don't you worry. Go have a fun
Mexican meal. I'll see you out there. Probably your Rockets
and Astros live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.
The conversation continues this as the Dougpike Show. All right,

(01:17:55):
welcome back, thanks for listening to Dougpike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety Oh man, I got a lot of
stuff going on here.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Let me see something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
H Jerald waighed in after hearing this Week in US
Military History piece a minute ago. And I'm so glad
that people are recognizing this alongside me, because I've been
doing these from there. Probably I started that probably five
years ago maybe, And I really wish I could find

(01:18:26):
more people to support this little feature that I do
every week called this Week in US Military History. And
it doesn't it doesn't cost an arm and a leg
to sponsor these things. And I get so much good
reaction and so many good responses from people, well like Gerald,
who just sent me a note to let me know

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that Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams of Port Arthur, Texas received
the Medal of Honor on April twenty third, nineteen and
forty five. That's part of what I do. What I
usually do is try to incorporate two or three events
that happened that week in US military history. And I
have a really good site for finding this stuff. And

(01:19:09):
then after I make those mentions, I try to recognize
two or three Medal of Honor recipients from that week,
and their stories at this sight I go to are
pretty complete, really on how they earned the Medal of
Honor and some of the things these men did in

(01:19:30):
the heat of battle, the decisions they made that were
just so unselfish and so just all about making sure
that the good guys won and keeping freedom alive in
this country. They're fascinating some of the I can't imagine
how much adrenaline it must have taken for some of
these men to do the things they did under heavy

(01:19:54):
fire and often being wounded many times. It really touch
is me and I would I really would like to
have some other people step up and help me. All
it takes is it's just a little bit of production
costs and then the cost of a sixty second commercial
on any station of ours that you want to put
it on, and you can run it as many times

(01:20:16):
as you can cover that sixty and they don't have
to run early in the morning. I can also do
them on streaming, by the way, which is far less expensive,
and they would at that point they would run almost
at any time during day or night and be delivered
to anybody who happened to be listening to that station. Please,
if you if you want to help me help support

(01:20:37):
our military and recognize their heroics over the years, just
to email me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
I'll I'll tell you all about it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
I honestly think it ought to run on every station,
like once an hour every station we own, once an
hour every week seven one three, two, one two five
seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I hate to go up on that soapbox every time
I turn around, but I really do believe in that feature,
and I really do put some effort into it, and

(01:21:06):
I would love to have some more people doing it.
Same with becoming a member of this family. Actually, all
you got to do is check with me. Don't call
it some eight hundred number.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
Don't don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Don't don't call into the office here and get passed
off to people that may not understand your business like
I might.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Just Just email me and I'll take care of you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
I do that for most of the most of the
people you hear me talking about on this show are
people I work with directly. There's no middle person in
the deal who has any other stake in it. It's
just me and you seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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Scott Nolan and I are having an interesting conversation about
photographs right now. He's in the middle of taking pictures
for a contest, a very high end photograph or photography
test that I only wish I still had the time
to enter, because I would love to see if I
could get anything that stacks up to what Scott shooting

(01:22:11):
I had. I had my time I and most of
my time actually was with film camera, which is film cameras,
which were totally different. And when digital came along, it
really it opened up. It didn't make it easier to
get excellent photographs. There's still a lot of hard work

(01:22:31):
that goes into an excellent photograph, but it sure made
it easier to grab images that we needed to cover
things in the newspaper a little more quickly, a little
bit more efficiently than when we had to get film and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Just hope for the best.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
There were There was more than one trip that I
made as an outdoor writer on which I thought I
had a certain two or whatever and ended up missing them.
Now I didn't ever come back empty handed. But there
were a few instances where I thought I really had
a winter and didn't. And then conversely, there were a

(01:23:13):
couple of times when I didn't. You didn't get to
see it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
There was no preview pain anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
You had to wait till you got your contact sheet
back from the the newspaper's processing room or developing room,
and that could take a day or two.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Sometime before we started doing our own.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Long and short of it was Digital allows you to
see the good, the bad, the ugly of every shot
you take in real time.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
You can see what you got and then you can
adjust if you have to, or just keep banging away
with the same exposures. Scott's pretty dog one good at it,
And yeah, I'd love to sit out there in one
of those blinds and just see what walks up to
a pond. It takes the pace. It's a job to
get really good shots, and it truly does. They don't

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just happen. The inch, the activity of that animal happens,
but the good shot doesn't happen. You got to catch
it right at the exact right moment for it all
to work. And there's a I was gonna say it's
a fine line, but it's not There's a pretty broad

(01:24:26):
space between pretty good photography and excellent photography. And I'm
glad Scott shares some of his images with me. If
you want to talk about cameras, we can talk about
that too. It wouldn't be the first time we've done
that on this program. And just some of the little
things you can do to make your shots better. I
don't know how many shots I saw during the time
I was at the paper. People would send stuff to

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me when we started being able to do that with email,
and you'd see a guy holding up a big fish,
and then in the background there's one of his buddies,
big old harry backed friend of his, with no shirt on,
got a cigarette in his mouth and a beer can
in his hand, and just totally ruins the picture. When
you're shooting people and their fish, you have to take

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charge as the director of that scene. Don't let him
just turn to you and hang that fish off of
one hand and say here, take my picture. Say no,
hold the fish this way, get the line out from
across your face where it's hanging off the rod tip.
Just do all get the background clutter out of it.
If you can, and as a lot of people do,

(01:25:32):
try not to show the shoreline where you are. That
I think is kind of silly. There are no secret
spots anymore, not with GPS. I'm rambling and I apologize.
I'm gonna go ahead and go to this break. That
would be hmm, you know what, We're just gonna pause
and no, I tell you what, I do need to
get this one. In Riceland Waterfowl Club, I don't want

(01:25:54):
to wait. Weceland Waterfowl Clubs run by a guy named
David Prutt.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
He came to me a while back.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
We've had all kinds of conversations at outdoor shows over
the years, and he finally called and said, you know,
I'm ready, let's do something.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
And we discussed this and he came on board in
a big way.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
And I'm really glad to have him on board because
he runs and has for fifty years. This is his
golden anniversary as leader of the pack. Out there at
Riceland Waterfowl Club in Eagle Lake on some of the
finest duck hunting and goose hunting you'll find anywhere still
along the Texas coast.

Speaker 22 (01:26:31):
Our.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Duck hunting actually can be pretty good now this past season,
I heard from a lot of people who would tell
you otherwise, but they weren't hunting with Riceland.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
David works really hard.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
He's a champion duck caller, champion goose caller for many,
many years. He is passionate still, even after fifty years
in the business, about making sure that his hunters get
the finest opportunity they can be handed. And by that
I mean he's got tons of water, he's got tons
of ag land he's working with. He has got plenty

(01:27:06):
of blinds to accommodate all of his groups, and all
of those blinds are a.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
Quarter mile apart.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Well, actually there was one that some guy shot with
a rangefinder and came back and kind of snickered at
David and said, uh, those two blinds are actually four
hundred and thirty yards apart.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
So picky, picky, too bad. Don't hunt that blind if
you don't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
He is going to make sure that all those birds,
all those water are hunted only by people who have access,
which that means basically club members and guests. That's the
only way you can get out and hunt one of
his places. He does zero guided hunting on his properties,
which is an advantage for the club members. They don't
have to be They don't have to worry about being

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boosted by a guide who thinks he's got a client
who's more important than they are. That doesn't happen often,
but it happens sometimes with waterfowl hunting. I was a
guy for fourteen years. I know how it works if
you're duck hunting. Bottom line, if you're a duck hunt
wasn't great this past season. Check out Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot
com and get get a get a phone call in

(01:28:10):
to David, let him explain how he does things. It
it really it impressed me enough that I wanted to
take him on, and I'm so happy to have him
in the family.

Speaker 5 (01:28:18):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
I really am Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
We are sports Stock seven ninety Houston Sports where you
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Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Eight fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety Good Heavens, How
time flies. This one's actually going pretty quickly, I would say,
I would say it's gone pretty quickly. Let mean, put
that piece of paper away over there. Seven one three
two one two five seven nine. He got about ten
minutes left before the top of the hour when we're
gonna shift gears and do a.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
Little golf chatting, and boy, there's a lot going on
in golf around here.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Really. Very briefly, I had a third place finish at
a tournament yesterday with with Rob and Rich and Mike,
and we felt pretty good. We actually putted extremely well.
We only had two pars on the card, but apparently
somebody had fewer and there were two teams that came
in ahead of us. They showed up late to the

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scoring tent. But that's okay. You never know, you never
know with these scrambled tournaments. I do think that well, no,
I don't know. I don't want to get into that
right now. I got so much fishing stuff i'd still
like to to get to. And by the way, earlier
in the show, I don't know if he's still listening
or not, doctor George, my veterinarian buddy, uh when I

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was talking about having lost Luke's carp that he had
hooked and had right up to the shoreline on pretty
heavy line.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
Although there was I couldn't get a handle on the
dog one thing for some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
But the bottom line was doctor George and I mentioned
that I'm not going to carry a dip net to
the golf course. That just sounds bad. And George wanted
to know that if I did did put a dip
net into my bag, would that count as one of
my clubs? And the answer is now, speaking of I
saw somebody on Facebook talking about how when you get

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relief from from certain hazards and stuff in golf, you
might get one club length or two. And so this
one guy put in his golf bag a tape measure
and declared it as one of his fourteen clubs. I'm
sure this was just jokingly, but nonetheless, Oh, I am
going to talk to Joe in just one second.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
Hang on, Joe, I'll be to you in a second.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
So this guy's got a tape measure in and he
gets himself into a situation where he gets one club
length of relief from the from the hazard, and he
just put a tee down on the top of that,
on the little ring at the end of that tape measure,
and just rolled it on out until he got it
about to the middle of the fairway and took his
one club's length relief.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
I'll wrap that in quotes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
All right, I gotta go get to Joe before before
he gets any farther down the road? Is that you, Joe?

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Are you peddling out there? Oh my gosh?

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
How many? How many of the one fifty have you
covered so far? This is my twentieth you're on twenty miles?
Twentyth Oh you're getting Oh okay, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
Yeah, you're just totally dedicated to the cycling thing, aren't you.

Speaker 7 (01:31:52):
Oh well, you know, just trying to stay up with you.
I shot.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Let me let me ask you. How many approximate miles
do you think you've ridden on a bicycle?

Speaker 7 (01:32:02):
Oh god, I would say thousands?

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
My word.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Yeah, I tip my cap to you. Joe says, Ato,
that's that's impressive, my friend.

Speaker 25 (01:32:14):
Okay, I'm about to tell you it's spring time and
then that's fifty we have a tail with Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Thank god for that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Huh oh man, So did you think do you have
a well, yeah, you only have to ride up there.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
You don't have to ride back, do you.

Speaker 25 (01:32:29):
No, we ride from here to Lagrange and then Lagrange
to pet and m get to the Austin.

Speaker 19 (01:32:35):
Yeah, they have some kind of.

Speaker 7 (01:32:37):
Construction issue that happened in Austin. And then eventually we.

Speaker 13 (01:32:41):
Don't want it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Well, you know, at least the reward once you get.
Once you get to A and M's, you're not very
far from the Bluebell factory.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Just swing by there.

Speaker 7 (01:32:54):
Yeah, it's not as scene as it's Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
That's all right, Hey man, it's a nice country ride,
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Have you do you see much wildlife Joe riding at.

Speaker 21 (01:33:05):
Now?

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
You don't.

Speaker 25 (01:33:06):
I mean you see a lot of great creed and
stuff like that, but no, not wildlife. You say, a
lot of cattle?

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're not hardly wild? Are the wild
flowers blooming?

Speaker 8 (01:33:17):
Now?

Speaker 24 (01:33:18):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:33:20):
Well I love this time of year in Texas. It's
uh I mean Texas is made. Watch in April and
uh bebuy Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
Amen, that's about it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Uh man, just say traveled, be careful out there, Joe,
dog going under you. You had a little accident with
a bicycle years ago here and that scared me for you, man.

Speaker 11 (01:33:39):
That scared me too.

Speaker 25 (01:33:40):
But uh my wife said, one more accident and she's
taking my bike away.

Speaker 5 (01:33:44):
Get you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Get you one of those little recumbent bicycles where you
can just lean back and go.

Speaker 13 (01:33:48):
Man, I'll think about that thing.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Do some do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Some of those guys ride them in the one.

Speaker 11 (01:33:56):
Oh absolutely tons of them.

Speaker 25 (01:33:57):
There's ones with the pedals, and then there's one to
their ants, which I'm amazed. The most amazing thing I
ever saw though. A few years ago, I saw a
guy in one.

Speaker 7 (01:34:06):
Of those eighteen eighty bikes with a big wheel.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
Oh wow, little.

Speaker 7 (01:34:11):
Wheel on the back.

Speaker 25 (01:34:12):
He had the outfit looking like going from the eighth
you know, the late eighteen hundreds, and he passed me
going up till going seventeen miles an hours.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
Oh my god, you are a stut telling you Holy gal,
Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's like being an eight foot
tall center in the NBA if you pull that off.
Oh my mean, I mean that.

Speaker 25 (01:34:36):
Is one gear, one big tire, and he's wearing all
this wool and he flies by me.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
I'm like, rolling by, Yeah, just tip your cap, tip
your helmet to him. Man, maybe I'll ride next year.
Do they allow e bikes They I think they do this.

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
They started a couple of years ago. I think they do.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Oh my god, Now that would be such a concession.
That is just it is like a quitter wanting to
be in the game. You know, I couldn't do that
to you, Doug.

Speaker 25 (01:35:06):
The way they make the bikes nowadays, there's so much.
I remember we rode with one of the girls from
iHeart years ago.

Speaker 7 (01:35:13):
She was on a mountain bike.

Speaker 13 (01:35:15):
Oh wow, you know you have no idea what you
do himself into.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to tackle that on a mountain bike, man,
that's not the most Yeah, all right, Pardoner, Well look
stay safe. I'm really glad you called. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
That's good to hear from you. Joe A right man,
Good luck see you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
What a cool dude. Man, that's Joe, says Roto. He
worked here for a very long time. He's retired from
from that part of the radio business. He's helping people.
He's got an agency of his own now and creative results,
and he does a really fine job for his clients.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
He works hard for him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
He's been over here and worked with with me some
and and he's always looking out for his people. So
look him up if you need some help with your stuff.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety were
fast approach you. I tell you what. I'm gonna go
ahead and go out early to this break so that
we don't miss any time that we might be able
to get with Hal Sutton on the other side of
this break. He has he's done something that he's never

(01:36:15):
done before. And that's about all the teas I'll give you.
He's still doing all kinds of amazing things in the
game of golf, but he's done something he hadn't done
up until now. And we'll talk about that when we
get back. More of the Doug Pike Show coming up
in a few minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
Sait.

Speaker 21 (01:36:33):
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Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
All right, welcome back. Third hour of the program starts
right now. And I'm not gonna waste much time. Now,
I'm not gonna waste any time at all. Getting this
gal on the phone stand by, let me push the
button and there is right there like magic. How sudden?
How are you man?

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
I'm good, Doug, and you you know I'm doing all right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
I've got I've got fourteen hundred swing thoughts. Every time
I pull the club away from my from the ground
and I'm hitting on about seventeen of them.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
That's gone seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
God, I love that game.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
I just it's it's every time.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
I yeah, I'm nowhere near the level of player, clearly
that even anybody who's ever been near your level is.
And I so appreciate the intricacy and the detail that
goes into being as good as you are and and
doing the things that you did. I'm just I'm amazed
that any human being can can do all that. So

(01:37:54):
I'm in awe of you. Every time I talk to you,
I have to.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Say, well, you know, we're all loving and playing a
game that we all feel like that we can still
be better at. We're still learning, and you know, every
time we leave the golf course, we think, well, I
can do better than that. And it's a constant journey

(01:38:18):
that we never finish. And I think that's what we
love about this game.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Yeah, yeah, there is no end. You know, it's not like, Okay,
that's as good as I can ever be. It's just
not there.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
I'm fascinating.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
Well, I have to surpassed that point. I am you know,
I spent my whole life trying not to be mediocre,
and I'm really good at mediocre.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
You know, and just embrace the mediocre.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
How and I'm trying, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
I had a nice list of questions for you that
kind of led into what you're doing now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
And instead of that, I want to start.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
I'm gonna start kind of at the bottom and talk
about that you now for I think it's for the
first time ever endorsed a putter, Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
I did? I did? Yeah, I just I it's Makefield
and uh I they had talked to me for about
a year, and I guess I just was afraid of technology,
you know. Anyway, it's got you know, loads of technology
in it, and uh it kind of likened to this,

(01:39:21):
you know. I was a very late bloomer to get
to the metal Wood, and I think metal Wood change
the game more than anything in the world. And anyway,
I finally went to it, and you know, none of
us ever play up Pursumming Club again, and so I
decided I'd go look at what they had done. And
when I went up there and and went through the

(01:39:44):
fitting process and saw what they do, I was convinced
that this putter is beyond most putters, and yeah, they're
they're radio cusp, which they're trying to get the ball
to not skid. All the weight goes through the equator
of the ball, not under the equator of the ball.

(01:40:06):
If it goes under the equator of the ball, it
kind of helps get it in the air. They have
less loft on it. And actually they built me a
putter and sent it to me last week, and I
played with it the first time the other day, and
I was amazed at how well the ball rolled.

Speaker 8 (01:40:21):
I was.

Speaker 5 (01:40:22):
I actually made a few putts and I didn't miss anything.
I didn't miss anything that I should amaze. So those
are all good signs.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
So absolutely talk about you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
You mentioned fitting just a minute ago, and that's something
a lot of people I know and the players I
play with have had club fittings, but not putter fitting.
Oh no, I don't need a putter fitting. I can
figure that out myself. Tell them how wrong they are.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Yeah, they're very wrong. So when I went up there
to be fitted, I've always been a little bit across
the putter. And for all the listeners out there, if
you miss your putt to the right all the time,
when you miss then until you get mad and then
you finally pull one. What you're probably doing is you're
across the ball a little bit. So every time the

(01:41:14):
ball gets in the air, which they all do, I
mean the ball doesn't immediately roll if you watch it
on a high speed camera. The ball goes in the
air to begin with. Well, if it's spinning, say left
to right, when it hits the ground, it wants to
go right even more. So that's what they're trying to

(01:41:34):
take out of it. Well, so when I got fitted,
I'm a little bit across it, so, you know, because
it's heel toe weighted, and you can change the waiting
around yourself. You can slow the toe down or you
can speed the toe up with weight basically, or you
can vice versa, do the same thing to the hill

(01:41:56):
and so it can be modified for your stroke. And
you know, it was just interesting to see how detailed
they did. And you know, one of the things I
really like about it is is and it's it's pertinent
right now because of all the tariff situations. It's all
made from start to finish right here in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
That's very nice.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Yeah, it is cool.

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
It really is, you say. You keep saying where where
are they? You see I went up there?

Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
Philadelphia? Oh okay, Philadelphia. Yeah, they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Making stuff out of the old Liberty bell, are they. No,
they're not American sourced.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
I just had to ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Yeah, So so back we're still sticking with putting here, Okay,
what is off of fitting a guy's Let's say guy's
got a putter he likes and he needs to go
practice before the round, warm up before the round, first
of all, and in full full swing. There's a difference
between practicing and warming up for a round. Is it

(01:42:59):
the same with putting? Do you do the same thing?

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
What do you do?

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
Well? You know, most people go and practice on putts
that they're supposed to make because they want a high
success rate, and you know, they want to hear the
ball go in the hole. They want to see the
ball going the hole. You know, to practice long putts
is painful because you know, most of the time there

(01:43:25):
might be more than one person on the putting green
and you're putting long putts, And to me, that's the
most important thing because you're going to get your speed
down and you can't get your speed down on a
three foot putt, and you know, you know, most of
the time, I would suggest people do a lot more

(01:43:47):
putting from distances than they do. Hardly ever, see anybody
really working on their long putts because they want positive feedback.
They want to see the ball going the hole.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
Yeah, if you practice one foot or you'll get really
good at that, but you might not be able to
make it from three.

Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
Well, are you you have no idea how hard to
hit the well?

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Oh, yeah, that and that you're exactly right there.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
There's a lot more people on their first putt is
going to be thirty feet more than it's going to
be five feet.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
We're just not that good, the average player, not at all.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
That makes such Well, if you're you know, if you
want to make longer putts, which we all do, that
helps lower our score. Uh, you better get out there
and practice them, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Well, And in addition to that taking the putter out
of your hands for a second, you have to learn
to read the break before you can make the putt too.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
How important is green reading to all this.

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
Well, it's really important. But that's the second on the list.
You've got to decide how hard you're going to hit it, yeah,
before you can actually read the green. That's a good point. Yeah,
I mean first things first, you know, you've got to
figure out the speed of the greens. Then you can
start to read the puts. And then thirdly, you've got
to monitor whether you're hitting your line or not. I

(01:45:06):
can't you know, if you don't hit your line, it
doesn't matter. If the other two things are there, you're
you're never gonna make the putt.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
I mean, I'm gonna tell you what I do. When
I'm warming up for a round and trying to get
all of that at once pretty quick. I'll take three
or four walls out there, and I'll put one down
at about I don't put that much from four feet anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
I'm over my yips a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
But I'll put one down at about five or six feet,
wanted about ten, wanted about fifteen, and one at twenty,
and just just take them in succession to get that
speed that's what I'm looking for there, and then i'll
air it out to where it's like ten, fifteen, twenty thirty.
That makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:45:44):
Yeah, that's a good plan. I mean, as long as
you're hitting longer putts, you know, Yeah, yeah, that's the
only way you're going to figure this feed out.

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
You'd think I would make more how you would think.

Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
Well, I think we all think we should make it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
Yeah, But well let me ask you this too.

Speaker 8 (01:46:04):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
I looked online at Makefield. I like the brand. I really,
I'm in love with him.

Speaker 2 (01:46:09):
Actually, I'm still hitting the same putter I've been hitting
for twenty years, and I'm getting the edge a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
But anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
To me and correct me if I'm wrong. But they
look very reasonably priced too among today's putters.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
Yes, I mean they are. I think they're just right
at four hundred dollars and all the technology that I mean,
they're handmade basically, you know. One of the things we
hadn't talked about it. They've got like five or six
different necks. I mean that you put them together. You
can put them together yourself, and you could get two

(01:46:43):
or three different necks and two or three different shafts.

Speaker 8 (01:46:46):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:46:46):
And it's very.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
Cool the way this is all designed. The guy that
did it as an engineer and he's an avid golfer
and he just wanted to make something differ and he did.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
And sure, yeah, you sure did that. They're beautiful to
look at too.

Speaker 5 (01:47:05):
They really are.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
I got to tell you, So, how's Dharmore Club doing?

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
Really good? Uh? I think it's going to come out tomorrow.
The Dallas Morning News voted us best new golf course
in Texas and fifth overall and it's the highest ranking
of a first year course since Dallas National or so.
So it's everybody, you know, received it really nicely, and

(01:47:35):
it's you know, it's in great shape right now. And
I mean we had our biggest day yesterday of seventy
four players, and wow, people are beginning to hear about it.
You know, we didn't advertise it at all.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
I know, I know you wouldn't even let me do
that before. I was dying to do it, you know,
I am, and I talk about you.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
Yeah, that's all. Well, well, you know, we just wanted
to create a little mystery out here and people, if
they don't know much about it, they want to know
more about it. And you know, that was kind of
the path we were headed down. And anyway, it's we've

(01:48:14):
gotten some nice accolades for it. Well, I was very
appreciative and grateful.

Speaker 3 (01:48:19):
Well and very much well deserved.

Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
I'll flip it back on you without the work that
you guys put into that place, you couldn't get those accolades.
And honestly, I'm kind of thinking Texas State Highway seventy
one is about to make that Robert Trent Jones Golf
Trail look like a hundred miles of dirt road.

Speaker 5 (01:48:36):
You know. Well, you know, we're not far away. We're
actually talking about a second golf course out here, Mackenzie,
an Alastair Mackenzie course. So you know, it's fun and
we're just having fun out here. You know, We've got
a bunch of good people that are members, and the

(01:48:59):
culture is a golfer's culture. You know, we're not we're
not anything but a golf club. We're not trying to
be anything but a golf club. And when it comes
to a golfer, we're trying to think of everything that
he needs. We don't. We don't need a tennis court,
we don't need a swimming pool. We're just we're just
a golfer community. Yeah, I mean, we're not even a

(01:49:20):
we're you know, this is not a housing development or
anything else. This is just a golf club.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
That's what I like, you know, and it sadly for me,
but great it makes you even more unique. No lakes,
there's not a water feature on the place. I was thinking, Okay,
this is gonna be fun. When I came out there,
I'll throw a couple of rods in the car just
in case. No, they're not even a place to go
bass vision, which is.

Speaker 5 (01:49:44):
Well, it's good. Yeah, we have an irrigation lake that
you could but and I could have put it on
the golf course, but I chose not to because I
want to. I want people to use the ground, the
maneuver fall. We've become, as I've said many times, we're
one dimensional in the United States. We take our range finder,
we shoot how far we are, and we go right

(01:50:06):
at the flag. Yep. And there's so much more to
golf than that. I mean, using the ground, understanding what
the wind is doing.

Speaker 7 (01:50:14):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:50:15):
It's just I can't tell you. When I played professional golf,
I would pick up the pen in my mind and
move it to where I wanted to hit it at.
And so many people are so connected to the pen
they can't even look away from it, you know. And
the truth is they're missing half of the game by
doing that. And you know, this was my little contribution

(01:50:38):
here to there's a whole lot more to golf than
most people realize.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
When I got to play that place, your place, Darnmore Club,
it it forced me to do things that made me
a little uncomfortable in golf, and I actually like that.
It forced me to look away from pens, and it
forced me to do exactly what you're talking about doing.
And it I've been kind of singing your praises every

(01:51:03):
chance I get.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
Man, I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:05):
Well, Doug. You know I'm glad you said it made
you a little uncomfortable. You know, we've got a few
blind shots out here, and you know I did that
on purpose because Americans can't stand blind shots to hit
it right at the flag. And you know, when you
know what blind shots do, if you'll, if you'll embrace them,
is they develop your imagination and your trust. And those

(01:51:30):
are two very important things. If you really want to
be a better golfer, you must learn how to imagine things,
and you must learn how to trust what the decision
you just made. And so many people hit golf shots
and they're not truly committed to what they're doing. And

(01:51:50):
when you can't see something, you have to truly commit
and trust and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Well, yeah, that three par shot where you can't you
flag can't see the green.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
You just have to hit and hope.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
But you have an idea where it is and the
way I've explained. Every time I've told that to somebody,
they just go, how do you do it? How can you?

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
How can that happen?

Speaker 5 (01:52:11):
But what you have to.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
Understand is you know the green's there, you know approximately
where the pen is, and the way you set it up,
it's it's actually very forgiving because unless you just miss
it a mile in some direction, it's gonna funnel down
to a reasonable.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
Place to hit a second shot even if you miss
the green. I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
Right, we've already had seven hole in the one, Oh
my gosh. And and the truth is people are beginning
to understand, yeah, just hit it in trust.

Speaker 12 (01:52:43):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
So anyway, it's fun stuff going on out here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
Yeah, you're you're a visionary? How you really are that?
To come up with what you did out there on
that beautiful piece of ground you got to you got
a nice piece of dirt to work with to start with,
and you you just made it even better. And I'm
glad you found a good putter you like too. I
may call you back and talk to you about that
a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:53:08):
All right, sound good, dog.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Hell sudden, Darmore Club, what do you do y'all even
have a website yet?

Speaker 5 (01:53:15):
We just got a landing page. If you want more information,
just go to Darmore Club and tell us you want
to know more, and we'll.

Speaker 3 (01:53:23):
Call you and talk to you about it and you'll
vet them out first, won't you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Well, I know you said that, all Sudden man. Always
a pleasure, I truly yeah. I'm glad to be able
to call you a friend man.

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
Thanks Doug, thank you, Helen.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
All right, but audios, all right, Yeah, there you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
The putters. I went and looked them up. They are amazing,
and I'm gonna try to find a way to put
some quarters and dimes and dollars away and get one
of those things.

Speaker 3 (01:53:55):
I need to look at something different.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
It's not that I don't like the putter I have now,
but I've had for so long, and it's just I
think a fresh look at the bottom of the bottom
of the club there, bottom of the cheft might be
good for me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
I'll have to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety We're
running a little late here, that's my fault because I
love talking to how Uh. On the way out, I'll
tell you about Phoenix Knives out there in the right
on Main Street in Bellville. It's run by a guy
named Cowboys Lemanski who has been building custom knives since
nineteen and seventy nine right out there in Bellville. Now

(01:54:33):
they've moved to a bigger space, and what that's done
is allowed him to just create more and more knives.
He has several people in there who work under him,
learning the craftsmanship, learning the skill of making amazing custom knives,
and each of them is producing knives of their own,

(01:54:54):
to the point that they have now close to one
thousand knives for sale at any given time on any
given day out there at Phoenix Knives, every kind of knife,
if you can imagine you could you go out there
in custom order a set of steak knives for your
family if you want them.

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
They could do that for you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
They'd be pretty special, they certainly would. They would be
very special, but they would be yours and amazing. Don't
you just walk in here and walk out? Dan Matthews,
where are you going? You got something fun to do today?
Cactus Cove. Where is that? Okay, I bet yeah, okay, Yeah,

(01:55:30):
you're gonna be here for a while. You're going straight over. Okay,
I'll call you a little bit, all right, Yeah, Cactus
Cove on what is it twelfth Street? If you know
where that is, head that way down'll probably be there
before you or he's got a little set up to do.

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:55:45):
Back to Phoenix Knives.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
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Let's just go out there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
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Speaker 1 (01:56:09):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
iHeartRadio Friends. You've got to try the conversation continues. This
as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
All right, welcome back the Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Let me see if I can move
half of these. I just spread out so many papers
on this console in here. I got so much going on,
kind of like a paper version of my garage. And
anybody who's been listening long enough knows what that means.

(01:57:00):
It's a hot mess, is what it is. That's the
bottom line. Let me get over here to the PGA
Tour and the LPGA Tour. Let's start with the LPGA Tour. Actually,
I'm almost certain, fact I just guarantee it that they
finally got Round two finished up. Yeah, everybody's finished now.

(01:57:21):
They got that buttoned up earlier and it's it's already
underway for round three, I believe, yeah, it should be.
Let me see if anybody's on the golf course. Shit,
I'm trying to find some people who are through a
certain number of holes. It doesn't probably about to start
up now, I would imagine. The bottom line is that
Chevron's going up there in the woodlands. You're welcome to

(01:57:43):
go up there and watch some really, really good golf.
Yanlu from China leading the way one shot ahead only
though she's at seven under par. Lyndy Duncan and Sarah Schmelzel,
both Americans at six under par, along with MoU Saigo

(01:58:03):
and show Ju Kim from Japan and South Korea respectively.
They're also just one shot off the lead going into
today's third round at five under par. You've got angel
yin Mannon Deroy, Hi Jen Choi and Heron Rue And

(01:58:24):
I'm not sure about the pronunciations of the many of
those names, but I'm trying like crazy and I think
I got them pretty close. Lexi Thompson right behind them
at four under par, along with a pretty good group of.

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Women as well.

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:58:40):
This is a fun tournament to watch, and it's it's
played on one of the one of my favorite courses
up there, it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:58:46):
I love that golf course and it's not easy, but
it's very fun.

Speaker 2 (01:58:51):
And they made some they made some tweaks to it
this year, and I was glad that they did actually,
because it it's gonna challenge them. It's gonna challenge them
differently than that course has in the last couple of
years when they played it. It's a pretty I think
they're pretty entrenched now for the Chevron up there at
that same course, and that will just encourage them to

(01:59:14):
do all the more work on the golf course to
make sure that it is up to the challenge of
challenging the world's best women players in their first major
of the year. It's gonna be going on all weekend long,
and you're welcome to drive up there and see. It's

(01:59:34):
a little bit more relatable, honestly to most of us,
even most of the guys in the audience here, more
relatable than certainly the PGA Tour, where you're dealing with
guys who just absolutely bomb it off the tee.

Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
Now, you'd be surprised if you go look up statistically.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
How many PGA Tour players average more than three hundred
yards or quite a few of them now now. But
if you look down at the bottom of that list,
out of the top one hundred, let's say, there're a
few of them who hit it surprisingly if you can
be surprised by it surprisingly shorter than three hundred yards

(02:00:14):
and still are very competitive. And they are people who
kind of like how Sutton was just saying a few
minutes ago, those are the people who understand how to
really how to play the game, and how to use
the ground to move the ball, and how to use
certain no when to hit what shot, and when to

(02:00:35):
know when to go and know when to hold up
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:00:38):
It's fascinating watch them all over in New Orleans. The
Zurich Classic.

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
This is the tag team twosomes that are are battling
each other, Selinda and Villo right now at seventeen hunder par,
leading Novak and Griffin at sixteen. The hoy Guard brothers
are at fifteen, all alone in third place, and then
it's Dixon, Crow, Philips and Thorpe, Jornson and Bridgeman and

(02:01:06):
Phillips all fourteen under par. It's a kind of a
fun tournament for those guys. They get to pair up
with somebody and not just grind at it all by
themselves for the whole week. And that's another interesting one
to watch and just see how those guys react to
each other and having to play a different format than

(02:01:27):
just standard PGA Tour tournament play that they play every
week pretty much almost all year round.

Speaker 3 (02:01:33):
It seems like now very short offseason in real golf.

Speaker 2 (02:01:38):
I'll call it PGA Tour golf, the kind that House
Sutton played for so many years and played so well
Green Jackets and Ryder Cups, that's the real deal. I
was honored to have a chance to spend a little
time in the trophy room in his house and are
attached to the house anyway, and that's a very special

(02:02:01):
It was just there's a lot of for him, they're
personal memories from actually walking the grass where all of
those accomplishments were made. But for me, it was a
snapshot into the Actually it was a whole photo album
into the history of a man who's one of the
best to ever play the game. And it was Yeah,

(02:02:22):
I have such an admiration for people who play at
that level. I just mesmerized that it's even possible. Oh
good heavens, I need to take a little break here,
don't I speaking of golf. Timber Creek Golf Club down
there in Friends with FM twenty three fifty one, a
few miles west of the golf Freeway.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
That's where you'll find twenty seven holes, very very playable.
They're not easy.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
Nothing in golf is easy, but they're very playable if
you just kind of stay. First of all, pick the
right tea box for your game, and then secondly, make
sure you take a brief look get where you probably
are supposed to hit the ball, and if you hit
the ball there, then you'll have a good shot into
the green.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
And if you make that shot somehow, yeah, sometimes you
hit them, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 5 (02:03:10):
You'll have a.

Speaker 3 (02:03:11):
Fun time out.

Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
Either way, you'll have a fun time. There'll be people
coming around to make sure you're having a good time.
There'll be someone coming around who can bring you some
swing oil as some people call it aiming fluid, some
people call it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
Mostly it's just adult beverages. That's what all of those are.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
And if you want a snack, they can bring you
a snack, or you can stop at the turn and
grab something.

Speaker 8 (02:03:33):
There.

Speaker 2 (02:03:34):
There's a great teaching facility run by a guy named
JJ Woods. It's on the just adjacent to the range
there over to the right a big ten building.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
You can't miss it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
That's where a lot of good swings are born. They've
got a generous putting green. They're a great place for
a big tournament to raise a lot of money all
at once. With the twenty seven holes, they can make
that work for everybody. Timber Creek Golf Club been down
there a long long time. I've played it I don't
know how many dozens of times over the years. It's
a lot of fun and a great place to go

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just to enjoy the game of golf on the south
side of town.

Speaker 5 (02:04:07):
There.

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is a website you
can set your own tea time right now at that
site timber Creek Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:04:17):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
ninety dot com. Now more Doug Bike.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
On Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.

Speaker 2 (02:04:49):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:51):
I should have gone and got myself another cup of coffee.
That was a fairly long break.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
Uh maybe next time. I don't need any more coffee. Actually,
this morning, I'm I'm pretty amped up. No, I don't
even want to tell you about that, never mind, on
the heels of the Chevron. By the way, Beginning next
week comes the Inspirity Invitational, also in the Woodlands, but
this one played on the Tournament Players Course once and

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for many years home to the Houston Open. As most
of you would probably know in this audience of mind,
Scott Dunlapsy defending champion in that event, and as always,
the defending champ will have his hands full. Repeating back
to back wins in any tournament on the Tour Champions
is just so difficult because everybody out there pretty much

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knows how to win. The Tour Champions is not entirely precise.
There are people who can still get in and play
who haven't won, But you got to jump over a
lot of hurdles to be part of that, and repeating
like I'm saying here in a field loaded with guys

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who already know how to win, that's no easy task
for those guys in baseball news. I wanted to hit
this real quick because it on the heels of that
horrible collision at first base between Luis Ares of the
Padres and Mauricio Dubon a little while ago. Dubon was
scrambling to cover first base after Christian Walker was fielded

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a little dribbler of a ground ball. He tosses it
to Dubon and Ares, and Dubon just crashed hard, hard
enough that Ares had to be carted off the field
and he was put on the seven day DL following that. Forever,
that's just been how baseball is, and owners and managers

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are talking now about potentially adding a second first base,
one for the fielder to touch and one for the
runner to.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
Touch, kind of like in girls softball.

Speaker 2 (02:07:01):
And as a player, a former player, I'm way past
my prime, but as a former baseball player.

Speaker 3 (02:07:09):
I'm not sure I like that idea.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
Those crashes don't happen that often, and when they do,
they're not always that.

Speaker 20 (02:07:19):
That bad.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
But then again, as the father of a son who
plays a lot of first base, I might be able
to get used to that idea. My son got.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
Hammered at first base once.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
A couple of about two years ago, I guess it was,
and ended up with a dislocated knee from it from it,
and fortunately that was his second I think it was
either the second or the third knee dislocation, one of
which ended up getting surgically repaired. The other one may
have to be if it ever happens again. But when

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the one at first base happened, he just he already
kind of what to do. And his surgeon, whom I
would trust to the end of the world. He's a
guy who worked on Tom Brady's knees, so he kind
of knows what he's doing. And he just told my son, said, look,
if it happens again, you know what to do to
get it back in place and and kind of mitigate
whatever damage is being done.

Speaker 3 (02:08:16):
And he said, yeah, and that's what he did.

Speaker 2 (02:08:18):
He he was on the ground and when I when
I got onto the field to go over there to
him and check him out. The knee looked okay, I said,
what happened? And I was expecting maybe an ankle or
maybe something else. He goes, well, my knee was dislocated again.
And I looked and he said, he goes, yeah, I
put it back. It's okay, and he didn't stay in

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the game. But nonetheless, I don't want that to happen again.
But anyway, Uh, I'm I'm gonna say, not a fan
of the second first base uh. And I know that
leaves leaves it open to still more collisions over there,
but they're just so infrequent. It's I don't want us

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to end up with all the players in bubble wrap uniforms.

Speaker 8 (02:09:06):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
There's gonna be some bumps. There's gonna be some running
into the other guy out in the outfield. I played
outfield for one hundred years, and holy cow, there are
a lot of near misses. But it's up to the
players to communicate and use their better judgment as to
whether to go after a ball and risk a collision,
or maybe there's a pecking order out there. The center

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fielder has rain over everybody in the outfield, and if
the center fielder, if you hear him whisper your name
or whisper ball, then you better start running in the
other direction, get behind him in case he misses the ball,
and you can back it up anyway. I'd be curious.

Speaker 3 (02:09:47):
It's just as an email or maybe a.

Speaker 2 (02:09:50):
Quick phone call as to whether or not you would
want to see two full sighted They've already made the
base oversize if you want to see two of those
at first base.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
Uh, I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:10:03):
That's just me though. Seven one three two seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com forgive me that
little digression from the outdoors.

Speaker 20 (02:10:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:10:15):
But I had that on my mind, and like I said,
as a former player, I had to think about it
and say something about it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:21):
It just didn't It just didn't ring well. I didn't
land well with me.

Speaker 24 (02:10:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:10:26):
Back to trout fishing.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
This is the top water bite is on on most
of the coast, and I don't think it's going to
be long if it hasn't started already. Even up here
in the Galveson Bass system, I haven't talked to anybody
up here. I didn't this week because I had a
lot of other stuff going on. But I haven't heard
much about that yet. But from from Mattagre to South Buddy,

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it's on like donkey kong whatever that means.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
I've heard that expression before. I just don't know where
it is.

Speaker 5 (02:10:53):
And what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:10:55):
All right, let's oh gosh, yeah, let's do this. Let
me take this break here and then we'll come back
to wrap her up. And big thanks, big thanks, still
going to the boys over there in the other room.

Speaker 3 (02:11:07):
I do appreciate that. Yeah, let me get out of here.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
Coastal Concervation Association, that's CCA. If you've never heard of
the Star Tournament that CCA has been putting on for
the better part of twenty five, twenty eight, maybe thirty years, now,
let me tell you a little bit about it. It
gives CCA members the chance and you got to be
a member to play. You can't play, or yeah, you

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can't play if you're not already entered. And what it
does is it gives these members an opportunity to win.
I think it's one point nine maybe two million dollars
worth of prizes this year. The top prizes, as they
have been for many years now. If you catch a
specially tagged redfish is a boat, a motor, a trailer,

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and a truck to pull it with, all thanks to
there are sponsors of this tournament. There are also incredible
scholarship of availability for the kids in their special divisions
as high as thirty thousand bucks and all made possible
by great sponsors. The three main sponsors Texas Ford Dealers,

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Progressive Insurance, and Academy Sports and Outdoors. There are a
couple of two thousand dollars gift cards to Academy as
prizes in this tournament as well. And who boy, who
couldn't have a lot of fun with an empty shopping
cart and two thousand dollars to spend in that store?

Speaker 3 (02:12:30):
Huh Mercury?

Speaker 2 (02:12:33):
What a Burger, Mustang, kat Lone Star, Coastline Trailers, Texas
Fishing Game Magazine, Halfpower Transport Boats, McClain Trailers, Dartle Shoal Water,
Chris's Marine. They all support CCA through this tournament. And
so should you sign up, you have to be registered,
and if you're gonna win one of the major prizes,

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you also have to pass polygraphs, so just be ready
for that. And there's, by the way, there's a special
early bird and remember bonus drawing set up for anybody
who signs up by the by midnight on May third,
to get all the details on this tournament. Find out
about the different categories, about how where the way stations
are because they have to be officially weighed, all these

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things that you need to know about this Star Tournament.
All you gotta do is go to Star Tournament dot org.
Go there, register, get signed up, Maybe win some prizes, maybe.

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
Win some scholarships for the kids.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
But all the while, everybody who signs up is supporting
conservation of our coastal resources. And that's that's pretty important.
If you're doing If you're doing that, you're doing all
of us a favor, just like we all should do
for each other. Star Tournament dot org.

Speaker 1 (02:13:49):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot com, Slash sports
Talk seven ninety. Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 3 (02:14:02):
Well that went off in your hands, didn't it.

Speaker 5 (02:14:05):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:14:06):
That firecracker?

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
How take that down? That's not a song.

Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
That's not even a song.

Speaker 3 (02:14:12):
Man, What are you trying to What are you trying
to do in there? What are you trying to teach?

Speaker 11 (02:14:16):
Frank?

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
Yeah, that April first, it's a little late, bro. All right, back,
we're back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Contrary to what you might think, we still have several
minutes left to fill, and I'm chasing one story right
now that I think I might.

Speaker 3 (02:14:36):
Get to the source on uh. And if I get it,
I get it. If I don't, I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:14:42):
Rudy just sent me an email and it just said
that somebody I think I know who it is, there's
a snake involved, and.

Speaker 3 (02:14:52):
Hopefully this guy will call me back. He's probably on
the water though.

Speaker 2 (02:14:56):
It just says Cliff had a buddy hitting the calf
by a five foot rattlesnake, and I'm thinking that might
be Cliff Webb might have been one of his friends.
The bottom line is, I've seen a bunch of snakes out.
I mentioned this kid, Luke Sturman, thirteen year old, that
that I botched the landing of his big old carp recently.
On Anyway, the long and the short of it is,

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as we were walking to one of the places we
were gonna fish, I was ahead of him by about
a step, and this thirteen year old, to his credit,
oh there's whuit. Oh man, this guy. Hold on, I
gotta get Cliff Webb on. I'm gonna put him on
speaker Cliff Webb, can you hear me? You're on speakerphone, man,
and I'm in the middle of the show. Why didn't

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you call me on my on my on the line
I gave you, I got a I was trying to
get you on the show to talk about the snake. No,
that's cool, that's cool. But did a did somebody I've
got you where they can hear you on the microphone.
Did somebody you know get hit by ralse snake yesterday?

Speaker 25 (02:15:56):
Yes?

Speaker 24 (02:15:56):
Or Barry o'bron's the guy that managed his ranch down
on the Raido got hit by a real big rattlesnake
right right. They gave a bunch of then on venom.
He's gonna be okay, man, those snakes over there are
monsters are well.

Speaker 2 (02:16:11):
I don't even hey, I don't care whether two feet
or ten feet the rattlesnakes or rattlesnake. If they jump
on you and they fill you up with that stuff,
it starts eating your flesh right away.

Speaker 8 (02:16:21):
Man.

Speaker 11 (02:16:22):
Oh, I know you know.

Speaker 24 (02:16:23):
Barry was telling the story he was sitting in the
deer blind and uh, this rabbit rent out on the
road and.

Speaker 5 (02:16:27):
Went into circle and just died.

Speaker 24 (02:16:29):
And the big rattlesnake comes out there and starts eating this.

Speaker 13 (02:16:34):
There's some very large snakes in the raido.

Speaker 2 (02:16:36):
Holy, you know.

Speaker 24 (02:16:39):
But of course ar Tudo, the guy that got hit,
he works on that ranch. He's just a really knowledgeable guy,
a great ranch guy. And you know sometime it happens,
you know, it hit him above the boot. You know,
it's just he didn't have a snake look like he
had record cowboy boots.

Speaker 3 (02:16:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:16:54):
That's that's why I bought snake boots a long time ago, man,
and I'm never gonna get rid of them.

Speaker 5 (02:16:59):
I don't blame you. What a good what a investment
that is, man.

Speaker 2 (02:17:02):
Yes, sir, all right, man, Well look, I didn't mean
to bug you on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 3 (02:17:06):
I just I'm glad I got hold of you though.

Speaker 24 (02:17:08):
Never bugging me. Doug Pike always liked talking to you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
All right, man, I'll call you back later. Yeah, thank
thank you. Okay, all right, there you go. I had
to do that that way. That was the only way
we're gonna get the story. And I wanted to get
the story out because, uh, going back to where where
Luke and I were walking down to the water's edge.
I'm about one step ahead of him on this little

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stone spillway, if you will, and from behind me, I
hear a voice say a single word.

Speaker 3 (02:17:40):
It's the one that will stop you in your tracks.

Speaker 2 (02:17:41):
He just said snake, which means he's been taught really well,
that's exactly what I've taught my son to say, and
I've heard him say it a few times, and I've
had to say it to him a few times. And
what I did was just stop if you hear if
somebody says snake and you're walking through the woods or
walking down a path or whatever, don't jump around and
start looking for it. Just stop because ninety nine times

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out of one hundred, if you stop, you're probably gonna
be okay, because you can assess where the snake is,
what kind of a temperament it has at that point,
and either jump away or get somebody to grab a
stick and knock it away or whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:18:22):
But if you start hopping around like a toad frog,
that you may end up stepping on that snake.

Speaker 2 (02:18:27):
So I look down and there's a like a step
where we were walking, and we're walking parallel to that step,
and this about a I don't know, about maybe four
foot rat snake was just right up against that step
and moving very slowly and deliberately ahead of me.

Speaker 3 (02:18:48):
And when I finally I saw where it was going,
and I reached.

Speaker 2 (02:18:51):
In and I got I got a good grip on
about the last maybe six seven inches of that snake,
but it was already underneath the rock and under the
ground level and had kind of anchored itself somehow, and
I didn't want to hurt the snake, so I just
let it go. But just between that and Cliff's story,

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if you're scared of snakes, like a lot of my
friends are, first of all, don't kill them. Uh, just don't.
They're not most almost almost all the snakes I've ever
encountered haven't been legitimately aggressive. Unless you back them into
a corner or you start poking sticks at them and
stuff like that, they'll they'll defend themselves, but by and large,

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if you just leave them alone, they will leave you alone.
I'm really sad for Arturo, the guy who got hit
by that big rattlesnake yesterday, And just know that if
you get hit by a rattlesnake, you need to do
You need to high tail it to someplace that knows
how to deal with that, because that's a it's a

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hematoxin that attacks your blood and your muscle, and it'll
start eating away muscle pretty fast. I would be willing
to bet that if he was out there on the
ranch somewhere, it took a while to get him to
medical care, and that he's gonna lose a little flesh.

Speaker 3 (02:20:13):
Over that, but he should be. He should recover, and man,
thank goodness for that.

Speaker 2 (02:20:19):
Huh, Holy cow, what a way to slow down and
crawl into the end of this program. All right, So
we've covered a lot of ground today. We're gonna cover
a lot more tomorrow. When we get back. There'll be
another round of the Chevron in the books. Hopefully the
Astros and Rockets will have another win.

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
Do they play tonight?

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
Do you know, Brett offhand?

Speaker 5 (02:20:39):
They do? In fact?

Speaker 3 (02:20:40):
Okay, good, Oh yeah, that's right. Oh they do out there,
And it's.

Speaker 2 (02:20:45):
Gonna be too late for me to stay up and
watch it though. I gotta get my beauty sleep. And
if anybody's seen me lately, you know I need it.
All right, that's gonna wrap it up. Thank you, Thank
you both for being in there taking care of business.
I really do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:57):
Mister west Morning, Brett. I don't know your last name.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Gibson. Mister Oh, that's right, it's on your email mister
Westmore and mister Gibson. I say that with all due
respect because I really appreciate what you guys are doing
to keep me on the air as chaotic and goofy
as I can be sometimes. Get outside, have some phone
in your family, do it safely.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
Watch out for snakes.

Speaker 2 (02:21:19):
They are out. Believe me, I've seen probably half a
dozen in the last two weeks. So they're looking for you,
We're looking for them, and we'll all be all right.
We'll see you tomorrow morning. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (02:21:29):
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