Hunting Season Will Be Here Before You Know It

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many feathers in our bag. That's how we keep
score around here.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Sportsmen and women of all skill levels, let's disconnect from
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now here's dog Pike.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Alright, Off we go on a Sunday morning.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Forecast certainly looks better today and tomorrow and into the
short term future at least than it did yesterday, the
day before and all that past. That system that really
drove the poor guys over there playing the Texas children.
Houston's open crazy. But they got through it and we're

(01:09):
gonna get through it. I believe they're going off threesomes
today and that will give them plenty of time to
get this last round in. The whole course is playing
a little bit slower just because it's soft and they've
got lyft cleaning place going on, and there's just all
kinds of little bitty things that slow them down.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
But it's gonna be good, really good looking.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Forecast twenty percent chance, which is around here, means if
it does rain, it might rain in Huntsville, it might
rain in Victoria, but it doesn't necessarily rain here.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We'll see how it see how it goes.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
It's been a good time out there yesterday walking around
the park and watching the best.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Actually, I watched.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Scotti and Min wou go at it for a few holes,
and I saw Rory for a little while, very briefly.
He had a pretty big crowd around him, as you
might expect, and so did Scottie Scheffler. But the man
who really stole the show was Min woo Lee. He
out there with one hundred and ninety plus mile an

(02:14):
hour ball speed off his driver. And there was one
little headline I saw this morning, is track man broken
or is Min moo Lee really.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Hitting the ball that hard? Well, he hits it that hard.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
And that far, and that's helped him in these very
wet and nasty conditions to get the ball down there
where he can do himself some good. Have a shorter
shot than anybody else coming into these holes. And plus
he's just got this little stinger shot that he can
pull out of the bag most anytime he needs it.
And it's been a while since anybody talked about somebody

(02:51):
hitting stingers. And the guy that we're talking about turned
out to be one of the best who ever played
the game.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So anyway, he's got his He's got a good shot.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Man.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
He's certainly in the place he needs to be to
finish up where he wants to finish. He goes out
in the final group today, him, Alejandro Toasty and Ryan Fox,
min Wooley at seventeen, Toasty at thirteen, four shots off
the lead, and then everybody else including Fox, Ryan Fox,

(03:24):
Ryan Gerard, and Scotty Scheffler, all at twelve under par,
five shots away from this guy. There's a chance he
may come back to the pack a little bit, there's
a chance he may trip over a shoelace, but a
five shot lead over Scotty Scheffler should be.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Enough to hold him at bay.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
If Min Wooley could just go out there and just
take care of business, try not to do anything crazy,
try not to even give himself.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
The just any notion of I can do that.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, just don't do that. Just go do what you
can do. Make sure you don't put yourself in trouble.
And if you do hit an errant shot, don't try
to hit a miracle shot to get it back. That's
one of the biggest things amateurs falter on. It is
not being well and my hands in the air.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
I don't if I'm if I can see a tiny
little sliver of daylight between two trees, I'm gonna convince
myself that I can hit that ball through that sliver
of daylight and back into the fairway and maybe all
the way up onto the green.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
I hate chip it out. It just seems like such
a concession. There's some pretty funny stuff online actually about that.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Some guy was talking.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Some guy talking to his wife about how he didn't
hit a really great drive on a par five that
day in his round of golf, and you could tell
she couldn't care less. And then she said, well, you
went for it, right, and he god, no, no, no,
I laid up that it's the smart play, and she
just gets this blank expression on her face like I

(05:06):
can't stay with you. She says, I can't stay with you,
because he wouldn't go for it.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
In two all right.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
So anyway, and looking at the golf course by the way,
which is the golf course looks absolutely gorgeous on television
and in person, thanks in great part to the rye
overseed on the entire the bulk of the golf course.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And then what was it? What's that dog on it?
What's that dog one? What they're using?

Speaker 5 (05:40):
Uh, poeana trivialis that I couldn't get triviaalis out of
my mouth. It's po trivialis on the greens. And they
are immaculate, absolutely big and sprawling and immaculate. And because
they're rye and poena or po trivialis, they're a little

(06:01):
bit soft and cushiony and slow too. There were a
lot of putts I saw hit yesterday where the guys
just couldn't quite get the ball to the hole.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Saw Scotti Scheffer hit one on eight.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
He's got from the friend, He's got maybe thirty feet
for eagle and ends up pitting it twenty five feet.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Then he gets his bird. Did he get that birdie?
I can't remember.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
The long and the short of it is the place
looks absolutely beautiful, and it's actually helping these guys overall
because between no heavy, heavy ruff actually what they've got
that they've got that rye cut to an inch and
a half or inch and a quarter actually an inch
and a quarter rye rough as opposed to a typical

(06:47):
more typical anyway two and a half inches of bermuda,
so that that would have been brutal if they'd done that,
and then the course just wouldn't have shown well at all,
frankly if they left it and its traditional bermuda state.
This is the same thing that Golf Club of Houston
did when it was hosting the Shell Houston Open years ago.

(07:09):
They overseeded that thing with approximately I remember being told.
I asked one time, how much seed does.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
It take to oversee these just.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
This entire golf course, And the answer I got was
approximately one tractor trailer load per whole, a tractor trailer
load of seeds times eighteen to do those golf courses
like that. So that's that's a lot of work that's
been going on for a very long time, and unfortunately

(07:40):
the only it's not unfortunate, it's just it's just doing business.
But sadly, I guess behind the scenes out of camera site.
Mostly the place took so much rain, so much rain
earlier in the week, it just.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
It just sopped it up.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Everywhere I walked you today, if you weren't on the
cart path, you were, you.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Were kind of sloshing.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
You might even have gotten relief if that's where you
were playing from and you were out there playing, if
you play there Monday or Tuesday, and it's still like
that in a lot of those places. You can make
some water appear under your foot if you push down
a little harder than you normally would get a little
relief from that. Uh So, And especially where the most

(08:26):
people walk it was mushy.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
And then of.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Course where everywhere on that golf course where carts have
taken staff members around and and tour officials around. It's
just it's a sloppy, ugly mess. And it's gonna take
a while for those wounds to heal. It really is,
it really is. But whatever the turf forever, ever the
conditions were yesterday, they're gonna be much better today. And

(08:52):
these guys are are doing really really well on there place.
Looks great players are navigating green Side chips with surgical precision.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Holy cow, it's just remarkable.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
How well they And that's that's something I've dedicated twenty
twenty five to.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Is is ramping up again.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
I've kind of lost about seventy five percent of my
short game, and I'm going to ramp it back up.
Fishing continues to get better. We're going to talk a
lot about that today. You know, it's amazing how much
talk I've heard about about trout fishing and how little
I've heard really about redfish.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Redfish for quite a while.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Actually, we're the big story in bayfishing, the recovery of
the redfish that started. It starts all the way back
at the first meeting of the people who form CCA.
It starts all the way back then, what is it,
fifty something years ago nowhere where Walter foundre and a
couple of his buddies sat down and said, you know,

(09:56):
we got to do something about this commercial harvester redfish.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And they did something, all right.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
They started one of the most successful and most patient
conservation organizations. That's the only consistent knock that people who
just don't have anything else to complain about, so they
find something have on ccas how slowly.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
They move.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Ah, man, they ought to do something right away about
this issue. Well, CCA doesn't do that. CCA moves deliberately.
They move things through committees of people who are all
dedicated to the same thing but may have different opinions
on it, and they ultimately work together. Boy, maybe that
could be the model for the United States government.

Speaker 8 (10:40):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
People with different opinions sitting around a table talking about
something and coming up with a compromise across the board.
That's going to help overall. Well there's a new concept.
Well it's not new at CCIA, it's new elsewhere. But
they've been doing that for so long and were so
successful with it that hardly anybody talks about redfish anymore

(11:03):
except to say that, oh, yeah, and if we're having
trouble with the trout, we'll go catch some redfish. It's
a given. It's just a given. Yeah, we'll just go
over there and catch some. We'll just throw a rock
into water and go pick up the red fish.

Speaker 9 (11:15):
It hit.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
It's remarkable how how the chatter has changed now back
to speckled trout because the success story with speckled trout,
not because of hatchery work. Speckl trout are very difficult
to raising captivity because they are so so very cannibalistic.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
They gobble each other up.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
You can put one hundred thousand speckle trout fry into
a growout tank somewhere outside into an above ground pool
and throw a little food in there, and then walk
away and come back. I don't know a week, two weeks,
three weeks later, I don't know how long it takes
for all this to happen, but there'd probably just be
about fifteen or twenty little fat, little fingerling trout swimming

(12:01):
around looking for more to eat. So that's the problem
with trout. The good news for trout is that the
Parks and Wildlife Department, almost a year ago now next
month it'll be a year put in place a three
trout limit with a little fifteen twenty I think it's
fifteen twenty twelve twenty fifteen twenty, and it's not twelve.

(12:23):
It's fifteen twenty inch slot twelve is Louisiana size. And
we if you ever if you ever went to Louisiana
and you kept a twelve inch trout because it was
legal there, you lose a couple of points with me
our limit over here gives those fish a chance to
spawn once they're limited over there for the longest time didn't.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
They're coming around though. They're good people. They're my people.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
I'm half people anyway. I'm half Cajun. My dad was
full blown Casun. My mom was from Georgia, and a
long long time ago they met up. And here I
am sitting here today talking about fishing, which I dearly
love to do.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Let's i'll tell you what.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Ask Brandon to hang on and I'll go to him
as soon as we get back. I'm gonna try. Cal
Reid came in here to produce this morning. I guess
I ran Marco off. We actually had a good time yesterday.
By the way, Cal, it was fun.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
On the way out.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
I'll tell you about El Kubano's cigars. This is my guy,
Manny Lopez. Okay, I've been down there. I've been in
that place. I've been to the set. He's got two
smoking lounges, one in Texas City, one in League City,
So I guess the next one probably be Bay City. Huh,
that'd be about right. In any event, he's got the
two smoking lounges down there, and then the Texas City

(13:44):
facility also is a manufacturing plant, one of only about
four dozen in the entire country, where they sit and
roll handmade cigars every day. Manny and his crew all
come from Q Extraction. They all have worked in the
Cuban cigar factories, the biggest ones down there, and they

(14:07):
turn out right there in Texas City something like one
hundred and forty hundred and fifty different cigars. It's a
fascinating business, it really is. I've learned so much in
so little time. After getting a phone call from him
just out of nowhere, Hey man, I want to talk
to you about maybe doing something with your show.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm so glad. In fact, he sent me an email
or a text.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yesterday, first person off the show comes walking into the
League City store. Just walked in, said, hey man, Doug
Pike sent me, thank you for doing that. And I
bet what I got in my pocket right now, it's.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
A pretty good amount. I'm an old man.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I bet that guy's going to come back too. Just
very friendly to go hang out in those places. You
might be watching a sports event, there might be a
card game going on. There might just be a couple
of guys doing business in there. The cigars are fun
way to join up and and do things together for
a bunch of grown men and increasingly women. They even

(15:05):
will do branded cigars for you. What they'll do is
take your company name and I've got some headed dis
way right now. As a matter of fact, many made
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Think about that for your company, Think about that for
your clients, Think about that for a golf tournament, any

(15:28):
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
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Speaker 5 (15:38):
Up pretty unique gifts to people you care about enough
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That's the website. Start there. If you can't get down
there to Texas City and buy them for yourself, they'll
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Speaker 3 (18:21):
Now more. Doug Fike, all right, welcome back.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Thanks for listening on a Sunday morning, A much better
Sunday morning than was Saturday morning or Thursday morning, Friday morning,
any of those earlier mornings in the week. As promise,
I'm going to go straight to Brandon. Let's see if
it's working today. Yes, sir, Brandon, what's up?

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Man doing?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (18:56):
I got sick?

Speaker 9 (18:57):
Come you know.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
I was wondering why I hadn't heard from you. Are
you feeling better now?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Good, I'm so glad. I am so glad.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
It couldn't have hurt last night to see the Astros
take two out of three from the Mets. Huh did
you get to watch the game?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
We were at the We were at the game.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Oh man, good for you, Good for you. What do
you think about the team this year?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Brandon?

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Good?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I am. I have the MLB the show and I
play playing them there.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh nice, that's kind of fun. Huh, good for you, buddy.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
We wanted to one, Yes we did.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
I watched the end of that game. I was glad
to see it. Yes, it was Yeah. I took went
two Sports City Home Network and saw I don't remember
what it was like kids wrestling or something like that,
and and then I started flipping through channels because I

(20:03):
knew that game had to be on That second game
wasn't even on TV. I don't like that they're doing
that to us now. That's disappointing. But I do listen
to it on the radio.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
While we're and Steve, Yeah, uh.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Huh, very good. What else you got, buddy?

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Astros is playing Monday?

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Who do they have Monday? Brendan the Giants? Are they
still in town or are they leaving?

Speaker 14 (20:40):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Good, okay, nice little homestand a little home cooking for
the first couple of series.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's awesome. Good for them, good.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
For the Jersey.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yet I have what do you think of them?

Speaker 12 (20:56):
And they had matches of it?

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yeah, you had to us. You know, they change uniforms
all the time. There's just so much money in professional sports.
They could have different uniforms for every day of the week,
I think, and they probably do somewhere in a closet
and they're just ready to pull them out of there
at some point. It's remarkable. And every time a new

(21:19):
design comes out, when you first see it, you think,
I don't know, I'm not sure I really like that one,
But then it just kind of grows on you because
it's your guys and you're watching them out there playing.
And as long as they keep playing like they're playing,
I don't care what they wear.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yep, they do, Yes, they do.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Well.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let me I tell you what.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
I got to run catch a couple more calls in
this break, Brandon, but I really do. I'm so glad
you're feeling better, man, I was getting worried about you.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
No fooling? Oh good?

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, all right man, it's great to hear from you again, Brandon.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (22:00):
I'll see.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Did you hear did you what's in the day yesterday?

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:06):
A little bit? Yeah I did.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm glad he got that spot.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
And I asked him, ask you after the show yesterday,
as did you kind of settling in? You're feeling good?
He's yeah, I'm loving this man. So he's gonna be
there a while.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
I think Morning show he's what hes the Morning Show?

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Oh yeah he does, Yeah he does. And I'm glad
he got it. Hey, I got to run catch James. Okay, okay,
Verry buddy, Yeah, thanks you too.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Audios.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
All right, let me run up here and grab James. James.
What's up, man, Douglas.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
What's upbody, Holy cat, I hadn't heard from you in
a while.

Speaker 15 (22:44):
Well, man, I missed you the other day when I
run into Mike Silha said, Man, I was just talking
to Douglas.

Speaker 13 (22:51):
For you.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Woh Man, Yeah, where you been?

Speaker 11 (22:54):
Man?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
You don't you ever never return my calls. I finally
had to call your son yesterday.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
I'm looking for a boat down in Cabo for some
friends of mine who are going down there in May.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
He hooked me up.

Speaker 13 (23:03):
Well, he's sitting right here the next to me.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
He's working.

Speaker 13 (23:05):
We're going to the golf tournament.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Are you really good for you? When are we gonna
play golf? Plog?

Speaker 13 (23:11):
Dude, I don't do nothing but work.

Speaker 9 (23:12):
Man.

Speaker 15 (23:13):
The reason I went up right you asked me where
I was. Where I was at when I run everything
completely out?

Speaker 6 (23:19):
I drive up there.

Speaker 15 (23:21):
I was out of fuel in my boat, out of
fuel in my truck, and at a death fluid.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Every buzzer own was going on, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Man, Well it's great to hear from me.

Speaker 13 (23:32):
Oh yeah, camera's working on that for you and nothing.

Speaker 12 (23:35):
Man.

Speaker 15 (23:35):
Fishing from March has been it's been pretty good, man.
It's a lot of fish in a lot of places.
You know, we ain't catching nothing giants, some four some.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Threes, you know, But that's a good those are.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
You're catching fours and threes, and they're not gonna be
putt in ice chests anymore. They're gonna be There're gonna
be a lot more big fish up here in the
space system again.

Speaker 13 (23:54):
I think, oh yeah, it's coming. Brother.

Speaker 15 (23:57):
You know, my guy's killed some fish, like when they're
my killers, one of my killer crows. But I hadn't
picked my stringer up off that landing post.

Speaker 13 (24:05):
And a month and a half, we don't kill.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
No fish no more.

Speaker 9 (24:10):
You know.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
It's so good to hear that, and and so many
what percentage of your customers kill fish?

Speaker 15 (24:19):
Still all my wintertime waiting guys like these are all
my white fishing guys. Be me for a hundred years,
and very you of them keep fitch My older guys.
They'll start going. We start boat fishing into April and May,
and you know most of them will kill their fish,
not all of them, but like right now, the first

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four months of the year, I bet I don't kill fish.
They had to bring some sandpaper, dude, to stand by
my knives, because I.

Speaker 13 (24:48):
Just don't do it well, you.

Speaker 15 (24:51):
Know, kiss yourself had a business, dug if I'm standing there,
you know, cause I go every day and I'm digging
stuff up, taking everything out of there.

Speaker 13 (24:59):
This thing, you know, he ain't got little narmers to
fish for.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
So yeah, are the are the younger guys on the
same page as you and me?

Speaker 13 (25:07):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
That good?

Speaker 15 (25:09):
Keith and Fish nowadays, I mean, Mickey and I were
knocking some old stringer pictures around that that we don't
put out there, and I'm like, man, look at this, dude.

Speaker 13 (25:20):
Now, we don't even carry a stringer. But hey, but
I mean a guy I wants to keep two or
three fifteen, I had a post.

Speaker 15 (25:26):
There's a limit. I had opposed none of it. But
there are times and places that i'm fishing, I'll say, hey, look, dude,
we ain't killing nothing from right here. Really well, uncle
Bob's coming in for fries. I don't care who money's
coming right here, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be good.
Though it's gonna end.

Speaker 13 (25:45):
Up being good.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
It's so good to hear that. That's where the conversation
is now. And I'm with you one hundred percent. I
don't care if somebody wants to keep a limit of fish, Okay,
that's fine, that's that's their prerogative. And with the limit free,
now we're not going to beat up the resource.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
So you know, what's a.

Speaker 15 (26:04):
Goal of stringing up three eighteen in trout taking a picture? Man,
we were stringing up twenty fish limit that weigh hundred.

Speaker 8 (26:12):
Pounds, don't.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I know.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
I was on some of those trips with you guys,
if you'll recall, man, and it's just.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Like, holy cow, how on earth did it go from
what it was?

Speaker 16 (26:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:23):
It was, But at that time, for the first time
in a long time, James, I feel like there's a
chance that time might be coming back.

Speaker 15 (26:33):
It will and you know, it gets uh And I
told you this a long time.

Speaker 13 (26:38):
I may have talked on your show.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
How long ago.

Speaker 13 (26:40):
Once it becomes.

Speaker 15 (26:43):
I gets the word is maybe taboo keep killing everything.
It's just like you don't see dead tables.

Speaker 13 (26:49):
Of bass, No you don't. Certainly that's where and that's
where it's heady. And it's gonna be as soon as
the guys get.

Speaker 15 (26:57):
On board and then quit having to have table shots.
And that's coming too, it's coming, and then it will
be good for the Fishery.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Yeah, will be.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yep, it's gonna be. I hope I live to see that,
and I know you do too. Man.

Speaker 13 (27:15):
Well that's what Micke and out were talking about.

Speaker 15 (27:17):
Man, just give us one more little run right there
when the big ones is snapping.

Speaker 8 (27:20):
Man.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, buddy, I need to get Is Mickey still playing
golf at all?

Speaker 6 (27:25):
No?

Speaker 13 (27:27):
Played. He played with me and he twisted his old
knee and it ain't worth it.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Ah, that's too bad.

Speaker 13 (27:32):
But I've been playing. I hit a lot of balls.
I'm not very good.

Speaker 15 (27:35):
I can shoot in the eighties and I can throw
you a one twenty and a heartbeat.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
You gotta come up, man, if you if you'll drown
yourself up here, I'll take you over to black Hawk
and I'll host you there.

Speaker 13 (27:48):
Hey, I'm ready. I'll send you some days that I
got it.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
We'll just have to schedule it.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
We just got I'll tell you well, I'll tell you
the easy way. My day off is Monday. That's gonna
be the easy day unless you want to wait until
tee off at two thirty in the afternoon when it's
gonna be one hundred degrees.

Speaker 13 (28:04):
Nah, We'll just going on Monday.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, I got a bunch of old guys.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
I play with it, just like us on Mondays, and
there's anywhere from six or eight of us to twelve
or fifteen of us. Everybody throws twenty bucks in and
we'll let you know if you win something.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Don't you worry?

Speaker 13 (28:19):
Oh I bet you will.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, it'd be fun. They're good people, they really are.

Speaker 8 (28:24):
Man.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, look tell Cam High and tell him thanks for
checking in on me on the Cobo deal. And man,
just stay safe out there on that water. Let's keep talking.

Speaker 13 (28:35):
Rojo, buddy, I'll have it, sir.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Don't be a stranger man, all right, I'll see audios,
all right, let me click that.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
There we go. Yeah, we gotta take a break here.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
That was funny because it when it said James, right
underneath that it said golf and I thought that might
be James the golf ball guy, but it wasn't. It
was Captain James Flogg, who a friend of mine, Mike Silva,
saw in a gas station park. I het Mike's in
there filling up and he's I'm on the phone with him.

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I'm asking him about a job I need him to
do for me, and he says, man, you'll never guess
who just pulled into here, and sure enough, sure enough,
it was James. So I'm glad he called.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I really am. I want to catch up more with him.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
I'm going to try and get him a little bit
more more often on the phone. I'm neglected to call
in some of my most trusted sources, and he's certainly
one of those. All Right, we got to take a
little break. Getar, Dave, Hang on, buddy, I'll get to
you as soon as I get back. I promise I
will Timbercreek Golf Club down there in Friends with FM
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(29:40):
twenty three fifty one, Just a couple of miles west
of the Gold Freeway. Twenty seven holes down there, all
of them fun, all of them good solid golf holes.
And if you get down there to play for the
first time, you will see what I made.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Just stand on the te box for ten seconds, take.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
A look down range, and you'll see exactly where that
architect won you to hit the ball.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
You'll see it.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
And if you're hitting the ball there, great, you're gonna
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Speaker 3 (30:21):
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Speaker 12 (30:27):
The conversation continues this as The Dougpike Show.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Hey, thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Uh, let me grab get Tar Dave, and then from
there I will get you Brandon the other.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
There's two brands who call in and we can see.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
By the the caller IDs which ones this is other.
Brendan's gonna hang on through guitar Dave and boom.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
I messed it up. Oh you're here, Oh yeah, you're there?

Speaker 8 (31:07):
Go man Yeah, hey uh yeah, uh.

Speaker 17 (31:12):
It's pretty cool to uh in a high honor to
play the second fiddle behind Captain Chains. I'll tell you
what him and him and his son Cameron Man, there's
such nice people. I mean I met him at the
Fishing Show a lot of time. Now I know Cameron
and and Mickey Ray Captain Mickey's son and then uh
Sean Stephanie. Yeah, they all they grew fishing together and

(31:35):
sure the man so yeah, all nice, nice young men.
They always come up and mess with me, you know,
come behind me and started shaking me around. Hey anyway,
uh hey, oh I caught him up yesterday.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
Okay. What I did was I took a.

Speaker 17 (31:50):
Mason troll lines and I'm marked them and everything like
the game morning told me have to. And uh so
I chunked this one throat and I went straight out
there with a pretty good sized hook on it. But
I strung a bunch of shrimp on it, you know,
weaveing ball on there.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Shrimp cocktail for them.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
Did you well? I turned back, listen to this.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
I can't.

Speaker 13 (32:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
I came back and the line is all the way to.

Speaker 17 (32:11):
The left, so I'm like, wow, man, So I put
my gloves on to that line that I got on there.
It's it's like a twine like anyway, Yeah, they cutting
your hens, got a big one on there.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
So I put my deer skin gloves on. Yeah. Hey,
if you have to get a chance to get you
some deer skin gloves, you're well worth it. Salt anyway.

Speaker 17 (32:32):
Okay, So I started easing up on it, you know,
and then I started pulling in.

Speaker 8 (32:38):
I'm like, man, what is this. I taught both of
those socks that I had the rock tide.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
I told you, I told you stop putting your range
cubes in your old socks.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
Dave, I'm not making this up.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
That's the first time that sentence has ever been set
on planet Earth too. By the way, stop putting your
range cubes in your old socks. Dave's hilarious.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
No.

Speaker 17 (33:05):
But but I'm here in Houston cleaning up right now,
you know. And I you know, when I get finished here,
it's just a little warm out here, Yeah it is.
I'm gonna get back over there, and I need to
check my lines. I checked it before I left and
it wasn't nothing on it, nobaite or nothing.

Speaker 8 (33:21):
So I chunkd it back out. I'll go check it.

Speaker 17 (33:23):
You and I got them dated, I mean game warning
said I can keep him in there, and I have
to redate it after ten days.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (33:29):
Yeah, but I'm going to go down there all right,
you know, every few minutes to get it done.

Speaker 8 (33:34):
Well, hey, you don't, you don't get on with it.

Speaker 17 (33:36):
And and I didn't know that you man said for
you were small as in and so I got you
a song that he might be able to queue up. Okay, yeah,
all right, I'll let him tell you right now.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Okay, all right, I'll see Okay, let me click. Oh man,
I got the wrong mouse. That's never gonna work. Oh,
thank you, Cal Brandon. What's up, my friend?

Speaker 9 (34:01):
Good morning, mister Pye, carry this morning.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
I'm well man, I've already got and.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
What a final round we're gonna have today? To be
beautiful weather.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
You know it's gonna be good weather. And I Min
woo Lee.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Looking for a first win, and Scottie Scheffler breathing down
his neck. Scheffer's going to be a group ahead. And
if he can come out and I mean they say
it every week on TV, but if he can come
out and throw a couple of birdies on the board
early and not trip and go backward like he did
yesterday after his first birdie, then he he might put

(34:38):
the fear of God in Min woo Lee and kind.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Of mentally force an error.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
I don't think Min Wooley's gonna make any physical errors,
but he if he has a choice to do shot
a which is safe and shot B which might put
a little more distance between them, and he chooses wrong
that that might cost him a tournament, but it's his
tournament to he's out there well clear of the field,
so he's just gotta he's just gotta go slow and

(35:05):
steady man and make them chase him.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
Bright exactly. Lee's looking pretty good. He's all he has
to do, is like you say, just I mean, he
looks like he's calm and collected, and he's like, you know,
what it is, what it is.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
I don't know if you saw that shot he hit
into nine yesterday, but I was just walking from from
eight Green back over toward the media Center, which is
very close to nine there, and the big crowd around
there because the Scheffler and.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Men woo Lee and whoever else was playing with them
yesterday I can't recall.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
And I heard this roar from the Green and it
was kind of one of those roars that builds to
a crescendo, and there everybody's getting really really happy and excited, incided,
and then there's kind of like a oh, just just
just the balloon. The air got let out of the
balloon all at once, and it had to have been
a near miss.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
That's what those sound like.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
And so I walked up to a little bit higher
ground and I could see that ball up there, and
it was I don't know how many inches it was
from the hole, but it wasn't a foot it was
it looked from my vantage point to be maybe four
inches from the hole, and the ball mark was just
right next to it.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
You know, it was pretty pretty much in there.

Speaker 9 (36:24):
It's pretty it's pretty nice to watch. I mean, I
wish I was there. I mean, it's pretty nice to
watch on TV.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
It really is.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
Well.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
TV gives you so many more angles. It was difficult,
I can tell you. It's it's gonna be a long
walk for everybody out there. And I saw one guy
walking in there. And this is a guy who's totally
oblivious to what happens to grass and dirt and anything
but concrete when it rains for a while. He was

(36:51):
walking in there to walk the grounds of the Texas
Children Houston open in flip flops, so helping me.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Oh, that's not good.

Speaker 13 (37:03):
His shoes, his.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Feet would have looked so nasty just after walking down
down one hole. Uh yeah, I just I didn't have
the heart to tell him, but I'd sure like to
have seen him coming out of there.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
Right, I said, takes all kinds.

Speaker 9 (37:20):
Huh, yes, sir, it does take all kinds. I just
wanted to touch on something, and I mean, I've been
very blessed at a very young age to be born
and raised on a farm in a ranch. Yeah, and
all these people that think, oh, you just go to
the store and you know, the food is put on
the table, I mean, or you can buy food or
clothes on your back. You know, the farmer and rancher's

(37:44):
dollar goes a long ways. They employed, they employee of
more people than what you would think. Absolutely, and not
only that, we have the gracious opportunity to hunt on
their land, and I mean it is, it is an opportunity.
And these guys, I mean they're struggling. And I mean

(38:07):
I'm speaking because I'm in the middle of rice country
and I don't know how we can change the laws
or do something. And I understand growth and everything has
to do with everything, but we need to keep rice
in our area. And I don't know how to talk
to legislation or whatever, but I mean it's the farmer's

(38:27):
dollar goes a long ways.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I mean, a long long way.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
If we I'll tell you what, Brendan, if we could
get consistent water delivery, we could grow more rice. It's
not like the ground won't grow it. That's just all
the water's getting stopped for reflection pools in Austin and
and who knows what between the source and here, and
all that water gets sucked out of the rivers before
it ever gets here, and the farmers get kind of

(38:54):
get the shaft, you know they do.

Speaker 9 (38:56):
Well, that's I mean, you said it perfectly, and that's
reason I'm saying I wish everybody would listen, because I
mean they do. They employ a lot of people, and
then we get the benefit of the wildlife.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Well well, I mean from the food they are.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Don't don't forget they're growing food for us, and it
would have them we got no food.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Man. Yeah, I appreciate you making that note for them.
I'll champion to us.

Speaker 9 (39:22):
As outdoor people to educate the people that don't know. Yeah,
you know, and I understand there's people out there and say, wow,
I get my food from the grocery. It's not yeah,
it's said, yeah, you get it.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
There, but yeah, they don't grow it behind back out back,
but yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Thanks Brendan Harry all right, man, yes, sir, thank you
you bet audios right.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
We've already hit another break And what did I make?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Two of them? Almost on time?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Cal kind of I got laughing with Marco yesterday the
same situation. I actually hit a break on time early,
like at eight eight thirty I think maybe or seven thirty,
and I told him this may be.

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Speaker 5 (42:28):
Bi Welcome back, thanks for listening to Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Just got an email
a little about five ten minutes ago. I'm not sure,
eh twenty minutes ago now from JTK Shooter's corner, right,
he's not there. He's not gonna be there this weekend
because according to what he just sent me, he is

(42:51):
fourteen hundred miles from the North Pole on a muskox hunt,
and at this point, based on the photograph I'm looking at,
I would call it a successful muskox hunt. How those
animals live up there? I have no idea, but they do.

(43:12):
And just to give you an idea of what the
temperature is up there, he kind of jokingly noted in
his email, Luckily it warmed up to twenty below zero.
It's only twenty below Yeah, that's I don't know how

(43:34):
lucky that is.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Jay.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
I send him back something that says it's good to
be young and crazy because I and I know because
I used to be young and crazy. Congratulations on your hunt, man.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
How about that that's.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
A long way from Texas long ways and a lot
of degrees, about one hundred degrees swing that's all one
hundred and seven to eight degrees swing from yesterday here
to where he is now.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
That's a lot of change.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, Cal, I'm gonna
call you into this. I have what's going on here.
Yesterday we were talking about a name for this audience.
Somebody said I would have a name for my audience,
and I narrowed it down by throwing out one and

(44:25):
then asking for other suggestions. Yesterday, I've got to kind
of whittle down to two. One is Pike's Peeps. The
other would be Pike's Pack. Do you have an opinion
on those? Or do you want some time to mull
it over. I'll give you time yet, I.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Don't want to just hit you right smack in the
face with it. You got it? That's perfect?

Speaker 13 (44:50):
All right?

Speaker 5 (44:51):
Well, yeah, we'll talk. Oh, let me go talk to
Rick here. We got time for him for sure, Man, Rick,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Well, Doug, if it's just uh, if I had to
pick between those two choices, it would be Pike's Pack.

Speaker 8 (45:08):
What I was.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Calling about is a reminder that I know deer season
don't start to fall. But really and truly, if you're
serious about it, it starts right now. It never stop and
that is never well, well, now's the time to really
get on it, because if you if you're gonna, if
you're gonna protein your deer for antler growth, you need

(45:34):
to get on it right now. Okay, this is when
they're growing. You know, the calcium. I mean, that's what
it's all about. But the other thing is, it's you
know what I sees too much of is people have
a pretty good deer lease, they've got a deer camp,

(45:54):
and after deer season, they don't go back to to
whatever it is. It's labor day weekend mm hm, and
they start standing up feeders and pouring in corn and
protein on the proteins. The waste of tag at that point.

Speaker 8 (46:08):
Yeah, most part.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
But the other thing is is I'm gonna I'm gonna
tell you a little gadget that I bought because I've
been out this this weekend and Friday looking at a
few places that I deal with, and some of them
are you know, you have to walk to your stand.

(46:32):
You can't just drive up to them. And I've always
been a Machetti and a tree lobbery guy, you know.
I mean that's how you trim your trails or primice
out of the roads. You got a limb hanging that whatever, okay,
Or a great big chain saw. Yeah, I bought a
I bought a little chainsaw last year that's got a

(46:55):
twelve inch blade on it in its battery powered.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
I've got a little a little smaller one to like
a six inch battery powered one at the house and
it comes in really handy.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Oh it's I love mine because my little spots that
I've got that I messed with around here for pro
hunting and stuff, they'll grow in so fast. Yeah, es
basically this time a year and uh, you know, go
go clean them up. Sure, but you know now's the
time if you're gonna if you want to stay ahead
of it. Because I'm sitting here watching the grass grove

(47:29):
and the tree limbs and and uh the weeds. You
know it's time to go mold. If you're gonna keep
it controlled, it's time to get on there. And you
get a wake or are aren't, it will get away
from me. Be a lot harder than you.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
You know, you end up waking.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
Up when Washton go ahead.

Speaker 6 (47:48):
Well, the red wash and jackets and everything. They're starting
to build their nest and you need to, you know,
go get control of him and check your stands and
all because anything and everything I get in there, I
put bug bombs and never stand. And usually if you
get that residue in there early, you don't have to
fight on the me in August, September, October.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah, amen to that preemptive strikes.

Speaker 8 (48:14):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
Plus hey, it gets you outside and out.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Amen, before it's one hundred degrees. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (48:23):
I mean, now it's the time to do it. So,
I don't know, we could talk about that all day long.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Well, we're gonna keep talking about it. Bring it up again, man,
bring it up again. I'm tight to the top of
the hour, but I want to talk some more about.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
That, for sure.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
I want to get ready for I'm going to be
somewhere where I can watch that Couger game at one thirty.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Yes, sir, I will too, all right, man, thank you, Rick,
See all right, buddy, audios. All right, I just got
an email from Greg Burlocker. He's got an idea for
the name of the crew. I might share that with
you when we get back.

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Speaker 3 (49:16):
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Speaker 5 (49:21):
O two on Sports Talk seven ninety second and final
hour of today's program starts right now. I've got some
emails I want to run through. Where's Aaron. Aaron's headed
back to Nebraska, Holy Cow, then all the way back
to Salt Lake. These guys are driving, They are driving
his crew. He and his crews drive all over the country,

(49:41):
building out huge warehouses and are darned good at what
they do. I might be able to tell you even
more about what they do here coming up this summer,
and I really want to get that to happen for him. Uh, Chris,
ways in, what are your thoughts on bank fishing at Fayette?
I hear the bass are still stacked near the banks.

(50:02):
I don't have a boat, so I'll be chunking from
the bank. I gotta tell you if Fayet's playing anything
like the Little Lake Eye Fish plays right now, then yeah,
I'd get up there and i'd be stomping around. I
would be very careful for snakes up there this time

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of year, because they're out, They're out there active, and
that's the last thing you want to do is be
a long ways from your car or truck or whatever
you're going to drive up there in tomorrow morning. Be
the You don't want to step on a snake, okay,
so keep your eyes open. I would I would carefully

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walk those banks. Everything I'm catching actually is not on
particularly grassy banks. It's all pretty open water and open bottom,
it seems like. And I've got the option walking this
one particular lake I'm thinking of out right now of
either kind of grassy and a little more vegetated and

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then open and ninety percent of the fish I'm catching
are coming from more open bottom and open water, So
that's that's.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Where they are right now. I don't know how many of.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Them are left on nests at the end of March
almost beginning of April, but they're definitely running those banks,
so that, yeah, I wouldn't mind at all.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
I'd be throwing.

Speaker 5 (51:29):
What I've been throwing a lot is a chatter bait,
and when I get bored with that, I'll pick up
a spinner bait. And then there's another lake that I
fish where I've got a little bit deeper water to
contend with. And it was it was better when it
was cool, because it's got a little bit of a
it's a spillway, and out in front of the spillway
in the lake there are probably ten yards by twenty

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yard ten by fifteen yards maybe of rock bottom, big
rocks on the bottom, and so all bounced a little
square bill crankbait off of that and typically do very well.
But man, if I'm walking the banks at Fayette tomorrow
morning or Tuesday morning, or for the next week or two, still, yeah,
I'm throwing a chatter bait, and I've got another rod

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tucked into my belt, or however you can carry one maybe,
or at least have a little bag of tackle with
you and some extra leader material and chunking one. So
I would start with a chatterbait, I really would. I've
fallen in love with those things. I fished them rarely,
if ever, for probably the first ever up until up

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until recently. From the time they came out up until recently,
I really didn't pay attention much to Chatter Baits. But
suddenly I've fallen in love with them, and they're they're
performing very well for me. Mike waited him, James Plugg's
funny Guy says, are you still fishing with?

Speaker 17 (52:52):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's some good stuff. I was so glad
to hear from him. He and I and Mickey, Vicky,
all of those got blamed. Everybody over there on that
East side they were kind enough to let me into
their boats, and everybody up on this side of town too,
and all the way down the coast. Back when I
was writing, they were very kind and I had a

(53:15):
lot of time off. I wrote somebody in an email
the other day to let them know that back one
of the things the difference between radio and writing for
the newspaper was that with radio, I've got to be
here to do these.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Live shows, or it's pretty obvious that I'm not.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
With the newspaper, Joe and Joe Dogget and I would
write columns well ahead. We'd write maybe a week, week
and a half of columns and then bust out for
Mexico to go surfing or fishing or hunting or whatever,
and it it was okay. There was no problem with
that because it was all fresh material. I don't want

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to I don't want to come in here one day
and just record three hours of show, because even if
I tried not to let it be known that I
was out and that it was a recorded show, it
would be pretty obvious since there would be no phone
calls in it, there would be no references to emails

(54:14):
in it. And I don't know, I don't know how
many of you want to hear me talk for three hours.
That might be pretty rough. Unless you need something to
put you to sleep at night. You could just replay
one of those That's what they could do. Cal They
could replay one of those best of episodes.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
If I can.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
If I came in and recorded just nothing but me
talking for an hour, man, i'd probably last fifteen minutes.
Be gone seven one three, two one two five seven
ninety email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Prove it,
prove that this is not just me talking for three
hours ahead of time. Well, of course I would have

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to have a crystal ball too, because right now I'm
going to talk about the leader board.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Of the Texas Children's Houston Open.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
The boys will be out there, the the big guys
are going out later obviously, and I'm looking for notables
who didn't make the cut.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
That would be and the cups at minus three.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
By the way, JJ spawn out, Alex Smalley out, Danny
Willett out. It's been a while since he was a
top guy. Actually, you know, I'm not saying a whole
lot of ct pen. He's from here. I was kind
of hoping he would do something this week.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
I really was.

Speaker 5 (55:28):
It's a shame he's not still playing and moving down
the list farther and farther. And I don't know why
I do it to these guys, but yeah, here, Ryan
Palmer had the worst week kh Lee Withdrew, but Ryan
Palmer has the distinction this week. And they've all been
there and they all know it doesn't really mean much.

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He may have been heard, he may have been feeling puny.
Who knows, but poor old Ryan Palmer has got an
early exit because after two rounds he was plus sixteen.
And if you think that's bad, try to understand that
he shot two rounds in the seventies, seventy nine seventy seven,

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and almost everybody listening to me right now would kill
to put together back to back rounds in the seventies.
That's just it's it looks so bad on a professional scorecard,
but to the other billion golfers on the planet, back
to back seventies, yeah, that'd be pretty good.

Speaker 8 (56:35):
I would.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
I don't know that I've ever had back to back seventies.
I've actually had. My low round of all time was
on the member course at Golf Club of Houston when
I had I had a putt on eighteen, an uphill,
about a ten to twelve foot putt to shoot sixty nine.

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And because I was a big fat chicken and scared
of a fast, downhill putt that might cost me what
I was gonna get.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
I didn't mean.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
I didn't mean to lag it up and leave it
two feet short, which I did.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
I wanted to hit it about a foot.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
Past the hole, but my some weird instinct in me
said no and prevented me from getting the putt all
the way to the hole to shoot sixty nine. And
that would have been really cool. I've never shot in
the sixties. And maybe someday Hope springs eternal. I'm getting there.

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I'm getting there.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Let's see. So back back to the leaderboard. I so
apologize Memmoulouse men wu Lee seventeen underpar. He starts to day.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
He will later on with a four shot lead over
Alejandro Tossedy at thirteen, Ryan Fox, Ryan Gerard Scottie Scheffler
at twelve. I'll give you the elevens and the tens
and beyond that it's just working for a bigger paycheck. Yes,
Ru Spencing, Gary Woodland, Keith Mitchell, Trey mullanax All at
eleven and Davis Thompson, Jake Knapp, Nico Etchavaria, and Taylor Pendrith,

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Taylor Pendrith.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
If anybody could maybe catch.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Lightning in a bottle and do something crazy, if and
only if memou Lee stumbles, that might be him, of course, Scheffler.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
It was interesting.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
There was some discussion this morning about whether or not
these guys are truly getting masters warm up by playing
here and then again next week in San Antonio. Both
courses Houston here at Memorial Park and the TPC course
in San Antonio have similar green complexes. They have similar

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shot values around the greens. Miss a green very difficult
to get up and down, true of both courses. But
what was brought up on the PGA Tour Network this morning,
Dave Warren. I think it's Dave Warren and the other
guy he talks to. I can't I can't recall their names.
I apologize for that. But there are just two older

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lifelong golf instructors from very nice clubs in the country.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
And ones in Miami, ones in up in New York.

Speaker 5 (59:27):
I think it is and what they pointed out is
and this just tells you how far separated all of
us are from the PGA Tour players. Dave ware I
think it was said, if they want to if they
want to practice ahead of the Masters, why are they
playing these two tournaments. If they want to get ready

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for Augusta, they should just fly to Augusta and play
there for a week. Like, boy, doesn't that sound fun?
Doesn't that sound like it would be a good time.
Wish I could just fly to Augusta and play for
a week, just for giggles.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
That's something most people can't do.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
And a lot of these younger pros, a lot of
these the guys who are in our tournament and who
will be playing at San Antonio next week, could afford
to go play that tournament. They could afford to come
into Houston and maybe even bring their family and have
a good time with the outside shot at going and

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getting up punching their ticket to Augusta. They win here.
If they win next week and have no other way in,
they're in. But most of them can't do that. And
I'm pretty sure that the people at Augusta, if you
weren't already in the tournament, would just tell you and uh,
go ahead and win Houston, then you can come over,

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go ahead and win San Antonio, and then hop on over.
You're welcome to tee it up anytime. These guys are.
They're they're truly elite in their in their game, and
I'm not sure there are other games where the elite
and the really good amateurs play such a different game. Now,
the differences in scores between elite golfers and really good

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amaters aren't that great, But I know people who have
had a chance to play professional golf and tried for
years to really dial it in and then had to
just concede that they were maybe a quarter or a
half shot around off the pace it takes to do

(01:01:35):
that and just just had to swallow a big chunk
of humble pie and say, you know what I'm gonna
I'm gonna be a butcher or a baker or a
candlestick maker, and I'll be the darn best one of those.
And then I'll be the guy who everybody wants on
their scramble team too, and that's fun.

Speaker 8 (01:01:53):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
We gotta take another little break here.

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
I'm going to remind you again what's going on down
at Moody Gardens April twenty six, at twenty seven, that
would be the nights, the Friday and Saturday nights on
which I will be m seeing what's actually the fourth
annual fly Fishing Film Festival down at Moody Gardens, and
it's gonna be a blast. I've done this now as

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long as they've asked me to, and every year the
films get better. The fishing is the spectacular, and they
literally do cover the whole planet from the time the
first film starts to the time the last one finishes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
At night, each night you'll see.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Things that you never would have dreamed even existed in
this world, in the world of fly fishing. And if
you're a conventional fisherman. If you're a chunk and wine guy,
that's great. You'll still love it. There's still fish and
they're still being caught all around the world. But the
cinematography is worth the price of admission itself. Even if

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nobody ever caught a fish on these films. What you're
gonna see is is truly spectacl. You're gonna run into
a bunch of old friends, you're gonna make some new friends.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Great food.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
They got a cash bar until you run out of cash,
so long as you're not driving. And they also have
actually well, first of all at the website Moodygardens dot org,
they've got discount tickets, half priced tickets get you in
there for the film fest, and then they also have
some special one and two night packages if you want
to come down and make a weekend of it. Maybe
work it around a golf while you're there. It's truly

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a one of a kind thing. There's a big, old center,
the center of attention before the film start is on
the biggest screen in Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
If I hadn't mentioned that yet.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
Is an area full of vendors and conservation organizations, all
of which all of whom are there to answer your
questions about what they do, answer your questions about getting
into fly fishing. You can even pre register for fly
fishing lessons while you're down there that weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Moodygardens dot org. Start there.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
That's where the whole search starts for this Moodygardens dot org.

Speaker 12 (01:04:04):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 8 (01:04:09):
You've got to try.

Speaker 12 (01:04:10):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Fight Show.

Speaker 16 (01:04:25):
Got out of town on the boat doing the Seven Lands,
sailing a reach far a following.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
See she was making far the trades on the outside.
All right, welcome back nine to twenty on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Greatly appreciate you listening this morning. Let me
get back to my notes. Well, first I'll check email
real quick.

Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
Cap.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Scott and I've been swapping emails about trying to predict
the future and how it how it kind of can
bite you sometimes when you need just when you need to,
it'll come back and bite you. If that taken care of,
that's taken care of. Wow, JTK, holy cow man. Apparently

(01:05:10):
apparently this might even surprise you. Cal Apparently JTK is
listening to the show from wherever base camp is up
there near the North Pole, and by near, I mean
twelve hundred miles from it. But nonetheless, yeah, WiFi everywhere,

(01:05:34):
Holy cow, starlink. Maybe it's gotta be some satellite thing. Yeah,
thank you, Yeah, I gotta just thank you. Words of
William will every man, Oh yeah, he profoundly. He quotes
William Wallace when I told him it was it's sure,

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it's fun to be young and.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Crazy, which I used to be.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
William Wallace apparently said every man dies, not every man
really lives. That's pretty good, isn't it. That's quite profound.
That's that's how I'm going to live the rest of
my life.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Theg gone it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:12):
There's there's things on my bucket list, cal anything on
your bucket list. As you're a very young man still,
you haven't even thought about a bucket list yet.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Have you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
You're just still looking for the bucket.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
Yeah, you're young. You're young. So if if if there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Was one thing that you could do tomorrow but you
could never do it again after you did it tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
What would it be.

Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
Oh, that's a tough one, Doug's tough.

Speaker 5 (01:06:43):
I'll have to give you time for that one too. Huh,
think it over, think it over. We'll see if we
can come up with something. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I got that email about fishing the banks
of Fayett County, and I kind of had to smile
a little bit because a lot of times when I

(01:07:06):
was going up there with oh, gosh, a couple of
guys I was fishing with up there, Oh who was it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Jean Ballard and Rick god Lee, Rick Rule.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
I apologize, Rick, if you're listening this morning, I know
you do sometimes, and if you are, I'm sorry it
took me that long to grab your name out of
my head. But we would go up there, and we
would spend this time of year, all morning, all morning
in their boat, in each of their boats, and just
picking around up and down the shorelines. And granted, there

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are some parts of the lakes of any big lake
where it's difficult to walk the bank and almost impossible
even to get to where the fish are, but yeah,
they're on that shoreline, and if you can find a
place that's safe to walk, and hopefully he doesn't have
a whole lot of snakes, you're gonna have to have
your head on a swivel if you're gonna walk just

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raw land shorelines this time of year. But there's a
pretty good chance you're gonna be rewarded for your efforts
with some pretty good fish, pretty good fish seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go down here.

(01:08:26):
There was one more I wanted to take a quick peek.
Oh man, I've been remiss and not responding to an
email from earlier, and I will do that right now,
even though I'm right in the middle of yapping because
it's important. Misspelled word that's not cool.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
I find that well, I'm not. I can still, I can.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
Still type as fast as I ever could, But every
now and then I'll make a little goof that I
hate seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Let's go talk to Lenny. What's up, Lenny?

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 13 (01:08:58):
We doing?

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
I'm good? Thank you? How are you?

Speaker 8 (01:09:00):
I'm fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
If I could do one thing one more time.

Speaker 18 (01:09:03):
I'm sixty now and I can still do a standing
back tuck because I've been a gymnastics coaching chileader my
whole life.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
A standing back flip yes, I do.

Speaker 18 (01:09:13):
It every year on my birthday, and so the last
forty seven years I've done it on my birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
Oh my god, are you gonna do it this year?

Speaker 13 (01:09:22):
Of course, I'm a fifty one.

Speaker 18 (01:09:24):
I'm gonna lose those twenty COVID bounds.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
It will be if you can lose those twenty And
if you figure out how to do that, you you
just email me, will you?

Speaker 8 (01:09:34):
It's gonna happen.

Speaker 18 (01:09:35):
Oh listen, So my Cougars are finally in the top
eight again. I actually was a Chileader keeb olish.

Speaker 13 (01:09:42):
Ones last year.

Speaker 8 (01:09:43):
Oh wow, Slam and Gemen and so.

Speaker 18 (01:09:46):
Just your thoughts on the on the game man, what
do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Well, first of all, that play that that Kelvin pulled
out of the air to win the last game was staggering.
That they're gonna have their hands full today. They really
are are. But is and I don't watch a lot
of college basketball. I'll be the first one to admit it.
I'm more into fishing and hunting and golf and all
that good stuff. However, what I've seen and the way

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they have just just manhandled every other team they've played
in the tournament so far, if they go in there
with the same attitude and they have anything coming out
the box to get their their confidence level up. If
nothing derails them at all in the first ten minutes
of the game, then it'll be game over. I think,

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I really do. They're they're that good a team.

Speaker 18 (01:10:36):
Yeah, and I think that we had our worst shooting
game last game and one set the record, set his.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
Personal record for three pointers.

Speaker 18 (01:10:44):
Ah, you know, half of our team to get the
ball in the bucket. Anyway, Listen, I listened to you
all the time, and I never call it.

Speaker 13 (01:10:51):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
Well, you know what I don't.

Speaker 18 (01:10:54):
I don't fish, I don't hunt, but I love you know,
I'm a window shopper man outside.

Speaker 13 (01:11:00):
I will, I will.

Speaker 8 (01:11:02):
I'm going to retired a couple of years.

Speaker 13 (01:11:03):
And buy a boat, do all those fun things.

Speaker 8 (01:11:05):
But I love camping.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
I loved going and watching it.

Speaker 8 (01:11:09):
I'll go with you, watch you touch fish.

Speaker 18 (01:11:10):
But I just literally caught boots and sticks my whole life,
so I just have not. I did go the only
time I've ever gone DC fishing. I went to Venice,
Louisiana and caught reds and drugs. You know, first day
of my life for fishing. But it's the only time
I've ever really gone fishing.

Speaker 5 (01:11:29):
Honestly, that's the greatest compliment I get is from people
who don't really hunt and fish but like the show.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
So thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
And hey, man, if you want to talk about camp,
and you can teach me and my half of my
audience about camping, because I'm I'm becoming more interested.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
I used to do quite a bit of it actually.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
When I was in my early twenties, and we'd go
up to some of these lakes around here, go to
Somerville and camp out.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
There was a place a.

Speaker 5 (01:11:54):
Friend of mine's dad had a ski boat, and we'd
haul that thing up there and go skiing all weekend long,
catch white mass out of it and get it all
bloody and scaly, and uh yeah, it was a blast, man.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
But I would love to talk about camp and bring
it up.

Speaker 18 (01:12:08):
My family has gone, uh just sam Ravern Park at
Lake sam Raver for the last forty years on spring break,
Holy County Camp and we uh now now most of
us camp a hit. But I mean I actually couldn't
get the camp for the first day, so I had
to tint it for the first time in about ten years.

Speaker 8 (01:12:24):
Oh boy, thirty mile an hour winds. But I mean
we do it.

Speaker 18 (01:12:29):
We do it with tarts and literally uh tarts over
the tents and construction.

Speaker 8 (01:12:35):
It's crib.

Speaker 13 (01:12:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:12:36):
I would love to talk to you about that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
Yeah, let's do it. Did you You're gonna be my
camping expert.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
I'm gonna. I'm wanna turn to you. Yes, stay in touch.

Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
Money, Thanks man, good luck to your coos, buddy, audios, goods,
good guy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Man, Holy cow, I hadn't called before. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (01:12:53):
Aaron?

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
Not much?

Speaker 14 (01:12:56):
Not to head down the surch side.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Here in a little bit, are you now? Have you
looked at the camera yet?

Speaker 14 (01:13:03):
No, but my buddy Dale go through. He's always looking
at it and we just yeh, try to the best
time to go. But yeah, it was.

Speaker 9 (01:13:12):
It was.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
It was a nice little swell. I looked at the
Jetti Park. I'm getting down here to Saltwater Recon. I'm
gonna go take a look for you right now and
see what it looks like yesterday. It was lined up
pretty good and probably based on old experience and knowledge
from the video I was looking at it was probably

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like chess to possibly maybe head high outside and looking
just out pretty clean too.

Speaker 14 (01:13:42):
I should have gone yesterday too, but I just wanted
to pick a day and go.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
But well, we're entitled that we don't have to go
every day anymore. There was a time in my life when, Man,
if there were waves, I was going, I didn't care
what time of year it was.

Speaker 14 (01:13:56):
Yeah, leave it, leave at five o'clock and get there
with thirty mon it's a daylight left really scrambled.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
M m.

Speaker 6 (01:14:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:14:06):
Anytime we surf, if we weren't there, we were going crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:14:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
There were a lot of days when my my old
high school buddies and I would throw fishing rods and
surfboards into the truck or car or whatever we were
driving in, and uh we were covered either way somehow,
one way or the other.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
We were going to have fun at the beach.

Speaker 8 (01:14:27):
Right on.

Speaker 14 (01:14:27):
I'm trying to get I mean fish or hunt.

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
But I still listening to the guys stories.

Speaker 9 (01:14:34):
Yeah thanks man.

Speaker 8 (01:14:36):
Well yeah, so.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
I'm just like I told any man, what so what
other than surfing?

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
Do you do anything else outdoors?

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:14:45):
I work?

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
What do you do man?

Speaker 14 (01:14:49):
Landscape?

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (01:14:50):
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't that's a.

Speaker 5 (01:14:55):
That's just a big old get rich quick scheme. Isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:00):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
I know, man, I know, I'm kind of joking with you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
You, you and everybody else who works outside for a living.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
I tipped my cap to you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
There was a time when I was tough enough for that,
but I'm not anymore, and I'm so glad there's guys
like you out there who still can.

Speaker 8 (01:15:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:15:16):
I'm about four hours now at my speed, and that's
about all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
It's all right, that's all right. It's a couple hours
loader than me. Man. Well, thank you, I hope you.

Speaker 16 (01:15:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Yeah, I'm waiting for.

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
This dog on camera to load. If it'll ever load,
I will. I'll just keep listening. I'll tell you what
I'm looking at down there. Where are you gonna go, sir?

Speaker 14 (01:15:38):
Side proper? I don't know Ted's crab or where if
we can get out?

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
All right, all right, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna figure
out what's wrong with this thing and reload it somewhere
else and see if I can't get it, And if
I can, I'll tell you what I see.

Speaker 14 (01:15:58):
I'd love to see mister dogget now there.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
Yeah, I hadn't had I talked to him. Actually, I
talked to him about three days ago. I came home
and I when I was hanging out with him a lot,
I'd come home and my wife would say, you're talking
just like Joe. And I came in so helped me
like three days ago, and I said something to her
and she goes, that sounds like Joe dogg And have
you been talking to him?

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
I said no, and I hadn't.

Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
And then like two hours later he called like, Okay,
maybe it was just a premonition.

Speaker 6 (01:16:28):
All right, well let me say sounds similar.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Yeah, I could, Man, when we I'm gonna have to
get him in here sometime and sitting down for a
couple of hours and just talk.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
I think we'd have a lot of fun with that.
It would be good.

Speaker 14 (01:16:43):
Yeah, write a book. He's written a book.

Speaker 8 (01:16:47):
He should write a book.

Speaker 5 (01:16:48):
Well, he compiled a bunch of his columns, and I'm
toyed with that idea too. Maybe someday, I don't know.
All right, Well, thanks man, thanks for the call.

Speaker 14 (01:16:59):
Here app Ben all right.

Speaker 5 (01:17:02):
Yeah, good luck today. I'm still okay, Yeah, thank you.
I am still trying to get this camera to load up.
And I don't know why the site won't come up.
It's not telling me anything. Let me see if I
can get a different camera to come up. Maybe it's
the Maybe it's the surf side camera. Now this thing's
just circling the globe. Its globe. It's not doing anything

(01:17:23):
circling the train. Maybe all right, we gotta take a
little break here. Maybe I can work some magic on
it during the break and see what it's looking like
down there. I love this technology that gives us instant
gratification when we're thinking about burning the gas and the
time to go down and surf. You don't have to
You don't have to guess anymore like we did, especially

(01:17:45):
with Fishing Boy, and have the report you'd get from
down there. We're just to get you to come down
and buy bait. Black Horse Golf Club, no guess work there.
You're gonna get a great experience. Whether you are taking
advantage of the North course and it's open play. It
is a daily feed course as it always has been.
The South course has been taken private, nothing wrong with that.

(01:18:06):
And the people who are taking advantage of the memberships there.
There's a membership option that you can get that gets
you not only access to the South Course at black Horse,
but it also gets you access to both courses at
Golf Club of Houston and to Blackhawk Country Club, where
I play the most. Black Horse has been out there
a very long time off Front Well two ninety to

(01:18:29):
Fry Road, hanging south. It's off Fray Road about three
miles south of two ninety. Very easy to get to,
and this new membership is one of the best that
you're going to find anywhere as far as what it
offers to you in access to premium golf courses around town.
Go check in with Craig Hicks. He's the general manager
out there. If you see him by the way. He's

(01:18:50):
a big hunter and fisherman too, so ask him what
his latest latest conquest was in the out of doors.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
He loves it outside just as much as we do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Black Horse Golf Club dot com is the place to
go to get yourself a tea time right now on
that north course, or find out more about everything else
they do out there. Great teaching facility at the far end,
great host for big tournaments. Black Horse Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 12 (01:19:15):
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Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
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Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
All right, Welcome back Dogfight Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety the surfcam finally came up the saltwater recon cameras
and surfside looking pretty good. I double checked the wind
as well. The winds down there. It's got a little
more east in it then maybe you'd like to see,

(01:19:58):
so that's kind of in Surprisingly, the jetti caam down
there looked.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
It showed pretty good.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
There's a really nice swell, no question about that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
And I'm gonna go back to it here real quick.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
I want to look at the jetti park, the beach front,
the surfside beach camera. I pulled it up full screen
and it just it still breaking all the way out
as far as you want to look the jetticam, I've
got it pulled up right now. Somebody's gotten a hold
of the camera. Dad gummet Arry just pointing it at
the rocks. I wanted to look straight back out if

(01:20:34):
I could. And now I'm gonna have to wait for
this person to let go of the camera. I'm gonna
go back. Yeah, that's gonna be a couple of minutes.
The bottom line, it actually looked very good, really lined up.
Considering it's a light, i'd have to call it a
light southeast wind a little bit more east in it
than I would like to see. It's gonna push that
stuff down the beach. There's an outside chance if there

(01:20:57):
were a Quintana camera, and I don't know. I think
there is one somewhere, but I'm not sure who's got it.
But I'd like to see what that side looks like too.
You've got wind protection over there and a legitimate good swell.
There's no question that beachfront camera shows pretty much breaking
well out passed where most of us would.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Want to have to paddle to to get to it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
And that's out be at the where it's breaking farthest
out at least head high. It's got to be maybe
a little bit more some and it's lined up pretty good,
just like Aaron was talking about eight seconds. Uh so yeah,
I think there's gonna be some really good surfing going
on down there today. I wish I was able to
go down there and take advantage of that. I really

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do seven one three two seven ninety. Email me Doug
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Speaker 13 (01:21:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Speaking of the serf, it, I haven't heard yet from
anybody at least up here. I've heard kind of second
hand and third and fourth and fifth hand reports that
there's some are some fish being caught in the surf
way down south, but that's still even a little bit early.
I'm not sure who's going to be first to catch
one up here. There's some A better look at the Yeah,

(01:22:11):
that's the Jetti Park camera. It's the winds on it
a little bit. But the swell that's coming in the
clearly well defined.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Waves, it's not just wind chop.

Speaker 5 (01:22:23):
This is a legitimate swell coming in from offshore. And
like I said, it's it's a little bit a little
bit discombobulated because of the wind. But I absolutely want
to paddle out in that stuff. I absolutely would. There's
a couple of people in the water. They don't appear
to know a whole lot about what they're doing between

(01:22:45):
me and you, But hopefully somebody else will get in
the water soon and we can see what real surfers
can do out there.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Today.

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
These guys look like they rented their bars and didn't
buy any wax. Basically settle on three two one two
five seven ninety emon me Doug can I heartmedia dot
come back to the surf.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
It's not going to be long.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
With water temperatures warming up and air temperatures warming up,
that somebody's going to be first to get some trout
out of the surf if they haven't already. And I
still think it's a little bit early right now, but
once it starts again, because we have so many more
fish still around thanks to the new limits, I think
the trout fishing in the surf is going.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
To be really, really good this year.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
I won't be surprised at all if we don't see
more and bigger trout even in our surf up here
in Galaston, And like James was talking about, we don't
get too many giants up here yet. He talked about
how there are a lot of fours and some five
pounders in the bay, but it was a while, It
was a pretty good while ago before we could talk

(01:23:51):
about that. There were a lot of smaller fish still
being caught back when the limit was five.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
But now that it's three, and now that they.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
Squeeze that slot a little bit more and let some
of those more grown fish keep growing, this is gonna
be good. I think James was a little bit hesitant
to be as optimistic as I am, because he's been
at it a long time and he's been through a
lot of crazy, weird stuff, all the freezes that he
and I have been through, and just watch the trout populations.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Go to nearly zero.

Speaker 5 (01:24:24):
That's what started all the tarpainfishing off our coast. The
majority of it. There were a few guys going. Mike
Williams was going tarp and fishing before most anybody else
really was.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
In earnest.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
He was deliberately focused on and chasing and learning about
tarpin long before a lot of these guys did, because
the trout fishing was so good and it was so
much easier to.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Stay in the bay.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Actually, I made more than one tarpain trip into East
Bay and into parts of Galveston Bay. There were some
really big tarpain in our bay, but few people fished
for him because they it was harder to catch them.
You didn't get nearly as many bites. But once those
freezes came through here and wiped out the trout, and

(01:25:10):
those guys wanted to make a living, they had to
go buy some bigger rosin reels and start soaking fresh
men Hayden under a balloon, and it worked out pretty
well for everybody. Now we're getting our trout back it's
gonna be a lot of fun. I have got to
take this last break of the program or I'll oh.
I don't know how much I'd okay, but I I'd
ownhim a favor somewhere on the way to this final

(01:25:32):
break of the program. Riceland Waterfowl Club out of Eagle
Lake one of the finest waterfowl operations in Texas. I
had a good long conversation yesterday. I hope you heard
it with David Pruett, the guy who's owned that place
and is celebrating his golden anniversary as a waterfowl outfitter
in Eagle Lake.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
Fifty years.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
He's been doing this and one of the reasons he's
been successful for fifty years in that business is because
he makes sure as a hunter himself and as a
as a champion caller for the past thirty forty years,
he makes sure he's got plenty of water, which is
the most important part of getting these ducts to hang around.

(01:26:13):
And then he also makes sure that he keeps his
his hunting groups spread out that all of his blinds
are except for one. There's one blind that's four hundred
and thirty yards because somebody shot it with a rangefinder,
and he talks about him all being a quarter mile apart,
and somebody shot that when it was four thirty, so
they kind of laugh about that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
But the bottom line.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
Is everybody's got plenty of elbow room, and he does
no guided hunting on any of his properties. None of
that water gets hunted by guides and their parties because
that tends to take away some some of the opportunity
for the club members. It's all available exclusively to club
members and their guests. And he's even got a system

(01:26:58):
in place that any club members from getting preferential treatment.
Everybody has clean shots at all the good spots all
the time that they're open. Really a well run operation.
I plan on making a few hunts out there. Maybe
we can work out something where where David and I
can go out there and do the calling for some
people who really want to get into duck hunting but

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don't know how to do it. I'd have to polish
off my duck calls and get my skills back up.
Maybe I'll sit out there in the in the office
and work on them over the weekends. Riceland Waterfowl Club
dot Com.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Go there.

Speaker 5 (01:27:37):
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You'll be glad you did.

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Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
I gotta tell you, I'm looking at the end of
the surf side Jetti. Somebody's got the camera pulled in
tight down there, and there are if I'm lying, I'm dying,
there are at least seventy five to one hundred people
on the last hundred yards of that jetty right now.
I don't know whether Man, I must have missed a memo.

(01:28:49):
I cannot believe how many people I see on those
rocks right now. Yeah, I'm gonna have to do a
little investigation on that. Aaron, if you get down there,
and you happen to get down to Jennie Park, walk
out there and send me an email, let me know
what the heck's going on. Let me go talk to
Art Strickland here, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
I thought you had a busy, busy day on the
golf course.

Speaker 13 (01:29:14):
Hey, I got the stat of the day for you
the day. Are you ready for that?

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
I'm ready?

Speaker 16 (01:29:21):
Okay, men, we leave four shot lead. That's theay Houston Open. Yes,
going into the final round today, first two players with
the four shot lead going to the final day both lost.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:29:37):
Future both spit the bed on the four shot lead.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:29:42):
So don't don't be warming up the victory speech just yet.
We want to go first until. I mean, I like
his chances. It'd be his first ever pghuir win.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
But however, huh oh, now you did it to.

Speaker 16 (01:30:01):
Have a four shot leads Tony fen now and he
pulled it off.

Speaker 13 (01:30:05):
He got the wind.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
Good for him.

Speaker 16 (01:30:07):
Don't don't start writing the victory speech yet. You know,
we don't even start golf or ten o'clock today because
of the uh the way, because of the weather and
everything else. So uh, no golf yet, nobody playing yet.
But uh, four shot lead is a good lead. Yes,
it's not a guaranteed weed.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
I had actually I got a little video about a
ten second video clip of Sheffer walking off eight yesterday
and as he was walking by I said, there goes
your eventual winner of the Texas Children's Houston Open.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
And I'm I'm sticking with that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
I don't know how he's gonna do it, but I
still feel like he can do it.

Speaker 16 (01:30:50):
He can definitely do it. One thing, this course is
proven in a yield.

Speaker 13 (01:30:54):
Well scores.

Speaker 16 (01:30:55):
Yeah, so there's a sixty five, sixty four, you know, sixty.

Speaker 8 (01:31:00):
Three out there for someone today.

Speaker 16 (01:31:03):
I mean you saw Rory makes the cut by one
shot wait Friday night, and then shoot's sixty five yesterday
and it's up their top twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
All of a sudden. Yeah, it doesn't take much to
go right for it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:16):
If you can get two or three things to go
right in the first four or five holes, then and
feel really confident with every swing you make from that
point forward.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Uh yeah, you got anybody's got a show?

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
Well, not anybody, but I would say anybody within six
maybe yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:31:33):
Well Rory's uh well, Rory's seven back, Yeah he's twenty
so you know, Scotty's five back. Well, the scores all
life fit, manwey Lee is looking good.

Speaker 13 (01:31:46):
But I just wouldn't.

Speaker 9 (01:31:47):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:31:48):
As Bill Parcells once said to a waiting the annoying
oil for now.

Speaker 13 (01:31:53):
Yes, waits what happens?

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Yeah, No, matter where he was yesterday, there were no
trophies for Saturday's round.

Speaker 16 (01:32:01):
If that was the case, Greg Norman, that's a Saturday Slam,
all four majors.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
Of them.

Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
Oh my gosh, I forgot about that. It's always a
pleasure to hear from you art. Holy cow, man, I.

Speaker 13 (01:32:22):
Thought you'd like the state of the day. Anything I
can do to.

Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Help you, Doug, Yeah, well that that is a very
that's a very good stat on which to end today's program.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
It's always a pleasure of art. Thanks man. I appreciate
you jumping in. I really do so. Yes you will.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
As a matter of fact, I'll see you Tuesday. All right,
we're gonna we're gonna wrap it up here, Holy cow,
already wrapping up. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
It's been a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
Thank you all for your input, thank you all for
your comments. I need my camper's back, I need my
surfers back. I want to hear from all of you.
That's what makes this the pro program it is, that's
what drives this engine. Get outside, tell me what you're
doing outside, tell me what you and your family do
this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Tell me next weekend, I'll be back. Come Mercy. I'll
be back Wednesday live on KPRC.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
I'll be back here Saturday morning, God willing, and I
really hope I can be here to hear from all
of you. Get outside, have some fun with your family,
stay safe.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
I'll see you then. Audios