What should Louisiana do with the dead fish from the freeze?

In this episode Doug gives us a weather report update and an in-depth look on his pipes freezing trauma days. What shoud we do with all of the dead trout? Louisianas swamp marshland has suffered from the big freeze leaving a lot of fisherman wanting to help. Listen to Doug and his callers as they express their concern for the wildlife industry. Doug talks ducks: Wood duck and mallards as this is the last day of duck hunting season, except for falcon hunters. Also, Doug tells us the difference between 1000 acres rifle hunting and 15 acres rifle hunting. Doug talks about the The Shot Show and who's its target audience.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
All right, Sunday Morning the program. Sunday Morning edition of
the program starts right now. We've got golf going on
out on the West Coast. We've got no more snow
around here, hopefully for quite some time. I could live
a long time without another four or five inch snowfall
and temperatures in the teens. I don't know about most

(00:33):
of you Native Houstonians, but that's just not something I want.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
To deal with on a regular basis. It's really not.
I get a little antsy.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I feel very responsible for the house and all the
pipes that are in it, and I don't want to
have to deal with water draining down from the ceiling.
And I guess probably my concern over that originates back
when I had a house out in Katie, and the
neighbors out in Katie a nice young couple they have

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been that was their first house, as it was mine,
and they though didn't have any idea, they were much
younger and had no idea about preparing for a major freeze,
and back in nineteen and eighty three and eighty nine
we had major freezes down here and after I can't

(01:32):
remember which one of those exactly it was.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think it was eighty nine Lovely Neighbors.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
The big freeze comes through, then everything thaws out afterward,
and they had basically their ceiling throughout the house was
just one giant showerhead. They had something like twelve fifteen
broken pipes, and it didn't work out really well for them. Unfortunately.

(02:04):
It had to have almost the entire house redone from
top to bottom. All the pipes had to be replaced. Insulation,
sufficient insulation to safeguard them from future episodes like that
had to be installed, and they were basically starting from zero.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I think the.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Builder of the home they were in just didn't These
were small, very modest kind of starter homes, and they
weren't built to really super high standards. And unfortunately those
folks found out the hard way. And so every time
since then that we get temperatures, I'm not scared of

(02:43):
the twenties, but when we get temperatures that are down
into the teams and what kind of tickled single digits
a while back that spookes me, and I just I
feel like I have to do above and beyond preparation.
I'm determined to get this screen up here Melbourne. I

(03:04):
am absolutely determined. Now I can see it now, but
I can't see you. We'll figure that.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Out during the break. Nevermind, Well I could see my screen,
but I can't see you either. Heaven going on?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I see the call screen now. Okay, Now if I
take the call screen.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Down while we're getting into the weeds here and.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm trying to drag it, I'm trying to drag one
of you, either you or it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh, okay, hold on, Oh we're getting there.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh, this is good. I'll figure it out. I think
I'm gonna figure.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
It out here.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Somebody's been in here since I was here yesterday, haven't
they noth of that? Let's get back to the outdoors.
That's so much more important, so very much more important.
So anyway, we're finally done with the snow. But around
here you just don't go without precipitation for very long.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And this morning it's it's light, light rain.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
At least it's not that frigid rain, and it's certainly
not that frozen rain that you can hear tap tap
tapping on your window when it's blowing sideways, we get that.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
We had that prime to the snow.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
A lot of people ended up texting me and emailing
me about hearing the snow hitting their windows. And you
don't really hear snow hit the window, at least not here.
Even when it's blowing as hard as it was. Snow
is just so light and fluffy. And we got mostly

(04:22):
dry snow here. But it was preceded by that tap
tap tap of the frozen rain drops. Basically, they make noise.
Snow does not. Just remember that for the next time,
and it will happen again. It might be next winter,
it might be this winter, it might be fifteen years
from now. But we'll get snow again around here. And

(04:44):
I don't mind the snow really, as long as it
just doesn't doesn't it's not accompanied by sub frigid temperatures.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't like that at all. It's just rain today,
just rain.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Today, and then it's supposed to not be so rainy tomorrow.
And my group of geezers who play golf, well, they
play Monday, Wednesday and Friday and most of the days
in between. A lot of them, but for the Monday
group anyway, there's optimism that it will be at least
the golf course will be playable. We might be on
cart pass, and I'll take that into account when I

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prepare for tomorrow. But bye gosh, we're ready to get
back on the golf course because this past week too
many frost delays. Monday was a total bust for obvious reasons,
and then the rest of the week got kind of
weirded out.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Speaking of the snow and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Catam Scott sent me pictures yesterday from Pornish in Louisiana.
They already know all this talk about trout floating up
ten days later.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It didn't take that long. In Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
There were up lot how many How many is a bajillion?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Is it a lot? Melman, that's a whole, that's about lot.
That's about how many trout.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
It looks like they lost if you look at these pictures,
a bajillion, maybe two bajillion, but there are. It reminds
me very much of those past bad freezes we had
where there were just dead, dead trout just rolling up
onto the shorelines like just garbage in the street. Is horrible,

(06:20):
horrible site. I feel for them. They're gonna have They're
gonna have a significant impact on their fishery. One that
might even it might even lead them to reduce limits,
at least temporarily. Again, they finally kind of came down
a little bit to where they weren't just the the

(06:42):
go over there and catch all you want of pretty
much any size you want to think minimum linked over
there was a foot maybe ten inches I think at
one point, just tiny little cigar linked trout that produced
very little, if any, legitimate meat. But boy, they like
to haul them in by the bushel basketful. Well now

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I don't know what they lose, maybe a million legitimate trout,
and it's gonna be hard for them. It's gonna be
very hard. The picture the pictures reminded me of eighty
three and eighty nine, the ones I was just talking about.
Just total total devastation, man, total devastation. There's another picture
he sent that shows the Delaquar Marsh completely frozen over.

(07:26):
It's a sheet of ice the marsh, and that happened
in Galiston years ago, not to the extent though that
I was seeing over there in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
With that photograph, I don't know who took that picture.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
But there was no open water visible across as much
of a big flat as fit in the frame.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
It was just horrible.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
They're they're gonna have dead fish for miles and it's
gonna take a long time to recover that population.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
And we'll see, we'll see what Louisiana Anna wants to do.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I hope my good friends over there east of the
Sabine River will we'll make the right decision and slow
everything down, because they're not gonna have as many trout
as they had by by substantial percentage.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Uh, this is a this is gonna be a bad
one for them.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I don't I haven't heard anything from farther east, although
we talked yesterday about North Carolina just shutting down their
whole speckl trout fishery right now. Zero take, no, no, nothing.
You cannot keep a speckl trout right now. They're they're gonna,
they're gonna put a big giant tourniquet on that gaping wound.
And I hope Louisiana makes the same decision to at

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least temporarily slow the take.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Of speckl trout.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, I don't know we'll see, We'll see we'll have
some dead fish around here too. That that freeze, that
freeze pull that water down really really hard. But the
good news, I think the best news for us is
that we haven't seen anything quite that way just yet.
We haven't seen anything to indicate that it's just gonna

(09:12):
be some dreadful catastrophe. And I certainly hope it continues
that way. Where is this little mouse there?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
It is?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Come down here? Won't come up on this? This is
so crazy in here. I swear I don't know who
puts all this together, but they need to go back
to put it together school for sure, because it doesn't
really work. It doesn't really work. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at

(09:40):
iHeartMedia dot com. We are going to no, I've got
a little bit of time. Let me go on to
this other thing. By the way, Travis sent me a
picture yesterday. It was daughter Cambery and the dogs in
the picture too dog gone it. I can't remember the
ducks name or the dog's name, and I didn't write
it down anyway.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'll take a lo.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Look at my emails and maybe give you an update
on that later or something, but anyway, it was a
picture of her holding up. I think it's three four
wood ducks. The two of them got yesterday morning, most
likely right around shooting time.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
By the way, wood ducks very.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Early risers, the water fowling world's eager beavers, if you will,
and if you're not, if you're not in their way
right as the first little slivers of light come across
the horizon. And if you're not watching your your your
watch or your clock for the precise moment at shooting time,

(10:38):
you may not get a shot at a wood duck.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
It said.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
They're the same way. They're they're late to bed, early
to rise in late to bed, they're the last ducks
that are gonna move and creeping up on sunset and beyond.
And yeah, you bet you better be ready to get
in your shots in about the last four or five
minutes of legitimate at shooting time, or you won't get

(11:02):
those wood ducks.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
They're either they're cool little birds. I love them. They're
beautiful for starters.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
The coloration on the drakes is amazing, and it's without
question the most colorful duck we have in the Central Flyway.
But they also are quick and agile, and they can
they can go. They only have two speeds or stop
and wide open, and they can fly wide open in

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and amongst the trees with little or no effort. Mallards
can navigate their way down. They just kind of flutter
down like a leaf that got knocked off the tree
for winter, and they navigate that way slowly, dropping in.
For the most part, the wood ducks have just come
flying through and turning sideways, upside down and hit the

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water and skid about twenty feet. I love hunting those things,
I really do. So anyway, Travis and his daughter got
a handful of wood ducks. Might have been the last
ducks around here. Man, honey, it this is this is
the last day for duck season here. So if if
you've got an axe to grind still, if you've got

(12:16):
an axe to grind with the ducks, you you need
to get on out there four this afternoon. Let's take
a little break here. We'll do that and we'll come back.
I'm gonna get this screen fixed up. I don't want
to bother any of you with any of that. I'll
get that taken care of.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm here, man, I'm up and running. I was just
I was just grooving with the song. I like that song.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's all long, long time ago, man, that's way back there.
Seven seven ninety. Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Thank you for listening this morning. I do appreciate that
we're we're headed toward a more stable weather pattern, Thank goodness.
And I'm I'm pleased that that's coming. I've had about

(12:57):
enough of this snow stuff. I don't I've lived here
a long time and I don't mind the snow, but
I can certainly live without it. It's a bittersweet relationship.
If it doesn't make it too cold, that's fine. If
it gets down to about twenty eight to twenty nine
degrees and snows, I'm all in, that's fine. It's not
gonna hurt anything in my house. In fact, I went

(13:18):
to help a friend of mine's house out yesterday. He's
out of the country with his wife. There are some
family thing going on a long ways from here, and
he had a bunch of plants on the patio that
had to be put into the garage in a makeshift
little hothouse, if you will.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
There's a genius way he put it together too.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
But anyway, all those plants needed to come out of there,
get a little sunlight on him, get some water on them.
And I did that yesterday afternoon, and I was a
little hesitant when I went to turn the water back
on in his house so that I that I could
water the plants back in the back. I turned this
the main valve there at the s out of his house,

(14:01):
and it stopped very abruptly, about maybe after a quarter turn,
and I thought, oh, maybe this is just kind of
a quick opening valve of some sort. And I went
all the way back around the back of the house
and turned the hose on back there, and it was
just barely spitting, barely sputtering, nothing really going on with it.
And I thought, Okay, I've got to go back around

(14:23):
and just make a command decision to hit that valve
a little harder and see if it won't do a
little better. And I hesitated because the last thing I
wanted to do was snap that whole handle off of
there and have water gushing out the side of that pipe.
But ultimately it did kind of go ahead and break
over and start turning again. I got it wide open,

(14:46):
watered all the plants, then got out of there and
went and hit some golf balls. So that was a
pretty productive day. And there were a lot of plants
that guy. Yeah, there were a lot of plants. My
back's telling me that right now. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine to email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, where do I want to

(15:06):
go from here? Got that taken care of?

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Next weekend, by the way, Uh, next weekend, I've and
neglected to mention it this past week. But next weekend,
Lake Conroe hosts the first event in this year's Major
League Fishing twenty twenty five Best Pro Tour season. They
were here in twenty nineteen and that's when Edwin Evers
won the event, and a lot of those guys apparently

(15:32):
like Lake Conrod. They got sixty six of them I
think coming here to fish that weekend. You got Jacob
Wheeler coming, Dustin con Lott, Defoe, Edwin Evers, as I mentioned,
who won back in twenty nineteen. Lake Conroe it's not
a it's not a household name as far as big
fish lakes go, but it it has a significant population

(15:55):
of fish enough.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
That those guys ought to put up some pretty good numbers.
I think they will.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
And one of the reasons these guys can do what
they do is because they don't come into a lake
with any preconceived notion about where the fish should be there.
They're doing everything just right off the cuff. They're doing everything, well,
not off the cuff. Really, they're studying before they come
here and when they do their practicing here and just

(16:24):
kind of going on basic knowledge.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
One of the things I read the other day and
I found this very interesting. I read the Melvin You're
gonna have to let me know if anybody calls, because
this ain't won't show me anything.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh well, holy cow, who have I got? Let's get
Let's get Brandon first, and I'll get to Rick. Brandon, Brandon,
what's up?

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I sawest to get Trick.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, they were out there, yep, sure enough.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Dan was out there. Who else was with him? I
think one of the Adams was out there.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
Weren't they Sezsbury and Brian?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh okay, okay, good.

Speaker 7 (17:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I didn't get to make it over there. I had enough.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, I had to go take care of that stuff
for my friend, and I had other things I had
to get done here, But I wish I could have
been there.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
It would have been fun. Yeah, I'm glad you got
to meet him. What's that?

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Maybe NaN's Fanvez.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Maybe so, maybe so Brendan.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
So what do you think about the astro still having
a little eyeball on on Alex Bregman.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
We're not keeping him, you don't think so?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
No Ah, I wish they would find a way.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
It is a little bit weird now though, because kind
of everybody knows he wants to go somewhere else and
he wants to make more money. And I don't blame
him for wanting to make more money.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
We all do.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
But it is going to be a little there'll be
a little tension in the air until we get fifteen
twenty thirty games into the season. Probably you think, yeah, yeah,
I think so as well. Well let's night I did.
Oh man, those guys. Those guys are really really playing
good basketball, you know, they really truly are.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
First quarter, I didn't see the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I only saw right at the end of the game.
That's all I.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Got to see, unfortunately too. But that's the part that matters,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yep, we're playing somebody else tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, tomorrow, we'll have another game, and they're they're really
doing well. I don't know that they're going to just
totally dominate the rest of the league for the rest
of the season, but this deep into it. If there was,
if there was any weakness, and then we would we
would have seen it by now.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I would think, And I'm not seeing it.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
I'm really not, man.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
I haven't told you this.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
What's that.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Laudio to be sponsor Space City Home Network, Yes.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Sir, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
They're They're a big sponsor of a lot of stuff
that Houston Rodeo is and they raise a ton of
money for kids too.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's what I like. A lot of scholarships come out
of there.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
I think you have to tell. I think I have
to tell Brian and Seun mess but there are sport
or I wish they could spon sponsor you guys too.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Sure, that'd be great, that'd be great. Maybe next year maybe.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
So I'm ready. I'm ready. Put me in spotlight. I'm
ready to go, man. I'll clean up, I'll shave every
morning when I come in here, I'll look good, man,
I look good.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I will come with it, all right, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
We'll make a way. We'll make a way for that
to happen. Hey, I got to run take a break, Brando.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
All right, I have I will watch the Rockets game
probably Monday.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yes sir, yes, sir, let's do that. All right, I'll
see later.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Hey, audios, all right, we do need to go ahead
and get a break in here.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
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Speaker 7 (20:06):
Friends.

Speaker 8 (20:06):
You've got to try the conversation continues this as The
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Speaker 3 (20:12):
Thirty two Sports Talk at seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Hang on,
I've got the wrong mouse.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
In my hand.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
I got to move over to this one. I gotta
take that thing down. Got to take this down.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
I can see it's gonna We're gonna have this warming
trend for a little bit here, and we're fortunate in
that now we are getting this bit of rain we
had overnight in this morning.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
But the good news is the warming is.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Gonna continue because right now we've got just this nice
gentle breeze wafting off of the Gulf of Mexico and
Gulf of America.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Now right right, Melvin. Isn't that what we changed the
name to.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh, I'm sorry, I can't because I can't see the screener.
In any event, we have this nice, gentle breeze wafting
off the Gulf and coming on shore, and all that
water way out in the deep Gulf is warmer than
everything up here on the coast, and it's actually doing
a nice job.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
It's not nobody's going to be flying kites today.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Probably there are as many zeros as anything else on
my official wind chart here, and the highest number I'm
looking at actually in Galveston. That's eleven miles an hour,
and it's all on shore, and it's it's pushing in
that direction, southeasterly wind generally all the way up through

(21:41):
the hill country out to San Antonio and just everywhere.
So that's the good news. The forecast really is not
bad at all. Forecast calls for it. Hopefully we'll get
no rain tomorrow. It was about a sixty percent chance
a couple of days ago, but for golf tomorrow now
we're down to actually a ten percent chance of rain

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following today's eighty percent chance.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
So that's not bad. Tee him up.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I can't do it from in here this morning, Dave,
what's up, my friend?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Well, I took your wisdom and advice and packed there.
I didn't even have everything out over there, and packed up,
went over there, and I wore a bandana. She had
a mask on because then it ended up she's they
tested her, she.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Ate and she knows that with COVID.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
She COVID. She just got the flu.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh okay, well that just the flu though at our age. Man,
that's still pretty tough. So you take care.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, I take my I take my shots, you know,
over there here, and so I'm pretty I'm pretty good
at that and and no, but then I put it
on my Facebook page and I think I tagged you
on there. When we got back, I went down there
and finally, uh, I got a cat I saw.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Man.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Now it looks like a blue cap that I'm thinking
are the high fen blues in there too.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, there's all kinds of catfish in Lake Conrad. I'm
sure they've got them on.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Yeah. I think that might have been a high fed
and blue and all that range cubes that I've been
putting out there on that little turn. Yeah, Uh, that
belly was swelled up man like a big dog. And
then she went for the shrimp. You know, so I
eased her on back after and uh, increase the population.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, man, make make a donation to the cause.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's good, hey, you and I do. I do donate
up here when I go to Stowaway. They got to
do a jar there that you could put money in
and then they restock croppy and.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, they you know that lake has been doing that
that in the local marinas. The local people have been
doing that day for for more than a decade, maybe
two decades. And it's it's a totally voluntary program. It's
just you know, if they're like fishing at Lake Conrad
and you want Lake Conrod fishing to be good, toss
a couple of dollars in the jar, toss a nickel
in the jar, whatever, and they use all of that

(23:59):
money to that's kind of a private effort, it's not
a state effort. And they use all that money to
go buy more fish to put in the lake.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
It's great, you know, And that's cool. That's very cool.
And and uh, now like I remember when we did
I did four Christmas tree drops back there with you know,
back in the day and uh, we were dropping twenty
one thousand, two hundred to one thousy sixteen hundred trees
in there. Well, we had a crew over there that

(24:26):
was outrageous. Hey, I've got the maps and everything. Muff
and Mike, Mike Schneyder, he muf hold.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
On, back up. There's a guy named Muff and Mike.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, Mike Schneider. He used to be at k I L. T.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh. No, I don't remember the name Muff and Mike. Well, no,
I have a vision.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well, he would go up to I think up there,
the guy that uh, I think he's passed away, that
would do the basket classes up there and the la
rants and all that.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Sure, and he would eat and his wife would make
them blueber I mean the blueberry muffins. That's how he
got his nickname. He's a good guy. He's a heck
of a bass player on the k I L T.
Long Neck man.

Speaker 9 (25:11):
That.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, I never met a blueberry muffin. I didn't like.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Hey, that's what I heard, and I love I like,
just you know, get them in Washington, just washing them
all real good, make sure it's all good, and just
eat them a little, you know, eat them with them
by the hand piskuit or something. Yeah, oh yeah, and
I went. I went with her yesterday. But then the
doctor she couldn't. She had somebody else he had to do. So,

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believe it or not, they're opening today on Sunday. So
I'm gonna head over there as soon as I get
out of here. I'm gonna head over there early. And
then they're gonna X ray my hands and then I
don't know what's gonna happen after that.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
So well, fingers crossed for you, Dave. You know that, man,
you know that you know what.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
And we and I've been so I looked like a
jigsaw puzzle. Everything's been stitched back on me. And uh
and no, I'm not kidding you. And I mean and
you know I ain't scared or nothing.

Speaker 10 (26:06):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
You know, I go over there and most of the
time the doctors, uh, they know what to do. Cash
me up, doc, That's what I'm Hey, I need to
write me up a song. I've been out there fishing,
got something in my hand, past me up dog dog
so I can get back again. Hey, that's all okay.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Tarblous hooks where you don't have to go to the
doctor because it didn't stay in your hand.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
You just pulled it out and cap fishing.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
I hate where were the people that I heard had
to take it and just run it all the way through,
then clip it off and then pull it out.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't want to have to do that either.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Oh man, Well that's what I'll tell you about my
my brother Harold tuning up that steel. It went all
the way through his index finger on his right hand,
but it just hit the meet and we just pulled
it out. Put mine in proxiute. There you go, call there,
take him up and put him back to from a
band stage playing football, catch them up and get all right?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
But man, audios, all right? Who else you got? Melbourne?
I can't see. Oh Brandon, what's up?

Speaker 7 (27:12):
Hey, mister?

Speaker 5 (27:13):
Carry you this morning? I always like to listen to
get to our days country, good guy, that's it.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
I just want to encourage my brothers over there in Louisiana.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
You know, uh, you know, just scale backus.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
You know, I understand catch and fry and all that
other stuff. And I love my bros over there in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Sure, I mean they.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Can cook it up and do it up. But I mean,
right now, we just you know, we got to scale
back and see where everything sits and just sit and relax.
And I want to encourage them to do that.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
You know, absolutely they're gonna have to They're gonna have
to take note at least, because this is probably the
worst freeze event they've had as far as I know anyway,
and so they're going to have to do something, and
hopefully they'll do the right thing.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Man, I heard one of the greatest.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
There's a young woman named Michelle Becker works here, and
we had a company party, kind of a holiday party
Friday night over at Republic Boot Company, and I was
standing there outside his little chilly and I'm eating and
I saw her standing there next to her husband. And
I'd never met the man, but I heard him talking

(28:27):
to Kenny Webster, and I could tell instantly that this
guy was just as Cajun as Cajun could be, man,
And it made me feel great because I'm half Cajun myself.
So I kind of eased over there for a second,
and then Michelle introduced me to him. I apologize I
can't remember his first name, but it was just so

(28:47):
refreshing to hear someone talking the same way that my
dad talked because that's where he was from, and it
was just I had flashed back to my childhood and
everything else. Just listen to a true Cajun talk in
that true Cajun cadence and tone and all that.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Great guy too. Yeah, most cag hey.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
I know, and I know they love to live off
the land. But I mean, I hope they just let
it sit for a little bit and we've been spared,
but let us help them and in conservation and everything else.
I mean, I just want to encourage them. I fully
understand where they come from. Boy that's had that creole cooking.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
My grandmother made the best red beans and rice on
planet Earth. And I'm sure a lot of people would
say that too.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
But nonetheless, man, that was one of the reasons I
loved it when we when we went over there to
visit her. She lived on Plum Street right there in
close to the park, and it was it was really cool.
We go ride the trolley's and all that stuff. It
was fun, great place.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yes, all right, part of those people love the lamb.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Holy cow, man, it's good to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
And they'll recover. I think they'll they'll do the right thing.
You know, they will thank you, sir, see you, Brandon,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh wow, guess what I found on the other screen, Melvin.
I look to my right and there's the whole screener.
Now I can't get a mouse to it. I don't
know which mouse works that thing, but at least I
can see it. I could get will it doesn't matter.
We'll figure this out. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We'll take a little break here and on the way out.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
All right, welcome back the Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety eight fifteen in the it's kind of
soggy out there right now. The snow melted finally when
I was putting those plants back on that friend's patio yesterday,
just to show how long that stuff can linger. In
one of the flower beds next to the close to

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the house, but not a j not right up abutted
to it. In one of those flower beds, there was
a little patch of what remained of all the snow
we had had. It was it was about the size
of a dinner plate. But nonetheless it was just it
was it was snow. Let's see up Rick here, Melvin,

(31:25):
give him a shake.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Hey, I start from being late. I had to jump
and run.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
You're not laying for a test or anything. It's okay.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
I'll tell you what happened. I want to talk about
those dead fish in a mintments. Uh, Man, Melvin, he
was in you said you were in the group. Hey, man, Melvin,
he's being real groovy this morning.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Remember yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
That's groovy. That's groovy right there. Now. I had to
jump because I got two hunters Clayton's duck hunting, and
I heard him shooting. So I ran down there and
grab my gun. I ran down there. I'm being lazy,
you know. And uh I got two shots off, and

(32:11):
I hit exactly what I aimed at.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
It was good for you?

Speaker 10 (32:14):
What?

Speaker 7 (32:16):
Nothing with air?

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, it's easy to hit air, but it's hard to tell,
but it's pretty easy to do.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
I'm supposed to be Kyle's hunting. When there's a Kyle
that he got two of my rabbits, he got to go.
He gotta go man in the day's their numbers, I'm
gonna go that for on this fish kill. You said
millions or you know, hundreds of thousands whatever, goa jillions,
is what I said. Okay, they've died in the last

(32:48):
few days. The water's cold. Is there not any way
or something you can do to go in and scoop
them fuckers up and use them for fertilize or for something.
I mean, I don't know there's going to be something
that I don't want to go kill fish.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
To do that.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
I know they're already dead. How could if somebody ain't
figured out out to use it. I mean, they use
other dead animals for stuff.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, by the time they could organize any sort of
effort like that, Rick, I see what you mean. You
know you hate to see that stuff go to waste
because we're talking about tons and tons and tons of fish.
But how are you going to get the equipment in there?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
How are you going to scoop them up?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
How are you gonna because right when those pictures were
taken those the bay was frozen. You couldn't even have
gotten a little boat in there, and you certainly couldn't
get anything that drafted any water. They're just washing up
on the shorelines of shallow flats.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, it's a frustrating thing to see. But I don't
know that it's.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
A realistic, costy efficient way to gather up all that meat.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
Well, I know.

Speaker 7 (34:07):
Caging people are pretty dang created. Oh yeah, I'll bet
you somebody's gonna eventually figure that out.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, they'll they'll come away. If that were a realistic
idea and a feasible idea, I think it would have
been done in eighty three and eighty nine here in
these fish kills that we've had.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
But there there's got to be some reason.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, I agree, you could use it for fertilizer, no
matter how decomposed it was. But just the thought of
scooping all that stuff up and hauling it around. I
wouldn't want one of those trucks, trucks full of dead
trout that had thought out now and been in the
sunshine for a few days in the back of a
dump truck.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I wouldn't want one of those driving down my street.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Well, it drove down the street in Louisiana. That's like
money to them. But the thing is what reminded me
any of it is I used to fish with an
old fellow from from Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, oh fish.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
We thought water fish, and you know, we cleaned the
fish and flam but he ground everything else up in
a real fine hand grinder, like you know, a sausage grinder.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
Yeah, he throw it in a bucket and he'd take
it out there and throw it on the ground where
he was going to grow with his garden. That that that.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Spring that makes perfect sense to me. And and on
small scale.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
I think it's it's a great idea, and a lot
of people do that. They do kind of utilize everything
they harvest, no matter what it is. But on grand
scale like that, I just I don't know when they
get tired of trying to scoop up all those dead fish,
or even how they'd start doing that. I don't know
that there's a machine that's that's capable of doing that.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Makes sense.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
I don't know either, Doug. I gotta go, partner. I
got somebody walking up with something I gotta help pick
up and carry. It looks dead though, anyway, right man,
I catch you later.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Okay, Audio, Well that was abrupt. Somebody's bringing something up though.
You gotta go take care of yeah, I mean, he's
out there in the wild all day, every day, it
seems like. And yeah, when somebody needs help out there,
you just you just provide it, period, end of story.
You don't ask questions, You just go help him out.

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And that anything weighs more than a I don't know
how many pounds. I don't know what my limit is
for lifting things. I came close to it a few
times yesterday moving all those plans for my buddy Greg.
But man, oh man, man, oh man, I did not
I did not step over the line, Melvin. I still
my back this morning feels okay. There were a couple

(36:43):
of things I picked up yesterday that I kind of
wished I hadn't in the in the moment, But so far,
so good. Today, I'm not and I slept well last night.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Good.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
All that limitation, oh yeah, man, all that physical labor, yes,
because that's.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
What you need. Oh man.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'm I'm just one dumb move away from from snapping
something or twisting something or over extending something.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
But I do feel like I know my limits. I
really do.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
And I'm not twenty anymore. I'm not thirty. I'm not
even fifty anymore. I'm not even sixty anymore. I know
exactly what you're talking. You know, yeah, and you do
eat the other day. You just have to make, you
have to make, you have to concede that.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
You're not that, and you just do the best you
can with what you got.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
My wife's having trouble with it, a little bit, a
little age related aches and pains or cropping up on her,
and she'll come to me and go, what's this, Why
does this hurt? Well, you don't really want me to
take you. You don't want to talk about getting a
little older. And that's all it is. She's strong, she's
doing She's had some issues in the past, but she's

(37:56):
doing much much better now, and I'm so glad for her,
for anybody who dealing with stuff like that. Holy cow,
this is I'm so thrilled not to have to worry
about pipes. I just I can't tell you what a
weight that is lifted off my shoulders because our house
is thirty two years old.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Somewhere right right at that I think our house is
thirty two.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
So I keep thinking that eventually something's going to give
and knock on wood. So far aheadn't all right? We're
gonna take a little break here on top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right, second
hour starts now, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I certainly do appreciate it, and you know I do,
you know I do. Erris English took care of business yesterday,
knocked it out of the park, end up eight under
par leader one by one over Sam Stevens and Andrew
Noak well two over no act anyway, good for him,
good for him, made a smooth and this is this

(39:02):
is post live golf stuff. Okay, all the money that
got thrown around by live Golf.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Made the PGA Tour stand up and.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Reckon with itself and open up its books a little
bit and open up its purse a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Said, you know what, Yeah, they're paying you guys a
lot of money.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
But guess what now that we now that we've kind
of got to keep up with the Joneses a little bit,
now here's a little bit more money in the purse.
Harris English made one point six seven million dollars yesterday,
and not that many years ago that same tournament would
have maybe been worth a million, maybe nine hundred thousand,

(39:45):
about a fifty percent bump in a lot of those tournament.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Purses.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Overall, a whole lot of people making good money, and
more power to them. If I could play golf like that,
I'd be out there every week too, I really would.
I'm too old. Unless there's a super Senior Geezer division
for people who whose swing speeds are below a maximum God,

(40:10):
I'm surprised. We talked a little bit yesterday about what
I talked with Art Strickland, my favorite golf writer at
the time. Right now that I've known Art for twenty
five thirty years, I don't know, and we've always gotten along,
and every time we get a chance to play together,
we do. We were talking a little bit about the
roll back of the golf balls, and I'm really surprised

(40:33):
that the seniors on tour, the chap Tour champions guys
aren't pushing back a little harder than they are. I
don't hear many of them talking at all about rolling
back the golf ball, and it's really gonna it's really
gonna change their game far more than it's gonna change

(40:53):
the game of anybody on the leader board out there
at the Farmers, those guys are still gonna bomb it
pretty good, but they're gonna have I think it's gonna
bring the scores back a little bit or raise them
up a little bit higher, but not a whole lot,
not a whole lot, because I think what the tournament
organizers are gonna do is is soften up the distances.

(41:17):
They've kept having to make holes longer and longer and
longer to counter these guys hitting it just three twenty
three forty and not really caring where it goes because
it puts a wedge in their hands. On most of
the par fours. I watched somebody tee it up yesterday.
I don't remember what hole it was, and it wasn't

(41:38):
the first five hundred yard par four, but it was
another one five hundred yards to be navigated with two shots.
For everybody in my group and for a lot of
the younger players out there. That's that's driver and then
some fairway metal or at least a very long iron

(42:00):
for those of us who still carry long irons. I
still carry a three iron, actually three through three wedges,
and I'm comfortable with that.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
It's got a very specific purpose.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
I don't just pull it out willy nilly and use
it ten times around. But when I need it, I've
got it, and I can I can trust it to
get me out of some trouble. But when these balls
get mushed up and we have to start playing them,
that's when I think you're really going to see some
pushback from the average golfer. And why some of the

(42:36):
amateur organizations aren't already. Maybe they are behind closed doors,
but somebody's got to say something to the tour and
just say enough's enough. Leave the amateurs alone. And I
think that should go for amateur competitions too, unless they
particularly want to do something. The USGA might want to
do something to have a special allowance for traditional golf balls,

(43:04):
but they don't need to be bothering me. They don't
need to be bothering anybody else who plays at my level.
And no matter regardless of the age, we don't need
anybody tinkering with golf balls.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
If anything, we want rockets.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
I need a golf ball that I can compress and
push out there. I'd love to get another twenty yards
out of my drives. I really would, And if I
can find a way to do that. I'd be okay
with that, so long as I don't lose control of
the golf ball around the green.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
That's the that's the trade off.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
That's been made since modern golf ball technology. What I think,
and Art mentioned this yesterday, what I think would be
pretty good if they can pull it off, and I
think the if anybody could, the Masters could. If Augusta
National says, you know what, We're going to ask the
golf ball manufacturers. We're going to take the top five

(43:56):
or six or maybe ten golf ball makers whoever, however
many they wanted to use, and ask them to make
two or three different golf balls each and those will
be the Master's golf balls. Anybody who is invited to
play in the Masters will have to select from one.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Of those and that will be it.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Period into story. Or you can just wait till the
next week and go play in that tournament. Nobody's I
see it, I see him. I'll get him just a second. Nobody, absolutely,
nobody is going to turn down an invitation to play
in the Masters, no matter what golf ball they're told
to hit. So long as everybody else is on the
same page, let's get David going team up long distance

(44:38):
connection here, David, what's up, buddy.

Speaker 10 (44:41):
Yeah, Doug real quickly up, changing gears, just a little
bit of all to run with.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (44:46):
The Shot Show just wrapped up, and I'm I'm sure
you've had the Shot Show in the past. I have
to I'd like to know what you think about that.
I'm gonna hang up and listen. But also, one of
the most ingenious things I saw, you know. Thankfully now
we can go all one and watch YouTube videos that
kind of cover what the new ladies and greatest. But
one of the I don't want to plug this or
mention the name, but it was a duck, uh, the

(45:10):
rear end of a duck motorized that bobbed up and down,
that looked like a real duck feeding that already exist.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh yeah it does. It's rent the real thing. It's
been around a long time. Those things.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
There are all kinds, yeah, there's all kinds of motion decoys. Now,
that was always the hard part for us when I
was guiding on a dead calm day, trying to make
decoys look real.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
They look like a snapshot.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
There's just there's no movement, and they look lifeless and
there were all kinds of contraptions made where you'd you'd
run a string out to two or three decoys that
were separated by little sticks underwater, and you could pull
on that from the blind and make them bounce around
and make waves. There are all kinds of flapping wing decoys.
They've been around. Mojo duck was the first. Uh, those

(46:00):
in various shapes and styles have been around for many,
many years now. But it's all about making movement and
that upside down one imitates a duck that's feeding on
vegetation under the surface.

Speaker 7 (46:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (46:14):
Yeah, Well again, it's kind of neat that you could
go out there, but I'm sure you enjoy going to
the Shot Show again.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
I'll bring up and listen.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Okay, okay, thanks you bet all right, Well, so to
explain what the Shot Show is, it's a shooting, hunting
an outdoors trade show. It's not a consumer shows. You
can't just walk up and buy a ticket and walk in.
You have to have credentials that identify you either as
someone who who sells shooting and hunting related gear or

(46:47):
who buys them for a retail store. You can't just
walk in there and buy a shotgun or a target
or anything these are and the man I used to
run into all the time I'm out there, Bill Carter,
of course, and everybody else who was buying four stores
around here that did hunting and stuff, and a lot

(47:08):
of the reps that I knew when I was at
the newspaper and still today also attended the Shot Show
to peddle their whares. My buddy Rick Stovall, I'd make
time to talk to him every time i'd go out there.
I stopped going to the Shot Show many years ago
because it's and especially it's difficult now with my six
days a week on the air live schedule. I'm gonna

(47:31):
make a great effort to get back out in coming
years because the technology is so much better now, and
I'll be able if I can find somebody to buy
the tickets, I'll be able to go out there and
broadcast live from those shows.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Whether it's on a week day or two or on
a weekend.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Either way, I can still do my work and take
care of business. The Shot Show the first one I
went to an idiot, not even thinking about how big
a deal it is, how physically big it is. I
wore cowboy boots and I regret that to this day.
My feet swoll up after about the first two or

(48:11):
three hours of walking around a concrete exhibition center floor
in Las Vegas, and I never again I wore the
softest flow.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
If I could have worn slippers, i'd have worn them.
But it is.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Truly an amazing place to see everything everything. You have
startup companies that have amazing gear that they're trying to
get the big retailers to buy and put in their stores,
and you have every traditional manufacturer. I looked at a

(48:46):
four gun set of shotguns in the shot Show and
I remember distinctly that were about and this is back
in the late seventies, early eighties, somewhere early eighties, probably
Las Vegas, and I'm looking at these shotguns and they're
They're beautiful, They're they're.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Every shotgun manufacturer in.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
The world is is at our USA shot Show.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
And I was happy.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
I happened to be in the Parazzi booth and looking
at this four gun set, and the each of those
guns was priced, I want to say it around one
hundred and twenty five, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Back then, it was a pretty significant, pretty significant set
of shotguns.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Let's get to lane real quick before the break.

Speaker 9 (49:31):
Melbyn.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Hey, well what's up, buddy?

Speaker 7 (49:35):
What's that Doug Hike?

Speaker 3 (49:37):
I'm living the dream as always, buddy.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Man, this old weather has got this golf a no
go man.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
You are you guys shut down? Or your cart pass?

Speaker 9 (49:48):
We're cart pass on? Okay, we're open, but yeah, yeah
we're open. But yeah, this soggy in the snow and everything,
and I.

Speaker 8 (49:56):
Screwed it up.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:58):
I don't know if he I don't know if he
talked to our What foris his daughter got married yesterday
up in the mountains up in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yes, indeed.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
He's all on cloud night.

Speaker 9 (50:07):
I'm sure, yep. But yeah, I was listening talking about
this golf ball rollback. Yeah, pretty controversial subject in our industry.
You know a lot of guys are.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (50:20):
I'm not in favor of it, you know. I mean,
the game's too hard as it is for the average
player to start hitting its shorter.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Yeah, that's not I don't want to start hitting it
any short. I'm already I've already lost probably thirty forty
yards since I was in my at my peak, and
by more accurate now.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
But I don't want I don't want to lose yards.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
You know.

Speaker 9 (50:42):
Now, I had the good fortune of hanging around Dave
mar back in the eighties, and yeah, uh, you know,
and Dave was a legend PGA member, PG won the
PGA Championship, and you know, he was lamenting about Jack
Nicholas complaining about how far the golf ball was going,
and the Jackie didn't, you know, Jack Dave said to Jackie,

(51:05):
you know, you know, good, sob he didn't. He didn't
feel bad about it going far. Back in sixty three,
when you're hitting it fifty yards past everybody, Yeah, you know,
And I always thought that was funny. But yeah, that's
gonna be a tough one for our for our industry.

Speaker 7 (51:20):
I'm not sure what the right answer is on that.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
The right answer is to have two different sets of
golf balls. The golf ball manufacturers can can easily manufacture,
say three options or four options each for professional play
and then just leave our golf balls alone.

Speaker 9 (51:37):
Yeah, that does make bifurcation of the ball probably does
make the best sense for sure. So well, man, uh,
as soon as Forest gets back in town, we need
to get something on the calendar for March or April
to go fishing.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Absolutely, I'm in. Just count me in.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
I'll be there golfing and fishing, all right, buddy, New
Year till you found you bet.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Happy New Year laning.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
I'll see man Audios Lane Rix from out there at
Meadowbrook Farms.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Known him. Oh gosh, I've known these guys a long time. Man,
I've been around a long time. Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah real quickly back to the Shot Show for Brannan
that or that was David in any event, the Shot
Show is a mega, giant, almost a full week long
show that does bring in people from around the entire world.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
And as a reporter out there, as.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Someone who was covering it for the newspaper, I'd spend
three days out there and still not see everything that
I'd hoped to see, still not visit with everyone i'd
like to visit with, because it was just that big.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
It would be every bit.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I think it was held in Houston actually once years ago,
and I think NRG Center where the Automotive Show is,
could handle it if it also used every other available
space around there, even some in the hotels maybe around
there for meetings and whatnot. But it's just just enormous show.

(53:09):
And if you ever find a way, if somebody invites
you and will credential you somehow to go to it,
pick some soft shoes and go, you'll have a good time.
But just yeah, oh, I know, Melvin, I'm sorry. Look,
I know I'm late. I'm so sorry. He's so kind
about it too, just very calm, casualt's break.

Speaker 8 (53:30):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Back to the Doug Bike Show. You are grooving today, Melbourn,
no doubt, man, well done. It's kind of a laid back,
easy listening stuff.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Yeah, you know it's a laid back Sunday. Is that
what it is? Yeah, but we're gonna call it that.
That sounds good. It's not bad at all. I like that.
I could live with that. Laid back Sunday.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Seven one three to one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, I gotta pop
up some of this other stuff here. I want to
double check make sure the Weather Channel and weatherfu dot com.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
That's another one.

Speaker 9 (54:12):
I like.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
It seems to be pretty accurate. Yeah, tomar is gonna
be a pretty pleasant day so far, I'm just I'm
hoping the hammer doesn't fall, and I think we're gonna
be okay, eighty percent chance of rain today, which is fine.
It's not gonna be everywhere. It's not gonna be a
whole lot. That's the key. As long as we don't
get major showers the way black Hawk drains. There's a

(54:35):
chance we could be ninety degrees tomorrow if it'll just
stop doing whatever it's got to do and get on
out of here, hopefully. Man, that'd be nice. Yeah, there's
a little bit of stuff kind of coming this way.
Let me let me tee up the animation. This is
like watching a video game. Looks like we're gonna have
some drizzle through here for much of the afternoon. I

(54:58):
would say the thing's rolling out all the way to
three o'clock currently, and actually about three. Yeah, it looks
like it's starting to break up then, so you can
make it to then. It shouldn't be too bad. There's
nothing really heavy. There are some pockets where there's a
little bit of yellow and a hint of orange, but
there certainly aren't. There aren't any lightning bolts lightning strikes

(55:21):
showing up here, so that's good. Well, I don't know
which way I want to go. There's so much going
on around here. I do like the idea that late
Conrad's got that major league fishing coming back up. A reminder,
by the way, that I'm trying to fill up the
advertiser family for twenty twenty five. And if you're interested,
or maybe you know somebody who might be, you don't
have to call the station and then get somebody to

(55:42):
get somebody to get somebody to help you.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Just email me directly.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
And I do that for my shows, and I actually
I can do that for anything that you might want
in this Houston area, and the way the company's set
up now, I could. Actually I've got clients all over
the country. So the long and the short of it is,
if you want in, all you got to do is
let me know, and if it turns out that we're

(56:07):
a good fit for each other, I will happily introduce
you to my audience on the show.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
And if you want on fifty plus two, I can
even speak.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
For you on KTRH, which a lot of these fellas can't,
which is something not many people realize too. But I
can't and I will if you want me to So anyway,
just email me if there's interest, and we'll see if
we can't strike up a conversation. And I'll tell you
like I tell everybody I work with, I'll never waste
your time and I'll never waste your money.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I know whose money I'm spending.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Just to email me, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Today's
the last day of duck season for most of us.
Time to shut it down unless Melbourne. Do you have
a trained falcon? I wish I did. Be awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
It would be kind of cool just to walk around
with it on your shoulder.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Yeah, that's the only thing.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
That's the only duck season that's open after today sunset today.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Shut her down with your shotgun.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
But if you've got your if you've got your falcon,
I can't remember exactly how long it lasts, but it's
a little bit more so.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Wait a minute, this is falcon hunting.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
No, no hunting with a falcon, Hunting ducks with a falcon. Ye,
that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I don't have one
of those, and invest in that, then you know, I'll
tell you on a quick sideby no, you men, go
look at what it costs to get a falcon, and
get a trained falcon, and then tell me you still
want to do that. No, I'll pass yeah without even looking.

(57:32):
Trust me, you don't want to unless you just you
want to give up on the ferrari. You know, a
good trained falcon is gonna cost you a couple of bucks.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Anyway, the last couple.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Of mornings, I don't know why or what or how.
I guess right after the snow is when it really started.
I was walking through the den and the kitchen on
my way to work a couple of days ago, and
I heard the loudest bunch of crows firing off advice.
I hope you're still listening, because, man, we could have
lit them up in my backyard. And they actually weren't

(58:04):
in my yard, but they were down about a house
and a half down the way in the back where
there's a couple of big oak trees, and there must
have been I don't know twenty thirty crows huddled up
in those limbs of that tree. And the reason they
were doing that was because there was a big, fat,
hungry hawk just flying around back and forth. And then

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I heard the hawk go off, and I looked up
and there were actually two of them, so they were
sick and tired of trying to pick something to eat
out of the snow. I guess the squirrels were all
hiding from them, and they were going to try to
find themselves.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
I don't think a crow nest.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Would be up in there now, But the crows were
letting each other know that it was time to keep
their head on a swivel. And those hawks were just
circling and circling those big old oak trees. It was
one of the loudest. It was like being around a
almost like being around a goose roost. It was just
so loud it was almost deafening, just piercing through the house.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Crazy man. But back to where was I on the birthday?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (59:11):
The end of tuck season and the continuation of falcon
season for whatever. Anyway, the bottom line is this will
be a season very easily forgotten.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Wasn't good across the board?

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Isolated pockets of good shoots here and there, up and
down the coast and up into the prairies, but certainly
not many great memories made by the average hunter this season.
Had I got some really disappointing emails, and not from
new people. New to the sport, but people who had
been at it forever. And I guess part of it

(59:45):
is that the older you are, the more you're comping
against some truly just fantastic hunting this prairie and coast
provided and the new people though, even they who have
nothing to ma measured against her, thinking, God, how often
am I going to get up this early to go
do that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Hopefully it's an anomaly. Hopefully it'll get better.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
I may do it just a legit post mortem on
hunting season next weekend. I don't want to try to
get into it today because it's going to take a
little time. We got to there's a lot of layers
to this that are going to have to be unpeeled. Uh,
let me stop on that right now and move over to.

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
A contact back to the Doug Fike Show. He's been
smooth as silk man. This buttery music is what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
It's just it just slide right through every one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
You know who is that? Now? That is a Toto
Georgie Poichi. Okay, okay, yeah, I remember them.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Yeah, that was they were they had some more upbeat
songs I remember, but I couldn't name one.

Speaker 7 (01:00:59):
What was there?

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Big hit?

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Oh gosh, and I'm gonna know it. As soon as
you say it, I'm gonna go Yeah, that was it.

Speaker 11 (01:01:06):
I'm not sure, but it was it. I roll byto
mister Robito. I believe it might have been let me
tuble chat. Yeah, if that was them, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
In any event, moving back to the out of doors,
I have a couple of more things. Uh, by the way,
when when I do this post mortem on on duck season,
if I do today's last day and uh, you can
still hunt quail, you can still hunt geese actually for
another little while. You can go through that to Valentine's Day,

(01:01:35):
according to what I looked at this morning at the
Parks and Wildlife Department site. Although I would strongly recommend
unless you're unless you're a significant other also is a
fan of goose hunting. I wouldn't roll out of the
house at four o'clock in the morning to go goose
hunting and then come back around noon or maybe a
little later, just dead dog tired from wallowing in the

(01:01:58):
mud and poting out and picking up decoys for an
hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
What was it?

Speaker 11 (01:02:05):
I'm a correct sticks was mister Robata? Yeah, okay, but
Toto was Africa? Yeah, I missed the rain.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Down in Africa? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah that was the one.
I knew that that song there was good for sure.
But that's the one that got them out of Africa
or Africa?

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Was it was?

Speaker 7 (01:02:24):
Just?

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Was it one word title? I already forgot what you
said was just just Africa? Out of Africa?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
What it was? Just Africa? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
A great song, great song?

Speaker 9 (01:02:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Moving on? Where am I in all of this?

Speaker 9 (01:02:37):
God?

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
I got so much stuff here. Oh, by the way,
I had to laugh last night. This was so funny.
So I'm scrolling through channels and then checking just the
usuals that I go to. I go looking for Rockets
games on Space Citty network, I go looking for I'll
be looking for football games this evening. Of course, with
the playoffs in full swing. We've got two games left

(01:02:59):
before the Super Bowl, and the people, the teams that
are gonna go are going to be determined today. And
I come across on the outdoors channel, on one of
the outdoors channels, I have I think three on my
TV that I can look at and there's this guy
talking about deer hunting, and he's talking about food plots,
and he's talking about all these different things. Clearly it's

(01:03:21):
it's a it's an older show because their seasons up
there are long since gone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
But he's talking about putting out food plots.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
And how how the the options you have and the
opportunities you're going to have differ in on varying sizes
of places that you hunt. And he said, you know,
if you've got a couple of thousand acres, that's that's
you get a lot of chances you can do a
lot with that kind of with that kind of window
to work in. And I'm thinking, yeah, a couple thousand acres,

(01:03:54):
that's pretty good sized place there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
And he goes and.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
As your your ranch or your lease or whatever gets
a little smaller than you got to start thinking about
making adjustments and doing this and doing that. And he said,
for example, if you've got fifteen acres, and I just
I quit listening right there, because this guy was talking
about setting stuff up for rifle hunting.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
And I don't know about where he.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Lives, but down here, fifteen acres would be I would
consider that unless you are absolutely positive of who's going
to be on the other side of every fence on
your fifteen acres, every fence that notes where your property

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line is, and you know that they won't be down
range of where you're aiming. I'd be scared to touch
off a rifle shot on fifteen acres if it's a
square piece of land. If you're talking about a square,
you're talking about maybe four hundred yards from side to

(01:05:04):
side and from top to bottom. Now, I don't know
how it's done, especially up north, but that's just not
a lot of room. Maybe for bow hunting, I could see.
I could see putting a couple of stands out for
bow hunting on fifteen acres, but I can't imagine slinging
bullets on a place that side.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
It just seems very unsafe to me. It did remind me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Too, And forgive me if you've heard me talk about
this before, but it was so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Years ago a guy calls.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I'm sitting down at the paper working on a column,
I'm sure, and this guy calls and says, hey, man,
I'm thinking about buying a place out in West Texas,
and I'm wondering if it's any got any good mule
deer hunting on it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Maybe? And I said, well, where is it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
And he told me where it was, and I realized
that it was very close to Bill Carter's former Skyhorse ranch,
which is a huge, huge place.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
I mean it was tens of thousands of acres, big,
big place.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
And so I said, you know, I don't really know
exactly about where you're talking about, but I know a
guy who will know, and I'll check back with you.
And I called Bill and I said, look, there's this guy.
He's interested in the mule deer hunting potential for a
place he's eyeballing to buy out in West Texas, close

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to the sky Horse.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
And Bill asked me where it was. I told him,
and he said, I don't know any.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Of the guys out there who are selling their places.
And he paused a little bit, and he goes, how
big a place is it? And I said it's a section,
Bill is just all of you know, I'm sure it's
six hundred and forty acres. And there's this long pause
on the phone and Bill goes, well, that's not enough
room to park a car. And in West Texas, in

(01:06:47):
West Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Language, that's very true. That's a fairly small place.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
That land is just so open and so it takes
a lot of It takes a lot of acreage to
provide habitat for the animals that are out there, and
they're they're not stacked up like hill country deer. And
there's not an acorn every time they take a step,
there's not a feeder every time they turn a corner.
And you're talking about big open country and some of

(01:07:16):
the most beautiful countryside in the state of Texas too.
And West Texas is awesome, it really is. We really
do have mountains. We really do have mountains in Texas.
I don't know that there's a ski resort in Texas,
but boy there they were sure taking taking it on.
After the snowfall we had Tuesday along Buffalo Bio. That
was kind of fun to see and refreshing and it

(01:07:36):
is it's fun for me to watch kids having a
blast on that. I saw a video real quick, I'll
go to the break Melbourne, I swear in less than
a minute. So I'm watching this video and it said
something about bad dad or you know, think it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Through dad or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
And there's the people there, they're clearly up in the mountains.
That's some big ski resort type area where there's just
snow for days in all directions. And this kid's coming
out of the backyard and he's got this giant inner
two thing and wants to slide down the hill and
dad says, well, sure you can do that, and the

(01:08:11):
kid wants to stand up, and he says, no, you can't.
Kid's about six, You can't stand up. You got to
sit down. So he's kneeling in the front of the
thing and holding the handles, and he goes, no, no, no,
you got to put your bottom on the bottom of
that thing and kind of get down low and lay flat.
So the kid finally is ready to go, and there's
a couple of adults, both guys. I think it is
no women around there, and off he goes, a pushing

(01:08:34):
forward and he starts sliding and he keeps and they're
thinking he's gonna stop kind of at the bottom of
the yard, which is maybe one hundred or one hundred
and fifty yards away, but his momentum carries him farther
and farther, and I'm talking about he's a quarter mile
away in that giant inflatable. Looks like a donut down

(01:08:55):
there with the donut with a little chocolate chip in
the middle of this little kid in his and he's
just still steaming. When the video finally stops and the
guys are even both going, hey, whoa, whoa, this ain't
working out. We gotta go, and they start they start
down the hill. Oh well, that's what dads do. If

(01:09:15):
it doesn't kill you, it'll make it stronger.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
All right, we gotta take a little break.

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Breaking sports news on
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Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
This is The Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
Pike Show nine to fifty four on Sports Talk seven ninety,
The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate that. Man, we just
got We ran along, didn't we.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
I there's one thing that I wanted with the football
games on today, and this might be a fun thing
to just throw out, a fun fact of know and tell.
And I told Melbourn he had a pop quiz coney.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
He says, Oh, man, I don't know much about football.
It doesn't matter. So here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Melbourn only one NFL player in nineteen seventy weighed more
than three hundred pounds. How many NFL players now weigh
at least.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Three hundred pounds?

Speaker 11 (01:10:06):
Oh boy, I would say more than one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
God, let's say about twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
How about five hundred get out of here, five hundred players.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
And I don't I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
We got that many teams that we got that many
of this five hundred NFL players, And maybe that's practice squads,
maybe that's I don't know, but five hundred of these
guys weigh more than three hundred pounds. Oh boy, that's
a lot of No wonder their knees blow out, No wonder,
these guys are just they fall on somebody and snap

(01:10:46):
a hip or something.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
It's amazing to me how small the running backs are too.
That's something that I've met several of these running backs
over you know, golf tournaments and whatnot, and they're very
small guys, so they can sneak through little holes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
In the line and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
They're small and quick, and it's amazing they don't just
get smushed like bugs by somebody who weighs about three
seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Holy cow. All right, well that's enough of that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Anyway, it's been a good weekend. I appreciate all of
you listening, I really do. We're getting guy, we're getting
close to the end, aren't we. Oh well, I'm making
sure I didn't miss anything I want to tell you about.
Next weekend, we've got that Major League Fishing event on
Lake Conroe. Unless you're really into bass fishing, you might
want to stay off the leak late next week because

(01:11:35):
it well for starters, it's gonna be a little bit
too cold, I think for waterskiing unless you're just crazy
about it and want to put on a wetsuit. But
there are going to be a lot more boats than
usual out there, with kind of spectators putt putting around.
If you're going to run your boat out there and
go watch these guys fish, give them some room. Please
don't don't don't crowd them. It's hard enough to win

(01:11:57):
a it's hard enough to win a dog on back tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
You don't need help from that. You don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Louisiana's trout they're in trouble. We'll talk about that some
next week for sure. Maybe I'll kind of keep an
eye on that state over there. And I know Captain
Scott will as well and He'll let me know if
he hears any grumblings about maybe something they might want
to do to at least temporarily hold back on the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Harvest of those trout.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Because those trout have moved, the ones that are left
wherever they are won't be hard to find. I know
if I was trying to fish Lake Calcashow, I would
probably be looking in the ditch between Lake Charles and
the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
That's where the deepest water is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
There's some deep holes in Lake Lake Calcashoe, but nothing
like what's in that ship channel. It's gonna be a
beautiful day tomorrow around here. Ten percent chance of rain tomorrow,
ten percent chance Tuesday. If you have the ability to
play golf on weekdays, I get one of them. I
get Mondays anyway, and I'm gonna take full advantage of tomorrow. Boy,

(01:13:01):
I will get outside have some fun with your family.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Please do that for me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
I will be back Tuesday live for fifty plus on
KPRC and right back here Saturday. God willing to talk
to all of you again. Thanks to you all for
listening to this show. Appreciate it. Audios.