Should you fish on the shady side or sunny side of the tree?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now Here's dog Pike. It's always about three minutes. I
could have used three more minutes. That's all I would
have needed. Oh, I would have been more comfortable, more
ready to sit down at this microphone and get this
day started. But I'm good now. I think I'm pretty
sure I have everything I need except for a cup
of coffee. I'll go make some of that during the break.

(00:32):
It doesn't take long. Is there any hot coffee in there, Melvione?
Or do you know?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I haven't looked just yet. I've been running behind myself.
It's one of those days.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Aren't they all?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Though?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Really, at some point during every day you hit my age, man,
and they're all one of those days, and I'm just
grateful to have them. That's fine with me. It's a
little hectic, a little crazy sometimes around here, but I
do enjoy what I do, and that's why I'm still
sitting here every Saturday. Boy, I was sleeping so well too, man, Oh,

(01:06):
I was just in a deep sleep. I'm sure I
was dreaming about something. Who knows what probably catching a
giant bass or trout or whatever, and just all of
a sudden me, man, get up, Get up. No, I
didn't want to wake up to an alarm. I just
wanted to wake up. I don't get that many of
those days because of what I do, but when I

(01:28):
do have one every Now you know what I think
I'm gonna do this week, Melbourne. I left like ten
vacation days on the table, and I think maybe like
one a month I'll just take some rando day off
during the month just to sleep in and just just nothing.
I'm just gonna curl up at a ball and turn
off all the lights. I might put some some covering

(01:49):
over the window his thumb, tack it up there, and
just go into a cave and sleep and see how
long I can sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Now you know that's not gonna happen, right, Yeah, I
do as you're thinking about sleeping in.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, it's it's that's just a dream. It really is.
Holy col my son's finally he's turning a little bit
less teenager and a little bit more responsible, almost adult.
So there's hope for that too. That's been keeping me
awake some. He's a good kid. I'm not. I'm not
knocking anything he's doing right now. He makes good grades,

(02:27):
and he's he's pretty helpful around the house. But he's
just got that teenager attitude. And I see so many
reels on Facebook that talk about that, and they just
kind of confirm where he is in the process of
maturing and becoming a contributing member to society. He'll get there.
I think he's going to do very well for himself. Actually,

(02:47):
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. There is so
much going on around here. We had hold on, let
me get this piece of paper out over here. We
we finally got the It's a nice stretch of weather
in front of us. And good timing too, because this
is really a good time of year to be fishing.

(03:07):
It's a good time of year also to be playing golf,
and the hunting season is winding down. They're not much
left of anything you can do unless you have special permits,
or you're young, or you carry a muzzleloader. I can't
remember exact dates of all those things. But right now
I'm shifted almost completely back into fishing gear. And it's
like I said, it's a good time to do that,

(03:29):
and this next four or five days are going to
be really nice for doing it too. In fact, I
looked yesterday at the forecast for fifty plus and there
was originally about three days ago there were chances of
rain next Tuesday and Wednesday, I think, and maybe even Thursday.
But all of those are gone now too. It's just

(03:51):
either cloudy or partly cloudy. Of course these are forecasts,
I understand, but no chances of rain of fish all
the way through next Thursday. So if you, if ever
there was a time to make some outdoors plans and
you can do that. This is it. And we're still
not out of the winter weather weeds just yet. There

(04:14):
there's still a chance that we could get something crazy,
get some more snow, get deep freeze temperatures, any of
that stuff. But ma'am, when you break it down like
I do and look at three and four day windows,
that's about as far out as I like to look
and really trust the weather. There's going to be three
or four great days. I saw a really good video

(04:37):
by the way, speaking of fishing, so a really good
video the other day just Mark Zona and Kevin Van
Dam and if you don't know who they are. They're
both big time, longtime professional bass fishermen. I actually met
Kevin van Dam. I think it might have been in
his rookie season, way way back there, back in the

(05:00):
nineteen somethings. I can't remember exactly when, anyway, met him
up at sam Rayburn years ago during a tournament. Really
good interview from him too, and the Zona and Van
Dam were talking about ford facing sonar and how that's
basically turned all of the information that we had maybe

(05:23):
what ten twenty years well not more than more than ten,
let's say twenty thirty forty years ago. Everything that we
learned about bass phishing, everything that we knew about bass fishing,
was based on not being able to see the bass.
And that's the equivalent of writing books and shooting tons

(05:44):
of video on deer behavior without being able to see
the deer. And when you think of it that way,
it makes sense now that there was nothing but learning
to do when we good. Heavens, what's in my throat,
nothing but good that could come from a learning standpoint

(06:08):
from actually being able to see those fish. I like
the idea of being able to see them. I like
the idea of being able to study them. And to
some degree, I'm fine with people fishing with that technology,
but it has totally changed, just totally changed fishing. And

(06:31):
they talk about that, and they talk about the difference
between knowing, thinking you know, and actually knowing, and so
many people in that sport professionally, the professional bass fishermen
are are learning and taking advantage. And I think, well,

(06:53):
like Van de Hemp said, the two of them both
kind of agree that ford facing sonar has just turned
facts what used to be facts, not even not hypothesis,
it was just fact. This is where bass always go,
This is where bass go when this happens. This is
where bass go when that happens. And forward facing sonar

(07:15):
comes along, and everything you thought you knew about bass
you can just wad it up and throw it over
your shoulder, just wadden up. It's different. Now, the whole
game is different. These fish are all over the place,
especially the bigger ones. They're learning so much about big

(07:35):
bass behavior too. And to quote Kevin, they swim around
in an open water a lot more than we think
end quote, And it's true they do. I've seen it.
I've seen the some of the longer shots where you
just going over just featureless bottom in these lakes, and

(08:01):
all of a sudden, just just massive. This submarine appears
little bask don't look like submarines on the sonar, but
nonetheless it's this big, giant blob out in the middle
of nowhere. Not out there on a Christmas tree. Somebody
dropped over the side of a boat with a cinder
block on it to a track crappie. Not out there
on a drop off, not out there on anything. Just

(08:24):
the only thing that's on is the bottom. Oh holy cow.
Oh there's something you know, there's something hiding that in
my screen. Oh hold on, I can fix this. I
think I can get myself dialeded. I will say no
to all of that garbage, and then as soon as
I get this down, be patient with me. Brandon. Here
we go, ha ha, Here we go, Brandon. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Do you know I'm doing all right?

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Man?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I got a good interview coming up at eight o'clock too.
What you do that's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Ea? For sports?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
What about which sport you want to talk about?

Speaker 7 (09:10):
It's all right, February Sorry, almost training.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I can't believe it. When do pictures and catchers. When
do they go down, Melvin, Like this week or next week, February,
all of a sudden, it'll be all of a sudden,
it'll be baseball season again, won't it. I can't wait, man,
I can't wait. I I wish, I wish this whole
Bregmant thing would play itself out and come to some resolution,

(09:38):
whatever it's going to be, so that we don't have
to continue focusing on whether or not he'll be back.
If he's coming back, great, third base is yours, Alex.
If he's not coming back, Okay, we've got a plan
in place already. That's the that's the part I like,
we're not We're not scared.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
What are we?

Speaker 7 (10:02):
We got somebody on base?

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Oh, I know I can take the second base.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, there's gonna be a lot of shuffling in this
lineup this year, I think. And the beauty is that
we're it's not like checkers where just everybody's kind of
the same ability. This is more like be more like
playing a game of chess, where all of your all
of your players are queen's and can do whatever they want.
They're interchangeable, and they're all good players.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
I don't want.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
I need to check up on my iPad.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, you go ahead and do that.

Speaker 7 (10:36):
Checks up.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, but what are you done? You got you got it?

Speaker 8 (10:44):
I need to fight quick.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
We'll tell you it.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Let me get back to what I'm doing, Brandon, and
then maybe we can catch up again a little bit later.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Okay, Okay, I need to look up to see if
ban get see if Brimington play second base.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
He can.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's played second base before in his baseball career. So
he'll be all right wherever, wherever we use him, whatever
we do with him, he'll be all right. Hey, Brandon,
I've just got a couple of minutes and I got
to kind of get bouncing here. Okay, all right, man,
I'll talk you all right, Bubbye.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
I know what time it was?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Okay, all right, man, I gotta go. I'll see you
bye bye.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'm getting close to this break, and I wanted to
let you know in case you're thinking about doing something
else for the next thirty minutes or hour whatever. Anyway,
well the next hour at eight o'clock, when we get
into that hour, I'm gonna have where's where's my paper?
For him? There he is, nick Lebrunn. I couldn't uh

(11:55):
my name. His name wasn't coming to me at first.
He is the Louisiana man over Bowser Si who happens
to be leading the MLF bass tournament going on up
at Lake Conro this weekend. And the reason I can
talk to him at eight o'clock is because he pretty
much dominated the first two days and the person who

(12:15):
is leading after two days gets Friday off before the
Sunday or gets Saturday off before the Sunday championship round.
So I made a couple of phone calls yesterday, and
I'm gonna have Nick on at eight o'clock and I'll
ask him about Ford facing Sonar. I'm gonna ask him

(12:36):
how on earth he managed to catch MLF lets you
score as that weighs a pound or more. Everyone you catch,
there's a there's a person on the boat with you
who weighs it, documents it, and then spreads that news
all around the around the Lake Lebrun. In two days
on Lake Conroe, he's already caught one hundred and thirty

(13:01):
five pounds. Let me see if it's exact number, dude, Yeah,
one hundred and thirty five pounds two ounces. He had
twenty two scorable bass. Yesterday, his first day, his first day,

(13:21):
he caught eighty three pounds a scorable bass. Who knows
how many little dinks he caught a pound or better?
Eighty three pounds of fish. There are people who fish
all summer long, good fishermen on Lake Conrad who don't
catch eighty three pounds. It's pretty impressive, very impressive. Preven ninety.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports Online at
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Speaker 2 (13:52):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. Ah, welcome back Dougpike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Holy cait. Yeah, I'm blinking.
Look up and a couple of people wanting to talk
about something. We'll figure it out. Melvin's going to figure
that out for me.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
As I mentioned eight o'clock this morning, we're gonna be
talking to Nickolablue earned le Brunt. Pardon me, I don't
know what this is. Boy. I had an issue coming
out of the neighborhood this morning too. I got almost
out of the neighborhood and my right contact just all
of a sudden, it felt like somebody like I dropped

(14:29):
a little shard of glass into my eyes. Oh, it
hurt so bad, and I had to stop just right
there in the neighborhood. Was pulled over the curb and
took my contact out and just rubbed on my eye
till whatever it was went away. I don't know where
it went. I don't know where, whether it came out
of my eye or whatever. But I'm in better shape

(14:51):
now than I was then, that's for sure. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, I got so many things
in my hands here. Holy cow, Holy holy cow. That
goes over there. Well, let me get to the phones.
I'm gonna go talk to guitar Dave here first. See

(15:12):
what's up, Dave. What's going on? Man?

Speaker 10 (15:15):
Well, heck, I'm all excited about They're the bast heard
of there.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
They started on Thursday.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
They started on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
They're fishing today and that'll whittle it down to. Well,
there's only I think twenty guys out there today, and
then the big day tomorrow is when is when Nick's
got to go back out there. But he gets the
day off because he caught. He's this is one guy
in one boat, just counting on his own brain to

(15:48):
help him, and they're only allowed to use that live
scope stuff one period, I think per day. So the rest, yeah,
I think it is too. I think it's fair let
them let him go look around with it for a
little bit. But the bottom line is he went out
and caught eighty pounds of bass on Thursday and another
fifty yesterday, and so he gets to sleep in until

(16:12):
I have to make the phone or until I get
his phone call. So anyway, my.

Speaker 10 (16:16):
Biggest one on there was four and my biggest one
was four and a quarter, and that was a long
time ago. I was happy with that one, you know.
I mean, if I catch a pounds in the half one,
I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Pretty good fish, isn't it. Yeah, it is a good fish.

Speaker 10 (16:30):
Yeah yeah, Hey, no, what I was gonna talk about.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
It is too.

Speaker 10 (16:34):
You know, I get all my fishing lines and everything.
I think I got them all in order, I put
them in here, and all of a sudden, I guess
then I'm driving there and everything's table. But man, you know,
it's really frustrating. And then you know with us old
people with the off righters, like Fred Stamford, you know
he came out. Yeah, we didn't want to you know,
we get over there. You know, we try to get

(16:55):
our fingers over there. You need a light with the
magnifying glass and everything.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Patient patience is.

Speaker 10 (17:01):
A virtue, you know, is you know, And the same
thing happened about, you know, in the band with all
our band chords and stuff. You know, we'd have them
all rolled up by the time we had him in
the trailer. They were all, you know, get them out.
We were having a fish mount But I don't know,
and you were talking about yeah, lousy ana man. You
know that that seat music and fishing ties together, because

(17:25):
a lot of times I'll think of a song or
something and I'll just use the tapping of the song
to do my rhythm of.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
The lure oh man.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
A slow catcher fastings. And then but Frenchy burt Man
in the sound.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
Master with my cousin brother. He was playing steel guitar
with him when he was thirteen years old, and.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
The lousy Ani man man, and I like looking.

Speaker 10 (17:46):
On the big big ma move man, and that's a
fast that's a fast jerking deal. And then then you
slow down on a waltz or something like that, one
two three, and then.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Are you let it drop?

Speaker 8 (17:57):
And let it go up any came. It's a it's
a good thing in your mind to keep your timing right,
but then you know you got to use all different
timing to catch the right fins.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I wrote about this that a long time ago, David
with top water Lewis the dog walking top waters like
skinner walks and top dogs, all that stuff. The perfect
cadence for that is Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star and boys,
just here comes a big old trout.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
Well, wait a minute, was it wasn't the one twin cool,
twin cool little Star? Merle Haggard. You know that's that's
kind of slow.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, that'd be good.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what you do for worm fishing.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I think for worm fishing you just have to put
your guitar down and come back to it later.

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Yeah, I guarantee you play a minute. Yeah, just sit there,
get back and wait. That's about it.

Speaker 10 (18:51):
It's it, man, golly hey, I can't wait in the
end reason beyond here. But it's the top of the hour.
Uh yeah, at eight o'clock, okay, beautiful, Yeah, because I'm
still there in Houston. I got a bunch of stuff
I got to tie up and then uh, holler atchmorro
and let you know what. I'm gonna be up there.
I'm going to be there at eight thirty, uh, Marie,

(19:13):
I mean eight thirty goes into Lake Conrad, right there
where the past folks are going in. Good I'll be
I'll give you a live reforce over there, if that's okay.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, I need a field report. Thank you, Dave. I
think all right, buddy, I'll see you later. Oh, he
just bailed out. He just jumped out of the out
of the wagon. Appreciate that. He's enthusiastic. He'll give me
a good Yeah, it's gonna be good man, Brandon, what's up,
my friend?

Speaker 5 (19:40):
So I have some good news?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Okay too.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
They playing Winfield where Tucker is.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, so you got to put out tuva and right
all the time or just some of the time.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Tucker it has been into the comes.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh yo, I knew Tucker was gone.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah he is full time.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Okay, you know I understand that these guys move around.
You got it. You can't. They're not like family members.
They want to talk about family, but they're not the
only their dad is a dollar okay, and they they're
looking for dad all the time. They're looking for more
and more and more money. And that's I understand that.
I think we all are. Ultimately, we're all looking for

(20:34):
ways to make more money. But these guys, they they
they work together, they play together, they become good friends,
and then as soon as that contracts up, all bets
are off.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, you're talking to the guy who he's been he.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Said, right Conro, welllke Conra right now is going to
be a very well, not quite as busy today and
tomorrow as yesterday and Thursday because there are fewer people
still in the tournament. They kind of they do a cut,
kind of like they do with major or with professional
golf in their tournaments.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
But I watched it.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Oh yeah, it was good. Huh. They're catching a lot
of fish.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Man, No, I watched the golf.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I do too, I do too.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Brandon, they can't.

Speaker 11 (21:32):
Did you know they canceled Rio canceled who we All
Fortune on TVs and they switched it to Golf Channel.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well I didn't know, Yeah, we all Fortune has It's
still it still comes on TV. You can still if
you roll through the channels, you'll find it all over
the place. It's out there. Hey, I got to get
back onto the outdoors.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Here, Brando, I'm I found somebody on MLB, so I
just wait, you.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Know, Okay, yeah, I appreciate that. Thank thanks for looking,
Thanks for clearing it up. All right, buddy, I'm gonna
run there we go, all right. Yeah, I don't mind
talking about baseball some but when we've got a Major
League fishing tournament in town and we've got so much
fishing going on up and down the coast right now,

(22:30):
I got to focus. I gotta focus. Sorry, Brandon, It'll
be baseball season soon enough, and I'll I'll drop a
couple of minutes of coverage into here when it's when
it's warranted. But for all of us, I think I
want to I want to focus on the thing, which
is the outdoors. There's a lot of coverage of baseball,
a lot of coverage of basketball, a lot of coverage

(22:51):
of football on this station, and I think our team
does it very well. But when I get in here,
I want to I want to take us. I want
to take us outside into participatory sport, if you will,
and man, I would love to. And I'm gonna pick
Nick's brain at eight o'clock because what I want to

(23:13):
know and it would apply to almost all of us
who enjoy bass fishing and driving around the state and
looking for this and looking for that. I want to
know how they approach a lake and figure out where
to start. Where are you going to make your first cast,
Where are you going to where are you going to

(23:34):
be that is going to be producing enough fish for
you to stick around as far as competitive fishing goes,
if you're just like the rest of us and you're
not fishing competitively, you can stay as long as you
want in a spot and see if there's that one
giant fish there, or you can ride around. I'm a

(23:55):
little bit more of a nervous nelly. I don't like
to sit on one spot if we haven't got if
we hadn't gotten a bite in about fifteen minutes in
a spot where we think there's fish, and I'm talking
about a piece of structure or some other reason to
be stopped on that one spot. And if it's a

(24:15):
big flat and you're gonna get out and wait it,
you're gonna be there more than fifteen minutes before you
know anything. Probably. But if you're just in a boat
on a bass lake, how long do you sit there
and cast and cast and cast and cast before you
convince yourself there are no fish there? And how many
times do you change lures before you leave? There's a

(24:38):
lot of things. I'm gonna pick this guy's brain if
he can give me a little time, and we'll see
what is. If there's any other questions you want me
to ask him, fire him in. I'm gonna ask them
how they handle the locals, too, because you know, there
are guys who fish these little jelly jar tournaments weekends
who are really really watching these guys closely and trying

(24:59):
to figure out just exactly how one guy can take
one hundred and thirty pounds of bass out of that
lake in two days. I would venture to guess that
me and most of the guys I know couldn't do it.
We couldn't catch one hundred and thirty thirty pounds of
bass that might take us a week as possible folkok,

(25:23):
could probably do it pretty quick. He's good. He is good,
And I love fishing with people who who are as
focused as I am when we're fishing.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Now.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
We had great conversations and stuff when we fished up
there on the Lake living Ston, but we were still
fishing the whole time. We didn't stop to do this
or stop to do that. I think the biggest break
we might have taken was to notice some bird in
the tree or flying by or whatever something else in nature.

(25:57):
But otherwise we were laser focused and we caught some
fish that day too, quite a few. All Right, we.

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Speaker 2 (26:11):
Seven thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety. I hope
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more difficult than most, so, so get on your game
and if you can without having a wreck, write them down. Okay,

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mister windshield, how about have you had like nineteen million
miles on that truck you're driving now? Something like that?

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Well, I'll sent you pitch your note. End of the day.
I was kind of proud of that them. That's a lotment.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
What was it three fifty or four fifty something like that.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
It's a twenty twenty one, just turned three fifty.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh, Mercy sakes call never been in the shop.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
There's the batteries tires and uh windshiels and I wash
it once a year, whether it needs it or not.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I understand that what's going on, Rick, I got.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Three things just while mape observation is the title.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
In the morning, it's when I pull in up here,
I'll have automatic gates and there's normally two jack rabbits
kind of waiting on me, and they like they like
to escort me down the road. It's the funniest thing.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay, I slow.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Down, they slow down. I speed up, they speed up.
It's funny. Of course they know it. A little later,
after a while, I'll go out here and put some
feet on the ground and then they're gonna get it
and all other kind of stuff. Not the coons and
gets it. But anyway, this morning, for the first time,
I had four jack rabbits.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
That's population is continuing to drow, which is a good thing.
The other thing is I think you that he was
mounting a picture of them on a tree. Yeah, there's
more than one.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay, what question. I didn't spot the quail. I didn't
realize it was plural. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
I just said you see it or whatever.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't know. You said you can see the quail
and quail or there's no quails. Nobody ever says quails.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
I didn't even say quill. I said can you see
it or something like that. I identify it, okay. Then
I identified it later when you said, oh, I see it.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Anyway, it flew across the branch road because I was leaving,
but there was mores. It was a little small, you know,
I don't know. There's probably about six right there, whether
you can see them or not. All okay, But we
don't have any native quail up here. I haven't seen
in thirty years. So I'm assuming those are gutaways from

(28:51):
a can hunt somewhere.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, almost certainly, I would think where you are.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
But I'm glad they made it on this side of
the road because you know, at the if something doesn't
get on the I can promise you they won't get
shot at. So that's what I'm hoping for. Then the
last thing is I had a wonderful observation. The thing
this time of year, what's those little hawks that migrate

(29:17):
down here, and they're like, fricking if.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Sell firing falcon might be seeing some little falcons.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
It might it might be I don't know. It might
be a falcon or whatever. But they come in here
and they go after these barn pigeons flying in and that. Okay,
I'm telling you it's like top gun around here in
the morning. I mean, I mean really yesterday when the

(29:45):
northern was kind of blowing in, I got a big wind.
So it's like the one at Grandma's farm. You know,
it's the real deal. Sure, and it's not no wood
and you've seen somebody's front or it's a big one.
But anyway, that thing was, you know, getting it, and
I'm watching, like I say, it looked like a Battle
of Midway, and this pigeon flew in to the fan

(30:10):
on that windmill.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
And the hog clipped it. And when that when that
pigeon hit it, it looked like snow coming down.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh I'm sure, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, they kind of lived off. He was kind of
he had he had a mad wing on him and
looked like and he just kind of glided over and
went down in the woods. I got a feeling that
he's probably cooked.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Maybe.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, I guess they didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
No, that's too bad. If you ain't out here, you know,
that's true. Yeah, that's I love hearing stories about just
what you see being out there, and it just emphasizes
what I've said for a thousand years, and you appreciate it.
I know as well. Just get outside. You there, there's
no there's no uh, there's nothing more real than the

(30:58):
real thing. I go back to that video game that
got I got sent probably twenty five thirty years ago
now from some company that and and the big pitch
it was making. It was like a hunting video game,
and it said, the trees look almost real this, well, yeah,
they can't look real. Well, they may look even realer

(31:19):
now than they do then, but they but then they
did then. But there's still computer generated trees. I want
to go outside. I want to feel the bark on
the tree. I want to smell the pine needles. I
don't care how real something looks on a TV. Scream
doesn't make any difference to me. I'd rather be outside.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Here's what I recommend. If you don't have access to
you know, the country let's call it. And you live
in the city, okay, there's parks that's got walking thrills
through the woods, okay, and you're not supposed to feed
the wildlife. If there's woods, there's there's something out there. Okay, yeah,
and it ain't gonna hurt you in here. It's county.

(32:00):
So when you go on your walk through the woods
and you're not supposed to do this, I'm not I'm
not suggesting you break the law. But hey, you might
be just happened to be in some of my groups
of Granado little bar and uh, you might start baiting
a little spot birds and then one day go out

(32:20):
there in the woods and back off a little bit
and just sit down and be quiet, you know, just
set there for and you gotta set there for an
hour or two.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, you do.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
You just set there. You'd be surprised what you hear,
and we'll see and they will find it. Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
So that's all you got to do if you want
to see it live and up close. That's how you
do it.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Nothing to it, appreciate it, Rick, always.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
See see you.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Thanks many.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't know. We can't we can't officially condone baiting
a spot in the woods, but he's exactly right. In
state parks, if you can get to a state park
and go walking through there, just stop by the tourist
center or gift shop or whatever they want to call it,
and learn what venomous snakes you might encounter. And this

(33:11):
time of year, you probably won't encounter any kind of snakes.
They're all hibernated up. They're cozy where they are for
another few months. But get out there and pack a
little lawn chair over your shoulder and somewhere out there
on that trail, just park. Just park your took us

(33:34):
in that seat and watch and think, and just give
yourself and the animals time to give the animals time
to realize you're not there to hurt them, and then
they'll start moving around. And the other thing that keeps
most people from seeing any wildlife at all, of course,
is the time they're in the woods. If you're out

(33:55):
there from ten in the morning to two in the
afternoon and you don't see any animals, it's because they
were while you were walking through their bedroom. If you
want to see them, they're very active, most active anyway
at dawn and dusk, the middle of the day kind
of quiet time. They either have found a place where
they're going to stop and eat for a long time

(34:17):
because that's what they do, or they're sleeping, and then
they'll be back up right before dark and then sleep
through the night most of the time. Now full moon
changes a lot of things, but then right back up
in the morning early, probably before you get out of bed.
Your rockets and astros live. Here.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues this
as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety The Duck Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I know
I'm going to be talking bass fishing a lot in
the next hour, but until then, it's it's almost impossible
to ignore the continued good news that's coming from the
coast where we did. It seems dodge a potentially really

(35:09):
big bullet with that freeze that came through here. Well,
was it just a week ago? I guess it was,
or maybe maybe two now, yes, two weeks I think,
pardon me, I believe it was two weeks ago. Temperatures
down into the teens, frozen this, frozen that, and certainly
we all held our breath about just how bad it

(35:32):
was going to be for Texas trout, and the collective
sigh of relief that has come since is almost palpable.
It's just we're like, okay, now, not so good for Louisiana.
I actually put in a call to a guy who
guides out of South Louisiana, and I haven't heard back
from him yet, But when I do, I suspect I'm

(35:55):
gonna hear more of what I was hearing. For example,
Scott sent me a photograph or a couple of them
from down there over in Louisiana, from gosh, from Pascha
Train all the way down to the bottom of the state.
Just dead fish and lots of dead trout in some places.

(36:16):
When your bay freezes over, that's cold, and any any
pretty much any semi tropical climate coastal life form that's
trapped up in that stuff isn't gonna find its way
out or back to any any deeper warmer water.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Once.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
If those trot are up shallow, very shallow, and that
water that weather hits them very quickly, they lose the
ability to move before they can move to warmer water.
And so hopefully they'll they'll do the right thing and
maybe find some way to tweak their rules one more
time to rebound that tremendous fishery they have. But in

(36:58):
the meantime, Texas, Texas is holding the cards right now
on good trout fishing for sure, and with the our
with our new rules, who knows where we're going to
end up. If we can knock on wood, if we
can get a couple of years without a major weather
issue hitting the coast. Hey, David, what's up man? Good morning?

Speaker 12 (37:21):
Yeah, Doug, I want to give you invall to run
with here real quick kind of dotail into a Rick's comments.
It's supposed to be spring like next week. Yes, indeed,
and uh, what do you I mean, what are the
kind of what things should we be doing now to
get ready for what, you know, the next fishing season

(37:42):
whatever whatever you like to do in the spring, like
getting trying to line up your fishing trips with guides
and taking.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Care of your Okay, what are you doing now?

Speaker 12 (37:56):
I should get ready for what's coming?

Speaker 6 (37:58):
All right?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Okay, I'm going to hang.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
Up the list.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
David.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, that's a good topic, and we'll we'll jump into
it briefly here and then maybe once I finished talking
to Nick at eight o'clock, then maybe, just maybe we'll
even go back to it and be thinking about what
you do if you're now. Frankly, for a lot of us,

(38:26):
the fishing season runs, I don't know, January first to
December thirtieth or thirty first. I don't ever really take
a day off. It's weather. It's weather that keeps me
on or off the water, not calendar. Now, a lot
of guys, hey, a lot of guys just shut down
their fishing for hunting season. A lot of guys shut

(38:48):
down their fishing for winter. Some of them. I think
some of us are increasingly contemplating not shutting down altogether,
but at least scaling back our fishing during the brutal July,
August early September stretch that we can get around here
of one hundred hundred and five degrees. That's not fun

(39:12):
for me anymore, but I still get out there. But
if you don't, and if your stuff's sitting around collecting
dust for the last three months, and you've got another
month that it's going to collect dust before you get
out there, I think the first thing you have to
do is I would if I were starting with stuff
that's been just tucked away for a while, I'd give

(39:34):
it a thorough inspection to see if there's any anything
you can actually see that's messed up. I would wipe
down my rods. I would and maybe just give them
a spritz of water just to knock the dust off
of them. If that stuff's been sitting up that long,
especially out in the garage where it's not a controlled environment,

(39:55):
I think you have to consider replacing all your line,
which with braid is not inexpensive. Break can last a
long time. It lasts longer than monofilament, but it still
needs to be replaced from time to time. Do you
have to go to the bottom of the spool every
time to replace? Honestly, I don't about On the reels

(40:17):
I use for bass fishing, probably two thirds of the
spool never even cease daylight, as you're just not making
that long a cast, typically not like you're doing in
salt water. Anyway, consider that, consider changing lines. If you're
really gung ho, you can spread some create a workspace

(40:38):
in front of the TV during football or early baseball
season and basketball season, and maybe tend to your lures,
rinse them off, wash them off. If you've got rusty hooks,
replace them. If you've got rusty split rings, replace them,
and just put a little pampering in there. Sharpen your

(40:58):
hooks for all means, and my personal favorite for the
last thirty years, if you've got lures that still don't
have the barbs mashed down on the hooks, do that.
Do that. I got stuck by hook pretty good the
other day. It didn't quite get to the barb, but
it came close, and I looked down and I thought, okay, good,

(41:20):
that that's not going to be an issue because it
didn't get down to the barb. It was on a
brand new lure, and I was in a hurry. That
happens to me sometimes. But the first thing I did
when I realized that I'd gotten away with murder was
clean up the scene of the crime and mash that
barb down. Mash that barb. That's one of the best

(41:42):
things you can do. I would start thinking about. I
would get a calendar out, even maybe and pick a
few Saturdays or Sundays, whatever your day off might be,
and just right in there now, right in fishing, just
right in fishing. I saw something I'm kind of funny,
and then I know we got to go to break
real quick. There was a guy, his wife's on the

(42:05):
phone with him, and she said, well, you said this
morning when you left that you were only going to
fish half a day. He said, yeah, I left at seven.
I'll be home at seven. That's half a day. We
got to take a break.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, eight o'clock hour starts now.
Thank you for listening to The Dog Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. It is some you know, I
hate to wake this guy up early. Hold on, let
me get Nick on the phone. Nicole Brun How you doing?

Speaker 6 (42:50):
Man? Good morning, Hey, good morning. How's it going.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
You know, I'm very sad when I thought about it,
they set you up for this interview this morning. You
could have slept late, but I said, inspec you're not
really a late sleeper anyway.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
Now, I had my alarm set for about seven, but
I was up at file thirty, wide awake.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Just like every other all the other six days of
the week.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Oh man, yeah, you know, just ell schedule for this
tournament and my family's driving down from Louisiana, and I
cried about that and just had a lot to be
excited about.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, I'll bet so after you go out and just
I'm not sure there's a bass left in the lake
that you hadn't caught. You had one hundred and thirty
five pounds in two days. Good grief.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Yeah, praise the Lord. Conrad's an awesome place and you
all have plenty of baths to go around down here.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
You know, there are so many people probably even right
now listing who are saying, you know, I've been fishing
Lake Conmon for a long time and I hadn't caught
one hundred and thirty five pounds of bass yet. That
was good. So first of all, well let's start and
kind of at the beginning, you grew up over there
in Bosier City. You mentioned your family coming over. What
are some of your first fishing memories.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
Nick, Definitely fishing with my dad, you know, on Cato
Lake and you know, seeing largemouth bass come up schooling
and throwing a rooster tail at them. Oh man, Yeah,
and that's probably how I caught my first bass and
fished my first tournament with my dad when I was
about fifteen, and it was his company bass tournament for

(44:25):
the Railroad. And now this was a giant tournament, okay,
I mean there was at least five boats in it,
all right, and we won that. Yeah, we won that tournament,
and that I was hooked, you know, And that's all
I ever wanted to do since.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Wow, good for you and you made that leap. Wasn't
that many years ago really from tournaments where it's the
I got a full time job, but I still want
a fish tournament's circuit. And you won a big event recently,
didn't you.

Speaker 8 (44:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
I went into All American in two ententy and eighteen.
That kind of launched my career, and uh, you know,
back then it qualified you for the FLW Tour, which
turned into Major League Fish and Pro circuit, and I
was over there for about four or five years and
now a fish Bass Pro Tour, and this is my

(45:21):
third season at Bass Pro Tour. So yeah, man, I
love it's It's been great.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I grew up with the same dreams you had. I
took a little bit of a different tack, obviously, but
I've gotten to do a lot of fishing just like
you have. And it truly is a dream come true,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
It is? I love my career. I love the outdoors
and I don't take it for granted one single day,
you know, because there's going to be a day where
I won't be a pro anger someday, and I just
want to cherish it every day that I have and
and just be a good steward of it. It's a
It's amazing and I love it.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Well, let's talk about how you fish. How did you
How do you approach a lake like Conrad. I'm presuming
you fish Conrod more than once, but how do you
approach it? Let's say, for here we are at the
end of January early February. What was your strategy coming in.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
Well, I'd never actually been here. I fished in Texas
a bunch, yeah, but I'd never fished Conrod. And I
came down one day about a month ago before it
went off limits and just rode around and you know,
just kind of looked around the lake and fished a
little bit, and you know, I found this one creek

(46:39):
that had really quality grass in it, vegetation under water,
and uh, you know it's that rocket sign. You just
get around that grass and just throw it out and
real it in, you know, and you'll get lucky. And
catch a few.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
What are you throwing and reeling in without giving up
any secrets. I'm not trying. I'm not gonna pick your
brain that.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
Yeah, it's not rocket science. I've been throwing a bladed jig.
I've been throwing a rattle trap some. I've been throwing
a few different little shabstyle mino bait. Sure, but it's
really more of an area more than yrning. I think
it's more of a just kind of making sure you're

(47:24):
in the right area, and uh, you can probably catch
them on whatever you have confidence in, but you know
you just got to be around them.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
That's so true. Yeah, it doesn't. You can throw anything
you want if there's no fish down there and you're
still not going to catch on. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
To tell people if you don't have confidence in something,
to cut it off and tie on something else.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah, just move on. How long will you maintain that
confidence when you've got eight or ten rods sitting on
the deck there? How long are you going to keep
hanging around a spot until you just say I gotta
move Not very long?

Speaker 8 (48:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
One thing about fishing with this group of angers, I
mean they're the best in the world and you know,
we can get live updates in the tournament, and so
when you're not catching them and you know your other
competitors are, oh god, yeah you yanked that, Lorenz goes
troll motor up real quick and say, man, I got

(48:26):
to move. So you know, it's kind of like if
you make a really good cast and your bait's coming
right down the side of this log and it just
looks perfect, and you're like, man, that should have been
a fish. If you say that more than two or
three times, you need to yank that troll motor up.
Move on.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, that's a good point, Leick. I can't talk to
any professional bass fishermen without talking about forward facing sonar.
That's that's the buzz all over the place. Where are
you on that?

Speaker 6 (48:56):
I like it and I've learned how to use it,
and you know, it's something that I've really had to
spend a lot of time in because if the rules
allow it, you better be using it or you're going
to get left behind. Most of my success has came
shouting with a bait with a bait caster, just chunking

(49:16):
and winding, and that's the way I like to fish.
But you know, just like in any other career. A
lot of times you don't get to sign what you
like to do. It's about what you got to do.
And so I think Major League Fishing has really nailed
it with our format because we're only allowing it for
one period of day and then you just got to

(49:38):
go out and fish the other, you know, the other
sixty percent.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Of the day.

Speaker 6 (49:43):
So I think that the fans are receiving that well,
the Angers are receiving it.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Well.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
Obviously I'm loving it because I'm leading the tournament right Yeah,
so yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
It's been good. Yeah, it's it's It seems to me
it would be like when the Internet first came along.
If somebody had said, no, I don't I don't need
the Internet. I've been doing my business this way forever.
I suspect that most of those companies would be gone
by now.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
You know, if you're not adapting, if you're not moving forward,
you're moving backwards. Yeah, that's all there is too and
nothing any forward in any technology.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
I do like having just that one period where you
can use it. What's been the strategy amongst all you
guys in this circuit on when to use it? Do
you use it first off, to find some fish or
do you well, how did you go about it?

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Well, so, you know, I've only had two days of
competition with it, so it's still new to everybody, that's true.
But you know, on the first day they were calling
for real high winds in the afternoon and potential storms,
and so I decided on the first day that I
want to go and do it early because I didn't
want to be out there in really bad conditions trying

(50:58):
to do it. And yesterday I knew that a lot
of guys are going to start in my primary area Shalla,
and so I'm like, well, if they're going to be
in there catching them, then I need to be in
the next too. So you know, I decided to ulie
Ford facing the ramsas target too in period two yesterday,

(51:22):
just because I wanted to have a fast start fishing
shallow chunking and winding iron fishing.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Good for you, man. So back to the tournament and
what's going on here the format. How many guys are
out today while you get to kick your feet up
and shoot the breeze with.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
Me, there's nineteen guys fishing today and that's what we
call the knockout round and you can follow all this
live on the internet on Major League Fishing dot com.
But they're going to take nine guys from today, the
top nine, and then tomorrow will be the top ten.

(51:56):
Championship Day on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Now on Sunday, and I've been watching some of this online.
But on Sunday do you start does everybody start from
scratch again or do you get some advantage for being
the two day leader?

Speaker 6 (52:10):
No, the way zero today and they're gonna they're gonna,
they're gonna zero again tomorrow. So in essence, this is
two totally different tournaments. Kind of really is. Yeah, you've
gotta you've gotta start fresh every day now moving forward
and be the man on top.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, here's the here's the here's the question. What did
it pay to finish first for the first two days? Zero? Uh?

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Just a yeah, just a guarantee spine the top ten
and and so U tenth slace is twenty grand.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, well, yeah, you just got paid twenty grand at
least that's yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
I'm gonna have something to show for it.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Yeah, man, you can take the family up for a
nice dinner tonight and not worry about it.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
I'm I might take sting Dairy Queen twice next week.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
I like the way they say you're a good dude, man.
I like the way you think. All right, let me see.
I want to make sure I did have. A guy
asked me a question, and I I, actually, this is
kind of funny. I wrote a book about bass fishing
about thirty years ago, and with forward facing stuff, i'd
have to go ahead and rip out about half my chapters.
One guy, and I'll let you answer his question, because

(53:18):
you're the professional bass fisherman. Do bass have a preference
for shade or light?

Speaker 6 (53:26):
Well, it's like an old timer told me one time.
He says, you know, they don't have eyelids. That's right,
you know, so if they're shade available, I think they're
gonna want to be in it, you know. Now they
liked to They're kind of like humans. You know, when
that sun finally come out yesterday, we were enjoying it
and we want to be out in it because we've

(53:48):
been so cold. Oh yeah, But if it's just sunny
all the time and it's been a period of sun
for several days, they're going to be in that shade,
in the grass, around wood, around cover, and so that
is a player.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Years ago, I had another question for you real quick.
Years ago, I had the good fortune of fishing with
Mike Ikinnelly and I got schooled so bad Nick, Holy cow.
But I thought I could fish and then lo and behold.
And I asked him finally at one point, because I've
been watching what he was doing, and he was up
on me like five to two and then about eight

(54:23):
till three, and he said, well, you're you're fishing wood
just the same as I am. But I'm only fishing
hardwood and you're fishing all kinds of junk wood. Is
it that picky or those fish that really dialed into
certain things.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
They can be? I mean, sometimes it's pretty easy and
you can just throw whatever where, But there's other times
where you know, they're not on cedar trees, they're on hardwood,
or they're not in handrilla, but they're in millfol Yeah,
you know, so like there are some times we're figuring

(55:03):
out that little bit of a difference can be key
into you know, doing extremely well or just kind of surviving.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Yeah, and in your sport, you you've got to figure
that out pretty quick. I got one more question for you,
then I'll let you go. What about the crowd. Do
people bother you guys out there or do they give
you a wide berth?

Speaker 6 (55:26):
It's very rarely that we have issues. Most of the
fans on the water, they're bass fishermen, so they get it,
you know, like they know kind of where we're fishing
and what we're doing, and they'll stay out of your way.
So we've had some great spectators on Conroe so far,
and we welcome that because, you know, we want the
fans to have a good experience and and you know,

(55:49):
and it's just as much they're right to be out
there as it is ours. And you know, sometimes when
you go to certain lakes and certain parts of the country,
you'll kind of have some dock owners or some maybe
some carrings that don't want to fish in around their stuff.
But we normally don't have that problem in Texas.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
So we love Well, that's good. My producer just asked
real quick, how much grass are you talking about in
a creek that you would want to fish this time
of year and how much water are you in? Uh?

Speaker 6 (56:23):
In general about five foot of water and the grass
is uh, probably you know, two foot tall, maybe maybe
four foot tall in some places.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
That makes perfect sense. Yeah, though the water is shallow enough.
It's shallow enough to get some heat down there when
the sun shines. But you've got the shade of the
grass that they can tuck in on. That is that
why they're there, I'm guessing yeah.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
Yeah, they like to shade the grass. And they actually
like the warrant of the grass too, the grass that
kind of serves as an insulator too. I don't know
what else you got going, nickleb from Major League Fishing,
but what you got going right now is a day
off and I'm not going to interrupt anymore of that.
I really appreciate your time, man, I'd love to pick
your brain a little bit more sometime if you don't mind, Yeah,

(57:12):
call me eat time. I appreciate you guys having me on.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Yes, sir, Good luck tomorrow, man, go tear them up. Okay, thanks, yes, sir,
I'll be watching. Thank you, bubfy bye. Nick Lebrunn from
Major League Fishing. That's that's such good stuff, those guys.
I could talk for hours with somebody like that and
just just throw one little question out there and let

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them run with it. That's fantastic.

Speaker 9 (57:38):
We are sportstock seven ninetyes Houston Sports where you go
with an iHeartRadio Now now get more, Doug.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
I have no clue what Melvin's Gems and Jellies is
about today. I honestly don't. I've been trying, I've been thinking,
but I'm not quite there yet. I'm gonna start paying
even more attention, even more attention to it, and hopefully
I'll have it by the end of the show when
we play the game and some lucky listener and these

(58:10):
are these are legitimate prizes. My buddy Mike Mercado over
at Brass River Provisions Company has doled out these baskets
that we have baskets of I believe there's four in
each basket, jars of delicious jellies and jams and sauces

(58:30):
from his place down in Rosenberg. And oh boy, I
cracked another jar yesterday, as a matter of fact, not literally.
I opened another jar literally and dipped a chip into
it and like, ooh, I gotta eat some of this real,
real fast, and then put it down lest I just
charged through the entire the entire blooming deal old jar. Melvin,

(58:58):
You're gonna you're in for such a treatment, friend. I'll
next time I see Mike, I think he may have
something for you, so I'll hook you up on that.
And I did let him know this morning. If you
happen to be one of our better clients around here
at iHeart in Houston, he just might be getting one

(59:18):
of his gift baskets for the holidays. And if you're
really good, if you're really if you come on board,
I'll make it deal. If you come on board and
jump into this show and let me endorse your product,
if we can talk and be mutually agreeable that it's
a good fit and that I like it, then by gosh,
I'll go buy you a basket of his stuff. I will.

(59:40):
That'll be my welcoming That's gonna be my my welcome
wagon gift for new sponsors. I think, Melboyn, I'm gonna
if somebody comes on board with me, I'm gonna go
get them a basket of jams and jellies and sauces
from from Brass River Provisions that would be in good taste. Well,
I'm looking I got a hit a bunch of emails

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here in a little bit seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I want to go back to bass fishing for just
a couple of minutes, and we we established it. I
kind of already knew about bass preferring shade to a
bright sunlight. And as Nick so eloquently put it, they

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don't have eyelids. They can't block the light from getting
into their eyes. And if you're gonna if you're gonna
find a fish tucked up against something and there's a
if it's a log, Let's say there's a log in
the water, for example, and you can clearly see the
log and it's either barely exposed or the water's clear
or whatever, there's a good chance that the fish is

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gonna be on the shady side of that structure. They are,
they're structure oriented, but as the forward facing sonar has revealed,
not all beasts give a rasp petoot about structure, about anything.
They'll just wander around in open water like they're lost.

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Almost they won't be relating to anything. Not a drop off,
not a hole, not a hump, not a twig, not
a rock. They're just out there on open bottom. So
next time you go bass fishing, and that explains to me,
actually a couple of bites that I had years ago.

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There's a retention pond in sugar Land that I fish
every now and then, not often, but every now and then,
and on a good day, in an hour, I might
catch four bass. But it's fishing, and I like to
do it, so I don't mind the time on the water.
But every now and then, instead of just pounding the

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banks like every teenager in the neighborhood does when they
go fish that thing for bass, I would throw just
as far out into the middle of this piece of
water as I could, just as far as the lure
would fly, and with the right lure and the right wind,
it fly pretty far. And I'm thinking, Okay, this is
just a retention pond. It's not a natural lake that

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used to have trees growing in it. It's not a
specially built fishing lake that might have some rocks out
there that were deliberately dropped, or any other thing out
there in the middle of that lake other than just water.
Throw a big rattle trap out there and scare it
back that you could just feel the vibration in your

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rod tip and all the way up through your hands,
and then all of a sudden just thump in the
middle of nowhere, and incorrectly, probably my presumption was that
wherever that bite came there had to be something on
the bottom out there that held that fish. But now

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I know, and I would go back, boy, I would triangular.
I'm looking across the lake. I'm looking at exactly where
I am and what's behind me that I'm looking at
what's across the lake and trying to make mental notes
so that I could try to throw a lure back
in the same spot. Didn't matter. It probably didn't matter

(01:03:17):
where I threw that lure. What mattered, and Nick kind
of touched on it too, is that I threw the
lure in front of a fish that day in that
spot that might have been as clean as the garage floor.
There's nothing on it, well, not in my garage. Actually,
I started, by the way, as a quick sidebar, I am.

(01:03:41):
I'm twenty percent, which is remarkable progress, really twenty percent
into my five year project of a garage cleanup. And
I made that twenty percent move in one morning. It
was this past Monday morning, a week ago, two days
from now, that I woke up thinking I was gonna

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go play golf, and it was just so wet and
sloppy and nasty out there. And I called the course, said, hey,
what's it look like out there? Said, it looks like
a nasty, sloppy wet track where cart path only. But
if you want to come out and play, come on.
And I took the hint, and I passed, and I
went out in the garage and for two straight hours

(01:04:27):
started throwing stuff away that I would have never thought
i'd throw away, started sifting through different old lures, old
packages of lures, or just all this stuff that I
didn't think I could get rid of. And I truly
didn't get rid of anything really good, but I got

(01:04:48):
so much stuff sorted and moved up and out and
over and around. I actually did dump a significant amount
of stuff just to goodbye and throw it in the
garbage can. But the bottom line is that whole floor
is clean now. And now I got to get into
the main part of the garage. And what I think

(01:05:09):
I'm gonna do is take ten feet at a time,
and just I'm gonna mark ten feet on the floor
with two pieces of tape, and from there to there
along the side of the garage where I've got a
ton of fishing tackle, messed up and just piled up.
It's a sad, sad story, and you've all heard it before.
But the bottom line is I'm moving forward, and as

(01:05:30):
I move forward, I get closer to the day that
my buddy Aaron and his crew. I feel if I
can hold him to a something he told me he
too a couple of years ago. Now. He said, Man,
I'll bring my guys by and we'll we'll hook you up.
We'll set up your garage like one of my warehouses,
little boy, on much smaller scale, about about one tenth

(01:05:51):
of one percent the size of the warehouses he builds
out and shelves up. But still, that would be the
most cool, awesome thing anybody done for me in years.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
So let me get the strange. Okay, duck Pick is
cleaning out his garage now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Yeah, and you can just expect a unicorn to come
galloping down your street ridden by a leprechaun anytime now,
just anytime now, Melvin. Yeah, I was out there, dude,
for two straight hours. There was nothing else to do
that day, and I just thought, Okay, what would my
wife say, Well, if you're not playing golf, go clean

(01:06:30):
the garage. And I did and I well cleaned a
big part of it. I have a garage that's got
a little extra space other than just wear standard two
car garage thing. I got more space than that a
little bit, and so I cleaned that area up. There's
still a couple of boxes that need to be sorted. Keep, throw,

(01:06:51):
keep throw, keep, sell trash, keep sell trash, and donate.
I have a donate pile too. I've got a whole
box full of outdoors related books that may just go
to Goodwill or something and see if they can make
a couple of bucks off of it. We have to
take a break because I'm almost three minutes late already.

(01:07:13):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal Hey
thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pie Show.
Thanks for listen. I got all kinds of goofy stuff
going on. Adam Scott challenging my progress in the garage.
It is legitimate progress, and I sent you a picture
of it. You know, darn well what I should have done,

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and henceforth I will do for him is send a
before picture and then an after picture. All I sent
was the after picture. He can't see the progress that
I made, So that's enough.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Of that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
And then and then I get Rick Biss worried that
I'd accused him of baiting wild game. No, you're just
feeding animals like everybody does. People feed bread to the
ducks in at the park, people feed bird feeders that
bird seed. And actually the only it's it's not illegal

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to feed the birds. I'm not worried. You're I know you, Rick,
You're not You're not one of those guys no game
warnings worried about you. You're You're an up and up guy.
So here's the deal, though, what I'm what I'm saying
is that if you spread that food out there every day,
let's say you did it every day, some of those
birds would become dependent on that, and you don't want

(01:08:36):
to make them dependent on you. And and once again,
don't don't panic, Rick, I'm not you not doing anything wrong.
I know you, Okay, I'm not worried about that. I'm
just saying, just do it judiciously. Now, if you do
spread a little bit of bird seed out at the
same place every day, I wonder, I wonder what the

(01:08:58):
law is. And I don't know, but maybe one of
my game warden buddies is listening or somebody in this
audience might. Now, I wonder if it would be lawful
to put up a bird feeder in a state park.
I bet not. They don't want you. They don't want
you bringing in anything, and you wouldn't really have to

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do that. The good the cool thing would if you
if you went to the same park every weekend at
the same time, and went down the same trail and
just toss one little hand full of bird seed. I'll
bet you if you went down there a few weeks
later and put your little lawnchair about thirty feet away
from where that bird seed sits, and you'd see some
birds that you wouldn't see otherwise. Make sure you're doing it, Boy,

(01:09:43):
do I sound like I'm getting on a little captain
obvious thing. Make sure you're not doing anything wrong before
you go do it. But then it's it's okay to
attract wildlife to where you are. I'm certain you're not
trying to hurt them, not at all. God Lee on
a rabbit hole. Don't worry about it. First of all, Rick,
I know you. I'm not worried about you. Second of all, Scott,

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you know darn well I'm made good, good room in there.
And if I were retired like you and just could
prop my feet up anytime I felt like it, maybe
I'd just build a whole house. I got to give
it to Scott. He built an entire house with his
bare hands, with his bare hands, the right tools, the
right motivation, because he's got a really cool place to

(01:10:30):
live now and time that that man, with very little
outside help, built a legitimate, real house. So I think
you're the only guy I know who's ever done that,
And hats off to you. Seven one three two one two.
Good lord? How did I get into that Melvine? What

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the heck happened there? I don't know. All starts when
Scott starts poking, poking the bear. I blame it in, yeah,
blame it on the garage. Blame it on Blame it
on me being falsely accused of not doing much. He
saw the picture, he knows I worked. Well, no, he
doesn't know because he didn't see it before. I won't

(01:11:10):
do that again. Then that when I pull my wife's
car out of the garage and take a picture of
that wall as it is now and then come back later.
You know what else is out there, Melbourne? That it's
probably not in a whole lot of garages. What's that
The antlers of an elk? The antlers of an elk,
the one I shot at Bill Carter's place. There's there's

(01:11:32):
really no place for it in the house, what my
wife thinks. Anyway. And so there they are. And every
time I walk by them, and they're on the they're up.
It's not like they're just under a bunch of stuff.
But every time I walk by them, man, it's just like, Okay,
that's a cool memory. Now, I think what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna I'm gonna arrange them and mount

(01:11:54):
them to the side of my wall somehow, where those
antlers become rod storage, horizontal rod storage, because it's kind
of it's a typical kind of a rack, and so
the antlers would make great rod holders. And I think
that's going to look pretty cool out there. All Right,
we got to take another little break, so Rick, don't worry,

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Scott and I'll deal with you later.

Speaker 9 (01:12:21):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Now more Doug Bite eight nine on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Dang man, I'm having trouble. I'm having trouble with the
theme Melvin, you've done it well, you've done the game
a good service today. They better be paying attention. Huh,
what do we got one? We got three more, two
more songs before we play the game, So sir, yeah,

(01:12:50):
just leave it out there, don't don't give it any hints
just yet, because anybody who wasn't listed will. Yeah, if
you can listen a long time, you've got a better
chance to win it. We da Actually there's there's no
chance of losing if you play the game. But nonetheless,
but nonetheless, we we try to make it sound competitive,

(01:13:11):
sound like there's a chance. But and I would never,
I would never. No, I'm not even gonna say it
out loud. I'll joke with Michael about what I was
gonna say, and I'll tell you off the air. And
it's not it's not bad or anything. It's just funny.

Speaker 12 (01:13:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Anyway, moving forward, I got a cool email from from
Chris by the way, this is this is how devoted
this guy is. I listen to you every Saturday morning
in my truck while my wife gets her hair done.
He's not going in that beauty parlor, no way, the salon.

(01:13:49):
They may he might end up walking out of there
with painted toes or something. If he's not careful, fall
asleep and wake up with a manny patty. That would
be kind of rough, wouldn't it. Holy Cow? Holy cow?
Thank you for that, Chris. It is just so refreshing,
he writes, says, I don't even play golf, I don't

(01:14:10):
do anything outdoors, but your show is interesting and I
love tuning in. That makes me feel really good. And
I don't take that lightly either. It truly does mean
a lot to me. Thank you, Chris. I'll send you
a little note after the show and we'll move on
from there. Capt'n Scott, don't worry about capt'n Scott, Okay.

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I got to get back to my true focus over here,
which is it's shifting. I'm about ninety five percent fishing now,
there's still five percent of me could go out and
shoot around a sporting clayze or maybe maybe tee up
a rifle that I haven't shot in a while and
just check it out. I actually had someone offer me
a shotgun recently, but I don't think I'm going to

(01:14:53):
take them up on it. And I may. I may,
but my safe's pretty full, and I'm not saying I
won't buy more guns, because there's a very good chance
I will, but I don't know if i'm I don't
know anyway. Long story short is, I'm going back to fishing.
Let's stick on that ninety five percent. Everything I have

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heard about Texas tells me that we really dodged that freeze.
And I mentioned this in the very first segment of
the program. We dodged trouble with that one. It had
potential had it slid any farther south like it did
in Louisiana, we had potential to get hammered and lose
a ton of fish, but we didn't. And it's kind

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of like, here we go. If we can get through
the rest of this winter without any more problems, without
anything affecting our fishery like it did over in Louisiana,
this winter, the next one, and the one after that,
any subsequent winter we get without a fish killer is
just going to get better and better. Already are bigger

(01:16:01):
and bigger fish being caught, and it's only January. February
will be as good March probably as good for big
fish up and down this coastline. There's every now and
then I'm hearing about some pretty decent sized fish up
here in the Gallason based system too. And for the
longest time now, most of the guys who have been

(01:16:22):
fishing at a long time have been kind of worried about
exactly what we have left. I think moving forward, in
just a couple of short years, we could be back
to some pretty good stringers of quality fish. And by quality,
i'm talking about twenty six and up. Let's go there.

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Let's start it at twenty six two foot or twenty
four inch trout is a good fish, but it's not
it's not. Wow, look at that. But when you get
into twenty six, twenty eight, ultimately thirty and change, those
are major league fish right there. Those are Let's go
ahead and get a couple of pictures of that one

(01:17:04):
before you let it go. Fish and I love getting
fish pictures. I look at them. Half the day it's
spent looking at fish pictures I get from all of
you and from some of the guides, and they thrill me.
They inspire me to keep doing what I love to do,
which is fish. Accept them. That cormorant lake, I thought

(01:17:29):
I could get through today without mentioning cormorants, and I
actually got some pretty good comments to a video I
posted at Facebook recently. I know how to do these
reels now, and so I'm gonna start doing that. I'm
gonna start taking more reels of outdoor stuff I see
and just throwing it up there, because I am out

(01:17:54):
there and I do see things, and I am my
eyes are drawn to movement like like nobody's business. If
there's something in my peripheral vision, and I have pretty
good peripheral vision, I think as good or better than
anyone else's. And because I'm an outdoorsman, if there's something
moving when I'm walking through a field, or when I'm

(01:18:17):
driving down the highway, or when i'm without taking my
attention away from it for more than just a blink
of an eye, I'm going to take a look and
see what it was, especially if I'm just on foot
or on a bicycle, or on an ATV or wherever
I am speaking of ATVs. By the way, I had
a good, well, a good email exchange, not a conversation,

(01:18:39):
but a good email exchange with Jerry Sutton from Stubs Cycles.
And I'll tell you what I'll take this break going out.
It has to do with ATVs and motorcycles. They have
motorcycles and ATVs at Stubs cycles, and then they have
those big Harley's at his Harley store right next door
over on telephone Road. I'll tell you what he said

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about ATVs when we get back.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Oh so hard getting old?

Speaker 8 (01:19:19):
Had?

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
I got distracted by about four things during the break,
and now I can't remember what I was going to
talk about when I got back. You got me, Melvioyn.
Can you do a rewind? It was semi important. I
can't even remember.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
Oh, I know we were talking about the birds, camorants,
the birds, the birds.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Oh I hate those birds? You hate those Now we
already know that. We already know that. Hmm hm oh,
Scott wasted. I'll think of it in a minute, and
I apologize. If somebody wants to remind me, that would
be fine. Every now and then something falls out of
my head. My hard drive is full, Okay. I've been
on this planet in a long time, man, and I'm

(01:19:58):
running out of places to put stuff. Kind of I
don't even want to say it out loud, it's kind
of like my garage. Okay, there you go. There's just
not really room for much more. And what I'm gonna
have to do is purge a bunch of stuff. And boy,
I could sure do that too. Plenty of things I'd
like to erase out of my old head. I saw
something kind of funny on Facebook the other day. This

(01:20:20):
woman was the premise was accidentally telling your teenager about
some of the crazy things you did when you were
a teenager. And along the short of it, as this
woman's talking to her son, he looks to be about
seventeen eighteen, whoever sitting on a couch hair might even

(01:20:41):
just been two actors. I don't think it was, though,
but just some internet influencer or whatever. And she said, yeah,
when I was back in high school, one day, a
couple of friends and I stole a car, and he
kind of perks up a little bit, and she's just oblivious,
she's watching something on TV or whatever. It ends up

(01:21:02):
just saying more and more. She said, well, really, we
didn't really steal it. It was more of a car jacking.
And then it turns out that the story was that
she and some of her friends had been threatened with
failing grades in a class, so they wouldn't told this
the teacher and that he's going to his car in

(01:21:22):
the parking lot, and just as he started to get in,
they started yelling and screaming, get down, get down, And
it just got and this poor son of hers just
in shock that his mother could have done something like that.
It was pretty funny. Oh, Scott, true confession. He just
he just fessed up. Melvin, your wife is secretly paying

(01:21:45):
me to consistently needle you about this. That explains a lot. Ah,
she and I are going to have to have a talk.
I believe that I would. I would not be surprised
if that were true. I would not be surprise if
that were true. Holy cow. Seven two two five seven

(01:22:06):
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. If
only I had made a note, if only I had
made a note about what I wanted to talk about.
It wasn't the big trout thing, because well, actually that's
a big trout are one of my favorite things on
the planet to talk about, And I could I could
just go on and on and not just about big

(01:22:28):
trout that I've caught I'm I'm equally excited now. And
this is a stage in fishermen's lives. You go through
it when you're when you first start out the the
goal from day one is I want to catch a fish.
And I'm proud to say that I've probably helped I

(01:22:48):
don't know one hundred couple one hundred people been been
there over the past fifty years, been there when they
caught their first fish, little kid, adults. And it's really
kind of funny because adults, adults, when they think of
catching their first fish. Ever, some of these people I

(01:23:09):
talked to, h what are we going to go catch
a speckle, trout a bath? Where should I start? Once
you started a little lake in your neighborhood and just
catch something about the size of your palm and become
a fisherman, and then you could start honing the craft.
It'd be like I'm trying to think of an equivalent

(01:23:32):
outside of outdoor recreation. It'd be like wanting to go
to bat in baseball and saying, you know what, am
I going to hit a double or a triple? No,
how about you just find your way to first base.
That's what That's how fishing should start. So where you

(01:23:52):
and it should increase gradually, ever so slowly. If you're
if you're bringing somebody into fishing, you don't just go
catch one perch and then go marlin fishing to try
to leave a goal, something else you can chase, so
that you never get truly bored. I'll never be bored

(01:24:13):
with fishing, but I guess it would be possible for somebody.
I never get bored, and there's always some new challenge,
and that that's actually where fly fishing comes in for
a lot of people, a whole lot of people who
who fish, a whole lot of people who fish and
then just like, oh, yeah, I've caught this, I've caught that.
I've caught a bunch of those, and then they kind

(01:24:34):
of get bored with it, and I'll ask them, do
you do any fly fishing? No? No, never really got
into that. What what do you got? Glenn just called in, Oh,
thank you Glenn, whatever this is ATVs, Oh Glenn, thank
you for saving my bacon. So yeah, So I got

(01:24:55):
into this email exchange with Jerry Sutton house Man, and
I had that piece of paper right in front of
me with the note on it, and just read right
over it So here's the deal. Jerry from over at
Stub Cycles Stub Charlie Davison, we swapped a few emails
earlier in the week. I'm just checking in. He's an
old friend. I want to see how he's doing because
they really struggled during COVID. But now what's going on,

(01:25:18):
he said, is they're struggling still. But the problem, and
it's a good one for you and me, The problem
is that they have too much inventory. As soon as
those factories reopened, as soon as the construction, the putting
together of all the pieces that make an ATV was

(01:25:39):
going on, they doubled down and started making machines. And
all of the major manufacturers and all of the places
that sell the machines are sitting on a boatload of
inventory that they want to move. The problem is that
that excess inventory is driving prices down, so they're not

(01:26:02):
making a lot of money on these things. But boy,
if you or me or anybody else listening today was
ever in a position of it being a buyer's market,
this is it. And Jerry said so, he flat out said,
so we got tons of these things. We would love
to sell them. We would love to sell them, and

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all you got to do is just go ask them.
He said, if somebody, if somebody really is in the
market to get an ATV or a couple of them,
or a motorcycle or whatever, wouldn't be a bad time
to wander into the store. Wouldn't be a bad time.
Jerry and I go back a lot of years, and
he would not just say that to increase his traffic.

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He's he's an outdoorsman himself, Okay, so he understands and
he's just saying, hey, look, our industry got killed by Bidenomics,
but now it's the time. So there you have it.
There you have it. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email on me, Dougpike at iHeartMedia Dot.

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Kind of I can fold and move that piece of paper. Yeah, Glenn,
Holy cow man came through for me. That's this audience
comes through every time, every time I give it a task.
It comes through every time I ask a question, I
get great questions. And I'll kind of go back speaking
of I'll kind of go back to what David asked about,

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like at the end of now that hunting season's over,
what do we need to be doing? And I was
singularly focused on phishing at the time and neglected all
of the things that hunters can do post season. It
starts with with pulling down all your guns and breaking

(01:27:49):
them down and cleaning them up so that you can
tuck them into bed aka safe under the bed closet.
Wherever you put your guns. I hope they're in a
safe place. They should be someplace where they can't be
stolen if somebody gets into your house. But the bottom
line is you can be doing all of that and
should before you put them away. Make sure they're not

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going to be exposed to any moisture. Make sure there's
just nothing that can go wrong with that gun, nothing
at all. Then you can get about the fun stuff.
Go back to the least, go back to where you
did your hunting, and spend some time in the woods.
The deer don't change their habits. Well that technically they

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do kind of, and I'll get to that in a second.
But deer are still deer, and it's still the winter season.
And although we actually start our deer season long before
true winter, you can learn a whole lot about just
about deer by just spending some more time on the lease.
Spend another weekend or two there, Go sit in a stand,

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go watch and observe deer habits and what they do,
how they move, what startles them, what they can tolerate
and still remain pretty calm and keep feeding. It's just
it's what you do in a deer stand anyway, even
during hunting season. Only now you don't have the pressure

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of thinking, Okay, if I see a good deer, I'm
gonna shoot it, or if I have to, I'll knock
out two or three doers this morning or whatever. You're
just there to observe, and there's no there's nothing more
peaceful to me. It's a combination of a brain massage

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and the difference between being a third grade deer hunter
and a master's deer hunter and then ultimately maybe a
PhD deer hunter. You never learn something about deer that
you can't see them do. So being out there helps and,
as David pointed out, something he likes to do a

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lot of his shed hunting. While you're walking around out there.
Most parts of the state, the bucks have lost their antlers.
If you're waiting to see a giant buck with big
antlers walk by, you might have to wait till fall
for that they've shed their antlers for the most part,
and they won't start to grow back. And for those

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of you who aren't hunters and don't know it, deer
and elk regrow their antlers every year. They grow, they
fall off, and they grow back. Do you know that, Melvin,
I had no idea. That's very true. Huh Yeah, something
like a cow. A cow's horns they start growing and

(01:30:42):
they keep growing. Bullhorns start growing and keep growing. I
just thought that rack just stayed on their head forever. Nope, nope.
And that's one of the ways that you kind of
some of these bucks that grow really big, amazing monstrous
antlers were allowed to do so because they didn't get
hunted or didn't get shot at least for the first

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three four years of their lives, maybe even first five
years off limits. That's what the guys on the leases
will say, Hey, if you see this big eight with
a drop time on the left side that comes out
between the G two and the G three, let it pass.
We're gonna give it a couple of more years. And
that's how those deer end up being just monsters. Okay,

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they shed those antlers and all that bone regrows out
of their heads every year. So you got to hit
me to what is a G two and a G three's.
That's how the points on those bucks are measured. The
brow times the ones that come straight up right kind
of almost in line with the deer's eyes practically just

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right straight up off the top of the head, that's
the G one's and then they go out from there
to G. I can't believe that deer grew that many
antler points, you know, I'll check it out online now.
It's very interesting. Just look up how do you score deer?
And then and then you'll see how the Boone and
Crockett scoring system works, which is fascinating really. And I'm

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Captain Scott's a great judge of deer on the hoof.
I've been out of the game for a little while,
so I don't get near as close as he does,
but I can still I can steal ballpark them.

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This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, Slash sports
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Back to the Doug Fike Show nineteen twenty one on
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because somebody in this audience who loves delicious Jellies, Gems
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(01:32:44):
somewhere in there. I hope I found something online a
minute ago. This is it's almost prophecy. It's it's almost
and it's kind of a little ai creepy maybe even
So I've been talking a little bit about cleaning up
cleaning out my garage, right, Melvin, have you ever heard

(01:33:06):
of something called Swedish death cleaning? What it's called Swedish
death cleaning. There's a habit in Sweden, which, by the way,
I have visited. And I'll get to the I'll get
to the Pebble Beach pro am and all that in
the tournament in a minute, but I want to I
want to stop here first. So we're talking about cleaning

(01:33:30):
and cleaning out my garage and had a lot of
fun with that, and then all of a sudden, I
get this email that suggests trying if you haven't already,
which you and I haven't, clearly, Swedish death cleaning. Okay,
And this is this is a good tip for anybody
who has a ton of stuff out in the garage

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or in a room in the house, and what it does,
it's it's a theory or it's a it's a an
a practice that is practiced often in Sweden, apparently to
where you get rid of stuff in your house that
you don't want to leave as a burden to your
survivors when you go. And if I look at some

(01:34:17):
of that stuff in the garage that way, like, Okay,
if I don't throw this away now, even though I
think it's something perfectly good and someday I might need it,
but I have it in the last nine years, I
can just go ahead and throw that away even though
it or take it to goodwill. I had some just

(01:34:37):
miscellaneous things that I bought as far as home maintenance
goes over the years. Pieces of equipment that I think
I might need, toilet parts and stuff like that, then
I might hold on to. But if I find a
second one, it's not gonna stay. I don't need a
bunch of those. And I found some rubber hos. There's

(01:35:00):
gaskets in the garage. Yeah, I had kept like six
of them. So then you buy a package of them,
you know, and you keep them around because who knows
when you're gonna need it, But apparently you don't need
them very often, because I could take away. I took
every one of those things and just squeezed it with
my fingers and they just cracked. Totally dried out, totally

(01:35:22):
dried out. Now, that didn't clear a lot of shelf space,
I'll concede, But nonetheless, the thought is there. And the
fact that it's Swedish is kind of cool to me
because I, like I said, I've been to Sweden. I
fished in Sweden. I toured the countryside in Sweden and
saw on private property where people were raising sheep or

(01:35:45):
cattle or whatever. I saw stone fences where this country
has never had anything but barbed wire really to stop
animals from moving around from place to place. They just
built their They just built their fences out of rocks.
And how long would that have taken? Good heavens, I
have no idea that was their delineation. No cedar pickets there, boy, yeah,

(01:36:14):
kind of, I guess I'm talking about rocks, probably the
size of bowling balls, which probably weighed more than bowling
balls and stacked up four feet high for two hundred yards.
And then it takes a left and goes another two
hundred and comes back. It's amazing how long that must
have taken to build a fed. It's not something that

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you'd go out in the afternoon and just build a
fence out of rocks. It's pretty amazing. The fishing over
there was pretty good too, for northern Pike, which is
ironically that's the only place on the planet, not even
in the United States anywhere have I ever caught a pike.
I need to go up north and do that. That's
on my bucket list. Catch my namesake, fish, rainbow trout.

(01:37:00):
Fishing over there actually was pretty good too, in a
lake we fished. It was fun. It was a beautiful trip.
But yeah, I found that. I found that interesting and
it's motivated me already, said Scott an emails that I
found my inspiration Sweetish Sweetish death cleaning. Who would have
thought there was such a thing and that it would
be so appropriate that it show up in my inbox

(01:37:21):
right now. It's inspiring. It really is. The at and
T Pebble Beach pro am on going out there in California.
They're playing all over the county. They got got it
going on at Pebble Beach, at Spyglass what's the name
of the other one. Gosh, I can't think of it
right off hand. I'll get it in a minute. Uh

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Cyprus point, I believe. And they play each of those
three courses once from Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then on Sunday.
On tomorrow, the remainder of the field will play right
there at Pebble Beach a second time to figure it out,
figure out who's gonna win. Stepstruka, sitting on a full

(01:38:03):
sleeve of balls lead. That'd be three shots over Russell
Henley and Cam Davis. Right now. They threw two rounds
of play each all everybody's through two. Tony Feenow, Andrew Novak,
Tom Kim, Justin Rose and Austin Eck wrote all at
ten under par, then Lee Hodges, Lucas Glover, Victor Hobland

(01:38:27):
and Eric Cole at nine. And I don't know if
we have time to read all the ages. It's a
good tournament, a lot of guys playing. Scottie Scheffer's back
out for the first time since he cut his hand
a while back. I think I don't know it was
a hand or thumb or whatever. It was a part
of the hand. Anyway, he was out for quite some time.
Who el Roy McElroy's over there, He's at eight. Justin

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Thomas also at eight. I'm kind of looking for the
highlight or the headliners. Fowler at seven, Scheffler at seven.
Scroll for one more big name. I'm having to go
pretty far down dog On. It depends on what you
call a big name. I guess if I read the
names of everybody who's a better golfer than me, we

(01:39:10):
could be here for like six months. I'm just I'm
actually not struggling, but I'm incorporating one more little tiny
move into my golf swing now. All courtesy of Tommy O'Brien,
my buddy out there at Blackhawk Boy. He and I
go back to when he was just barely out of
whatever school he went to and a very young, aspiring

(01:39:32):
teaching pro under the wings of Tom Byram and Jim Murphy.
Murphy of course one of the best instructors in the
country to this day and gets that recognition every year.
And Byrom who had a tremendous career on the PGA
Tour and then onto the Senior Tour, the Tour champions.
Now I think he's put him down officially. I'm not sure.

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I haven't talked to Tom in a while. I should
do that. And Jim, Jim and I I've been threatening
to go to lunch together for about eight years and
just haven't. He works all day helping people get better
over there at Sugar Creek out in sugar Land, very
close to me, and Tom's over in San Antonio somewhere
live in the dream seven one three two one two

(01:40:18):
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I've been doing a little practicing of my golf lately,
and I'll tell you something that I'm beginning to force
myself to do, not to become better at any specific shot,
but just to become a better golfer overall. And it's
it's not easy. It's not easy, it's not comfortable, but

(01:40:40):
it will make you a better golfer on the way out.

Speaker 9 (01:40:45):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, a Houston sports fan
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Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Contact back to the Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I know what the theme is. I figured
it out, finally figured it out. Finally seven seven ninety.
Email me Doug Pike at Aheartmedia dot com. I'm gonna
go straight to Mark. He's been holding for a bit. Mark,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:41:12):
Hey, yea, my emailed a little bit earlier. I'm actually
my alias's ringo kid. I'm with the local Cowboy Fastra group.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Man, yeah, you did, and I'm going to try to
make it down there. I just tell him about the
event first though. I don't want to I'm not going
to drop myself into this mess yet. I want to
know what you know about quick draw. That's kind of cool.

Speaker 8 (01:41:35):
So oh yeah, So so we are. We're going to
Lone Star Gunslingers. We're a local club associated with the
Cowboys Fastra Association right Cowboys ASTAR is a national organization.
We have about probably seventy five clubs across the United
States and about four over in Switzerland and France as well,

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and so members all across the country. Coming up here
March fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, we will be hosting the
Texas State Cowboy Fastra Championship. We're going to be at
the George Ranch in the Arena and it is free
and open to the public. We should have shooters from
all across the United States. Typically it'll be coming and

(01:42:19):
competing to win the Texas State Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Shooting goes on throughout the day.

Speaker 8 (01:42:25):
I presume, yep, shooting goes on here out the day.

Speaker 6 (01:42:29):
And what we're doing.

Speaker 8 (01:42:30):
Is we are kind of trying to keep the division
of the Old West from the Western movies and that
where you've got a mono a mono duel going on,
we have. What we're doing is we're shooting a wax
little tiny wax bullet probably about nineteen twenty grains and
it's powered by a shotgun primer, so it's easy to

(01:42:52):
reload and shoot. And we're shooting at fifteen feet at
a seventeen inch target. So that goes on. The person
that pulls their gun, cocks it and hits that target
in the fastest time is gonna win. Yeah, we just
keep shooting throughout the day, you know, as I'm four
elimination rounds as we go through until we come up

(01:43:13):
with a champion.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
I saw and then the email you said, I think
that maybe I'd get a chance to try it, But honestly,
if I got to hit a seventeen inch target, it's
gonna it's gonna take more than a little a little
while for me to gun and get the shot off.

Speaker 8 (01:43:30):
Oh I'm telling you that we can. We typically we
we always are open.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:43:35):
We have a website www. Long Star Gunslingers dot com
dot org if it's okay to promote that out there.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
But we can typically take someone that had not shot before,
even necessarily handle the gun, get them to understand the
safety rules around it, and they didn't hit that target,
and under a second typically within.

Speaker 8 (01:43:54):
A couple of hours. Holy cow, it's like off. I mean,
it's an easy sport. You can start to play it,
easy mastering it.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
It comes a whole different.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Yeah from yeah, like pickleball. My concern mark is that
I just end up with a bunch of little wax
splatters on my boot.

Speaker 8 (01:44:16):
We have protection, the f have safety guards on our
whole happened people get excited and pull that trigger before
the gun comes out.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
Dude, you can't put step A ahead of step B,
C and D can you? No, just doesn't know very
well or new step D to Step A. I misspoke there,
So now refresh me again. The thirteenth through the sixteenth,
that George Ranch Arena that's out on the west side
fifty nine to what maybe that crabl Road Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:44:46):
Yeah, Crabriver Road. Put down Crab River Road and they'll
be signed there. It's actually fourteenth Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Oh yes,
so Sunday will you typically wrapping up about noon and
won't be starting noon, will be on Sunday, will be
when we're shooting our championships for the men, women and youth.
So we have shooters all the way. Kids can start

(01:45:08):
when they're eight, and then we have shooters that are
shooting up into their eighties and eighties plus sure, so
it's really an accessible sport.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
No doubt. How many participants you think you're going to have, We're.

Speaker 8 (01:45:21):
Hoping to have probably close to eighty ninety participants out
there only fall.

Speaker 2 (01:45:26):
Yeah, that's a lot of fun. That's a lot of
fun to be had over three days. Man. And what's
the website again?

Speaker 8 (01:45:33):
So our website for our local club is www dot
Lone Star Gunslingers dot org. This Lone Star gun Swingers
you'll find us. And then our national organization is simply
cowboyfasdraw dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Okay, yeah, I want the local one. That's where I
want to start. I want to know what's going on
around here.

Speaker 8 (01:45:57):
Start with a local one. My email and numbers up
there on the website. We are a we're actually a
member owned clubs, so we're a five o' one c
seven And like I said, people that want to participate
and try it out, we have everything ready for We
have extra guns, holsters, bullets.

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:46:16):
So you can come out and try it out and
if you like it then, uh, you know, we want
to expose people. We have a lot of fun. It's
a lot about the camaraderie.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
So here's a question everybody about of safety First, are
out of safety?

Speaker 4 (01:46:30):
First?

Speaker 8 (01:46:31):
Fun, second, competition third, and so it's a lot you
get people that are really good, are nice. You know,
you can ask them for advice and help and they
help out of everybody, so it's not a really cut
through a type environment.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
So here's here's the question everybody wants me to ask
right now. How fast is fast?

Speaker 8 (01:46:49):
Okay, so fast? How fast is fast? If you're shooting,
I'll tell you fat. The fastest ones are down into
the low threes. So that's three tenths of the second
Okay that they're drawing hit that target.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
You don't.

Speaker 8 (01:47:02):
However, it's fast and accurate.

Speaker 6 (01:47:04):
Yeah, we have.

Speaker 8 (01:47:05):
I've seen enough times. If you shoot in the sixers
and seven and you hit every but those people in
threes don't hit every time one hundred percent accuracy, okay.
And you got people who shoot sixers and sevens, they're
like ninety percent accuracy, and they scare the people that
shoot the threes because if you get three hits before,
if you miss the target and they hit, it doesn't
matter what they hit, what time they hit at, they're

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going to win that round.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
So it's just one shot per round, head to head basically,
and then you just keep going.

Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
You have it's three winning hits per round, okay. So
you have to have three winning hits per round, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
And so if in other words, if if I if
I've already got two and you've got to and then
I miss my third shot, you can just you can
stand there and eat a sandwich and then shoot and
still win.

Speaker 6 (01:47:54):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:47:55):
Well, we have a time upper time with the limit
is one point thro five seconds. You can't get away
with the gut gutjot there, so no sand bagging, no
sand bagging.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
No, I may need a little more time. I'm just
gonna take you straight up. I'm not a bad shot,
but I'm gonna need a little time to dial in.
I may. I'm gonna try to come down there. I'd
love to do that. Man, that sounds fun.

Speaker 8 (01:48:19):
Maryeah, come on down. Like I said, if you get
a free time, get me a hauler and we can
get together. And the thing is, it's not it's different
than it is not. It is not target shooting, right,
if you're going and watch some of the videos out there,
it is, we're shooting from the hip.

Speaker 6 (01:48:32):
It's a muscle memory, right, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:48:34):
It is. Yeah. So sometimes if if you're used to,
if you've done target shooting or something like that, you're
you know, it takes a little bit to get used to.
But it is completely different from that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
I'll tell you something. If I was a bad guy
and I broke into houses for a living, I wouldn't
want to break into the house of anybody who's good
at that. Thanks Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:48:55):
Uh yeah, no, never, Well that's one of the costs.
Never do this with live I.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Mean, oh amen, Yeah, I like that little wax stuff. Okay,
all right, Lone Storegunslingers Dot Org. Thank you very much, Mark.

Speaker 6 (01:49:08):
Okay, thank you, than you that my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
That was good. I'm glad we got his call. I
am I've got that invitation sitting there. Oh, it's not
far from my house either, maybe twenty minutes. I know,
I got to take a break. I'm gonna take it
right now. Oh I do I need a Holy cow?
Somebody needs to play the Jams and Jellies game, and
we're gonna play it on the way out. When we
get back, somebody's gonna have something really delicious to put

(01:49:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
All right, the official opening is behind us. Now the
bad music, as they call it, is here, and that
means I need to bring Lisa up onto the call.
Lisaa there wonderful. So for all the money in the
world now, not really for a lovely gift basket of
Jelly's JEMs and sauces. You've got four different kinds in

(01:51:10):
these baskets and they're all different. So you're gonna get one.
We'll grab one for you, and all you gotta do
is come by here and pick it up. If, then, only,
if you can tell me exactly what Melvin Steam was today, whistling.

Speaker 8 (01:51:22):
All the songs were whis things.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
Yes, I thought, you know. It took me a while.
I missed the first one, and then I didn't pay
attention through one because I was checking emails. And then
it dawned on me a little later that they all
came out with whistling. Yeah, that was very good and
not the easiest one we've ever had on this show either,
So well done. I don't have to just do the
participation trophy basket. You get a real bona fide winter basket,

(01:51:48):
and that's pretty good. Melvin will tell you all the rules.
Thank you so very much for listening this morning. I
really appreciate it, all right, thank you. You bet. I'm
gonna put it per on hold thing. There we go,
Lisa's on hold, And yeah, it did take me a while, Melvin,
I was a little bit disappointed in myself, to be
perfectly honest. If you're wondering, just out of curiosity, what

(01:52:09):
the temperature game would have looked like this morning, I'll
give you a pause to think about what you think
the low temperature in Texas might be at present. Bear
in mind that the sun's been up for a couple
of hours now, and it is different. It's different by
a few degrees than when I first looked this morning.
But here's the deal. This cold front is hanging around

(01:52:29):
here and doing a pretty good job of keeping it cool.
The lowest temperature currently in the state of Texas is
thirty degrees earlier it was twenty five, and that's up
in Dalhart, which you can throw a rock into Oklahoma
from there. But nonetheless thirty and the high which happens

(01:52:50):
to be gosh, let me see where it isn't I
don't see it. I'm looking along the coast for obvious reasons.
It must be somewhere up in here. No, I'm not
really sure where the high temperature is. But allegedly the
high temperature at present just got to be somewhere through there.
But it also shows fifties high temperature is alleged to
be seventy three degrees. But I don't see anywhere it is.

(01:53:12):
Because even as far down as the RGV Brownsville's fifty
seven Corpus Christie in the fifties, in the low sixties,
our area up here all high fifties and low sixties.
That's a mystery. I don't know where that seventy three is,

(01:53:32):
and it doesn't tell me. It just tells me that's
the high. I'm throwing that out. I think I don't
think it's right. Seven one three, two two five, seven ninety.
We've got time for maybe one more call if there's
something on your mind. A reminder that the Major League
Fishing crew is up on Lake Conroe. And if you've
got a boat and you want to go, kind of

(01:53:53):
follow around behind these guys and watch how they fish
some of these areas. Just give them some room, give
them one hundred yards. You're gonna you're not going to
learn anything at casting distance that you won't learn at
one hundred yards from these guys. They're not going to
talk to you while they're out there trying to make
a living. I had a great time talking to Nick
lebron to Holy Cow, Louisiana. Guy comes in here and

(01:54:17):
in two days Thursday and Friday, he caught one hundred
and thirty five pounds of what Major League Fishing calls
scorable bass. That's a fish that weighs a pound or more.
That's a lot of fish. I would guess that the
average weight on the fish that are going to be

(01:54:37):
weighed in MLF by MLF rules on Lake Connor, the
average fish probably doesn't weigh a pound and a half.
But they are catching a boatload of little fish, and
their task is to get them back into the boat,
get them off the hook without dropping them onto the deck.
If they drop a fish onto the deck, they have

(01:54:57):
a two minute penalty, and those two minutes could be
critical to somebody winning or losing. Nick earned his day
off today. That's why we got to talk to him.
He doesn't have to fish today for being the leader
after two days. And the guy I can't even remember
who was in second place. Let me see if I've
got it anywhere over here. I don't know whether, no,

(01:55:19):
it's not here. Bottom line is he was nine pounds.
I think it was ahead of second place after yesterday,
so at least it got him that position. And I
learned because there are only twenty anglers gonna be qualified
to fish in tomorrow's championship round. His minimum payday's twenty
thousand bucks. That's not PGA Tour money, but that's good

(01:55:43):
money for going fishing all day. And believe me, I
would have a better shot, a much better shot at
winning a fishing tournament than winning a golf tournament these days.
And I don't regret that. I'll concede that because I
spent so much more time fishing growing up. I didn't
even play golf. I think I only picked up a

(01:56:04):
golf club maybe one time before I went to college.
But boy, I got the I got bit by the
bug over there. The baseball team played free at the
Muni Course across the street over in Mobile, and every
day off we had there were a couple of us
who would go over there, or I would Mike. I
can't remember Mike's last name. He was our center field

(01:56:25):
or a senior my freshman year over there, and a
lot of times we would not play golf and wind
up surfing or fishing over in Pensacola, which was just
barely an hour's drive from Mobile where we were, and
he had a car. I didn't for a long time
over there, but yeah, he and I made fast friends
and even ended up I was president. He was vice

(01:56:49):
president of the surfing club, which enabled me to show
a surf movie or two over there in the auditorium
for no charge, rather than if I had just been
a random guy I wanted to do that, I would
have had to rent the facility, but because it was
a school function, a school organization hosting, the whole place
was mine for no charge, and I had to break

(01:57:13):
the news to the whole baseball team that they were
all members of the fishing club or the surfing club.
You gotta do what you gotta do. Entrepreneurial spirit lives
even in my youth. Holy cow, Melbourne, we're almost done,
aren't we. And tell me again where Dan is today,

(01:57:35):
because he's somewhere other than here. I'll let him tell you.
Come on, Dan Matthews, where are you? Ane? Tell him
where you are? What's up, buddy? How you doing annual.

Speaker 14 (01:57:45):
Gumbo cookoffs Cedar Creek Cafe, West twentieth Street.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
And I feel bad for you and Melbourne. Oh yeah,
you ought to. You're getting all that gumbo and I'm
getting nothing.

Speaker 14 (01:57:56):
I was gonna say. I mean, I was talking with
Melvin before I joined you. They're getting set up out here.
Festivision are gonna get going at one o'clock and they're
setting up the stage. We're gonna have live music. Oh mans,
I mean, just if radio was scratching sniff, Oh my god,
don't right now.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:58:13):
I just I told Melvin, I said, the oil is
in the pots, the.

Speaker 2 (01:58:16):
Whole trinity is in there.

Speaker 14 (01:58:18):
I think they're about to start pouring the flour in
a little bit to start to get the ru going.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
You know, you've.

Speaker 14 (01:58:24):
Had plenty of go you know what goes in there,
everything of the sorts, Yeah, and of course, the weather sausage.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
The weather's just so bad, so bad for you. You're killing me. Man.

Speaker 14 (01:58:34):
We've got a natural air conditioning right now. It feels amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
I'm sure it does, all right, Dan Man, you enjoy
the gumbo. I may try to sneak out after I
finish up over at my desk. I'll be back tomorrow
bright and early eight am. We'll do it all over
eight to ten tomorrow, and then of course on Tuesday,
I'll start back with my live editions of fifty plus
on KPRC. Thank you all for listening. Get outside, please,

(01:58:59):
the next several days are going to be glorious. Get outside,
have some fun with your family. I'll be back tomorrow morning.
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