Is salt water fishing better than fresh water fishing?

Doug and the callers talk about fishing and then this question comes up: Which is better Salt water fishing or fresh water? Hmm...I'll let you be the judge. Of course another topics of discussion is the Trout limits. How is this going to benefit the fishing community in the long run? What do you think? Well, Doug explains it to us. You just be sure to tune in to hear what he has to say. Plus, Doug gives us and update on his progress on cleaning out his garage. Then Doug tells us, why is it so important for us, to carry a compass when hunting. Plus, reflecting on good ol' days of jumping off or into things. Doug and the callers are surprised at the things they did.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
All right?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sunday edition of the program starts right now. There's something wrong.
The lights are weird. I got the TV lights on
in here, Melvin. What's going on with that? Are we
expecting company? Should I have dressed up? Should I have shaved?
Is there anything going on in here that I need
to know about? Just a little bit of mouthwashed, that's

(00:33):
probably all we need. Holy mackerel. Yeah, I don't know
how those lights got on. I don't either, and I'm
not sure. I'm not sure how to turn them off.
I know how to turn on the regular studio lights.
I'm being out a tournament.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Oh it's not that big a deal.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I can still read. I can still see the paper
in front of me, and that's not bad. One more
day of this garbage weather, that's all we got to endure,
and then we get get into a really nice stretch
for about four or five days. It's going to be
very nice, much more comfortable, much more pleasant, nice run
of sunshine. Cloudy and rainy today, but if you dig

(01:12):
into your forecast, whichever one you get, if it's something
you could read online. I read deeper past twenty percent
chance of rain today and found out the entire day
the rain total is going to be less than one
tenth of an inch, So mostly it's just going to
be damp and sprinkly, drizzly when it is falling from

(01:36):
the sky.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I didn't hit much rain at all on the way in.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
There were just a couple of times when I had
to hit the just tap the wiper once and then
go on about ten minutes worth. The streets are damp,
the streets are wet, so don't be racing around. Like
half a dozen people came by me today, I felt
like I was driving in on fifty nine moment and
I I'm going along pretty good and I'm not really

(02:01):
paying attention to my speed because there aren't that many
cars around me. But I felt like, you know, I
didn't feel like I was crawling, but I didn't feel
like I was flying either. I felt like I was
right around the speed limit. And then in my rearview mirror,
these lights way back there, little tiny lights just start
getting bigger and bigger really fast, and then just four

(02:22):
guys go flying past me on these wet streets. I thought, kay,
I must be going twenty or something. I look down
and I'm I'm just a hair north of posting speed
and they're doing eighty ninety miles an hour on a
wet freeway. Again, those youngsters, you know, I used to
be one of those.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
I'll admit that My foot wasn't the heaviest, nor was
it the lightest amongst my friends driving around town, and
we did.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
There was a little group of us who owned sports cars.
The group I hung out with, I had one I
thinking of one two in the group. There was a
Lotus Europa. There was an older Corvette, there was an MGB.
There was a Portie and not an old Targa, a

(03:16):
really cool sixty nine I think it was Targa. This
is back in the late seventies, and we would occasionally
drive faster than we should have, just kind of around
neighborhoods in the middle of the night. Now we were
working as bartenders, so we didn't even get out onto
the streets till about two thirty or three o'clock in

(03:37):
the morning, so it wasn't really the streets weren't busy,
but we still we drove a little crazy more often
than not, depending on what the conditions were in the season,
we would instead of driving in little circles around southwest Houston.
There were three or four of us who would, well,

(03:58):
we already had our fishing rock, it's loaded in the vehicles,
but we just as after work we'd go grab breakfast
and then go straight down to the beach and be
in the water about thirty minutes before sunrise and just
absolutely wearing out speckled trout.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
It was so fun back then, so so fun.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Speaking of trout, I wanted to tee it up this
morning early and just go back to the optimism that
I experienced in that fishing show this past week, week
and a half ago. Now, it was really fun, It
was really uplifting. There was a vibe for the last
couple of years in there. People were going through the motions,

(04:39):
the manufacturers didn't really have a whole lot of brand
new things to.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Talk about or to show.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But this year was different, and next year I think
is going to be even better because there was still
some hesitance until the election where people who were going
to have to invest a good amount of money to
do so thing that really stands out in fishing it
was I wasn't sure whether it was going to happen.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Nobody was.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But now that we're here, I would be willing to
bet that by the twenty twenty six fifty first edition
of The Fishing Show, you're gonna start seeing a little more,
a little more innovation, a little more technology, a little
more move toward lighter, faster, bigger, stronger, whatever the adjectives

(05:30):
we can put in front of these things are. For
all this gear, we're going to be able to fish
with for the next thirty or forty years. And when
you couple that with the limits being being adjusted now
on speckled trout, the state's number one saltwater game fish,
it's it's gonna be good. It's going to be really good.
I talked yesterday with On the way home, I called

(05:53):
a couple of guys and just said, hey, look I
talked about this this morning and optimism and fishing and
what's going on in your world. This was up and
down the coast. I called one freshwater guy, but along
and short of it was everybody was happy. They're they're
all seeing, they're booking, the guides are seeing their bookings

(06:14):
go up.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
That's not going to happen overnight. It's not going to go.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
From not a whole lot of people having fun money
to spend to everybody just throwing it around like they're
making it rain in a strip club somewhere. But nonetheless,
it's it's gonna be good. I'm very confident in that.
And the move that Parks and Wildlife made last year
to drop the limit from five fish to three and
tuck them into that little fifteen to twenty slot are

(06:41):
those are eating fish and that's great. You get your
eating fish. And they're the only people I've heard complain
about that, or are fishermen, recreational fishermen who don't get
to go fishing very often, and guides who accommodate recreational

(07:01):
fishing among people who don't get to go fishing as
often as most of us do. And if that's your
if that's the reason you want to hire limits, that's
never going to be a good reason to raise the
limit on fish. The solution isn't to raise the limit.
The solution is for people who don't fish much to

(07:22):
fish more. And if you're only fishing once a month
and you think that bringing home five fish is going
to make much of a difference over bringing home three fish.
You're kind of wasting your yap in time. That's not
what's going to do it. You got to go more often,
and you've got to learn to be a better fisherman,

(07:44):
and if you want to fish with gods, that's fantastic.
Guides love it and the people who fish with them
tend to love it because they are going to catch
more fish, there's no question about it.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
But the guys, the guides are.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
There to help people who are learning to fish, to
help people who don't have time to learn to fish,
to help people who have no inclination to learn much
more about fishing but like to do it to whatever
skill level they have, and more power to them. Fishing
gods are out there. The average trout fishermen only still

(08:16):
only catches one fish per trip. That average has been
the same for probably twenty five or thirty years, kind
of like Barry Saint Clair's bass record. It's it's something
that's probably not going to change because of the skill
levels and the time and effort it takes to get better.
The average person just doesn't have that. And I understand
that as well as anybody. I don't get to fish

(08:39):
nearly as much as I used to. I don't because
I have other things that I have to do, and
then I'll go fishing when I get to. But a
fishing god can be very, very valuable if you're only
going to get to go fishing a little bit, and
may be certain that fishing gods aren't doing this to

(08:59):
get rich. I don't know too many fishermen, too many
professional guides who have homes in the rockies where they
go skiing. I know one guy who owns a lodge
who does I do, actually, but that's the exception and
not the rule. And that guy's been in business so
long and works so hard he deserves everything he's got.

(09:22):
The average fishing guide is busting his hump or hers
from about probably two hours before sunrise to probably an
hour and a half or two hours.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
After sunrise most days. There's a lot to.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Do, and they don't make a ton of money, and
every time they turn around something's broken on the boat.
They've got to throw whatever money they made last month
into fixing the boat so they can fish next month. Oh,
I don't begrudge them anything. And they're booking trips now too,
because it's easier and less expensive than owning a boat
to go fish with a guide. Now, granted that boat

(09:57):
and storage in the garage or wherever, let you go
whenever you want to go.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
But it doesn't put you on fish.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It doesn't tell you what lure to throw, doesn't fillay
your trout afterward. Let me go talk to Aaron here
before I run out of time. Aaron, what's up man?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
I heard you talk about garbage weather. Let's tell you
what minus thirteen out here?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh lord, you're not anymore Toto? Oh my god? Where
were you? Omaha? Oha, Nebraska?

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Oh my gosh, minus thirteen unloading trucks out here in
the snow?

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Why why are and why?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh well, you know, I know it's got to keep
the trucks.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Full of that, got to make a living thing.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Huh yeah, I understanding.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
More progrements on the garage. I was all excited to
hear about that.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know, I have, but it's not a lot lately.
I've had a bunch of other things on my mind,
and I got projects all over the house. But I'm
pretty fired up. And if it's any warmer than I
think it's going to be this afternoon. I might spend
a couple hours out there. Felt good to get back
in that back and really see the floor again. So
I'm motivated.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
Well, we're excited about it warming up to forty three today.
We're gonna what to do with ourselves.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's that's about the same high we're gonna have maybe
forty five somewhere in there. So we're but we're not
starting out at minus fifteen either.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, we're gonna tell you.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Let me tell you, tell me what minus fifteen is
loading trucks from outside. First of all, you're not going
out without gloves, without everything, right.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah, it's it's the face that gets you because you're
reading on that forklift and I won't let my guys
go out there and that kind of weather. But yeah,
jimm Andy Christmas, two pairs of socks, my elk hunting boots.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, bib overalls, the whole nine yards.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
You know, it takes twenty minutes just to dress up. No,
sooner you come in and undressed, and luckily it's a
half million square foot warehouse, so you know it's heated.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's sixty degrees and there you get all.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Cow get all unlayered and then if another one.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Pulls up, what do you do to heat half a
million square feet? There's a lot of bonfire right in
the middle.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Or no, but I had to plug in my truck
at night.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
That was the first.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh yeah, I've heard of that. I don't want to
experience it, but I've heard of it. So you do,
what do you do? You just plug in a light
bulb in the engine compartment or what.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Well, there's a there's a plug that leads from the
engine block. Oh okay, yeah, you just plug it right in.
It's actually really convenient, it is.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
It started right up. But I didn't.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I bet you didn't. Man, how was that last little
cold spell over there?

Speaker 6 (12:35):
I only got down to nineteen It wasn't It wasn't
anything too bad to sustained.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
It didn't know.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
It really didn't get quite down low enough to tear
a bunch of stuff up. And more importantly, it didn't
really kill any trout over here in Louisiana. Back on
that the snow the snow front, that one, that one
they got kicked right in the teeth pretty bad.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
That's what I heard A lot of fish I podcasted
that show. I heard about the millions of them that.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, they a bunch of rolled up over there.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, it was pretty guys, stay warmed. Oh YouTube, three weeks?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
How many backs we'll talk?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
You got three weeks before you get back.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
But hell yeah, I got a jog over to Salt
Lake after this.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
But that's kind of cool. We get to drive through
aston and.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, but it is this time.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yah.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Man, all right, you guys take care of Rudy Audios.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's my boy. And man, he's out there with his guys.
Half a million square foot warehouse into them. That's just like,
that's just like putting shelves in a garage. Those guys.
I've talked to him. I've seen some of the jobs
they've done. He's sent me pictures of what they do
and how they do it, and it's fascinating. And that's
why I'm I hope you're still listening there, and you

(13:52):
you've motivated me again. I'm gonna get out and carve
a big chunk of garage out again today. And Scott,
I need no emails from you telling me I won't
do it, because I am going to do that today. See,
I'm firing a preemptive strike. He can't he can't blindside me.
He can't. All right, we gotta take a break.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
Qu This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports
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Speaker 8 (14:19):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
If we play that enough times, Melvin, you think it'll work.
I have faith it will work. I hope it does.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
The forecast.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I'm we're within twenty four hours of tomorrow morning now,
not quite twenty four hours out from the tea time
I have, but I'm playing tomorrow. I don't care if
it's damp, I really don't. It's just I need to
get back out there. It's been a rough ten days.
I haven't talking to Tommy O'Brien yesterday about this swing

(14:51):
change he put into me about like three weeks ago,
almost now it's at least two weeks ago, I can't remember.
But I've barely been able to go swing the club
since then, and so it's kind of stuck somewhere. And
while he's out there saying, no, just a little tweak here,
little tweak there. No do it this way, that's closes

(15:13):
there there, Keep doing that. But the ball didn't go anywhere,
didn't go where it was supposed to.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
Tell me.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
No, no, no, it was good. Its clothes. I need
that encouragement. I need that instruction and hopefully I don't
know if it's dry enough this afternoon, and he I
find out he's going to be out there, I'm going
to go get in front of him for ten minutes
and revive the instructional knowledge that he shared with me

(15:41):
a few weeks ago and try to hit the ball
better tomorrow. I wish I could play Tuesday. It's going
to be even better on Tuesday than it is on Monday,
seven seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let's go talk to Rick. What's up?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Good morning, Good morning man?

Speaker 10 (16:00):
Days on the birthday?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Is it really happy birthday? Do we have to sing?

Speaker 10 (16:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Don't make a sing?

Speaker 7 (16:05):
You know?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
I don't want that, Rick, No.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
I don't know. I don't need no punishment. I want
the day to be really good day, wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
What's on your mind? Where are you?

Speaker 10 (16:18):
I love? I love old Melvin. He can he can
put the right songs on the right at the right time.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yes, he can. He's very good at that.

Speaker 10 (16:25):
He is good. He is good. Uh No, I was
Yesterday's from any and out of the truck. I caught somebody,
one of your followers talking about Barmott season. Well, it
is because barmuts and other things and uh, you know,

(16:45):
other than deer, it's breeding season for coons and everything else.
This time of year, it really is in Turkey season.
This time next week will be March crazy, is it,
am I am?

Speaker 4 (17:01):
I right on that pretty much. Yeah, absolutely you are.

Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah, so you've got we've got Turkey season coming up.
So I have I probably bought an on the first
generation of a foxtro barman call that they ever made.
Oh wow, and it works great. I use it all
the time. But they have you know, they've had new,

(17:28):
updated ones, more sophisticated, blah blah blah, and I don't
like change. But a friend of mine insisted that I
try as that. Well I'm up here. Uh it's dressing rain.
There was a you've probably seen on them, them old
black syrup tubs for cattle.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah.

Speaker 10 (17:51):
There during uh last week when the women was going
fifty miles, a nine one showed up over here. I
don't know where it came from, but I've got it
sitting on the side on its side. Next to a
tree and got this, got the call in there, and
I've got the remote. I'm trying to learn how to
do it. I'm not real good with the electronics, but

(18:11):
I want I will tell you this. There's I don't know,
there's probably listeners that can tell you more about it,
but man, I don't know. There's got to be one
hundred calls are more than that thing?

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Wow? Wow, I'm not kidding.

Speaker 10 (18:25):
You know, four or five different crows, four five different hogs, raccoons. Uh,
you want to scare somebody to death that I turn
on that fighting raccoon call? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
With digital technology, now, Rick, they can just they can
load all of that stuff into something the size of
a thumbnail, you know. So that's that's why we get
all of that extra stuff instead of having to carry
around a speaker and a cassette player and a big
shoe box full of tapes of those calls. You know.

Speaker 10 (18:59):
Well, it's drizzle and it's been drizzling for seems like
I'm probably almost forty eight hours. Yeah, I'm with you
on that, and I thought this would be a good
day to do this and listen to the dug Pox Show.
I mean, of what a combination on your birthday. You know,
I mean that you don't like, don't get any better
than now.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Man, I am higher, Rick, I'm higher.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
Oh these boys, I think they're gonna migrate in from
out of town today and Mammy's gonna make some chili.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Maybe.

Speaker 10 (19:29):
Yeah, bo, that's gonna be my day. I'm just I'm looking.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Forward to im up there into the hill country.

Speaker 10 (19:36):
Come on, we got But here's what my goal is,
and now let's go. My goal is this. I want
to get catch the right day, the right weather, the
right temperature. And you are going to kidnap Melvin.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Okay, where are we gonna take it.

Speaker 10 (19:54):
You're gonna bring Melvin up here, and I'm gonna put
him in a nice comfortable black with me, okay, and
it's gonna be air conditioned so to speak.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Oh holy cow.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
And that means the windows are open, Melvin, don't don't
get full.

Speaker 10 (20:10):
Go ahead, the windows are open. And if it's a
little chilly, I've got a heater in it. But anyway, Uh,
we're gonna use the barment cause he don't have to.
He don't have to dispatch no animal. I just want
him to bring his camera mm hmm. And I love
him to have just have a great experience, because I
am gonna count something up.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
I will, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 10 (20:32):
People get ready, buddy, If people ready.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, you know he is.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
If people knew how many animals are out there that
they're just really good at avoiding eye contact with us,
I think they'd be pleasantly surprising.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
They'd enjoy the experience a lot more.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
But most of the time, when I talk to people
who go walking through the woods looking for animals, they say, yeah,
we let the kids run ahead, you know, and they're
making noises. It's okay, they're just being kids, and that's
fine to some point. But at some other point it
doesn't hurt to try to see how quietly you can
go through the woods and really get a peek at

(21:11):
what's out there instead of running them off one hundred
yards ahead.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
I did that yesterday. I've had on all of my
kind of wet weather dunt and gear, and I went
into a big cedar thicket and I didn't take a
gun or nothing. I did have crow called, but I
ain't never done. And I had a varmint call, and
I had the crows coming. I can pull them in
pretty easy, and I heard something on the ground. I

(21:37):
don't know it. It could have geten just a squirrel
bouncing around. I don't know, but I got to feed
in something little heavier. But I fetch you a ticks.
I think I sent at the un Melvin or a picture.
I think it was yesterday on the three birds on
top of that track.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:55):
The end is blowing about twenty miles an hour. It's cold, man.
And why would they be now? They're sitting in the wind,
facing the wind because they don't want to face the
other way because the wind the bird. When the wind
is blowing, the bird's gonna be facing the wind. He
don't want the wind get behind his feathers and knock
him off the tree, you know.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, blows up his knickers.

Speaker 10 (22:17):
Yeah. But I sit here and I couldn't. I could
not believe they could have gotten down in that big
old cedar tree and got some cover. But they just
sat there. Oh yeah, I'll tell you this morning in
the drizzled rain, I got doves. I've seen one hog
coming down the ranch road. I've seen one jack rabbit.

(22:38):
So they're still here. Kind of thing, got all of
them and all kinds of birds out here feeding on
this gravel road. They're hungry.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, they are.

Speaker 10 (22:49):
Over here. I'm looking at a feeder. I've got a
feeling that might be out of corn. Okay, but anyway,
they're they're out. So you gonna go out and sit
and watch, you can, but get you a fox broke
and you really have.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Oh buddy, Yeah, that's great, Rick.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, happy birthday to you.

Speaker 10 (23:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm glad you called and gave us a chance to
tell you that.

Speaker 10 (23:10):
Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate all of you listeners
that put up with me.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll talk to you later, all right, I'll see audios
man oh Man. Yeah, he brings up a very good
point about wildlife being out. I was driving to the store.
I had to go to the store for something yesterday.
I can't even remember what. Something in home depot. And
as I got out of the neighborhood, I looked down
on the side of the road and they're in the

(23:35):
It was a more than just a drizzling rain. It
was a steady, steady, light rain, if that makes sense,
and cold out there, just nasty. I wouldn't have wanted
to be out there at all. And movement out of
the corner of my eye, I look over and there
on the little easement of grass between the sidewalk where

(23:56):
people can walk up and down this main drag and
the street, there was a squirrel and he had found
himself something to eat, and he's just sitting there in
the rain, just gnawing away on whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
I'm presuming an acorn.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
He's under about a million oak trees out there in
that neighborhood, but he was just chewing away and doing
what he had to do to get warm before he
went back up to his old nest in the top
of a tree somewhere. I've got a big squirrel nest
in the top of one of my trees right now,
and I just don't know how I would come out
if I had to live in something I had to

(24:31):
build outside and then deal with in the rain. The
closest you can get to that is watching that show
Naked and Afraid, and these people, they really show how
human they are, and even as tough as a lot
of them are, they're not as tough as wild animals.
We've been softened over time to an extreme degree. We're

(24:55):
soft as hot butter when it comes to survival and
That's why I re survival books every now and then.
I don't know how much of it I've absorbed and
could could call upon that knowledge that I could have
taken in in a in a pinch, But I like
to think that I would be able to remain calm
and I would be able to think through what I

(25:17):
had to go find to get through a cold night,
even as it kept getting colder and maybe wetter on me.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Uh, you just got to keep working.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I guess somebody tell me a good survival story, and
not something you read in a book.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
I want to I want to know.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Somebody who's been out there and gotten really really cold
and then found their way out, or maybe got lost
on a cold situation and found their way out. The
real skier got rescued after an avalanche. He had on
an inflatable it's like a it's like an inflatable life
raft on an airplane if you if you go into
the water, only that you wear them on your backs

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if you're an extreme skier, and this guy was.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
And all they found it.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Was part of the inflated thing on his back, and
then they started digging in about three feet down there
he was.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
There's video of it all over the internet. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 10 (26:08):
On the way out.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
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Speaker 10 (26:15):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
This is the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Hey thirty seven on sport Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
Well.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I just looked over and glanced over to a stack
of papers I had, and right on top is the
story of that guy that was He was caught back
on opening day of deer season. Game wardens got called
out because somebody had found a camouflage porta potty in
the woods, and the game wardens set up a property

(26:48):
or a camera game cam on the property line hoping
that this guy would return. But he didn't last season,
this past season, well two seasons ago now. They staked
him out on opening day and sure enough, there he
was walking to what they called his toilet stand. That's
pretty convenient really when you think about it. And they

(27:11):
confronted him. He confessed to hunting without permission of the landowner.
Charges were filed. The man had to remove that blind
and feeder he'd put up. That's pretty that's pretty brassy. Yeah,
that's really bold. And I watched it happen out on
a place where I had access two years ago with

(27:32):
my friend Philip. There was somebody who had set up
he just set up his own as if it were
his own land. He had a stand set up, he
had a feeder set up, and he was just hunting
that place like it belonged to him. And we finally
got game wardens out there to run him off, and

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then lo and behold, not that many couple.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Of years later, turns out that there.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Were two women who lived in a trailer on the
road that the last road you drive down before you
go through the gate, and their backyard basically was a
barbed wire fence that if you hoped that fence you
were on the property that I had permission to hunt.

Speaker 10 (28:16):
And game.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I don't know how they found out. I don't know
why they went, but they went and knocked on the
door where there was two women lived and had access,
and I guess the search warrant, and they found all
kinds of deer in the freezer. They found mounted deer
in that trailer that had been taking off that property
that the two who got busted kind of rolled over

(28:40):
and just said, yeap, we did this, and we did that,
and we've been hunting back there a lot, and they
had a lot of stuff confiscated too out of that place.
No shame, no sham, none at all. It just to
hop over the fence. Oh it's not my property, yes,
so what That doesn't bother me, It doesn't stop me.
And I'm sure they paid hefty fines and they lost

(29:01):
a couple of nice rifles too, and just yeah, Lee,
I don't understand why people would think that was okay.
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone who's older
now and someone who I don't own property anywhere outside
of where my house is. I don't, and I've thought

(29:21):
about doing that. I'm contemplating it still. If I ever retire,
I might buy a place somewhere where I can go
retreat over the weekends. But the question for me would
be where would I put it? Because there's so many
things I enjoy it. It's almost like the philosophy that
Mick Jagger has about any anything that basically that is fun,

(29:45):
you just rent it. And it go back to what
I was talking about in the early part of the
show about boats. If you own a boat, that's a
fantastic thing. You can go whenever you want, but you
still have to clean it, you have to ensure it,
you have.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
To maintain it.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
You have to do all these things to that boat
and anybody who owns one. And one of the reasons
I haven't ever really bought a decent sized boat is
because I hear the horror stories about every time they
turn around something's broken on it. And nothing breaks on
a boat that costs less than about five hundred dollars apparently,

(30:24):
so it's a hard thing to maintain, and I would
just I would prefer to just go ahead and hire
someone who has experience that I don't have, who has
equipment that I don't have, and to do all of
these different things.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's why I enjoyed guiding so much for waterfowl.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I got to take people who didn't want to invest
in the equipment or the time it took to become
really good goose hunters or duck hunters. I enjoyed taking
them out there just watching them have a good time.
The ones that did and the ones who could shoot
had better time than the ones who couldn't. That was

(31:03):
pretty obvious sometimes and frustrating for guides too. I'm sure
for guys who you take people out there who can't fish,
and you know.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
You're on fish and now here.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
The guides tend to fish alongside their clients in other regions,
especially east of East of Louisiana is kind of where
it starts, and then around through Florida and up the
East coast. When I was traveling a lot and going
in that direction, going to get stories for the paper

(31:39):
or stories for Tied Magazine, when I worked with Cca
on that I was an editor for ten years, it
was hard to get fishermen, To get the guides who
took me fishing to even pick up a rod. I'd
be the only other person in the boat, maybe one more.
If I was doing a radio show from a remote location,
I'd whoever was producing for me, and the three of

(32:03):
us would go fishing, and the guy would never pick
up a rod, and I'd have to I'd have to
really push him hard. The man, I want you to fish.
You're the one who knows this area. You're the one
who knows where these fish are, and I appreciate you
telling me cast over there, but I would rather the
two of us be fishing, and partly because I'm so competitive.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
I want to know how good this guy is.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I want to know if he's got me on the
right spot, and if I get.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Whipped by him.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
If he catches twenty fishing, I catch two, then I'll
learn something. If I catch twenty and he catches two,
maybe I'll learn something else. But I want everybody on
the boat fishing. I don't I don't want to be pampered.
A lot of those guys were scared because I guess
some of the outdoor riders who'd gotten in their boats
just wanted to be left alone. They wanted to do

(32:53):
it their own way. And you're the guy. You just
put me where they are and I'll catch them. Nah,
I've called fish. I want to see somebody else catch fish.
And those poor guys man the Florida guys, it's hard
to get any of them to pick up a rod.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
And in the.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
East Coast guys, the up the East Coast guys too.
South Carolina fished with a guy who it took me
until almost noon to get him to even make one
cast on his own.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
You want to catch Captain Mike tell Captain MIKEA I'll
get him after the break. I want to talk to him,
but i'll get him after so that I don't have
to cut him short.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports online at
Sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Little something for Rick, well a little later in the day,
maybe little red wine.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
I bet he's got something good.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Cooking Voue pro sent me a picture of all the
deer meat he's got thawing today, and that didn't look
bad at all. Oh, remind me today after the show,
we got to get you some of that sausage.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
To take home.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Melboyn that Mark brought Mark Shotty. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I want you to have some of that. All right,
let me go get Let's go talk to Captain Mike.
See what's up? What's up?

Speaker 10 (34:07):
Mike? Hey, good morning. I've just listened to the show.
I've been castling some fishing days due to this weather.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
But I don't blame you.

Speaker 10 (34:16):
Yes, it's no problem, but these fish I expect you.
I'm targeting some speckled trout. One day, it's fifty four
degrees the water trip sure, did it gets up to
fifty eight sixty? Didn't go back down. So these speckled trout,
they're not sure what they want to do right now.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
They don't know what day it is, what month it is,
what year did? They don't know anything right now. It's
just like a roller coaster.

Speaker 10 (34:38):
No, but I have been targeting trout, fishing some soft
mud with some shell Mixedhell yeah. But I was going
to take customers out from Dallas and they never fish
salt water before, and I gave them my discount, good
one hundred dollars, and they said they'll be back for more.
They didn't realize salt water was so much more fund fast,

(35:00):
for fast, all day long and catch it one fast.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Oh yeah, Holy cow, salt water. There's just there's always
something going on. There's always something going on.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
Mike.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah, how are you feeling about the just overall optimism.
I'm gonna pull everybody I talk to who's in this business.
What's your take on where we're headed as far as
number one, how the trout limit works out? And number
two just how how people are getting back out there
and fishing again.

Speaker 10 (35:30):
You know, you know I figured the when the limit changed,
it went from ten to five now three.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (35:36):
The best thing that really happened. Uh, it really hasn't
hurt the fishing guys at all because the clients that
we have, they enjoyed going out and there's other fish
to keep. Sure, you know, you got got cheap head
this time of the year. I've been targeting a lot
of sheep head on the rocks and oh yeah, that's
a fish. So you know, yeah, we get our limit.

(35:57):
You know, people brag, hey, I got my limit three fish,
and you know it'll goblem. But you know, you've got
to be careful when you turn those little ones loose.
I think right now, and I've got a lot of
trout here the last probably month and a half because
I've been fishing since January. I've got a lot of
wall trout. I mean, I think Galvenson Bay's got more.

(36:19):
Thirteen and fourteen is trout that I've ever seen since
I've been fishing the last thirty years.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Holy cow, that's that's a boss out there.

Speaker 10 (36:27):
Oh and I and I live up to that, I
tell you. They said, man, I wish we could keep
some of these. I said, I wish we could too,
but they're a little too small.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, and god, there you'll be there'll be keeper sized
in summer, Mike, they really will.

Speaker 10 (36:42):
Oh yeah, they're gonna They're gonna grow. But I want
to take my hat off to the parks a wildlife,
especially the game morgers. I've been stopped now four times
this January. Good, but only by now, Captain Mike. How
you doing. You ain't check everything, but they're doing a
fine job because they're making sure people are not keeping
those small fish.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
I'm so glad.

Speaker 10 (37:01):
And I'm fishing up north here you know, the Baytail Complex,
and I'm fishing the Sylvan Beach area. I don't it
don't matter where I fish. People have seen me out there, sure,
But I just want to let you know that I
enjoyed the show I castled today because of the eighty
percent chance of rain I get up this morning. Chance. Well,
it's just forecast, that's all. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
You know, if you if you see one four guys
you don't like, just look at another one.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
It'll be different. Don't worry one.

Speaker 10 (37:28):
Yeah. But but I didn't lose my customer. I moved
into the sixteenth of March.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Which will be a better time. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (37:35):
But I just touch base, which and let you know
we need to get together again, you know, I yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
I'll set something up. I got a couple of people
i'd like to I'd like to repay a favor. That'd
be good man. I've got some stuff I'm going down
for you too.

Speaker 10 (37:51):
Yeah, no problem, because right now they're hitting pretty good
on lures around old pier pilots and stuff. Real good.
All right, So well just give me a call or
I holler at you maybe one day next week.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Tell me.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Look, people, no, you got to you got to say
your phone number out loud. I can't let you go
without doing that, because Melbourne, somebody's.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
Else about it. I'm not advertising, but will you know
you're not.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Just tell me your number.

Speaker 10 (38:16):
Two eight one five o seven one nine three three.
And remember when there's a parents with kids, I do
not charge kids to fish at all. So kids fish
free out of my boat. You have a great day.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
You got Thank you, buddy. I'll see man audios. That's
my catchy out. He he's been doing this for a really,
really long time. He is one of the most patient
men I've ever fished with as a guide. I've been
in the boat with him with some people who could
fish better than others, and what a fantastic dude.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
If you if you've.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Never fished salt water by the way, as he mentioned,
he just kind of glossed over it, but he rolls
out one hundred dollars discount for you and your crew
if you've never fished salt water before. It's an honor
system thing too. Don't show up with all the latest
gear and a giant tackle box full of lures with
a little rust on a.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Few of them.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Now, he'll he'll weed you out if you do that
to him. But if you've really never fished salt water,
he's gonna take you wherever he has to take you
just to get a bunch of bites. If you want
to throw live bait, he'll throw live bait. If you
want to throw lures, he'll throw lures. He'll make sure
you have a good time. And that's that's a really
important part of the guiding business, is introducing people to it.

(39:34):
As time goes on, I'd be willing to bet that
a lot of the people he's introduced to bayfishing have
grown with their knowledge and try to challenge themselves a
little more and maybe fish with somebody else. But as
far as getting somebody started, I don't know of anybody better.
If you wanted to go grind and catch one nine

(39:55):
pound trout in a day wade fishing up to your armpits,
probably not in my forte that's not it. But if
you want to just go have fun with your family,
he's a good dude. And he's two eight one five
zero seven nineteen thirty three. If you need his number
and you forgot it, let me know, let Melbourne know
and we'll get it for you.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Great guy.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
And he's very humble too, you like he said, he said,
I'm not advertising here. I don't need to do that
and I know that, Mike, but I'm doing it for
you because you took the time to call and share
some information that was good informent.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Uh, we'll do what we got to take a break.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Can I add something?

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, you can ask something. Of course, you're part of
this show.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
I'm looking at his information on the website.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
And he's affordable, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he
like I said, he's an older guy. He's just kind
of chilling and he still loves to do what he's doing.
And he doesn't have a super fancy boat with nine
hundred horsepower worth of outboards on the back. You're not
gonna get your ears pinned, or you're not gonna lose
your hat or your sunglasses driving to where you're gonna fish.

(40:56):
You're just gonna have a chill out, good time. That's
why I like taking people with him. I like to
get some of these dads that I oh favors to
for helping get my son to and from tournaments when
he was younger and stuff like that, grab them and
take them on Mike's boat, and we always have a
good time. Always have a good time. All right, We
got to take a little break here on the way out.
I'll tell you about American Shooting Centers out there on

(41:19):
West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six. I know
somebody I want to take fishing. I might talk to
him about it this week. As a matter of fact,
that'd be a great time with Mike.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Good had a second hour starts now.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
Before I get into a little bit of golf, I
want to just give you something. If your children are
artistic at all, and they love the outdoors.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Who knows they might be able to make you a
little money. Well, I guess it would be for them,
not you. Students in grades one through twelve, it says here,
are eligible to win cash prizes in the twenty twenty
five George Montgomery NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest. This is
a press release Stifacts or Fairfax, Virginia. The NRA is

(42:18):
now accepting submissions for the twenty twenty five George Montgomery
NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest. First started in nineteen eighty seven,
the George Montgomery NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest offers young
artists interested in honey and wildlife an outlet to use
their creative talent, practice artistic techniques, and refine wildlife identification

(42:41):
skills through the creation of original artwork.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Here's where it gets fun.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
These kids grades one through twelve are going to be
eligible for prizes. There will be four well, there will
be first, second, and third place winners in each of
four categories based on grade level, and first place in
each of the grade levels fifteen hundred bucks, second place

(43:09):
one thousand, third place seven fifty. Now that's not exactly
a college scholarship, but nor is it something to just
sneeze at fifteen hundred dollars that'll get you to a
lot of baseball tournaments. That's gas money for I don't know,
three months worth of baseball tournaments. According to where my
son used to play, Holy Cow, it seemed tough. Overall,

(43:31):
beston Show is gonna get two thousand dollars. I suspect
it won't be a first grader, but you never know.
It's it's a fun thing. It's an interesting thing. If
you want to learn more about it, you can go
to artcontest dot nr a dot org, or you can
just email me and I'll tell you if you didn't
get that art contest dot nr dot org.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
Let's go talk to Mike. See what's up. Let me
find a mouse here there we go.

Speaker 10 (43:59):
So Mike, morning, young man.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
I'm well, thank you.

Speaker 12 (44:03):
Yesterday reminded me I was out in the weather a
little bit, my teeth started chattering, and reminded me of
an old hunt with my father in law. We were
at a two mile walk from the truck to the
blind and backboard, and it was drizzling and raining and
you're blowing smoke and so forth. Before we got out

(44:24):
of the blind, we put the Scotch tape over our
muzzles and slung our rifles and started the long walk back.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Explain, hold on before you go any father, Explain to
the audience, why if they don't know, there might be
somebody who doesn't know why you put that over the
barrel so.

Speaker 12 (44:40):
The water don't run down.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 12 (44:44):
Anyhow, we get out of the blind, and before we
get all our gear on our back, he pulls out
a Walt Disney Goofy baseball cap and he puts it on,
and he turns it around backwards with the great god
white eyes staring back behind him. And you know, we're
about twenty thirty yards down down the road. And I

(45:07):
asked him why he's wearing that silly hat, and he says,
so those long tailed armuts don't sneak up on me
while I'm walking.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Good golly, that'shilious thought.

Speaker 12 (45:19):
I thought, you know, things warm me up when when
you least expected. I laughed all the way back to
the truck.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Oh my gosh, I bet you did, man, holy cow.
And then where was that again?

Speaker 12 (45:31):
Down in the king, down in that scrub brush? You
never know what you want to come out at you.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, he isn't that the truth? What doesn't bite you
will stick you down there, as the adage goes.

Speaker 12 (45:42):
Yeah, we were wearing our ll bean you know, mud pumpers,
and it was sloppy.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Sure, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yeah, I've had a few hunts like that down there.
Nothing you can do about it but just get out
there and go. The only thing I didn't like was
being told on a really really cold morning or a
damp morning, Okay, now we're gonna put you in this tripod.
I'm just like, no, you're not, No, you're not. Thank you,

(46:10):
Thank you Mike for the call, Buddy, I appreciate it. Audios.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Oh yeah, there was one guy.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
I can't remember exactly what ranch it was on, but
there was one guy who just wanted to go hunt
a tripod one morning when it was kind of like
this morning was. It wasn't pouring down rain, but it
was drizzly, it was cool, and he said, I got
plenty of clothes, I want to hunt this stand. I
know there's a big old buck over there. And he

(46:39):
never fired a shot, but he sat in that in
that tripod in the elements just being able to see
over the brushtops down there in South Texas brush for
a bit. He was there for about four four and
a half hours, probably before he finally used his little
flip phone to call somebody else down there and come

(47:01):
retrieve him. And he was he was pretty well. He
was pretty well done when we got him. I was
gonna say well done, but that would imply he had
been overcooked. He was still grossly undercooked when we got
to him. He was soaking wet, and the water proofing
that had put that he had put on his jacket

(47:23):
in his pants turned out wasn't as effective as he
thought it might be.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
And yeah, he was absolutely miserable.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
And I don't know that even if that deer he
was chasing had walked out and come over and and
made a scrape right on the leg of the tripod,
I don't know whether he would have noticed he was.
He was in bad shape, man. But he did it
to himself, and he had communication. He could have he
could have thrown in the towel at any time during

(47:53):
that hunt. More power to him for making it through that.
I've been in I've been in very cold weather, I've
been long ways from camp in very cold weather, and
actually at one point it had to start a fire.
And that was back when I was a smoker, and
I had a buttane lighter in my pocket, thank goodness.

(48:13):
I was hunting with a friend of mine, and it
just kept getting colder and colder and snowing harder and harder,
and we finally just decided we had to stop and
warm up a little bit before we could continue. And
we found some little sticks and kind of kindling and

(48:34):
just junk, little shavings and stuff that were in an
area that wasn't wet, that had been protected. And I
couldn't flick that bit fast enough, man, and got that
thing fired up, and we had a little like a
little i don't know about a foot tall little fire
with twigs, not branches, but twigs on it. And took

(48:56):
those gloves off and got those hands on that fire,
and oh buddy, did that feel good. We were hesitant
to leave at all, but short of burning down the forest,
we needed to get on out of there and get
back to camp. So we got that fire completely put out,
didn't have any trouble finding snow to take care of that,

(49:17):
and just stack the snow on those embers. And then
kicked them a few times and stacked more snow on it,
and kicked them a few times, got our blood circulating again,
and then went back and made it. Obviously happy to
be back to seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. I've never been lost completely on the water

(49:38):
off shore. There have been times, and when I was young,
my friends and I would go out in boats that
were probably too small to go as far as we went,
but there'd be three or four of us on a
seventeen foot boat and we would just break through those
surf side jetties and take off running with a compass.

(49:59):
And if we hadn't been surfers and recognized everything along
the beach front, it might have been harder to get
back than it was.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
But we would just pretty much.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Go out, going straight offshore and then fish at little
whatever structures we could find out there, some of the
rigs and whatnot, and then just kind of turn around,
hoping that we were pointed toward the surf side jetty.
We never did once nail it exactly, not once. We
would end up coming in roughly somewhere between between San

(50:31):
Luis Pass and maybe the Brasses River, and then knowing
the shoreline like we did from being out in it
in the water and looking back on it so much,
we were able to find our way home. That Blue
Water Tower in Galveston was a pretty good mark. Or
two down there toward the pass, a little bit east
of San Luis Pass, that was a good one.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
But yeah, it just we wanted to go.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
We wanted to go bad enough that I guess we
wanted to go so bad that if we got lost
out there and turned around and our compass broke and
we just figure it out from there, we never really thought.
I guess that far compass can breaks. It's one of
the most reliable. And that's something that anybody who's going
off shore now most most of you, most of this

(51:17):
audience knows this. But if you're going to be fishing offshore,
have a compass. If you're gonna be walking around in
the woods, have a compass. It's great that GPS is
awesome so long as it's working, but if it goes
on the fritz, if your battery dies. I just saw
a story yesterday about EMPs electromagnetic pulses, and how easy

(51:40):
it would be for some bad actor in the world
to just shut off Global positioning satellite systems, just shut
off GPS, and if that ever happened, there'd been a
lot of people who couldn't find their way home. So
it'd be just that easy.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
It wouldn't be hard, according to what I read.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
And that's why we have people monitoring the Internet all day,
every day, every little thing that's ever out there, to
make sure we catch something before it happens instead of
having to We have to be proactive rather than reactive
to threats like that.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
And it's it's something to think about.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
If you if you got lost in the woods and
suddenly your whole phone just quit, just quit for whatever reason,
how are you going to get out? And if you
got a little if you got a little compass in
your pocket and you know anything about and maybe a
topo map if you really want to get down to it,
you got a topo map and accompass, you could probably

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get out of there. I had some friends of mine
and I had to get out of New Mexico, had
to go over a mountain after a camping trip because
so much rain had fallen the night before. We were
going to get up and leave early in the morning.
That the little creek that we were going to just
tippy toe over and head on down the mountain a
few times, was now a raging river. And instead of

(53:04):
being able to go out the easy way, which would
have taken about forty five minutes a hike in maybe
an hour tops, we had to go back the other
way and go up and over the top of the
mountain and then come back around it to get back
to where we had parked our vehicles. And that only
took something like three hours, maybe three and a half.
Not fun, slippery sliding on every step you took, your

(53:25):
feet came out.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
From under you.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
A good times in the outdoors, Melbourne, good times in
the outdoors. I accepted every challenge ever issued to me
in the outdoors. There was never anything really life threatening,
I don't think, not like going over and trying to
wrestle a lion in Africa or something like that. But
around here in North America and not even in Bear country. Really,

(53:51):
I haven't done any walking around in true Bear country
except maybe up in upstate New York for a little while.
But other than that, and I guess the Rocky Mountains. Yeah,
I've walked around the Rocky Mountains, never encountered a bear
on any of those trips, but I would have welcomed
a sighting at a safe distance.

Speaker 7 (54:13):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at Sports
seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug fight boy. I
wish we had some sunshine. It's coming, Melvin, that's what
they tell me. I can't see outside from men here. Yeah,
it'll be here soon, maybe at the bottom of the hour.
I'll go peek outside and see if it's clearing it
all I do have. I don't know why I'm sitting

(54:34):
here worrying about this. I do have the weather channel
right here on my laptop.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Let's see how fast it'll load. Oh, it's almost loaded.
I just couldn't stand the little tiktoks. Oh this is
good news. This is good news. Let's see if there's
any more coming. Oh yeah, pretty much over. Now there's

(55:00):
something else coming later. We're done.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
We're done with the rain at least share dug fact.
We're done with the rain.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
That's what it says here. I'm looking at now and
currently League City, Alvin still getting a little trickle and
everything else. Let's see Liberty up up kind of through
Northeast Texas. Still got some scattered showers and whatnot, and
there's still some stuff. Hold on, let me open this

(55:27):
up a little bit more. Yeah, there's still some stuff
down along the coast, all the way down almost to Victoria.
But it's all right there on the coast. And let's
just animate, shall we. So there's nine o'clock, we're passing
through and just a little bit down there at Lake Jackson,
and then everything else is either out in the Gulf

(55:48):
of Mexico or over Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
There's not a cloud in the well.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
There's not a rain system in Texas after about twelve
thirty or one o'clock today, and you heard it here first,
probably there's some stuff out in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you're going to run out forty to fifty miles
in your seventeen foot boat like my idiot friends and
I did, it's a miracle. I'm still alive, Melvin, honest

(56:15):
to God. I just I did so many crazy, stupid
things that started over there. When I was a little
bitty kid in Sharpstown and I'd closed pinna a towel
around my neck thinking I was Superman.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
And jump off the roof. It was awesome. Yeah, do
you ever do that of being able to fly. Oh yeah,
did you ever jump off the roof? Nobod?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I jumped off the mattress and land on the floor.
Oh that was entry level, dude, you know. Yeah, we would.
There was a fence between our house and the neighbor's house,
and that fence was really close to the roof of
the house.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
And when my little.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Crazy buddies of mine and I figured that out, well
we're going up. We'd skinny up the fence, hit on
top of it, and then you had to kind of
lean and jump at the same time. But we were
able to get up on those wood shingles. And I
can't tell you how many splinters we ended up with
in the palms.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Of our hands and our knees.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Who were doing all this stuff barefooted, barefootage, short pants,
T shirts, no gloves, no nothing, So we were loaded
with splinters. But we'd get up on that roof and
I don't know whether we made noises or professed something loudly.
I don't know what we did jump and scream, but
off we went. And we learned real quick to roll

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when we hit. I think maybe some older kid had
told us to do that. When you hit the ground,
you got to roll, and so we did that. Nobody
ever broke anything that was I mean, and that in
and of itself, I think is an accomplishment. We were
somehow skilled enough as acrobats, like seven eight year old
acrobats just jump off the roof. And when my parents

(57:57):
found out I was jumping off the roof house pretty
much the last time I jumped off the roof. Yeah,
that was great. You've been working. You worked on that.
When the first time I said, jumped off the roof,
didn't you. It came to you.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
You're a genius, Melvine.

Speaker 9 (58:13):
You really are.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
We got it, We got Van Helen, we got it
in there. Might as well jump. Yeah, I jumped off. There,
I jumped off. There was a bridge on the way
to one of the sergeant I think it was on
the way to sergeant. There was a bridge that was
about twelve or fifteen feet over the water, and on
the way home from a surfing trip once when it

(58:36):
had been particularly hot and the water was particularly salty,
my buddies and I were all just soaked in salt
and we just felt horrible riding back and we went
over that bridge and the guy who was driving stopped.
He said, we need to rinse this salt water off,
and we're like, where are we going to do that?

Speaker 4 (58:54):
He said, follow me, and we all walked to We
just walked out.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
To the middle of the bridge, and I don't remember
who went first, but somebody did, and before he hit
the water, the others of us were gone too, because
we weren't going to be left behind, and we just
kind of splashed around there in the fresh water and
got ourselves all cleaned off, soaking wet, sopping wet. We
didn't care. He had an old car anyway, it didn't matter.

(59:18):
But so I jumped off of that. I used to
climb stuff around here too with friends, climb way up
by buildings, stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Not like Spider Man.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
We didn't go up the sides of buildings, but we
found ways to get on the top of them. I
spent more than a couple of hours on the top
of Sharpstown High School just we'd go get fast food and.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Just sit up there and eat, just sit up there
and eat.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Same with that domed theater over there at fifty nine
and Fondred. We'd go to the McDonald's over there and
then walk up on top of that honing our climbing skills.
Grab that call for me. I know I want to
talk to him. If you don't mind, you can running
straight through if you want. I know who it is.
Good day, open up, Hey everything, it's me.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
What's up, George? A little bit of everything?

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
Who's this?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Who's me?

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
It's Doug.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Yeah, we went straight We got you on the on
our speed dial.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
We got you on to Oh my God.

Speaker 13 (01:00:13):
So you're look up the song The Cape by Guy Clark, Doug,
it's just what you're talking about. I'm same age and
it works about the same age, and yeah that we
would put the towels on and yeah, and then jumped off.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
I jumped off the garage roofs and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
What's any time? What's the name of the Cape?

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
The Yeah, boy, the Cape.

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
It's about super It's about jumping off.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
You know, use it a flower sacture.

Speaker 13 (01:00:40):
It's a great song written by Guy Clark, you know,
the celebrated Texas songwriter.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
He's in this Hall of fame, you know, Nashville.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
There was a place I can't remember where it was
when I was a little there it is, there's the Cape.
When I was a little older, there was a place
up toward the hill country that young people gathered and
there was like a little cliff you could dive off.
It wasn't like Acapulco feet and I spent more than
one time climbing up there and jumping.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
No, I don't think hippie hollow. But I heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yes, I've heard of that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
I don't think I made.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
I think they were doing all the jumping off the
cliff there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
I wiped out at Waco Falls.

Speaker 13 (01:01:25):
Yeah, okay, yeah, in a canoe.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
We swamped the boat.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Yeah, that happens. Yeah, but that was so It's been
so long since.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I've been up there.

Speaker 8 (01:01:35):
I miss it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Now that I'm a parent too, and I've got I've
got kind of access to my son by his phone
and then by a little Identify, you know, a location.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Finder app that we used, and it's so comforting to hear.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
His voice when he's out running around with his buddies,
because I think he's found a way to turn off
his location and every now and then it just doesn't
show up, and I'll call him, where are you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Man, and you'll tell me you tracked man. Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
And I can't imagine how hard it must have been
to be a parent before this was available. Lord, you
know they.

Speaker 13 (01:02:09):
Are crazier and now because there's so much crime, you know,
they've unleashed. They've let so many people invade us in
recent years and that's been going on all.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Of our lives.

Speaker 13 (01:02:23):
But yeah, it is absolutely because these people are some
of the worst and uh, you know, thankfully we're getting
some of them out of here. But it's going to
be a long, slow process. It's like a drip by drip,
you know, and we'll get it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
So you got to keep trailing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I like you to take strapped everywhere I go.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
I don't like to go in.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
To Houston much anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
And you know I'm not.

Speaker 13 (01:02:45):
I don't have a carry, so I can't carry down that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
I gotta take a break to talk.

Speaker 13 (01:02:51):
Yeah, man, thanks to good talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Check out that man, Yeah, take you that audio. All right,
we're gonna Hey, I can't you got him Cle Melvin.
I can't get him. He's got it locked up on me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
You could.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
I don't mind the song.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I just can't. I can't hang up. Oh, there we go,
there we go. Okay, now I figured out how to
do that. I'm gonna have to listen to that song.
After the show, on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Your Rockets and Astros live here we are Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
It's a reasonable, a reasonable topic for this audience of mine.
I'd be willing to bet that if if you were
to put most of the guys in this audience on
a lot of detector and say, have you ever jumped
off something, either into water or maybe I don't know,
I guess water would be the best place, or maybe snow.

Speaker 10 (01:03:49):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
I jumped into a bunch of snow once up in
Park City, actually on a on a snowshoe trip that
we had a couple of media guys and I ended
up making with a guide, with someone who showed us
where to jump where we wouldn't kill ourselves, but with
a guide up there on a day when it was
too windy to go up the mountain, they shut down

(01:04:10):
all the liftlines. It was blowing thirty forty miles an hour,
and it was just not safe to be on the mountain.
So we stayed down low and went on a fantastic
snowshoeting tour and then toward the end of it all,
she said Okay, we're going to do this, and we
said we're gonna do what and she said, yeah, we're
gonna follow me. Just follow me when I run, you one,

(01:04:33):
when I jump, you jump, and it'll be the most
fun you've had as a grown up in a long time.
And we're all kind of looking at each other, going,
we've had a lot of fun. This better be good.
And sure enough, there was just this snow covered grassy
hillside that had a pretty steep drop at one point,
and when we got to the right point, we just

(01:04:54):
launched ourselves and I don't think we really fell that
far through the air, but man oh man, when we
hit it was just like it was like diving into
a feather mattress, only really wet and cold. And but yeah,
there was I don't think there was any risk whatsoever
to hurting any part of our body because it's like

(01:05:16):
driving diving onto a cloud, almost a real heavy cloud,
a cold one, nonetheless, but a cloud. And yeah, that
was fun. That's enough fun. What's the tallest thing you
ever jumped off of Melbourne? I've jumped off the roof
of the house high dive. Do you ever get on
the high dive of a pool. Oh yeah, yeah, so
that's higher than the roof. Okay, unless you got like

(01:05:36):
a three story house or something. No high diving, boyd
is uh. It was a very scary thing. Yeah, there
was a There were a couple of times when I
was younger that I got up. I got to go
to pools that had like diving competitions, and there would
be the one meter, the three meter, and then that
ten meter platform. Oh boy, and buddy, going up there,

(01:06:00):
you felt like you were in a plane. The water
just looked so far away, and yet when you jumped
off of it, it came up at you real quick.
Now I enjoyed doing that. I didn't get too crazy
off that ten meter thing. I would just kind of go.
But the three meter I I was doing like two

(01:06:20):
and a half summersaults and goofy stuff like that. And
I never did really get super great with one meter stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
But it was fun. I liked diving.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
I had an opportunity actually to take diving lessons from
an Olympic coach when I did.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
It's a weird story.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
And Di's six weeks of summer school in Florida at
a private school down there, so that I could skip
the sixth grade, and it again, it's kind.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Of a weird story.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
They said it had never been done, and my mom said, well,
it's gonna be done this time because look at his
test scores and look at the grace he's making. This
is when we moved to New Orleans and the school
board or the school administration, whatever we were, came back
and said, look, if he takes English and math in
summer school, we'll let him skip to sixth grade. So
I never went to sixth grade in my whole life.

(01:07:08):
I missed that fantastic experience. I just missed the whole thing.
Oh well, seven one three, two one two five seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Is
that faux pro? Put him on?

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Man? Put him on? I got, I got a bone
to pick with him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Faux pro.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Man, Next thing I jump off will be the first.

Speaker 10 (01:07:30):
Lee.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
What are you scared of?

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
He never jumped off, even just a little diving board.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
And if God wanted me to be a Mallard duck,
he gave me wings. I'm a little steak. Stick to
the ground level.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Oh yeah, gravity. Gravity can be very cruel, it really can,
I understand. Guy, he's gone. He jumped out.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
He just jumped off the line.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
He's look at that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
He just a mic drop. I guess may one.

Speaker 8 (01:07:56):
Yeah, there he is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Let me see if I can get him hold on,
maybe I can get him.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Think faux pro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
What are you doing? You just jumped off the line, man,
I think that was you. Man, sir, No, I have
my hands up in the air.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Oh that's not what Melvin said.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Bro, all right, so what are you doing sending me
pictures of food that I can't get up there and eat?

Speaker 14 (01:08:15):
That was cruel man showing me all that it's thawing out,
all crows eating that in front of sewn Shallisborough. Man, Man,
I was I was just thinking this morning because I'm
it was even too cold to get out in my
garage yesterday. I should have spent the money to get
one of the AC's and also do heat, and I
didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I regretted that today. But I'll bet bet I was
looking at a go ahead, Yeah you go. I was
just looking at a I think me and you share
one of these. But I was just something I'll be
curious about on your side. I know what up are,
but I just wrote down my top five bucket lifts
fishing trips. Okay, so number one the peacock bass in

(01:08:55):
South America.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
I'd go on that trip with you. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Oh you're going on number two, Northern Pike in Canada.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Yeah, I need to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
The only place I've ever caught those fish, ironically, was
in Sweden.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Go ahead, that's cool.

Speaker 9 (01:09:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
What's combination astro spring training game shiner fishing trip on
Lake Okeachobee.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Now, well you're close, you're warm. Combination trip astro spring
training snoop fishing in.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
From there?

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Well, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Shiner fishing, Well, back up, a little blue shiner fishes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
You know, I like a bobber. I'm a big kid.
Show me a big bobber, the big bass on the word.
All right, but all right, Number four trophy before you
can number four, you can help me with trophy trout
in South Texas on top water.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Absolutely, I can help you with that. I can tell
you exactly who to call. Oh my gosh, that's easy, man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
What's what's five? Five? Number five is a uh one
of them big salmon runs up in Alaska there, spinning out,
throwing a spoon all day. I would absolutely love it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Yeah, that'd be kind of fun to experience. Probably once.
Then I'd just come back and go back to trout
fishing on top water.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Oh yeah, just see it. It's more of a spectacle,
I think, actually catching the fish, just to see the rivers,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's something pretty special about an eight
or nine pound trout eating the top water too.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
Man, you tell me what Monday to take.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
A vacation day, and as long as it as long
as it ain't in March when I'm I'm tackling these
big green fish up in the shallows. Oh my word,
anything post March.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
You're gonna get so spoiled when I finally get you
down there to the coast to catch big trout on
top waters.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I'm afraid that, I.

Speaker 13 (01:10:40):
Know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
So he said I would have to bring twenty four
rods down there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
O shore. No, you don't need. You don't need but
about three. And that's the only in case you break too.

Speaker 9 (01:10:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Yeah, you'll be fun. You don't need a bunch of rods.
You don't need a bunch of stuff. You just get
out there and fish. Man, you don't have to make
a lot of decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
I love man, we tried. I've tried a few times
rockport stuff like that. Yeah, you know, a couple of
two three pound trout that I want to catch one
of them seven eight nine, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Yeah, Well they're they're getting caught right now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
And the beauty of it is that with the limits
of the way they are, where all of those fish
are protected there, it is gonna be more and more
and more of them entering those bigger age classes and
bigger length classes and weights.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
And it's just as.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Long as we don't get a bad weather anomaly of
some sort, it's gonna be Katie bar the door. It
even one year from now, there'll be fish like you've
never said. I just had Mike Catchiati on about it
forty five minutes ago or so. Yeah, And he talked
about seeing more little trout in the Galveston Bay system

(01:11:41):
than he's seen in all his thirty years of guiding.
That's a that's a lot of time that covered a
lot of big trout populations in these bays. And for
him to say that that takes a lot. Man, it's
gonna be good. It's gonna be really good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
So as a rookie, what size it because I want
you know, I'm gonna kill a fish, but I would
like a fiberglass repic of the trout. As a rookie,
would you say seven plus to go on the water,
and would you aim high than that as a rookie?

Speaker 10 (01:12:09):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
So here's what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
You go down to South Texas, you enjoy a day
on the water, okay. And then you come back and
you get on the phone with a really good taxidermist,
and you go to the websites of the taxidermists around
you're anywhere, really, and you look at which ones look
the most realistic, look at their speckled trout work, and
see which one looks the most realistic, and then call
them and say, work me one up at thirty two inches.

(01:12:34):
Then you'll have a thirty two inch trout. And then
you get to just said this yesterday. You just make
up the story about how you caught it. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Well, I see, I can't. My conscience will let me
do that. It's got to be. It's gotta be like
I gotta, I gotta measure the way because okay, I
can't tell that lie. I know guys that do it, but.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Well, forget about weight this is something I've been preaching
for a long time, folk pro and then I gotta
jump off. But forget about weight, think about length, because
when and look at your bass.

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
For example, if you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Catch a fourteen pounder today in about I don't know,
maybe a couple of months, that fish might weigh what
twelve eleven. Gonna lose a lot of weight after the spawn,
but it's not gonna get shorter throughout its whole life.
It's gonna grow longer and longer and longer and longer.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
But if a a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Twenty five inch trout eats a two pound mullet, it's
gonna weigh two more pounds than it probably should until
it digests all that food. So weights, that's an old
school measurement that was based on commercial fishing and commercial hunting.
How many pounds of fish did you sell today for
the family, but not how many inches of fish did

(01:13:45):
you sell? So I would hope that someday we'll get
off of weight as being the standard and go back
to or go to length. And by the way, with length,
you can always just you can measure the fish.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
And throw it back. But with weight, you gotta call
it to a scale.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Oh, with trout. I think with trout, I think that's true.
I don't think you could ever do that with baths,
because he would have an eight pound bath twenty four
inches and a three pound bass twenty four inches depending
on species. But for trout, I definitely definitely understand it.
Food true.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Well yeah, but even going back to the bass, soo
faux pro that that fish, no matter what species it is,
it's gonna get longer as it gets older. It's weight
is gonna fluctuate greatly. It's weight is gonna fluctuate. But
it's not gonna after the spawn. It's not gonna go
from twenty four to twenty three inches.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
Oh true for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Oh, it's just it the older it gets. And the
theory is that you're catching the smarter fish, you're catching
the warrier fish, and all of that, you're just getting. No,
if you caught the heaviest one, it's just you just
caught the one that's the that visits the food trough
the most often, makes sense, got you, Hey, I gotta run,
I gotta catch his break and I'm gonna get I
think I'm gonna grab Rick before we go to it,
so I don't have to make him wait.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Through it all right, all right, but I talk to
you so all right, man, thank you, faux pro. I'll
see you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
That was a good conversation right there, A very good conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
All right, Rick, I got a minute or so left,
what you got okay?

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
Yeah, toronto, Rick, I've talked.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
To you before, yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (01:15:11):
And anyway, did you ever go to Shamwack kill him?

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:15:16):
Yeah, h swimming and swimming.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
That pool, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
That one had a big, old ten meter platform.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Didn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
That had a big no platform.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:15:24):
I climb to the top and I almost jumped off,
but but buddy of mine, we did it together, and
he jumped off first and he didn't land right. He
brought his ankle.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Oh my word.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Yeah, that's terrible.

Speaker 9 (01:15:40):
And anyway, he was over on the side of the
pool owner and groan, and I had some people come
up around him, and I said, well, that may not
be as easy a trip as I thought it about.
At that age, I would do just about anything. I
was like you, I jump off anything.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Yeah, that old pool had that went over there more
than a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
That was fun, man, that was fun.

Speaker 9 (01:16:04):
Racebow. I told the story on Mickey's Chow and Racebow
where he said that he knew how tall that was,
and I thought it was around fifty or sixty feet
he says, Now it's only around forty.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Yeah, it it's ten meters. It's a ten meter platform.
That's kind of an Olympic standard. I'm pretty sure that's
what that was. Yeah, they may have had one above that.
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:16:25):
I don't know, but there was that one, real tall one,
and it was it was like you said, yeh, up there,
get to the top. I would look out through all
on that cool of his size, he teetcut.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Yeah, you don't know how high it is until you're
on the top looking down. You're exactly right.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Oh man, all right, Well, I'm glad to hear from you,
I really am.

Speaker 9 (01:16:45):
Yeah. I don't get a chance to call where off
and I'm blind now and I can't s feel anything
in my fingers. I got you, So my wife has
to call. Okay, most of the time, she was asleep
until about ten. No.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
Oh, get her up at nine thirty and give me
a call next week.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Well, that's all right, buddy.

Speaker 10 (01:17:03):
Thank you so much about you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Too, Audios.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Yeah, that's sherm Rock Kilton Pool that had some serious
diving boards on it. Man, that was a long long
time ago. Eric Kilton one of my best friends for
a very long time. That's who got me into guiding,
got me into competitive shooting, got me into a lot
of things fishing, That's how we met. We were on
the tee head of the galveols of that ninety street

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fishing pier and early early one morning, nobody else out there,
and he had two or three big rods out. I
had two or three out on opposite ends because we
were giving each other room. And two of his rods
went off at the same time and he was having trouble.
He sent his girlfriend, ran her down to grab me
to get back and help him.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
And from that point.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Forward we just realized we love the outdoors about it equally,
and we had a bunch of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
We had a bunch of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Yeah, I know, I know, I need to break I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:18:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Well nine to fifty five already, Holy cowchs.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
A couple of minutes left.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Oh, I didn't look outside. I went down the hall,
and I passed a window, and I didn't look out,
but I suspect that very soon. If you haven't looked
outside yet, you're gonna either be seeing sunshine already or
you will be in a relatively short time. It looks
to me like all the rain, the bulk of this
rain that's been bothering us for a couple of days

(01:18:38):
is done. It's over in Mississippi now, it's over into Alabama, Arkansas,
all over Louisiana. It's just a big old, ugly orange,
red green blanket over Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
But it's not bugging us anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Let me refresh this thing and make sure the refresh
thing is right over southeast Texas and Louisiana, so when
it popped back up again, I'll have a really good,
comfortable thing to tell you and a very positive thing.
Oh yeah, almost everything is either offshore or well east
of us, like over to Port Arthur almost. And there's

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one little spot down right along the coast that's kind
of if you're standing on sand on the beach, you
might be getting a drizzle, but otherwise we're sweeping out. Man.
We're ready to go, So get some Sunday afternoon plans
made for outdoors.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
I know I'm gonna make a few. I'm gonna take.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Advantage of whatever a little bit of time is left, drizzly,
nasty and getting that garage and bear down on it
a little bit. I got to get my son out
there to a lot of his stuff is out there,
baseball stuff, and I want to make sure that everything
that's out there that's kind of in his world right
now is something he's going to hang on to. That's
gonna do it. By the way, I heard that ad

(01:19:56):
again about getting signed on to use iHeart here to
help your business grow. I can help you with that.
You don't have to call that number. You can call me.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
You can email me. That's the best way to get started.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Send me an email. Tell me you're interested in becoming
part of the family, whether it's in my show or
anybody else's show around here. I can do that. Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot Com. I'll pay attention to you. I'm
right here in town and I can actually you. I
have clients all over the country and I'd love to
add you to the list.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
It's kind of fun. I enjoy what I do. I
really do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Mostly this part though, Get outside, have some fun with
your family. I'll be back Tuesday with fifty plus. I
will be back next Saturday, right here in this chair.
Thanks for listening. Stay safe, don't jump off stuff that's
too high for you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
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