The Houston Open

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That's how we keep score around here.

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Now here's dog Pike. All right, here we go.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Saturday edition of the program starts right now. Thank you
all for listening. Marco Oriona on keyboard this morning in
the band, Thank you, Mark. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
You kind of get up early anyway, don't you.

Speaker 7 (01:07):
Oh yeah, I hope it's time you're at kt rih four.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
O'clock in the morning, that kind of stuff. Yepes, Oh
my goodness, So you got to sleep in this morning?

Speaker 7 (01:15):
Huh just a bit.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
You're welcome. Thanks for coming in, man, I really appreciate it.
We're juggling a lot of stuff over here. We're gonna
get it all figured out at some point in the meantime.
You go ahead, bring that music down. That's that's way
more of that than anybody needs this morning, too early
for that. It is uplifting, though, I do like it.
Thank you for that. So welcome to the Saturday edition
of the Doug Pike Show, where the weather forecast looks

(01:40):
a whole lot better actually than it did twenty four
hours ago. There's still a chance of precipitation today, sort
of like there's still a chance a pretty girl might
go on a date with you, even if she turns
you down the first three times. So don't put that
raincoat away just yet. Monday looking way better than Sunday,
and then Tuesday looking better than Monday, which is good

(02:03):
because actually Tuesday's media day for the Inspirity up of
the Woodlands, and I get to go, I get to
go participate in that. It's very fun, a fun day
that ends with eighteen holes of golf on a wonderful
golf course up there in the Woodlands Tour Champions event.
That's what the inspirity is. It's grown quite comfortable in

(02:23):
that venue up there, and I can see why. It's
a beautiful golf course. It's hosted major tournaments in the past,
not majurors, but PGA Tour event. The Woodlands was host
to that event. The Houston opened for a very long
time before it shifted over to Golf Club of Houston
and then eventually to Memorial Park where it is now.

(02:45):
What I like a lot about the Tour Champions events
is that they showcase the talents of a pros. Most
guys my age grew up watching watching on TV or
at the clubs they were playing at back then, we'd
go up there and watch them. Even back of few
more years, the same tournament course where the PGA Tour
stopped for a long time. They can still play too,

(03:06):
those guys, can make no mistake about that, But they
just look a little more like the rest of us.
They're not a whole lot of thirty inch waistlines on
the Tour Champions I'll just leave it at that. And
there are man some of these young pros coming out,
the guys who are playing over there at Memorial Park
this week. They're lean and fit, and there reflexes recoil

(03:28):
like those of a snake. They're just big, long arms.
It seems like a lot of them. I'm in my mind,
I'm looking at ak she Batia, that guy he's I
bet he doesn't weigh a hundred and thirty pounds, but
he knocks the battle mile. And that's how all these
pros are growing up. We'll talk more about golf later
in the program. By the way, there's no reason to

(03:49):
stop on it right now. From the wildlife side, let me,
I don't know where to go, really, gosh, there's so
much to talk about this morning. Back to the weather.
The Rio Grand Valley absolutely got hammered by this storm
system that moved through here yesterday. It brought rain down
there that broke records that dated all the way back
to nineteen eleven. So keep those people in your prayers,

(04:11):
will you. They're gonna need a lot of help down
there now that the pictures I saw were a flooding
that reminded me of what Harvey did to Houston. And
that's over a big chunk, a big chunk of that
valley down there. So hang in there, help them out
if you can keep them in your prayers. They got

(04:34):
a long ways to go. The only good that's gonna
come of this is that up until this rain came
through there and dropped all that foot or so of
rain in some places by four and a half inches
in Corpus Christy. Before that, it was just dry as
popcorn down there, and one little spark, we could have

(04:54):
had some Texas wildfires rolling through the Rio Grand Valley,
rolling through the South Texas brush and that we didn't need.
And this is gonna put a stop to all of that,
probably halfway into summer, because that grass is gonna green up.
It'll be green in a week down there, and it'll
be beautiful to see a lot of that stuff. It's

(05:14):
all it needed was just this little It just needed
a drink. It just needed a drink. And it's gonna
be really really good, really really good once all that
moisture gets into the roots of those plants and they
start breathing a little bit of life from a wildlife side.
That wet weather in South Texas is really gonna help too.
Holy Cow, I wouldn't be surprised to see another really

(05:37):
good quail crop. And it all starts with spring rain.
You'll hear guys talk all summer and all fall about
how this year, whether it's X y Z year, whether
it's a really good year in the outdoors, are a
really bad year in the outdoors down there, it all
started in the spring, so they're off to a good start.
We'll see how that happens. In contrast, by the way,

(06:00):
Bob sent me a half dozen pictures yesterday of conditions
on Lake Houston, where the water looked like it was
probably i don't know, a couple of feet, maybe even
three feet below normal. I'm guessing that level is gonna
change at least a little bit after the rain we
had yesterday around here and make it a little bit
more today. It's not going to be a whole lot though,

(06:21):
until that lake rises again. Though, fishermen ought to be
taking advantage and noting the structure and any abnormality, any
anomaly on the bottom of that lake that might be
someplace fish will hang out, and if you can get
to it, this is an opportunity also to go out
and plant stuff, brush piles and whatnot. It's a little

(06:44):
easier to walk them out there or ride them out
there in the boat and sink them. But if you've
got pretty dry ground access really across a lot of
that lake bottom. You could walk out and put your
own just PLoP stuff down on the bottom, just where
your rubber boot should probably be. All right, be careful
of because that mud can get a little deep in
some places. And that's the last thing you need. That

(07:06):
is the last thing you need need seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Go ahead and open
those phone lines, please, Marco, thank you. I got a
couple of guys I know, probably tried to call already
and didn't get through there Johnny on the spot. Man,
they are good. Are you? Are you using an outdoorsy guy,
Marco or no outdoors? Indoors?

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Oh you'd like to be, yeah, one day eventually.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
What fascinates you? What attracts you to the outdoors.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
Man, I don't know. I mean weather, he's nice. But
also just the exploration aspect, you know, yeah, mountains and
hiking and stuff. That's always fine.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, and the fun part for me anyway, and I've
been doing this all my life. The fun part for me, Marco,
is that if you don't go, you can look at books,
and you can read watch movies and and get on
the internet and see pictures of all kinds of wildlife stuff.
But when you're out there, man, and you're really just
walking through the woods, you have no idea what you're
gonna come across the whole different experiences, Yeah, it really is,

(08:03):
and every one of them that they're as unique as
your fingerprints too. You're not gonna see the same thing.
I mean a lot of these fishing guys. When I
was a hunting guide, I was out there every day practically,
it seemed like, and yet every day was different. Now
I can't remember all of them in my head, and
some of them better forgotten than remembered. But it's always different,
and something something unique happens when you're outside that is

(08:26):
never gonna have. You're not gonna see that when you're
sitting on the couch. So good luck with your exploration
if you need any, if you need any directions to
good places to go, just to kind of dabble your
toe in it. There are a lot of them around
here too. It might wouldn't be bad to explore, to
get your feet wet, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Where'd you grow up?

Speaker 7 (08:47):
I'm from here from Houston.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
Ok.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well, God, that makes the only two of us in
this building. I think maybe a couple more, I don't know. Well,
good for you man. You're well, you're about half my
age though, so you got a long waist to go.
There's still there's it's still wild land even inside the
city limits of Houston. To a lot of people, they'll
call and ask where they should take their son or

(09:10):
daughter fishing for the first time. Should we go to
Lake Conrod or should we go to Galveston. Well, what
I tell them is that if you're going to go
to Lake Conrad or Galveston, you're going to pass one
hundred places where you could take a little kid fishing
and have a great experience and not have them have
to endure an hour long ride in the car both ways.
Just baby steps, Marco. I'm glad you're excited about that.

(09:34):
That's good. All right, back to where we are. We
have got the fishing has been very good actually, and
is only going to get better as this weather settles out.
Once we this is kind of the period of unknown,
as weather goes and as wind goes. One day it's
blowing thirty miles an hour and a little coal front

(09:54):
comes through.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Maybe get some rain you maybe don't.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
There was supposed to be a ton of rain here
yesterday that didn't really materialize. If you looked at the
forecast at about ten o'clock, you would have thought, holy cow,
I'm gonna crawl under a rock around two and not
come out till five. But then as the system developed
and kept moving, because that's what weather does, it changes constantly.

(10:20):
I remember hearing one thunderbolt here at the office while
I was moving around and doing this and doing that.
Just one time I heard thunder and that's when it
was around three o'clock, and that's when they shut down
the Texas Children Houston. Texas Children's Houston opened over there
at Memorial Park, and they kept it shut down for

(10:41):
a couple of hours and then let those guys get
back out. I'm gonna talk a lot more about that
a little later in the program. I got Art Strickland
coming on, one of the best golf writers who lives
in the state of Texas, and he's over there now.
I was gonna go meet him for lunch yesterday, but
that really didn't work out. I had stuff to do
and it just didn't and the forecast kept pushing me away.

(11:05):
And lunch is over at two thirty over there, so
I didn't think I could make it. But it all
worked out, and I'm gonna probably go over there and
hang out with him for a little while today, might
get out on the golf course and walk around, depending
on how much time. I've got a lot of things
to do this afternoon. Back around the house too. Adam
Clinton and I exchanged a couple of emails back and

(11:26):
forth yesterday. I don't know how it came up, but
alligators came up in the conversation, and Adam the city boy.
I think I think he's a city boy based on
how he reacted to a picture of an alligator or
video of an alligator that I sent him, and then
followed up with a picture of about a six foot

(11:48):
long rat snake that I'd caught on a golf course
several years ago while I was out playing with my son,
and he just he didn't want any part of those things.
I'm comfortable around them, but I'm I'm also very respectful
of them. And I know that a young alligator is
probably going to be able to easily outrun me if

(12:09):
I ever step across that line. And what I'm decides
that I've gotten too close, so I'm keeping my distance
and I'm I'm just making sure I get good fun
videos to post to my social media accounts, but I
don't get so close that I become a statistic. That happens, unfortunately,

(12:30):
and that's something Marco. When you start getting out there,
just be aware of snakes, be aware of alligators, be
aware of spiders and scorpions and all those things. But
don't let any fear of them scare you away from going,
because as long as you're kind of respectful, respectful of
their space, they're not going to give you too much trouble.

(12:52):
You ever come across anything that kind of spooks you
in the wild, not yet, Not yet, it will, Oh,
someday it will. Someday something will get your attention. My
most recent was a cotton mouth. I was walking down
to the edge of a lake to do a little fishing,
and I had seen something in that area the day
prior that I wanted to look again to see if

(13:14):
it was there in a very specific spot, and rather
than watch ahead of my footsteps, as I went down
the little edge of this hill I was looking across,
I'd become very casual and confident and comfortable walking into
this place. It's a little spillway and there's running water
on it, and there's all kinds of stuff going on,
all kinds of movement and sound, and I just I

(13:37):
dropped my guard and I was looking across the spillway
for something I'd seen the day prior, and I caught
movement at my feet and looked down, and no fool,
and there was a cotton mouth eighteen inches I guess
from my left foot. And fortunately it was already in
motion and going away from me and not turned around

(13:59):
in all boats up on me, or I might have
just lost it. But yeah, he he gave me a
fair It was a very comfortable warning that he gave
me by sticking their until I got that close. But
he was also polite enough to not just reach around
and chunt my ankle. That would have changed my day.
I can assure you. Oh, off we go, all right,

(14:22):
first break's already here. Holy cow, I yep, I do.
I do talk a lot, Marco. I tend to do that.
It's my job, so you know you're used to that.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
I know.

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Speaker 9 (15:43):
We are sports talk seven ninety. Are you ready listen
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Welcome back.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.
Thank you all for listening. Uh, let me get to
this phone here and see what we can do a
by talking to Rick.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Bye.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Did it work?

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Rick?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
No, it didn't. Okay, I'm gonna put him back on
whole Marco. Like I said, it's your turn.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
I got you now, man. Yeah, we're tag teaming again
this morning. I got you.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Hey. For those that did or didn't watch the Cougar
Houston Couger basketball game last night, congratulations to him.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'm gonna tell you what, Man tied up at sixty.
That that last play with two seconds on the clock
that the coach, Houston coach called that was pretty slick,
giving about sixty to sixty.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
I watched it this morning. I hadn't. I couldn't stay
up that late. I really couldn't. I barely stayed up
for the first five minutes of the game because I
got to get my beauty sleeper. It'd just be horrific
if anybody had a camera in here. Uh, but I
had a couple of emails this morning about it, and
I went and looked at it and I thought, man,
that was so slick. That was just slick. It was.

(17:13):
I don't know how long he's had that one in
his pocket, but hats off to Kelvin. Man, that was something.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
But I tell you what, there's a lot of coaches
and players that raised their eye bet at once that
game last night.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
I get, yeah, they'll be they'll be ready for that.
And you know he's got a backup in his pocket
to counter that.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (17:33):
Yeah, well, I sent you that picture this morning, the
Travis in Alabama with that big hog.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Three hundred and something pounds, right, three oh one, Okay, Okay,
he's something.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Now, when I talked to him in a day or
two or three, I'm gonna really ask you, and I'm
gonna say, now, Travis, was he really two ninety nine
and you just wanted to three in front of it
instead of the two? But anyway, here's the thing, real
curious and nosey to see where he was on his
hunting fishing trip. This is Alabama, by the way.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, okay, I've been there.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
I looked, I looked up, I looked up this this,
this place, this plantation they call him, they don't call
him right, it's big And anyway, I was looking through
there and I saw something that kind of shocked me.
I have nothing verified it, but it said in Alabama,

(18:31):
the Faral hog season season is February fifteenth through April
the thirtieth.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
What the heck are.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
I swear?

Speaker 5 (18:42):
I'm wondering, man, were they trying to trying to enhance
the population there, because that's what's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
I mean, I was totally shocked. February fifteenth through March
April the thirtieth for Perl hog Country. I could I'd
have beenished out on Necklaus. In my network and the
business I'm in, uh, I talk about hunting and fishing
with a lot of people, and I had never we
talked about hogs. Yeah, yeah, I have never had one,

(19:12):
say yo, you know, never had one either mentioned the season.
But I don't know what's up with that. Anyway, I
thought that was interesting that somebody, I'm sure somebody listening
has already looked it up and maybe they can verify
it for us.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
But anyway, whatever that is, I'd love to hear about
it because I can't. I played baseball over there, Okay,
I was there for for a hot minute, and I
don't recall that. No, granted this was one hundred years ago,
but I don't recall anything. And I went and did
a little little bit of hunting, a lot of fishing
over there, and I don't recall any anybody talking about

(19:48):
saving the pig. Now, this was, like I said, a
long time ago, and faral hogs really probably weren't even
in Alabama yet, But there was no no indication that
if something came in as already tearing up their land,
they were just going to say, well, we're not going
to hurt them. For nine and a half months a year, that's.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Well, I mean they breed year round, but yeah, especially
I was thinking, you know, why is it February through
April to thirtieth? I mean they breed, I mean literally
twelve months a year and you know, of course this
is heavy breeding season.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, and uh, you know.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Maybe that's the reason that they put a season on them,
because you know, they're just heavy with babies. But heck,
by August they're gonna be heavy with babies again.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, that's a that's a NonStop performance for pigs.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Yeah, probably probably may you know.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yeah, but anyway, that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, have fun to Houston Open.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
I will absolutely I will you play golf at all, Rick.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
I used to be it. I mean, that's why I'm poor.
I played too much and you know, but I have
I still play. My boys are good. That was his wringer.
But uh, anyway, he's pretty much scratched. But I play
a little bit.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, Yeah, it's I dabble. I dabble. I'm trying. I'm
still trying. That's the thing that keeps me going is
I'm still I'm still convinced that I can get better
and and I'm doing everything I can.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
I'm not far from black hop.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
One day, let's just meet over on the range and
hit some balls and man and visit the talk.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
I can do that, absolutely, I can do that.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
Yeah, I can go just about any time. You let
me know when you're in and maybe we could hook up.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
You got it, man? Thanks Rick?

Speaker 8 (21:42):
All right, thank you audios.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah, that that hog thing in Alabama, that that intrigues me.
I may take a quick look during the break to
figure out why maybe they would restrict hunting on wild
hogs when over here. At least we kind of know
what damage they do. Speaking of Blackhawk, there there been
some little piglets. Probably it doesn't look like big hog damage.

(22:08):
It looks like little hog damage on a couple of
couple of areas, real, real close to the creek that
parallels it down one side. And I just I can't
imagine any state not understanding that we're missing something over here.
If that's true, If they have a season on them,

(22:29):
they've got a reason. There's a reason for the season,
as they say, and I'd love to figure out what
it is. I might do a little research here when
we get out of this, out of this segment here
and go to the break.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Let's do that.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
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We are Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues. This
as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
You got to change your.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Seven point thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The
Dugpike Show. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I
did a little research, little research during the break, by
the way, coming up a little bit later in the
program at eight o'clock, we're gonna talk to David Pruitt.
He is a guy who runs Riceland Waterfowl Club out

(25:15):
there in Eagle Lake, and I'm gonna talk to him
about how his club works, and I'm also gonna ask
him about how his season was this past season, what
he expects, and there'll be a lot of conversation there,
and then in the nine o'clock hour it's gonna be
my old buddy Art stricklying. I think I might have
mentioned that, Rick, Bis. I hope you're still mention or listening,
because during the break I did some research and when

(25:38):
I punched up Outdoor Alabama and looked up Farrell hog
hunting in Alabama. The very first sentence that hit my
eyes was this farrel hogs are considered a game animal
in Alabama and have no closed season and no bag limits.

(26:01):
This means that on private land, hunters can legally hunt
hogs year round. And then it's there's another another sentence
says people also ask when can you hunt wild hogs
in Alabama? Hogs can be hunted year round in Alabama,
but they tend to be most active in the cooler months,

(26:22):
so it may be let's see, well it's not about time.
It's very interesting that there's some discrepancy there and who
can hunt where, and maybe they were hunting on some
sort of public land where it's restricted except for a
certain time of year. But on private land you can
just tee them up and go get them, kind of

(26:44):
like you can here. All right, Marco, get old guitar
Dave on the phone. Let's see what's on his mind? Ahead, Man,
you are I got you? Come on, Dave?

Speaker 8 (26:59):
Hey? Yeah, he just flipped me over here, man, Uh yeah,
I'm over here at eight thirty right now on Lake Conrad.
A bunch of boats and trailers over here. He got
some kayakers and everything. The water's pretty yeah. Yeah, man,
there's a ton of people out well, there's not many
people bank fishing over here. Well, I see them on
the other side over there.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
Yeah, but anyway, uh, I put it. I put me
a perch trap out here, U last night, and I
come and checked it earlier this morning. I got two
red slider turtles in there, and I had a pervan there. Well, hey,
they it's it's actually it's a crab trap. But they

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got in.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
There to free down there. You got them totally underwater
or they can can they get their little noses up
to the air.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
No, I let them go. You know, they must not
been in there. Yeah, they must not been in there
too long. No, they were still live and kicking one right.
I pulled them out, but there was a perch in
there with them when I and then I run back
to the house real quick, and I got a throw
line by the time I got back here. I think
they ate him. Yes, yeah, but anyway, No, I'm just

(28:12):
hanging around over here right now. And oh I got
to go hang with Skot Mike the other day in
downtown Willis Oh man, he's short. I mean I met
him before, but oh, we got a good time that
a lot of people want to take the pictures of
their things. And you know, we were talking about music
and gigs and stuff like that. And sure, man, do

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you think he did? You think he was about six
two or something. He sounds like it, you know, Uh, yeah, Yeah,
he's a he's a really super dude.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
He's one of my favorites.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Hang on right over here, there's a I've got one
like that up at the farm. It's an aluminum probably
nineteen seventy two Elgin Oh wow, with with ooky on
the back of it. That small one, small motor. Yeah,
we got a lot of vintage stuff that comes in here.
You know.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
That's pretty good. Uh, it really is.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
How's the weather up it? Is it still cloudy up there?

Speaker 8 (29:14):
Yes, it's it's it's really really overcast. Hazy, Yeah, yeah,
hazy far off. The water is still very still. You know.
I was gonna do some I mean, I probably do
some fish in here after a while, but uh, I
got a lot of ducks flying around here.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know, it's a wildlife he kind of place. Man,
you're on a boat.

Speaker 8 (29:40):
I love it. Yeah, I love it. And and and
you know, I'm still hoping to see a bald eagle here.
I know I've heard the fish do talk about them,
you know, seeing them over there, and I haven't seen
any alligators.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
We're getting We're gonna more and more bald eagles down
this way, David, And they're staying longer than usual now
that the pair that nests over there at black Hawk
Country Club at Big Tree on number ten eleven, they've
been coming back to the same nest for probably I
think i'd guess six or eight maybe more years, and

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mom and dad have left. But the one surviving chick
this year is big enough that he's finding for himself.
He doesn't have a white head yet, that's going to
take a couple of years. But he's he's king of
the roost. Now there's nobody up there but him, and
he seems to be doing all right.

Speaker 8 (30:38):
Well. You know, when I was volunteering at the zoo
for seven years, they they found one with a broke wing.
They brought him to the ladies that to the ladies
that were working in the Commissariah get it all fixed up.
And but no, it's it's kind of reddish brown colored,
you know, and doesn't have a bald eagleheads takes a while,

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like you said, Yeah, yeah, but bull of the claw
the claw on that that youngest as big as mine is.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
You know.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
They're big birds, and they're so much bigger than they
really look when they're just kind of flying around all
by themselves, but you stand them next to something. I
remember the first first couple of times I saw them
out on the Katie Prairie when I was gotting waterfowl hunts,
because the eagles then would follow the ducks and geese
all the way through the migration route because they were
easy pickings. They would just kind of hang out close

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to one of the roofs where all the waterfowl were,
and in the morning ease over that roost pond, and
just every healthy duck and goose in there knew that
the eagles the only bird that could really catch them,
and so they would all bail out. And the ones
that got hurt yesterday but didn't get killed and taken
back to the pickings or processing house, that was lunch. Yeah,

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that was much.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
They just you know, I.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
Saw few of them, uh like diving down in the water. Yeah,
and then picking up a fish out.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Oh yeah, they'll do that. Yeah, they do that out. Yeah,
it's it's like a catcher's mitt with with needle with
knives on it.

Speaker 8 (32:14):
They're big.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
They'll go grab a squirrel and get out of there.
I was standing under that nest one time, playing the hole,
a very calm day, and I saw something floating. It
looked kind of like a little dandylion thing in the air,
you know, just some little fuzzy little thing floating down.
And I put my hand out and it it hit
right in my hand and stayed there. And you know
what it was from sixty feet up? No, it was

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squirrel fur. Yeah, yeah, it was dinner time up in
the nest.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
Man.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
And uh, I thought you was.

Speaker 8 (32:43):
Going to forest gup on that that feather.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
No, No, this was squirrel fur, no doubt about it.

Speaker 8 (32:51):
Yeah, you know what, And well I've heard them, you know,
don't let your little kid out there somewhere that.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
They would be capable. I've never heard of them. Actually,
there was a there was a fake video and early
AI video of a big old European bird of prey,
some sort of made up thing anyway, but it wasn't
real it was.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
You were lucky we ain't in the dinosaur age.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
You know, now, we would have never made it. We
wouldn't be here if we had to go had to
have with dinosaurs.

Speaker 8 (33:23):
If anybody ever just go to a dinosaur museum or
look at stuff, you know, like, uh, there's different places
that you should go. It's amazing, it really is. Or
even in Washington, d C. The Smithsonian and all that,
you go through all that stuff, and you know, thank god,
I was fortunate enough to be able to have opportunities

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to go there and uh, man, you know, it's just uh.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
It'll teach you.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
And I remember in the Smithsonian, the pendulum, yeah, was
going back and forth. How did they figure how did
they finger all that?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well?

Speaker 8 (33:58):
Ben thanks to Benjamin Franklin and I guess and all.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yeah, yep, that's everything in the world had to be.
There was a day when there was nothing, and then
the next day there was something. There was an idea,
then there was a prototype, and then it just went
on and on until something got refined and built. And
that goes with outdoors equipment, with computers, everything, and now

(34:22):
with artificial intelligence, that learning curve, that development curve, the
R and D part has been just rapidly accelerated. You
don't have to make twenty different models of a seven
iron to see which one's gonna perform best. You just
let Ai handle it all and start building your clubs.
It's it's fascinating and fishing rods and lures and all

(34:43):
of that stuff.

Speaker 8 (34:44):
And if you can't get a hold of something like that,
just get one of the ten year old neighborhood Kids
TV or something.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Yeah, that's holy cow. My son has been our my
wife's and my IT department for probably he's seventeen now,
and he was he was doing our electronic solution finding
probably since he was about ten. I'm pretty good at
that stuff. Man, All right, partner, what's good.

Speaker 8 (35:13):
To hear you?

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Like?

Speaker 8 (35:15):
I know, you got to get out of here, have to.
I'll see what I can do. I mean, I'll fish
out here a little bit later. I got a few
things I need to run back to the house and do.
But I mean, y'all, y'all real quick.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Are you still chumming with range cubes?

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (35:30):
I'm putting them in. Uh. I finded some old socks
and then put cutting holes in them and then just
tying a little rock on it. Well, just you know, put.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
A string on it so you can get your sock
out of the water. Dave, dang Man.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I got people and hook them.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Oh man, somebody's okay.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
I've got people that's hooked him, and they pulled it
up here and they just left it here, and then
I reloaded and not left. The guys know a right man,
recycle always research.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah, okay, audios, Holy cow, Dave, Oh my goodness.

Speaker 8 (36:08):
All right.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
So if you're up on Lake Conro and you catch
a sock with holes in it, just think of think
of guitar, Dave. We'll take a little break here. El
Cubano Cigars. This is my buddy, Manny Lopez. He's down
there in Texas City, one of only fifty cigar factories

(36:32):
in the United States. About fifty, I'm not sure. He's
not sure the right exact number, nor am I. But
it's around four dozen and that's all in the entire
United States, and we've got one right here in Texas City.
It's a it's a very unassuming place. From the outside,
it just says El Cubano Cigars. And there's a nice
smoking lounge in there where you can sit back with

(36:54):
your buddies and maybe play a game of cards, maybe
just shoot the ball, maybe watch a basket or a
baseball game, and just relax and enjoy a fine cigar.
Manny and everybody who works for him in there making
those cigars is Cuban by blood. They all worked in

(37:16):
Cuban cigar factories before they came here. And all of
the cigars he makes come from tobaccos that are mostly
Cuban seed, and they're grown all over South America. He
imports that tobacco here. I had a good conversation with
him on fifty plus this week about where that tobacco
comes from and the difference in the leaves and cigar

(37:38):
tobaccos and cigarette tobaccos, and I learned an awful lot
from him. What you can find out from him is
how many different cigars he makes, which is about one
hundred and fifty varieties of if you blend everything different
ways and whatnot. And the cool thing about El Kubano
Cigars being a manufacturing facility is that they can custom

(38:01):
make bands for you to put on for a special occasion.
They can make any kind of cigar you want for
special occasions, and Manny will even come out there if
you have a big event going on somewhere, set up
a table and actually hand roll cigars throughout the day
and hand them right directly to your guests. Weddings, bachelor parties,

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game watching parties, any place where a bunch of people
are gonna gather up and smoke a cigar, that's where
you'll find El Kubano Cigars. If the folks know it,
and because you're buying from the factory too, there are
no middlemen to jack up prices. His cigars, even at
the highest quality as they are, are very reasonably priced.
There's a second smoking lounge in League City as well,

(38:51):
if you're a little closer to there, and he'll ship
you cigars. He shipped some shipped the box out yesterday
or day before yesterday to me and I haven't seen
them yet, but I'm hoping I do, because it's gonna
turn the heads of a lot of people here at iHeart.
Elcoubano Cigars dot com is the website. Go there, you'll
learn all about it, and you'll find Manny's number on

(39:14):
there too. Call him. He'll he'll tell you exactly what
he does and why he's so proud of it, and
I'm glad to have him on board too. Elcoubonocigars dot com.

Speaker 9 (39:24):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety Houston sports where you
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Speaker 5 (39:43):
It is on Sports Talk seven ninety Mark. Are you
are you selecting music that you like or are you
guessing at what I might like? Uh?

Speaker 7 (39:52):
Thank Colin for the music selections.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Callum Okay, Well, if you want to go rogue and
find something that you like, I feel free. I'll never
I'll take a look. It'll be it'll be our secret man.
You're well, anybody who is willing to get up and
come in here and do this now, granted you've got
to sleep late to do this show. Most other producers
who come in here are griping about how early it is.
But yeah, if you if you're in there doing that,

(40:16):
then more power to you. You can play anything. There's
only one restriction. No foul language in the lyrics. Absolutely, okay,
that's that's all I ask. It's a family friendly show.
And in twenty five years of doing this, Margo, I
have had to push the dump button. I or a producer,
I could count them on one hand, Thank goodness, and

(40:38):
the only time just happened actually is when somebody got
really enthusiastic and excited telling the story of some big
fish that got away and how they felt right after
that happened. Mostly seven three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. The
fishing around here has been quite good overall. I've had

(41:03):
the little snapshot that I called my own fishing exploits
around here were mostly cold. For about a month, maybe
six weeks or so, I was really down and even
quit carrying fishing rods out to the golf course, which
hadn't happened in seven or eight years. However, determination and

(41:27):
the encouragement of seeing a couple of young kids who
had slipped under the fence was not under the fence,
but around the fence and gotten on from the neighborhood
out there. And these are older teenagers. They're not tearing
anything up, they're not killing any fish. They're just kids fishing,
and as long as they're out late and not in

(41:48):
anybody's way, I don't say anything, because that's exactly how
I learned how to bass fish, for the most part,
was on golf course lakes, so Anyway, I talked to
one of those guys one day and he and his
buddy were out there and they caught four or five
between them, which was that was all I needed to
get me back in the game. And I've been averaging

(42:09):
six to eight bass in the afternoon and I'm talking
about an hour hour and a half, which is really
not bad. Let's go talk to Forest. Let me see
if I can see him up. Heck no, let me
put him back on hold mark up. Oh, oh, here
we are.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
What's up fo proy he it.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
Was going on?

Speaker 11 (42:26):
Man, just getting stirred up here putting the animal outside
for his relief runs.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Yep, that happens every morning.

Speaker 11 (42:33):
Huh oh yeah, looks like I'm actually gonna be able
to get on the lake today for a little while.

Speaker 8 (42:38):
I'm just gonna get there about it. I got a
boat ramp half of off from the house, so it
makes it easy to Well, that's head dodger.

Speaker 11 (42:44):
They kind of keep the poat on the radar and
you can kind of dodge storms. I got fridges, I
can get under, boat boat houses, I can get under
if I have to, so very head.

Speaker 8 (42:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
So what's on the other this morning?

Speaker 8 (42:56):
Well, I had.

Speaker 11 (42:57):
I had some issues with my with my uh it
kind of kind of ties into the bass Master Classic.
You are having some issues with my wiring on my
forward facing sonar. So I totally rewired it. I moved
some stuff around and made it easier to work on
because I put it in. I put it in the
boat for convenience of space. Now I put it in
the boat for convenience. I'm working on it if I

(43:19):
if I have communication issues. But I heard a funny
story yesterday of some of the people I follow, and
there's been a big controversy about the bass Master Classical
about it was the lowest attendance ever for a bast
Master Classic.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Yeah, gee, I wonder why.

Speaker 8 (43:32):
I wonder why. But it was funny.

Speaker 11 (43:35):
One of the kids, and I call them the kids
these days, that uses forward, fad and sodar of the time.
They were interviewing him during the day. During one of
his days, his unit went out and when it did,
it went out like it knew. He didn't catch another
fish for the rest of the day.

Speaker 12 (43:52):
Oh oh exactly, yeah, Ad exactly, But are you you
know right?

Speaker 11 (44:03):
But uh so they interviewed this kid after after the day. Hey,
you know your forward face. Uh so what out we noticed?
You didn't catch anymore fish after that as well. If
you can't see him, you can't catch him.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
That is the most profound statement to come out of
a professional bass fisherman's mouth since the introduction of forward
facing sonar. If that's how they see fishing, if that's
what they think fishing is, then we're gonna have to
start a separate division for with or without. You're gonna

(44:36):
have two tournaments, is what we're gonna need. You can
fish it or you can't fish it.

Speaker 8 (44:43):
Exactly.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
Then that's it then, And that's what this guy, this
guy said ready to block it, So I follow.

Speaker 8 (44:47):
He's real.

Speaker 11 (44:48):
He's the biggest anti social, anti fs forward faces sodar
guy there is. But that statement of load, if that
statement of load doesn't change things. Yeah, when you have
a guy out there say well, if you can see
if you can't catch them, you know, and guys like
Rick Cluinter like, what, yeah, I saw fish I've caught yet,
you know.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
No kidding, no kidding. That's just incredibly that's incredibly detached
from what fishing is supposed to be and what profect
it's attached to, what professional fishing has become.

Speaker 11 (45:21):
Oh exactly exactly, yeah, and all the lighter side of things.
I probably ought to watch our security cameras and put
point one on your mailbox because if you ain't got them,
cubottos in lane's gonna be out there stocking your mailbox.

Speaker 8 (45:37):
You oht to be the spokesman for the product. Probably
knows about.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Them forward facing so and on my mail though you look.

Speaker 11 (45:46):
Later be out there sitting around the corner of waiting
on you can open the mailbox.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Yeah, honestly, what what what I really like about what
he does down there? And and I'm going to see
it firsthand, and the people here in the office are
going to see it first ind Is this this thought
about like for golf tournaments and stuff like that, where
you can you can have your brand, your company's name,
your name if you're an egotist or whatever. On the

(46:10):
cigars and and these are not these are not b
team cigars. These are all cigars that are handmade right
there in Texas City and rolled up and fresher probably
than most anything you could get in a store here.
Pretty good stuff, missy.

Speaker 11 (46:25):
Do you know if he does any of the small
I call him the Clint Eastwood type cigars because I
used to like a cigar every now and then, not
to smoke an oct in hell.

Speaker 8 (46:34):
I just love the smell of it.

Speaker 11 (46:35):
So i'd have the little Clint Eastwood just take it,
take it well, you know, sticking it there and just yeah,
I'd like it.

Speaker 8 (46:41):
But but I just didn't want to. I just liked it.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I just liked it. But I don't know.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
If he's aroma. Yeah, I'm sure he would do him.
If it's a cigar, if you can call the cigar,
he can make it. He can make it for I
guarantee you. Yeah, you ought to call him sometime, good guy,
I might do it. Sure, man, get this doll and
we'll get the call to go do that. And I'm
gonna get a skeeter out there. I'll pick up the
forward facing sonar ball and run with it here. I've

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got other things coming up, but I'll get back to
it for sure today, for sure.

Speaker 8 (47:12):
Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Yeah, thanks good man, Yes sir, yes, sir, audios all right,
click there, click there. We're gonna get out of this
break or out for this break at the top of
the hour on time. We're gonna when we come back
from the break. I'm gonna be talking to David Pruitt,
the guy who runs Riceland Waterfowl Club out in Eagle Lake.
He just joined the family recently, and I want to

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give him a chance to explain who he is, what
he does, and then we're gonna we're gonna kind of
deep dive into overall waterfowl hunting the last couple of
years around here, because it's certainly different than it was
twenty years ago or even ten years ago. And then
we'll go from there.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
This is the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
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Also brought to you by Riceland Waterfowl Hunting Club in
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Speaker 3 (48:12):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Second hour of the program starts right now, and as
promised earlier in the program, Uh, let's see you up, David.
Let's get that done. Mark O, can you get him
for me? David Pruit how are you?

Speaker 8 (48:25):
Man?

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Are doing great?

Speaker 8 (48:27):
Doug?

Speaker 2 (48:27):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (48:28):
I'm all right? I saw a forecast yesterday of kind
of fog out in your neck of the woods for
this morning. Is that materialized or no?

Speaker 10 (48:36):
Oh no, nothing out there, Just a little cooler this
morning than normal.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Well that's welcome this time of year, especially if you've
got anything work on out there across that vast prairie.
So I want to I want to introduce my audience
to you and and let them know you. You've been
running this waterfowl operation years for how many years now
this year? Make fifty years? My gosh, David, holy cow, congratulations,

(49:03):
that's it's been a long time. Yeah, it is, there,
aren't I bet you could count on one hand how
many people have lasted that long in this business. And
you've been winning duck calling contest for just about as long,
haven't you.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Probably for the past twenty five thirty years.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
You still competing.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
No, So I retired from that about seven years ago.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
I bet there were a lot of people who breathed
the sigh of relief when you did that. Well, that's
all right, and now I got a chance. That's good man,
So let me take it. Let's talk about you for
a second. Take me back to the first duck hunt
you remember who was there.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Myself? I was by myself.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
Wow, okay, I.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Was back back in the day before Lake Connor was formed.

Speaker 10 (49:51):
We used to haunt that area and some slews and
stuff and flooded.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
How meta thickets, And I was walking there.

Speaker 10 (49:58):
My dad always gave me a double burl said, well,
the first one has buckshot in case you said dear
no something in case you a rabbit, squirrel or whatever
snuck up. And all of a sudden, these wood ducks
jumped up, and to be honest, Uh statue of limitations.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
I'm okay.

Speaker 10 (50:14):
I didn't have a duck hunty license back then, just
had a hunting license. Yeah, you know, okay, I understand.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (50:20):
Anyway, the ducks jumped up, and I shot one time
and folded a drake. Wood duck went over and picked
it up and barred the duck. And so the colors
of everything was so brig and everything. This is it,
This is what I want to do.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Wow. Good for you man. Good for you when when
you decided to earn your living helping other people enjoy
duck hunting, How how did that feel? Were you hesitant
at first because it's a you you know, you must
have already known. It's a hard business to be in.
What what made you want to do that?

Speaker 10 (50:56):
Well, back then I was under the lake Conroe, and
you know it was more less. It was Connor was
so well that you could just come to me and say, hey,
I want this type duck, and I want this type
duck and this type duck.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
It's like filling order at.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Mcdwhald Holy and it was.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I had blinds everywhere on the lake.

Speaker 10 (51:12):
It it's very few hunters up there but me and
my dad told me more or less.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
When I was at that age of.

Speaker 10 (51:17):
Fourteen fifteen, he was used to drop me off and
I would. He told me, if this is what you
want to do, go get them. And I had dropped
out of high school to do what I'm doing today.
I'm still here.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
Only good for you, David. David prew It from Riceland
Waterfowl Club Anya Lake on the Doug Bike Show. Talk
about the club now and how it operates. Start with
your members are your bread and butter. How many members
do you have now and how many trying to have
for next season? Well, we're not sure exactly how many.

Speaker 6 (51:46):
Now.

Speaker 10 (51:47):
I got some more members from past this last season
again and just send in their stuff for their group,
and we got some single guns just sending stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
You never know exactly.

Speaker 10 (51:57):
We usually lose about fifteen or so a year, fifteen
to eighteen percent, which is not very much. We ran
forty groups last year and our groups consist of six
guns now single guns. We put together the former group,
and if your buddy is in there, you don't make
sure your buddy's in the same group. And we have

(52:19):
corporate memberships. I guess you would call it where someone
has their own group up to six men. Now we
do allow the members. Let's say you, Bob, Frank, and
Roy can hunt tomorrow. That's four, so that means two
of the guys out of your group can't go. You
get free guest privileges. Y'all can bring up two guests
that day. If you and your buddy are going, y'all
can bring four guests that day. We don't ask how

(52:39):
many is going out of your group. That's if we
do that. What we'll do is we can show favoritism
in the blind picks.

Speaker 8 (52:45):
And we will.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
Yeah, you don't want to do that, no, And that's
something I think that's going to keep you going because
as soon as somebody starts getting cherry picking blinds and
getting what appears to be favorite of itutism. Even then
it's gonna it's going to pull you down.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Isn't it? Exactly? And our blind picture are really good.

Speaker 10 (53:05):
You put in your top six blind choices in order
of preference noon the day before the hunt, and I
write everybody's down, and then I just try to work
the puzzle. And then after I get the puzzle, figure
it out, you know how it works, And I text
the group clear back and say, you know, like mosquite tree.
It is so y'all know the group has a mosquite
tree for the day before. So if your lady, it's

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on you, not all of us.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
Yeah, that's kind of the way, well, sort of like
the way Laud Jordan operated his deal down there in
Katie when I was very, very green and just barely
getting into waterfowl hunting. But it was early in the
morning and you'd go put a little ring on this
board where you kind of wanted to hunt, and if
there were two guys there, then he flip a coin
and just say, okay, you guys get that blind and
you guys are going to this blind exactly, and now yeah,

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but the difference, one of the main differences really, and
I think this is important for people to know, is
you don't do any guide it hunting on your stuff.

Speaker 10 (53:57):
Do you, No, sir, we will never do that. We
don't allow guides to get in our club. And you know,
bring their customers. This is for memberships only. It's about
members going out having a good time, bringing their friends.
You know, we've got women that hunt with their kids
that their husband may not hunt.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
We also have father and kid.

Speaker 10 (54:18):
We say, you used to say father and son, but
now we've got a lot of girls hunting it, you know,
on our coven.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
That's great.

Speaker 10 (54:23):
That is about family, all about families and people going
out and having a good time.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Good back to your duck calling expertise, David. And this
is a question that goes all the way back to
a morning when do you remember David low prize the
game board and it was out that way for a
long time, Yes, sir, So David and I were sitting
listening to duck calls all around us one I think
it was opening morning actually, and I didn't take anybody
that morning. I was working on something else for Larry.

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And anyway, we're sitting in his truck and there are
duck calls going off in all directions, and David leans
over to me and he goes, you know what, Doug,
the duck call is the best conservation tool for ducks
ever invented by man. And I think you would agree
with me that the average person in the field is overcalling.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Would you agree not to eight percent?

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (55:16):
Every time it's it's I tell people, if you want
to call it ducks, it tips, call it their wing
tips when they're tipping around, and if their tails when
they're leaving, ducks will figure out where you're at. Uh,
And they overcall. They just think cause the call, that's
what they've got to do. Go sit out there for
about two hours at a place where you see a

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bunch of ducks calling them, I mean talking. There may
be three thousand ducks in a waterhole. You don't hardly
hear anything.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
No, it's almost they're they're too busy eating, you know,
or they're too busy just swimming around in a circle.

Speaker 10 (55:48):
They're not chatterboxes at all. No, not not the way
that the ducks are at the park. They're totally different.
And most people ruin their hunt because of calling too much.
It's learning when and how used a simple quack.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Every now and then.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
Yeah, don't do all that fancy feed call stuff. Just
a little bit of talking to them every now and then.
I'm sure a lot of duck hunners out there can
understand this or say seeing it themselves.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Uh, you got younger guys.

Speaker 10 (56:15):
Of course, they're on the phones instead of watching for ducks.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
That's why our new generation is I don't do that.

Speaker 10 (56:21):
I can't stand it on my phone is the further's
thing from my mind. But you're sitting there just looking around.
All of a sudden you hear splash, splash, and you're
looking and what was that? And you look out in
your decoys and dust landing your decoys. Yeah, not no
one called, No one doese.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Nothing made sense.

Speaker 10 (56:38):
Or you're sitting there in the blind and all of
a sudden you see ducks just go right over your decoys.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Where'd they come from?

Speaker 6 (56:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:43):
You never called and there was right there.

Speaker 8 (56:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
One of the things I used to tell guys who
were kind of new to it and just couldn't stand
not blowing hail calls every two seconds was just never
call at a duck that's coming at you, unless you
are one hundred percent sure that you're not going to
blow a bad note. If they're coming at you, just
shut up. They're doing what you want them to do. Already.
Call it cause the south end of a northbound duck

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and you got a chance to turn him around.

Speaker 10 (57:09):
But yeah, it's the most terrible thing I see, Doug,
is people moving ducks can see you and all. Yeah,
when they're coming straight at you or whatever, they see
you so easily. Ducks in when it's bright days, like
sunshiny days that there's casting shadows, they can't see as good.
But on foggy days, cloudy days and stuff, they see

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an HD vision.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Most people don't know that.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Yeah, they're pretty smart birds.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
They used to get well, that's why they're living.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
Yeah, no kidding. I used to get a kick out
of my goose hunters when you tell them early in
the morning, don't look, don't look. I'll keep you posted
because I'm twenty yards behind them. You know, you guys,
just be really still, and when it's time to shoot,
I'll let you know. And the birds would come in
and invariably two or three of them are moving around.
You can hear safety's going off and the birds flare

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and I'd say, well, you can come on up now,
those bird flared off. I'm not really and I already knew,
but I said, I'm not really sure why, and I
already told him, don't look, just trust me. I'm gonna
tell you when it's time to shoot. And they go, well, yeah,
that one in the middle, he seemed kind of nervous.
And the one on the edge there he he caught something.
His head was moving all around. He must have seen something. Well,
he saw every one of you moving around. He saw

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you all moving around. It's hilarious fact.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
It does it.

Speaker 10 (58:23):
Every time I've been in the blind, I heard those
safeties going off with guns picking up and on it.
That movement kills it. That's the worst thing you can do.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
Yep, Hey, I need I've got more questions for you.
Can you stick around for one more segment?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (58:37):
Okay, hang on, I'm gonna go ahead and take this break,
and then when we get back, I want to get
into something about kind of some some more of the
stuff that that has to do with the club. David
Prout it from Riceland Waterfowl Club on with us this morning.
We're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right back.
Let me put him on hold if I can. There,
we go all right, we're gonna take a little breakll
the way ot. I'm gonna tell you about Belleville Meat Market.

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That is where you, me and everybody else needs to
run to if you're a meat eater and you like
delicious meat products, and pretty much nothing button meat products. Really,
I don't think they have any salads out there now.
They do have sides to go with the lunches and
dinners they serve every day Sunday through Saturday, ten am
to seven pm. That delicious pecan smoked barbecue out there.

(59:21):
They have the sides to go with that. But otherwise
it's meat products. They've got beef, chicken, and pork cut
how you want. They have got appetizers and cheeses and
spices and all these delicious things to make your meal
hearty and healthy and make you feel like a king
when you're eating all this stuff. The big bone in
center cut pork chops on sale right now two nine

(59:44):
up to ten pounds per customer. Get some of that
while game processing all year round. And of course those
just all that deli everything, everything that you can imagine
and more is going to be right there for you
at Belleville Meat Market. You've got a real good reason
to go out there next weekend too, with that Knife
show coming up, and with all the deliciousness you can

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get at Belleville Meat Market. You can make a day
of it, maybe a weekend of it out there in Belleville.
They say celebrating forty two years serving the greater Houston community.
I say celebrating half of Texas really, because a lot
of people from all over this state get most, if
not all, of their meat products from Belleville Meat Market.

(01:00:26):
If you can't get there, get it online. They'll send
it right to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com. That's
Belleville Meatmarket dot Com.

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Speaker 13 (01:00:42):
This as the Doug Fight Show.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
All right, welcome back the Dougpike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Thank you for listening on this better than
yesterday Saturday morning. I've got David prut on the phone.
Let's go ahead and tee him back up if you would.
I appreciate that. Marco. There we go David you back man, Yes, sir,
So let's talk about just how much ground you got,

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all these people getting to hunt on, how many how
many acres you working with?

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Don't I don't count acres that school?

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Well we kept what's more important water water. I mean
you can have.

Speaker 10 (01:01:35):
People say, well, I've got thousand acres over here, wolf,
you've got a five acre water hole on a thousand
in the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
If you ain't got much to you're akers.

Speaker 10 (01:01:44):
And uh so we'll count duck blinds, okay, and like
we will fifteen to twenty percent more blinds when we
have our groups. Last year we were in forty groups
and turned down a bunch of people. Usually we turned
down about, oh, I don't know, somewhere around twenty five
to thirty five groups a year easily. And because I

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will not overcrowd our places, I will just will not.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
I don't blame you. You can't. Are you gonna lose everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Right?

Speaker 10 (01:02:12):
And the thing about our blinds, if we want our blinds,
is four hundred and forty yards apart, which is a
quarter of a mile. That way, you're not sitting on
top of each other, you're not really hurting each other. Yeah,
you can see the birds at a distance. It's also
a safe distance that there's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
No way you're pellotron going to go that far. Yeah,
that's a good thing.

Speaker 10 (01:02:32):
You don't have to worry about it. And that means
that you've got big water. If you've got two blinds
on one water hole, I mean you're twenty plus acres
or more. And you know, when you start adding a
bunch of blinds like that producers, you've got a lot
of water. And nothing attracts ducks like water and other ducks.

Speaker 8 (01:02:51):
Thing that happen.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Now, do your hunters provide their own decoy spreads or
do you keep them in the blinds?

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
No, we don't keep in the blinds eating out of
bus We used to if some people wanted them and
they seem to bring their own, they said, well, this
is what kind of duck decoys we want.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
This is the brand we want.

Speaker 10 (01:03:08):
Everybody has their preferences. Sure you see all one needs.
They got all the mojos out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Oh yes, we.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
Just we just talked over to each other three times.
I'm sorry, that's probably my fault. I got to keep
my mouth shut. I got two years in one mouth.
I'll listen. So you mentioned a couple of weeks ago too,
that you're adding even more water this.

Speaker 10 (01:03:27):
Year right right now, Yes, sir, the goal, our goal
this year is just on water alone somewhere. I'd like
to go for about five hundred to seven hundred more
acres of water. And we're getting some more started. Everything's
still on track for that. And I was talked to
a buddy last night and I said, you know what,
I bet if everything goes going the way I'm predicting

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right now, well, it could add another thousand acres of
water for this year long.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Oh my word. Yeah, a thousand acres water is I
don't care how you cut it up. It's that's going
to attracts. They're looking from way up high when they're
coming down, and especially pintail, I don't know how they
survive at the altitude they seem to come from. On
a lot of days. Speaking of do you have pretty

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good numbers of pintails lately?

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
We was overcovered last year. I mean, that's just but
that's okay, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Yeah, that's not a bad thing. What other what other
ducks are kind of calming down there where you're.

Speaker 10 (01:04:24):
Hunting peel shovelers, You know, and everybody gives the shovelers
a bad wrap.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
They're a great duck to me.

Speaker 10 (01:04:32):
I don't matter what kind of flies by now. We
don't really shoot coup, but any other ducks of duck. Shovelers,
ten pintails, gadwall come back last year a little stronger.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
We actually did come back real strong. Surprisingly. Yeah for
the numbers killed.

Speaker 10 (01:04:50):
Uh what a lot did not do last year's survey,
But the year before I think we were shot either
twenty two or twenty three different species of ducksnestly, Lord.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
Man, talk about geese now, the geese have kind of
they've changed their flight patterns and habits and are shortstopping
basically because we taught people up north how to hunt
duck or how to hunt geese and how to hold
on to them, which is with water. How many geese
you getting down there now? And it's I know it's
not what it used to be, but is it pretty

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good numbers? Are you going to see some geese?

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
Yoh?

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Yeah, we've still got geese.

Speaker 10 (01:05:26):
We had a guy last year he huntred and probably
fourteen sixteen days straight in two.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Or three of them. They was pretty well limited out
over time.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
Good Golly, that's pretty strong. Having to put out a
big spread.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
I presume, hey, you're still putting out about four hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
That's not bad at all. Then, yeah, you're that's definitely
where they wanted to be. That's really good. I'm happy
about that. That sounds good. That's encouraging too, because the
prairie is never going to be what it was when
you and I were doing this thirty years ago. But
for it to be as good as as I've seen
it be in the last couple of seasons, like, holy count,

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who could unless you knew what went on back then.
This is really good waterfowl hunting still, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Oh exactly? Yeah, Yeah, that's fantastic with what we've got.
It's just not the numbers. But we're doing on that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Yeah, we're doing okay with what we got. I think
the geese are any smarter than they were back in
the back in the day. God, I hate to say that.

Speaker 10 (01:06:24):
Uh, I think they've got a little easier this year. Yeah,
past season. Okay, not as many people pressure them, so
that helps.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's a very good point.
That's a very good point.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
I'm I'm excited to have you on board. I want
I'm gonna stay in touch with you through the season
and kind of see how it's going down there. You're
gonna be my barometer for the Eagle Lake area of
the Prairie. And I suspect that your your benchmark, your
your goals are set pretty high for your club members
and and I like that, I really do. And I
like the idea of cappy membership because you don't want

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to pressure too many blinds on too many days. That's
a big reason why you've been successful as long as
you have.

Speaker 10 (01:07:08):
David true, And we also hunt every day of the
season because we've got enough water, we've got enough blinds
with our extra places, and we do let some rest
often own sure, you know, like we hunt some weekends
and some Wednesdays and then, but everything's always open through
the holidays. And with if you've got sixty something duck

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blinds and say six groups went out, there's no way
you've over one hundred your properties and it's impossible.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
No, that's exactly right. Yeah, that as long as the
ducks always have some place to go hang out and
get lucky and not have anybody jump up and yell surprise,
then they're going to keep coming back. I'm glad to
have you on board, David, I really am man. How
can people get in touch with you?

Speaker 10 (01:07:52):
That's our phone is nine three six eight two seven
two four one three, or you can catch ust Rising
Waterfowl Club.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
Rice Leadwaterfowl Club dot com. I look forward to being
down there with you a couple of hunts this season, man.
I'd like to get in the blind with you and
and just watch each other, not call, and see how
many ducks come in exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I'm be ready for it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Just put your call in your pocket and just watch them.
They'll come to you. Heymen. Yeah, we think a lot
of like David. I'm really happy with this man. I'm
glad you're here. Thank you, Yes, sir, thanks for your
time this morning. Y'all have a good one, yes, sir.
Audios all right, Holy cow, man, that guy has been
at this for fifty years. Fifty years and his operation

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is still running strong. I do like that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
I've hunted.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
I was a guide who hunted with an outfitter who
had regular groups of regular guys who like to hunt together,
and it worked out. Okay, it really did. I'm not
knocking anybody who does guided hunts and club hunts and
member hunts that that all works out so long as

(01:09:05):
they do it well. And the people I've hunted with
in recent years do it really well. But this is
just a this is somewhat unique situation that he's hit.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
That's his niche.

Speaker 5 (01:09:17):
He's falling into that, and he doesn't have to worry
about guides coming to him in the morning saying, hey man,
my people didn't do very well yesterday. I need a
better spot. None of that stuff, None of that stuff.
And that's I think what makes his operation different enough
that it certainly merits some attention. And Eagle Lake is
not that far. If you've been hunting that prairie long enough,

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you know that from just about anywhere in town west
of I forty five Eagle Lake, that whole area out
there is not all that far from wherever you are.
Good people nine three, six, eight, two seven, twenty four thirteen.
You can eed Mammy, I'll tell I'll tell you that
phone number again, or just go to the website Iceland

(01:10:00):
Waterfowl Club dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Good people.

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
Man, All right, going back to what we were talking
about a minute ago, I did want to spend a
little bit more time on forward facing sonar because when
when faux pro saw the same video that I saw
that he sent me with I can't remember the man's
name who was an older professional bass fisherman who brought

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up that kid's quote about if you can't see them,
you can't catch them, and that really, that should have
struck a chord, a very disturbing chord throughout the professional
bass fishing community because for the past fifty sixty years,

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when bass fishing for money has been a thing, up
until a few years ago, nobody saw them. You might
be able to if you were lucky. With the electron
that preceded all this. You saw little blips on the screen,
and you saw that there was something down there around
that anomaly on the bottom, but you sure as heck

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could not identify a bass over a croppie, over a
white bass, over a catfish, over a gar. They were
all just kind of shapes and blips that were nondescript.
Now we have professional guides offering up guarantees of big

(01:11:35):
bass by using this technology. We have professional tournament fishermen
coming out and saying that you can't catch them if
you can't see them, and that is just flat not true.
I don't when I walk the banks of the lake

(01:11:56):
where I'm fishing now, I can't see the fish when
they eat the lure. Every now and then one of
them will come up and eat right off the rod tip.
But that's the exception, not the rule. I'm not walking
up and down that bank and not casting either, just
because I don't see a bass. If I only made
a cast when I saw bass in those lakes, I

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would never make a cast because I would never physically
see one. The water's not quite clear enough anymore. It
used to be you could see them cruising around the shorelines.
And I can tell you this too. If you saw
one of those fish crews in the shorelines and you
flipped the lure in front of it, it would spook.
It would not eat that lure. We're talking about guys
who are just making a living in deeper water where

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they see the fish before the fish recognizes their presence, really,
and they just drop a lure down to it and
watch the lure go down, watch the lure and stop
it right and the fishes off the fish the end
of the fish's lips and just shake it around until
it gets annoyed. And eats it. And I'm not really

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sure that that is what we want professional fishing to be.
That's just no longer fishing. I strongly believe that. And
what they need to do is do likes being considered
in other arenas of sport and create an entirely new

(01:13:25):
division for people who want to fish that way. And
if that's how you want to fish, that's fine, but
take your game somewhere else so that the people who
are fishing traditionally can continue to do that and use
their minds and use their intuition and use their instincts

(01:13:46):
and use their knowledge rather than just their eyeballs to
catch fish. Moody Gardens been there in a while. I
hope you'll come back and join me. April eleventh through
the third. Now the this is the Fly Fishing Film Festival,
an annual thing. This is the fourth year we're doing

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this down there, and I am thrilled to be mceing
the proceedings again. I'll be broadcasting live down there on
Friday or on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the actual
films there are two separate internationally acclaimed collections of short
fly fishing films that will be featured both nights, and

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if you're down there and lucky enough to PLoP down
in that giant MG three D theater, it's the largest
screen in the entire state of Texas, you will be
treated to one of the most incredible experiences of your life.
You are free to make noise. You are free. The
first year i am c everybody was very polite and quiet.

(01:14:52):
It was like they were watching a documentary and I'm
looking at all these images, going, holy cow, somebody needs
to make some noise. And it's as soon as the
first one stopped and there was a little brief intermission,
I got back on the microphone and said, hey, if
you feel inclined to go wow, go wow, say what
you want, whistle, holler, clap, whatever you want to do.

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I know this is making people excited when I'm watching
it myself, and they were just very like golf clap, oh,
very Oh that's cute. No, get after it, get excited.
There is an open well, it's a cash bar, not
an open bar. It's a cash bar. If you need
some enthusiasm builder, you can do that while you're sitting around.
There's great raffle items you can register in advance actually

(01:15:36):
for kids and adult fly fishing lessons if you want
to get into it. These tickets, by the way, are
just ten bucks, just ten bucks in advance, and they
have one and two night hotel packages available, so you
can make a whole weekend of it at Moody Gardens.
And it's a pretty cool place to be, believe me.

(01:15:57):
For that whole weekend, I'll I'll be there, I'll be
mcn we'll have some fun and games in between films
and I They're gonna be a whole open area full
of vendors under the roof of the theater building, but
a whole bunch of vendors, a couple of dozen of
them coming in from all over the state. There'll be
some boats outside, all these people inside to talk about fishing,

(01:16:21):
to talk about fly fishing, to talk about anything and
everything related to the things we love the most. Basically,
go to Moodygardens dot org for those discount tickets and
check out the whole hotel packages while you're there. And
by the way, I'm gonna give away some tickets at
some point to one of the callers today. I'm not
sure who it's gonna be, but I'm gonna offer up

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free tickets to the Moody Gardens fourth annual Fly Fishing
Film Festival that's coming up April eleventh through the thirteenth.
Moodygardens dot org. Go there to get the details. Moodygardens
dot org.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 14 (01:17:02):
Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Eight thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety. So far,
so good for Marco and his song selections. Just keep
it up, Marco, You're doing a great job, man, Thanks
Dag malcol Orient. I had to come in here. He
did you volunteer for this or just draw the short straw?

Speaker 7 (01:17:39):
I volunteered.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Thank you. I appreciate that man.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
Of course.

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
Let us go and talk to David, who Marco is
going to have to pull up because it's not working
in here again. I don't know why it doesn't do that, David.
What's up? Man?

Speaker 6 (01:17:52):
Yeah? Doug, Yeah, a good selection too, but I think
it was a boss Keaggs. Anyway, I'm gonna tie a
couple of comments on topics together. You were just talking
about electronics and game calling. I'm going and I'm like you.
We watch these YouTube videos and it gives us an idea.
I'm going to try call it using an electronic caller

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to pull in peril hogs. And you know the technology, Doug,
when we were kids, you had these callers and they
had different buttons for the calls, right they wanted to make.
Now you can, you know, connect this thing to your
to your laptop and download hundreds of different calls. Of

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course they come with and they're all soft calls. The
one I bought, I think came with one hundred and
forty different calls. But you can change them, you know,
if the animals or the game, this hogs whatever, if
they get used to a particular call, you just download
a different one and put that on them. But I'm
going to try it and see if there's any truth

(01:18:56):
to this and if this technology has gotten to the
point where it gives the uh, you know, we're hunting
pest here, so it's not like trying to catch large
mouth bass. Sure a competition.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
No, I don't have any problem at all using whatever
it takes to get rid of hogs.

Speaker 6 (01:19:11):
Have you had any experience of these electric new i'll
call it the new generation of electronic calls.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
No, not the new stuff I dabbled briefly with CDs
and and even cassette tapes back one hundred years ago. Uh,
but no, I have not done any of the digital
audio calling. Man.

Speaker 6 (01:19:30):
I'm eager to try it out. And I've got you know,
I've got a place where it's a great place and
tistically my hunts have been sitting there waiting until dark
to something show up. And Uh. Anyway, a caller out
there has a listener, has some experience calling using these
new generation of electronic calls. They're very realistic.

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
What sounds do you intend to make to draw hogs?
I'm just curious.

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
Well, that's the thing. There are companies a little small,
you know, family business while most that make these calls,
that go out and capture these calls and then sell
them for you know, five bucks. Yeah, and uh you
can download them into your call okay and uh and
then use them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
There's a couple that one of them is feeding hogs.
Uh and uh. And the calls, DOUG have gotten a
lot better. They're smaller and louder, I would say, uh
and uh. As one guy said, you know, three things
are going to happen when you use it. You're gonna
call them. Uh, they're going to ignore it. Are they're
going to run off. And two of those three are good.

(01:20:38):
If you can you can chase all hogs, that's a
good thing. But if but uh, anyway, not. One of
my theories is go up there whenever I find fresh hogs,
sign and set up. Wait a little bit late in
the evening, and maybe I'll call those hogs that have
been creating that damage to this to the pasture.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
I like the idea, I really do, man, I'd be fascinated.
I'm kind of curious to see how turns out. I
wish I had a place I could pop out and
do that. I'm thinking maybe a distress call of a
piglet that couldn't help help draw man. I would think, uh,
especially the South, if there's a litter, you know there's
a litter there somewhere, Man, hit that distress call for

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one of the piglets, and mama's got to look around one, two, three,
four five. I think I got all my babies here,
but there's somebody squeaking over there. I gotta go check
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
And I what about fights?

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
Yeah, you know that might draw them.

Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
Yeah, all of those are available. You got sure pig distress. Yeah,
you got boor fight.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:21:35):
But anyway, I bet I bet you got a listener
out there that said a curve on this, and you
can kind of share some insight with us. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
I've heard bore fights just too close for comfort, you know. Uh,
there was In fact, it was a hunt over in
Alabama as a matter No, it wasn't Elebama. It was Mississippi.
In Mississippi, I'm sitting in a ground blind and right
at dusk, two of these things just go off fighting
each other. Probably they were probably in hindsight, maybe one

(01:22:01):
hundred yards away, but they sounded like they were at
the next tree in the forest, and like, holy cow, man,
I was a little bit. I was a little bit concerned,
but it was. It turned out all right. I made it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
So anyway, I always enjoy your show. I'm fishing this morning,
so well good, I got bite. But that was about it,
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:22:21):
Well, yeah, I want to know how how that turns out.
I really do, David, thanks a lot, man.

Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
All Right, we'll see that, sir audios.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
Okay, he's gonna go do it. He's gonna be my
hog caller. That's got to work. That's got to work.
And I like the idea of being able to get
multiple different calls for a couple of bucks apiece that
you can just download into your little sound system. The
sound systems themselves not hard to figure out. You can

(01:22:50):
buy little speakers now, and I've seen them with magnetic
clips onto golf carts for the last ten years, and
they just keep getting smaller and smaller. You've got a
speaker essentially no bigger than the size of two phones
rubber banded together, that can blare out sound you can
hear for a quarter mile at least if you turn

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it up. And with the digital technology, here's what's going
to be next is using AI program AI somehow to
recognize all these different sounds from these hogs and then
ask it to create a specific sound that hogs would
make if they were in this, that or the other situation.

(01:23:37):
Hogs feasting on something that's delicious to them, Hogs fighting
over a mate, Hogs trying to find their distressed offspring.
They're just innumerable options for this technology to be used
for the good of hunting pigs, and that anything that

(01:24:00):
takes more pigs out of the equation is not a
bad thing. This state continues to be overrun with wild hogs,
and there's not much anybody can do about it, unfortunately,
except just keep trying and take advantage of every opportunity
to put a teeny teeny dent in the population. We

(01:24:20):
got to take a little break here on the way out.
I bet you there's still some hogs. Given my buddy
Mike Griswold fits down there at Timber Creek too. I
wouldn't be surprised about that Timber Creek golf Club down
there on FM twenty three, p. Fifty one in friends
would twenty seven holes great holes to play to, really
good holes. They're all a lot of fun. And the
architect of that golf course made it so that if

(01:24:42):
you just stand on your tea box for five seconds
and look down down hole, you can get a really
good idea of where you're supposed to hit the ball.
And if you're hitting them there, then you've got a
good shot at getting it on the green and making
yourself a birdy or a par. If you're not hitting
it into that spot as often as you'd like, then
spend a little time adjacent to the to the practice

(01:25:04):
range down there in that ten building. That's where you're
gonna find JJ Woods and his staff, the teaching pros
down there at timber Creek Golf Club who are very
well skilled in knocking rust off of golf swings. Good
place to have a big event, good place to get
some lessons, good place to just go play and have
fun with your buddies. Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty

(01:25:25):
three point fifty one in friends with just a few miles,
as I said, off the golf freeway, or you can
set up a tea time for yourself right now. Timbercreekgolf
Club dot com. That's timber Creek Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 9 (01:25:37):
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Speaker 15 (01:25:43):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
Eight forty eight on Sports Talk seven Night at the
Dug Pike Show. Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it.
Thanks also to Marco Oreanna for coming in here. Marko,
I have an assignment for you. This will this will
be interesting. I've never done this before either. I just
thought of this and my brain goes in a lot
of different directions. So you and I have talked what
for about a total of a minute and a half

(01:26:21):
two minutes together, and since we started the show, and
I've got to know a little bit about you. You want
to kind of get in the outdoors. You know, I'm
an old guy. Uh you know I like golf. You
know I like the outdoors. So I'm gonna charge you
in the nine o'clock hour, at about nine fourteen or so,
when when Art Strickland and I finish our conversation, I'm

(01:26:42):
gonna charge you with coming back with a song that
you think that I like. Okay, and it can manage
except you could yeah, okay, and I'm not gonna You've
you've heard me with my southern drawl. You've heard me
talk about things that I like so far, and just

(01:27:02):
with that little snippet of information, we'll see if you
can see if you can come up to the plate
and hit a home run. And by the way, there
is no there is no penalty if I say no,
that's just not me. There's none whatsoever. You are always
welcome to come back in here, because so far, for
an entire hour, almost two hours now, you've kept me

(01:27:26):
on the air. And that's all I ever ask of
a producer. I told you earlier, I don't yell at producers.
That doesn't. That doesn't never get anybody anywhere. It's kind
of silly.

Speaker 7 (01:27:34):
That's always much appreciated. Oh yeah, I bet yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:27:37):
There There have been people in this building and in
the old building too, who aren't that way, And I'd
never understand why they would, why they would get so
angry with one of you, unless unless you set the
building on fire or something. Anyway, enough of that, okay,
And by the way, there was something somebody asked me

(01:27:58):
a friend suggested right out after he said my audience
needs a name. He said that name should be Pike's Peeps.
I'm gonna leave it up to you guys by call
or email or text or whatever to vote yes or
no on adopting that officially. Is it too corny, is

(01:28:19):
it not corny enough? Is it just right? It's kind
of like Goldilocks and her porridge, too hot, too cold?
Just write what is it? And if it's a no
from you, kindly feel free to suggest something you think
sounds better. I'm just kind of curious, and I have
a reason in the back of my mind, but I'm

(01:28:39):
not going to go forward with anything to do with
that reason until I hear from the people who listen
to this show, and I greatly appreciate that. Bring some
friends next time, Bring all the friends you want. And
by the way, I've mentioned this a few times, and
I'll mention it one more time because we've got a
little time before the top of the hour break. If
you or anybody else you know, interested in becoming a

(01:29:01):
part of this program, interested in supporting this program and
in turn letting me support your business, just email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com and I will set
that ball in motion and the two promises I make.
I'm unique in that I, as somebody who's on air,

(01:29:21):
also get to handle personally people who want to be
part of this show or really anywhere else that fits
into iHeart for the entire nation. I can work with
clients all over the country, and I do, but most
of my effort is put into people around here who
want to be part of this show, who want to

(01:29:42):
be part of fifty plus, and I get to work
directly with you. There's nobody in the middle who you
got to talk to.

Speaker 16 (01:29:51):
You.

Speaker 5 (01:29:52):
If you got to beef, you bring it to me.
If you're happy, you bring it to me. And that's
I've been doing that now for the better part of
I've bet fifteen eighteen years and it's it's worked out
for a lot of people. It really has seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I at some point I'm gonna

(01:30:12):
be able to We're gonna talk golf in the nine
o'clock hour, pretty good bit since we have the Texas
Children's Houston Open going on and probably wrapping up the
leftovers from yesterday's suspended then restarted second round. I'll go
to the leader board when we get into this top
of the hour break and check on that, and then
I'm gonna bring in Art Strickland to do that. But

(01:30:34):
at some point in this program, I am going to
talk about trout fishing, because it's been really, really good
and there are a lot of quality fish being caught
in the let. There are tournament's going on, they're catching
bigger fish. There are people I've known for years texting
me and emailing me and letting me know that they're
catching better trout than they've caught either in their lives

(01:30:57):
or in years. And I can't help but believe that
most of that is attributable to the new limits that
were put in place back in May of last year
that dropped the limit to three fish a day and
protected fish longer than twenty inches long. That was critical

(01:31:18):
that they just say, look, you can keep one if
the record book is still open. If you want to
kill one giant fish and haul it to the dock
and weigh it on the outside chance that it might
be a state record, then go for it. But otherwise,
let that big fish go so that somebody else can
enjoy it, and somebody else can enjoy it, and I
would be willing to bet if there were some way

(01:31:41):
to I'm not going to encourage anybody to just tag
every big trout they catch, but if there were some way,
and there actually is a way, but I'm not going
to reveal it on air because it deals with something
that you would have to do to the fish that
I'm not really a one hundred percent a fan of.

(01:32:02):
But there is a way to mark a fish to
let someone the next person that catches it know you
caught it before them. But no, we're just not gonna
go there. Just know that when you release a big
fish of twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, that somebody
down the line, probably gonna catch it when it's twenty eight,
twenty nine, thirty or maybe even longer than thirty inches,
and they're gonna be absolutely just as thrilled as you

(01:32:25):
were when you caught that fish. And the only way
that can happen is if you let it go, and
you let it go carefully. One of the things that
I'm going to keep pressing really hard on before we
go to the break, I promise I'm gonna get out
after I say it, make this point. I promise that
to you, Marco. If everybody is so concerned now with
releasing big trout and making sure that they get a good, strong,

(01:32:49):
healthy release and they're not damaged on the way back
into the water, why isn't the big trout aficionado crew,
Why aren't big trout specialists mashing the barbs on all
their hooks. If you know you're gonna let the fish
go anyway, if you know that you are going to

(01:33:12):
release that fish so that it can fight another day
and put another smile on another fisherman's face, why don't
you just go ahead and take that step that assures
a healthy well not one hundred percent, but it takes
it from about sixty seventy percent all the way to
about eighty five or ninety percent of a safe, comfortable,

(01:33:37):
no damage release for that fish. And you know what,
if a big old trout comes up and shakes that
lure with no barbs on its hooks, shakes it free,
and you watch that happen, that's pretty cool to watch too.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with mashing down the
barbs on all my lures, and I really I can

(01:34:00):
still count very few fish that I'm one hundred percent
sure got off my hook because the barbs were mashed flat.
I know a lot of people who have emailed me
and said, you know what, I'm sure glad I took
your advice because I took a hook in the arm,
I took a hook in the leg, I took a
hook in the ear, the neck, whatever, and because it

(01:34:23):
had no barb, I was able to just back it
out of there and keep fishing. You squeeze it, you
bleed it a little bit, Maybe put some soap and
water on it, or grab a squirt of hand sanitizer
and put that on there, just to just for safe keeping,
and then get back to fishing. Don't stop your trip
and go to a er dock in the box emergency

(01:34:46):
center somewhere. Just keep fishing. Works for me, I hope
it worked for all of you too. It would just
do even more to enhance what's coming up to be
an era of incredible big trout fishing. All right, we
got to take this break at the top on the
way out, ah, I get to tell you a little
bit more about Riceland Waterfowl Club. A reminder if you will,

(01:35:07):
since we already talked to David Pruitt a little bit
while ago out of Eagle Lake, one of the finest
waterfowling operations in the state of Texas and has been
owned and operated for This is his golden anniversary in
the waterfowl hunting business. Not a whole lot of people
make that he did, though, and the reason is because
he works all year round to make sure all his

(01:35:29):
members get quality hunting experiences through the entire season. He's
got tons of water, he's got tons of blinds, at
least a quarter mile apart, or actually there's one that's
I think like four hundred and thirty yards apart. Somebody
measured that with a range finder one time, and sorry,
that's the only one that's like that, though the rest
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Are at least a quarter mile apart, which is nice.

Speaker 5 (01:35:52):
It really is spreads everybody out, nobody's bothering each other,
and he doesn't do any guided hunting, just like he
said on club Land, all that water, all those birds,
and the only people who have access are his club
members and their guests. If you had kind of a
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(01:36:14):
dot com. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com. You'll be glad
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Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
All right, here we go nine o two on Sports
Talk seven ninety is the answering yet, Marco?

Speaker 7 (01:36:50):
Nothing yet?

Speaker 6 (01:36:51):
Er?

Speaker 5 (01:36:52):
Yeah, gosh, okay, make sure I gave you the right number.
Let's make sure we're dialed in. Are the last four
to yep, that's it, okay, and then nine to seven
two area code, yep, okay. And then there's a big number,
then almost that big number, and then another big number.

Speaker 7 (01:37:15):
Yep, that's him.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
That pot liquor? Where is he? He's sleeping in? I
don't know. He's not a big party guy, so I'm
not worried about him. He's not hungover this morning or
anything like that. He's a he's a diehard golf guy
and he's got lots of stuff to cover. Hmm, that's okay,
I can handle this. Let me go to the leader
board actually, and we'll just talk about what's going on

(01:37:38):
over there at Memorial Park and where it's gonna be.
Billy Wade in apologizing for a miss a typo. Typos
in this day and age aren't really your fault. Most
of them can be attributed to Oh is he te

(01:38:00):
him up? Let's go all right strictly. What's going on? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Hey Doug, how you doing today?

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
I'm good? How are you? Did I wake you up?
Did we wake you up?

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Art?

Speaker 5 (01:38:17):
Where did he go?

Speaker 8 (01:38:19):
This business?

Speaker 17 (01:38:19):
For a long time?

Speaker 18 (01:38:20):
That's only the second time they were evacuated the media room.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
Oh wow, Yeah, I got evacuated once. I was doing
a live broadcast up at Golf Club of Houston, and
this Sheriff's department guy came over and said, you need
to get out of this little tent right now, buddy,
and get into a big building somewhere. And I and
my producer said politely, yes, sir, and we high tailed
it out of there, and actually, believe it or not,

(01:38:48):
I can't remember who produced, I wish I could, but
in seven minutes we were off the golf course property
into that what the old media center over there, which
is now their workout room, that workout facility, and back
on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
Yeah, so what happened yesterday? How bad did it get?
I only heard one thunderclap over here at the office
and we're five minutes away from there.

Speaker 18 (01:39:13):
Yeah, it's about about three.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:39:18):
Things they came over there were evacuating the media center.
Because it's not ground fighting. It can't get really bad.

Speaker 17 (01:39:27):
We need everybody to go to the clubhouse.

Speaker 18 (01:39:30):
Yeah, okay, it was what it was writing, but it
wasn't really doing anything bad.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:39:36):
I alsold up my all my stuff and got the
heck out of there, and uh, whenever there wasn't much.

Speaker 17 (01:39:45):
Going on in the media room. So are in the clubhouse?

Speaker 5 (01:39:48):
Did they let y'all eat? Did you let y'all eat
in the in the clubhouse?

Speaker 8 (01:39:52):
Yeah, well yeah, roast beef.

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
Huh Yeah, that's funny, man. So let's talk about what's
going on over there. So now you got is everybody
wrapped up from yesterday? Yet they should be pretty close.

Speaker 17 (01:40:09):
Huh, pretty close.

Speaker 8 (01:40:11):
They started it in.

Speaker 17 (01:40:14):
I think the most people had nine o'clock. They had
night holes to go.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
Yeah, so they should be about done.

Speaker 18 (01:40:25):
Yeah, and then they're they're supposed to be starting, uh,
supposed to be starting the third round like a can.

Speaker 17 (01:40:34):
Yeah, they're gonna go off threesome bote.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
Yeah, so they'll they'll they should get that round in today.
If barring any horrible rain they were just misty stuff.
They'll they're gonna grind right through that. They'll have to.
I'm sure it's gonna be pretty. It's gonna go ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:40:51):
Oh I cann't say, but you know, we had you know,
they came back. I think they restarted like it at
five fifteen some points. Yeah, you know, you know, because
of course is soft obviously, and they got left cleaning
place and uh, then we can uh you know, so

(01:41:12):
they can touch the ball, they can plays in a
good white, soft greens and receptive.

Speaker 17 (01:41:17):
But so the cut goes up from minus two to
minus three.

Speaker 18 (01:41:21):
Well, Rory's two shots below the cut line with only
four holes to go, and it's looking like he's going
to miss his first cut since the British Open last year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
He is he five over right now?

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
Is that what you're telling me?

Speaker 17 (01:41:37):
He birdied three of the last four holes to make
the cut.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
Oh he did make it, Okay, okay, yeah, he was.

Speaker 17 (01:41:44):
Two shots flowed the cut lines after they restarted.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Oh okay, okay, So yeah, good for him, man, good
for him. I bet Scotti Scheffler was glad he got
around before the bottom fell out. Yesterday. Huh tied the
record with sixty two.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Over there had his own record.

Speaker 17 (01:42:01):
That sounds like something Ike would do.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
Yeah, yeah, but not for the low score. That's the problem, Mark,
that's the problem, cow is this is the are the
conditions They're gonna change the way these guys approached the
golf course at all? Did you get that much rain
or no?

Speaker 18 (01:42:21):
I think you know obviously they're gonna go left cleaning place. Yeah,
the pros left clean and cheep o. Why do you
say that's the way the pros called you put your
hand on the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
Okay, yeah, that's a good point, Oh, mercy, if you
couldn't pick Scotty Scheffler, okay, if you had to just
set him aside, or maybe you didn't think he'd actually
win it, first of all, does he win or lose art?
Is he gonna just go ahead and take care of business?
Is he fully back?

Speaker 18 (01:42:55):
I don't know if he's fully back, but I mean
I like the chances a while. Obviously, you know, great players,
and we may have discussed this. Great players find anything
they can for motivation they'll use and Tiger was the
master of this.

Speaker 17 (01:43:09):
They would find something and use that for motivation.

Speaker 8 (01:43:12):
Sure.

Speaker 18 (01:43:12):
And so last year Scotty has an incredible year, wins
eight times, he wins with you know, wins everything.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:43:20):
The one tournament he did not win and failed was
the Houston Open. But on the last all that was
brought a players, So.

Speaker 18 (01:43:31):
You know it's it's so I think coming back this
year making amends the one tournament he didn't he didn't.

Speaker 8 (01:43:38):
Do it on you know, was uh it was.

Speaker 17 (01:43:43):
I think he's going to do it. I think he's
motivated to do it with this.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Yeah, there's nothing that fires him up, I think any
more than something like that. And I didn't realize it.
I forgot about that that he missed that putt. Yeah,
you're exactly right.

Speaker 18 (01:43:59):
Oh wins the Masters, you know, he he came back
won the Masters last year. He wins, you know players,
he wins old Metal. He would have won a million
dollars wall Suiticans of Louisville police to bar that.

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
He could have added to his winnings right then, and
there couldn't he Oh my gosh, man, let's get break
players do that. Let's get back to the golf course
for just a second. With lift cleaning place and kind
of soft greens, does that course have really any defense
at all?

Speaker 12 (01:44:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Win?

Speaker 8 (01:44:37):
Uh? No, I mean the wind.

Speaker 18 (01:44:40):
You know, I heard predictions of thirty mile an hour
winds yesterday. Obviously that never happened. No, no, you know,
so they uh you know, I think the fact that
there's not a our of water, you know, coming in
on eighteen, there's no water.

Speaker 17 (01:44:58):
There's water on a few but there's just nothing to
really slow you down. And that's why you know he's
got too.

Speaker 18 (01:45:05):
Scotty's got to sixty twos, Tony Fenale's got to sixty two.

Speaker 17 (01:45:11):
You know, So I think that there's not a whole lot,
so it's going to go whoa. You know, Scotty's motivated.
He hadn't won this year.

Speaker 18 (01:45:21):
And you know I said this to one of Scotty's
good friends at the beginning of the year. And I'll
ask you the same question, Doug, Scotty if he wins
three times this year, three times, which is a great year.

Speaker 17 (01:45:34):
If you win some Masters, you'll winner. Is that a
bad year for Scotty?

Speaker 7 (01:45:39):
Well not for you and me.

Speaker 17 (01:45:40):
It's not fortybody else.

Speaker 18 (01:45:42):
But after you want eight one year, only win three
the next, is that a bad year? And I think
that's what Scotty. He wants to get the ball going.
He wants to keep it rolling and pick up.

Speaker 17 (01:45:53):
Win number one.

Speaker 18 (01:45:54):
I think win number one will be at the Texas
Children's Houston Open this week.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to bet against him. I don't
think three wins for Scotti Scheffler. I think his head's
on a little straighter than worrying about that being a
bad year. I think he's able to rationalize and look
and say, look, you know, and if he especially now,
if he's if he wins three and then missus six cuts,
that's one thing. But if he wins three and he's

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runner up two or three times and he's got eight
or ten top tens to go along with all of that,
that's not a bad year. And I think he would
recognize that.

Speaker 18 (01:46:32):
Yeah, No, I agree, And you know, I mean we
can sit around and talk, you know, nineteen hold talk forever.

Speaker 17 (01:46:40):
Sure sure about uh.

Speaker 18 (01:46:42):
You know, did he uh you know, did he have
you know, his last year one of the greatest years
in the history of golf. You know, certainly he was
up there, top five, top ten, whatever you want. Uh,
but you know the fact that he hadn't won this year,
I think he's ready to make a.

Speaker 17 (01:47:00):
Man, especially and he failed that last year. That would
just be Jeff's kiss right there.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
Yeah, just said said, yeah, if you didn't think I
could win this tournament, and you thought wrong, here we go.
And there's nobody more skilled, nobody any better skilled to
make that happen than Scottie Scheffer. For sure.

Speaker 18 (01:47:19):
You know, I think that one of the great uh
sayings on the PGA Tours horses for courses. Yeah, I
think that the fact he's already shot sixty two there.
Once he's got sixty two, I'd say confidence is sky high.

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
So take him out, take him out, art Scotti, Scheffer.
He he sprains his ankle and has to quit. Now
who now?

Speaker 8 (01:47:42):
Who?

Speaker 18 (01:47:43):
Yeah, A good question. I mean a lot of good
players out there, young guys. I mean obviously Tony Female
is still work team.

Speaker 8 (01:47:51):
Yeah, you know, I think you do there before?

Speaker 18 (01:47:55):
Uh you know, I like, you know, here's the guy
that's really been playing well and uh, you know as
tywar Pindris who U won the Byron Nelson last year,
had some good finishes.

Speaker 8 (01:48:09):
Right there at the top.

Speaker 18 (01:48:10):
I think when you've won, especially when you wondered as
recently as Taylor, I had a lot of the Canadians
up there. I like Taylor's chance is a while, I
really do.

Speaker 5 (01:48:22):
Nobody's in a better spot to do it than he is.
That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
A pair of sixty five.

Speaker 17 (01:48:26):
One and you've got a taste of it, you know
you're ready to do it again.

Speaker 8 (01:48:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:48:32):
The first one is always the hardest. They all talk
about that, and and then once you overcome that hurdle,
now it's just about playing your own game at your
own pace and just hoping a few puttsfall right.

Speaker 8 (01:48:46):
You know you can do it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's yes, something you and I have yet
to experience.

Speaker 8 (01:48:50):
Heart, we can do something.

Speaker 5 (01:48:54):
I'm not sure what we think we can do it,
and then that's why we keep going out there and trying.
My friend, it's great to talk to you. I might
I might try to tee you up again tomorrow morning,
if you don't mind.

Speaker 17 (01:49:07):
Yeah, I just have to give me a time. I'll
a little bit more congested schedule tomorrow, that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
Yeah, it's okay. I'll double check with you later in
the day. I'm gonna probably come over for lunch in
a little while.

Speaker 17 (01:49:20):
Yeah, we'll work it out.

Speaker 5 (01:49:21):
Okay, I'll find you no worse. Hey, Art Strickland, thank
you very much, man boy, one of the best golf
writers and author of several books on the subject. And man, yeah,
thank you. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 17 (01:49:35):
All right, buddy, I'll see it happened, all right, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:49:39):
All right, Urt's got to go to work. I don't
blame him for that. I know I'm running a little
bit late. I'm gonna go ahead and take a break
as soon as I get back, I promise Brandon I
will be right to him and we'll talk about that
Phoenix Knives. This is another opportunity for me to tell
you guys about this knife show that is that well,
it's big, big show. It's the biggest one that there's

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going to be in this state of Texas. That's for sure.
More than one hundred and fifty of the best knife
makers in the entire country coming to the Austin County
Expo Center in Belleville on April five and six. It's
a fantastic opportunity for anybody, anybody who knows anything about
knives to go there, take advantage of the free parking,

(01:50:21):
take advantage of the just ten dollars admission ticket five
bucks for kids, and get in and just see some
of the most amazing knives and other cutting weapons, if
you will, cutting tools made by the people who are
going to be right there. You can talk to them,
you can learn what they do, how they do it.

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You'll see some competitions, some very friendly but very serious
competitions between these people to see who's best at making
different things, at cutting different things with their knives. All
this really started with cowboys Emanski, who was one of
the original contestants on Forged and Fire and sen He
started that show. It has grown every single year until

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now it needs to be in the Austin County Expo Center.
His stor is right there in Belleville as well, right
there on Main Street. You can go by there anytime,
just first come, first served. Go in there and actually
learn how to make a knife and make your own
handmade knife while you're there. It doesn't take that long.
It's pretty cool what they do in there. Tickets, as

(01:51:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
Well done man, thanks.

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Speaker 7 (01:52:33):
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Speaker 5 (01:52:37):
Man just pretty much describes me. If he'd mentioned golf
once or twice, I'd be locked in for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
That's a good shot. Let's get Brandon on the phone.
See what's on his mind. Brandon, thanks for hanging on, buddy.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
H No problem, mister Pike.

Speaker 16 (01:52:54):
You know, I just wanted to give all the golfers
and everybody that goes out and watches the golf tournament.
I'm gonna speak from my dad's perspective. All three of
my kids were born in Texas Children's. My last my
last son was two seconds away from writing them off.

(01:53:16):
He's a walking miracle. Oh, if it wasn't for it wasn't.
If it wasn't I'm trying not to get emotions. If
if it wasn't for Texas Children's, what happened was the
cord was wrapped around his neck and they pulled him out,
and uh, he.

Speaker 8 (01:53:36):
Was two seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
I mean, I'm not lying.

Speaker 16 (01:53:38):
They uh they told him, he said, doc, you got
seven minutes, and it was six fifty eight. And he
took his fine and he took his breath, and he's
he's a walking miracle.

Speaker 6 (01:53:50):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:53:50):
And anybody, anybody that goes excuse me, anybody that goes
to that tournament either donates or or does whatever they
need to do to support. We are very blessed in
uh in Houston for the medical Center and Texas Children.

(01:54:11):
And that's the reason I'm cheering up, because, man, I
tell you what, I love kids, and if you can't
get them in the outdoors, you're I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:54:20):
It's a huge mistake.

Speaker 8 (01:54:22):
Yeah, so I gotta walk and live in miracle.

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
How old is your son now?

Speaker 8 (01:54:27):
Uh, he's about twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:54:30):
Good for you, man.

Speaker 16 (01:54:31):
I was, and I was in the waiting room and
the nurses they said, I ain't leading, No, I ain't leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
Nope.

Speaker 16 (01:54:38):
They tried to push me out the door and the
doctor said just leave them alone. And I stomached it
out two seconds. Wow, man, I mean, I mean Texas.
If we wouldn't have been at Texas Children's he wouldn't
be here today. And that's what I want to just
y'all go out and support that tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
However it however you seemed to do it.

Speaker 8 (01:55:01):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:55:01):
I really appreciate you sharing that story, man, I really do.

Speaker 16 (01:55:04):
Oh and that's the other thing I was gonna share
with you. I was walking down the hall and I
was in a daze, and it's little Premie. They had
her in a cage, well not in a cage, a
cage and there was four there was four nurses and
they had there was tubes running out of this gal
and they were singing. I mean, they were singing.

Speaker 8 (01:55:26):
Over this gal.

Speaker 16 (01:55:26):
And she goes, now, she's gonna make it, And I
mean it's the most amazing place you've ever seen in
your entire life.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
Yeah, those babies are born so so in such a
precarious way. We think of a lot of people, especially guys,
think of childbirth as od it hurts. You know, it's
gonna really hurt your wife for a little while, but
everything's going to be okay. And a lot of times
it's not okay. And a lot of times these babies
have issues, they're they're born prematurely. Your son's case, certainly

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do it situation literally and they did, and he's here.
That's amazing, right seconds. Yeah, I'm so glad you hold.

Speaker 16 (01:56:09):
I mean, I want, I want everybody to support this tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:56:12):
I really do. I don't grab my goat. I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:56:17):
Are you apologizing? Man? You that's a normal reaction. Holy cow,
man't it. Don't don't ever apologize for showing emotion over
something that matters to.

Speaker 8 (01:56:26):
You, right, I mean, it's a blessed place.

Speaker 5 (01:56:30):
Yeah, you're welcome here anytime. You know that, Yes, sir,
all right, well thank you for sharing your story. I
truly do appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
Yes, sir, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:56:40):
Uh huh, there you go. That's that's why these tournaments
go on. That's why we do the tournament we do
later in the year for Saint Jude Children's Hospital. These
are these are miracles that happen in these places every day,
every day, and the people who work there.

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
I've talked to him.

Speaker 5 (01:56:59):
I've got a friend who is a nurse at Texas
Children's and he he doesn't share a lot about his work,
but I wouldn't expect him to. It's none of my
business anyway, But you can tell that the people who
work in these hospitals for children are are a special

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kind of patient, a special kind of confident, a special
kind of skilled emotionally to handle what they're going to
see and what they're gonna experience. And hats off to
every one of them. That's the people who work in
children's hospitals. That's another bunch of people who probably deserve

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to be paid far more than they get paid, no
matter how much they get paid right now, because without them,
you wouldn't have those stories like we just heard from
Brandon seven one three two one two five seven. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. The Astros kind of
let us down last night. Unfortunately a good thing. U

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of h had that incredible finish. I didn't get to
watch it live, but I did get to see it
on video this morning. And when when Kelvin drew that
up and showed it to his players, I have a
hunch that they they've been sitting on that one for
a saving it for a rainy day. If they'd have
been up by four, they wouldn't have done that. If

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they'd have been down by eight, they wouldn't have done that.
But that's that's that play, that one play that you
know is gonna work for you. And it did, and
it worked exactly as it was planned, and it absolutely
totally befuddled the opposition. They just they left the guy

(01:58:50):
wide open and he all he had to do was
just jump up above the rim and drop it in,
and that's what he did to get the win. Amazing,
absolutely amazing. Mer Okay, I've gotten quite a few responses
on Pike's peaks or pipes peeps. That's I mentioned that
earlier that I was thinking about getting a name for

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my crew here. Haven't done that before, but somebody said
I ought to, and I'm happy to do that if
you guys are in agreement with it, if.

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
Not, if you think it's stupid, I won't do it.
But I think it's kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (01:59:23):
And I like pikes peeps, I really do. Somebody offered
up pikes peakers with the reference to the mountain. However,
peakers that could go there, that could go in a
bad direction really fast. I'm not We're not peeking in
bedroom windows, okay, but are my peeps that it's an

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and it's a little bit older school term. It's not
it's certainly not a gen Z term. What would be
the what would be the gen Z equivalent? You're your
gen Z, aren't you, Marco?

Speaker 7 (01:59:53):
That's correct?

Speaker 5 (01:59:54):
Okay, So what would be a group of your friends?
Who are they to you? Your crew?

Speaker 8 (01:59:59):
Your what it?

Speaker 7 (02:00:00):
I see see? Peeps is still commonly used. Homies is
another homies.

Speaker 5 (02:00:06):
So well, Pike's Homies has no ring whatsoever, and it's
it's age inappropriate. I think I'm I'd be stealing. I'm
not gonna like that just doesn't work for for my audience.
I don't think I personally.

Speaker 7 (02:00:23):
Like pikes peeps.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
Yeah, peeps, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (02:00:25):
I appreciate that. So that's several votes now in favor
of that. We may go with that, may run and
and you know what, it's Easter time coming up. That man,
I'm so tempted to have that be a prize in
one of our games. It's a pack of peeps, your
your choice of flavor too. They make them in about
one hundred different colors and flavors. I wonder if they're

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like skittles, and they're different colors, but they all taste
to say.

Speaker 7 (02:00:51):
Do you know that I've never actually tried to peep before.

Speaker 5 (02:00:55):
Have you ever tried skittles though? You know skittles? Yeah,
you've eaten skittles, gen Z. Did you realize that they're
all the same flavor, just different colors? Really?

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:01:04):
Really I did not know that.

Speaker 5 (02:01:06):
Try it out anytime. Yeah, they're they're just they're fooling you.
They're pulling your leg my friend. Oh, Mojo, just wad
in hold on, uh, stop the stop the presses Mojo.
Longtime listener went in Pike's pack.

Speaker 7 (02:01:23):
Oh that sounds cool.

Speaker 5 (02:01:24):
That's not bad either. Now that's that's getting kind of
that's getting kind of what am I thinking of? West
Side stories there? Man, that'd be pretty cool. Let's tap
Roy here and see what's going on. You got him
teed up?

Speaker 19 (02:01:41):
Hey, let doug let Dug knows he always tells everybody
out there he pinion, he's a interview or whatever.

Speaker 17 (02:01:49):
He tells them about yours.

Speaker 19 (02:01:51):
Tell him something that kind of lines Pikes of migos.

Speaker 5 (02:01:57):
Oh interesting, Yeah, okay, let me let me mull that over.
That might that might require a special logo. I think
that would. Yeah, I'd have to really Okay, I appreciate that, Roy,
Thanks you speaking as somebody who is fluent in Spanish.

Speaker 8 (02:02:20):
Yes, sir, good for you.

Speaker 5 (02:02:22):
I wish I were. I when I was at the
paper and doing a lot of trips down to Mexico,
I got comfortable enough with Spanish that I was able
to jump in a cab and let him know where
I wanted to go and get around town and whatnot.
And I was actually told, and I'm not gonna try
it now because it's been a long time, but I
was actually told that, my, my, the way I spoke

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the language was very good and very fluent sounding. And
so when I would say, hey, I need to get
to the marina, and then say and stop by the
store for something, the cab driver would always just launch
into full blown, full speed Spanish, and I didn't stand
a chance. I just hold on, man, I can't keep up.

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But yeah, it's it's a language that I wish I
had learned. I really do.

Speaker 17 (02:03:13):
It's not that hard to learn. Okay, okay, what's for
you know that sheep pets are running right now?

Speaker 8 (02:03:23):
Yeah? Well, what's your favorite setup?

Speaker 5 (02:03:25):
I mean, hookwise, I would it's got to be something
like a kale hook. Maybe that's going to get into
that mouth. But it's not gonna get too deep, and
just let them, let them move away with it, and
settle that thing in a corner of a mouth. Live
shrimp can't beat live shrimp. If you haven't tried those,
you know, those hooks tend to not.

Speaker 14 (02:03:48):
Not get bit.

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
They don't give the fish a chance to eat, you know,
to bite the line. And you certainly don't want to
have to deal with steel leader for sheep's head. For
heaven's sakes, that seems like overkill. Yeah, i'd go there, man,
a right, try those hooks and see if they don't
do that for you, and just just resist the temptation
to set the hook when they when they eat, just
let them swim away with it, and it'll nestle that
hook right into the corner of the mouth. And it's

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got a little bit longer profile than a circle hook would.
That's why I think that will be better than a
circle hook.

Speaker 17 (02:04:19):
Yeah you know what, Yes, sir, last week I went,
But I went last Saturday.

Speaker 19 (02:04:25):
Yeah, there a sea what park and I was using
a number ten treble hook.

Speaker 8 (02:04:31):
Oh Lord, believe it or not, I lended three, lost two.

Speaker 5 (02:04:36):
Okay, what kind of how much leader are you putting?
On there, how big I had.

Speaker 19 (02:04:40):
Belive it or not, I'll try something different. I had
two months wait, okay, but probably like a twelve foot leader, mano,
and then I would just put in it against the filings.

Speaker 5 (02:04:51):
Twelve feet or twelve inches, No, twelve inches. Oh yeah,
you said twelve feet. Holy cow, that's a big long leader.
Yeah that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:05:02):
You're catching some pretty big ship set man.

Speaker 5 (02:05:05):
Yeah that I like that. I like what you're doing.
Why two ounces, that's a lot of weight.

Speaker 17 (02:05:11):
Not believe it or not, it gets it against the.

Speaker 5 (02:05:14):
Yeah, okay, so the little wave action and whatnot doesn't
wash it off of the where you want it. It's
pretty broad and smart right there, Roy.

Speaker 2 (02:05:23):
And gets what.

Speaker 17 (02:05:26):
He produced for me.

Speaker 5 (02:05:27):
So yeah, it ain't don't fix it.

Speaker 8 (02:05:31):
Yeah, but I'm gonna try the other one.

Speaker 5 (02:05:33):
Yeah, try those hooks. I think they'll I think they'll change.
I think they'll change your breakoff ratio for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:05:39):
Right right.

Speaker 17 (02:05:40):
That's that's why I was kind of asking you.

Speaker 5 (02:05:43):
Oh yeah, it's like Spanish macro fishing.

Speaker 6 (02:05:46):
You know.

Speaker 17 (02:05:47):
We'll give it a try.

Speaker 5 (02:05:48):
Okay, all right, thank you later, appreciate later. All right,
we gotta take a little break here on the way
out I will tell you all about Moody Gardens again.
This the in with's just these two fly fishing films
film festival, two entirely different traveling fly fishing film collections.

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They're short, short films twelve fifteen minutes apiece, and they're
coming up on April twenty six and twenty seven at
Moody Gardens to be seen on the biggest screen in
the entire state of Texas, that big old MG three
D screen. It's amazing actually, and it's only gonna cost

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you just little or nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
Really.

Speaker 5 (02:06:33):
The tickets are just fifteen bucks, with one night and
two night hotel packages available. Now you can get discount
tickets half price tickets. Actually, I'm not sure exactly what
that number is. I don't have to double check on that,
but it's it's a significant discount if you buy your
tickets in advance online. And they're gonna keep everything going.

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I'm gonna be mceing down there. I'm gonna be doing
both shows Saturday and Sunday live from down there and
right from my hotel room. And I can't wait to
see this again. This is the fourth time they're doing this,
and it's really a fun weekend, a fun day or two,
whatever you want. There will be vendors in there with

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all the latest and greatest in fly fishing, and in
fishing and in conservation. There are going to be people
there who can give you fly fishing lessons. If you're
interested in that, you can register on site for free,
either youth or adult fly fishing lessons. It's a really
fun long weekend. And hey, if you're a golfer like

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may bring your clubs. If the weather's right, you can
tee it up over there at Moody Gardens golf Course,
which is a really really good layout. I played it
last year. While I was down there, it was wendy too. Well,
if it's Wendy, that course will eat your lunch. If
it's not it, you got a better chance at having
a fun time on that course, a little more fun
than when it is Wendy. Either way. You've got Moody

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Gardens there for all of its activities. You've got these
fabulous film presentations on Friday and Saturday nights, and then
all else that that whole island has to offer. Go
to Moodygardens dot org for details for tickets, for hotel packages,
all of that's available right there Moodygardens dot org.

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Speaker 14 (02:08:26):
This is the Dougpike Show, nine forty one.

Speaker 5 (02:08:51):
It is already.

Speaker 8 (02:08:52):
Holy cow.

Speaker 5 (02:08:53):
That means I have a very short segment here, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (02:08:55):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (02:08:57):
I get to yapping with friends and and I just
I just keep on yapping. I'm not gonna stop just
because just because the clock says stop. And of course
here we are, poor Marco in here trying to understand
why I'm always late for breaks. I told you early early.
I told you in the seven o'clock hour that what
was it seven point thirty when I actually went to
a break early, that that probably would be the only one.

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And I have lived up to that, haven't I, I believe,
So let me know if I missed the mark somewhere. Well,
what happens is I get to saying something about one
of my sponsors, and I genuinely appreciate what they do
for me in exchange. That's the least I can do
for them is make sure that everybody knows kind of
what I'm talking about and who I'm talking about cause,

(02:09:42):
and I don't take these sponsorships lightly either. I'd kind
of vet these people out to make sure that they're
going to be welcomed into Pikes Peeps, Pikes Pack, I'm
not sure Pike's amigos. I'm not sure where we're going
to go, but I'm gonna figure it out, and we
we got some good stuff in the works. I don't
want to jinx anything, but I'm working on some stuff

(02:10:04):
that might be a lot of fun. I'll go back
to forward facing sonar in these last well for a
minute or minute and a half so we can get
to this break on time. But I'm still hoping that
this will be the A lot of these tournament series
have allowed it, like Major League Fishing allows it for
one period out of the three. I think that is

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a reasonable, a reasonable expectation of its fishermen to show
that they still know how to fish. And if that
guy who said after the Classic that you can't catch
him if you can't see him, well, maybe he shouldn't
fish in Major League fishing. Maybe he wouldn't fish in

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Major League fishing because of that, and that would just
expose his lack of knowledge about actually understanding fish habits.

Speaker 6 (02:11:02):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:11:02):
That being said, Kevin van Dam was among the first
to talk about how forward facing sonar has really turned
things upside down, sort of turn them upside down in
what we thought we knew about bass and their habits,
because bass and their habits aren't what we thought they were.

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I wrote a book about bass fishing or freshwater fishing,
mostly bass years ago, twenty years ago, probably maybe more.
Now it's been a long time, and I can assure
you that if I went back through there and read
everything I read about how bass relate to structure and
how important structure is to them and shade and all
these things, a lot of that information would be outdated

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now because with forward facing sonar, these people who are
just idling around the middle of the lake where it's out.
It's pretty deep, kind of dark down there at the bottom.
But a lot of those biggest baths in a lot
of big lakes around Texas, they're not up close to
structure all the time. They're not relating to anything. They're

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just camped out on the bottom, maybe suspended, maybe not.
Nothing within ten twenty thirty fifty yards of them, just
on bare bottom and nobody twenty years ago, would have
wasted time fishing trying to fish bear lake bottom because

(02:12:35):
ninety percent of a lake's bottom is bear and we
assumed that because it was bare, there were no fish there.
Turns out there are big fish, but you're not going
to find them blind casting probably that could take hours
and hours, and now there are people driving around. Good
friend of mine son called him one day, said, yeah,

(02:12:55):
I went bass fishing this morning, dad, with one of
my buddies. Did y'all catch anything. We didn't even make
a cast, was the response from his young son, because
we didn't see anything, and that that just almost broke
my heart. That's you're not getting out of fishing what
fishing is supposed to give to you. And it's a

(02:13:15):
change of times, and I know it's my way. Might
be outdated, it might be old fashioned, but part of
fishing is the part of the benefit from fishing is
the mystery, the places it takes your mind where you're
wondering if I make a cast right there will there
be a fish there. And lately it's actually been working
out pretty well for me. I don't see these fish,

(02:13:38):
but I'm catching them. You don't have to see them
to catch them. Holy cow, we're running late again. I
apologize for that. We're gonna take this last little break.
We'll come back and wrap it up. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Shooter's Corner, Parmer how we had
twenty nine street down there in Texas City. Owners and
old buddy of mine, Jerry TK. He and his son
Jay have been running that store together since Jay was
old enough to do that. They built amazing custom rifles

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first and foremost, and then from there you have a
great selection of brand new firearms, a great selection of
pre owned firearms. I got a shot gun, two shotguns
down there as a matter of fact, on consignment, and
somebody lucky enough to get a hold of them. Neither
one of THEUS had a bunch of rounds put through it.
They're good. You'll like them if you go down there.

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If you're a brand new shooter, if you're a veteran shooter,
you're gonna love Shooter's Corner. It's an old fashioned gun store.
That's all that's in there. Guns, Ammo optics, Camo reloading supplies,
and great people who know a ton about guns and gunsmithing.
Knock on wood. I've never sent somebody down there for repair.

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And this is after they've called and said, ah, you know,
I've got man. I've tried a couple of gunsmiths and
they all tell me it's gonna cost a fortune. They
all tell me I have to replace the whole gun.
And so far, every person I've sent down there has
come away happy and gotten a good result from Shooter's Corner.
If you wear a badge for a living, by the way,
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Salt seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it so much going on around here,
as if all the good fishing and fresh water and
saltwater right now warning up and saltwater fishing, by the way,
it's just going to get better as we move into spring.
We're moving out of what has traditionally been flagged as

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the big trout season. That's typically been a wintertime thing,
but with so many more big fish in the bay,
it's kind of a it's kind of just a transition
to how you're going to fish form and where you're
going to fish form. There are plenty of them there now.
Most of the action recently has been soft plastics. The

(02:18:00):
water's warming up enough that you don't have to just
shut down your movement and throw things that barely move anymore.
But we're not quite to the point. We're not quite
to the point where it's top water bite yet, and
that's what I'm kind of waiting for. I'm gonna be
in in regular contact with Cliff Web down there in

(02:18:21):
Corpus to find out exactly when that beach front touches off,
and I probably won't be the first person to catch
a fish out of the surf down there this spring
and summer, but I won't be the last either. I'm
gonna I'm gonna make sure that I take some of
the time off that I let go last year. I
finished the year with ten days lost, ten vacation days.

(02:18:45):
And I'm gonna make sure that not only not only
just to recharge my batteries and go down and have
some fun fishing in a place I really enjoy fishing,
but because it's gonna give me plenty to talk about
on the show too. I want to There's a couple
of techniques and tactics I want to kind of try
out and see where it leads me. I've gotten several

(02:19:10):
several more emails about what to call the crew and
when I see another one kind of a nip. Well
there's some here I'm not gonna repeat, but anyway, Okay, Oh,
A pride of line Pike's pride. Yeah, I get that, Dan,
I get that, but I I think that's gonna be
a runner up to a couple more. And it's still

(02:19:34):
a good one though. I do like that mojo with
Pike's pack, Uh, that that's got consideration. Certainly there are
a lot of a lot of good ideas. Uh, Kevin,
Oh boy, God bless you. Kevin on his way to
Lumberton for a baseball tournament. M and that was at
nine forty. They must have the noon game. Good for you.

(02:19:58):
Uh come this topic before?

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
Or strangest fish I've ever.

Speaker 5 (02:20:03):
Caught in the strangest place. I've caught a lot of
weird fish in a lot of weird places. But I
will have to tip my cap to my son. And
if you've heard me talk about this catch of his before,
forgive me. But he called me one day, not that
long ago. I think it was maybe I don't know,
maybe six months, eight months ago somewhere in there, calls me.

(02:20:26):
He and one of his buddies have gone fishing. And
they did that a lot back then and still do
when this other kids available. They fish all over the
place in weird places. Fish they find the most obscure places.
And he called me and sent me a picture of
a fish he had caught out of Buffalo Bio or yeah,

(02:20:51):
Buffalo Bio, right like barely a mile from where I am,
off the west Loop, and maybe a couple of miles
north of the Galleria, and he sent me a picture
of about an eighteen or twenty inch redfish that he
had caught on a jig on his first cast into

(02:21:14):
this little place where his buddy took him and thought
they might be able to catch some maybe a bass,
maybe a catfish. Who knows he caught a redfish there,
and he sent the picture to prove it, or I
would have called boloney on him the whole way. This
was only less than a year ago. Now, I'm pretty sure,
and I was kind of stunned. I'm trying to think

(02:21:36):
I caught a lot of weird fish when I was
a little kid fishing the piers down in Florida with
my parents and grandparents or dad and granddad. Actually I
caught it for several summers in a row. We went
down there and targeted and you could see him down there.
We targeted the parrotfish on the little reefs, the nearshore reefs.

(02:21:56):
Because Pompino Beach, Florida, I had a municipal fishing tournament
every summer, and if you caught a good one of
whatever fish it was, you got a certificate. And somewhere
in my mother's things when she passed. Probably were two
or three certificates from the Pompino Beach Fishing Summer Fishing

(02:22:19):
Rodeo for my parrotfish. And if you think Sheep's head's
got a mouthful of teeth, go look up those. A
lot of fun. I'll get to everybody. Martin, call me
back tomorrow. Man, I'm out of time for today, so sorry.
I'm gonna head over to the Texas Children's Houston open
in a few minutes and run into my buddy Art

(02:22:39):
and see what's going on. I'll be right back here
at eight o'clock tomorrow. I hope you can join me. Then,
in the meantime, get outside, have a little fun with
your family, and I will see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening,
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