What's the new Texas Lion?

In this episode Doug talks about the beautiful weather and what you should be doing to take advantage of it. We have 12 months of fishing where. Are your rods and reels ready? Do they need and upgrade? Doug, explans "Dog walking" and one of the best top water bait lures you should have at all times. Did you know there are different types of dogs that have different jobs, when it comes to hunting? What did Punxsutawney Phil the ground hog have to say about our weather? Doug, and a caller discuss the building of a pier at the bolivar in Galveston. All this and more on The Doug Pike Show.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. Hello, am, I oh, I got
hung up, but I'm here now. Probably the longest that
songs ever played. Huh, running around telling me, try to
get coffee, try to get something going here who here
we go. Sunday edition of the program starts right now,

(00:32):
and thank you all for joining us on what promises
to be a very beautiful day in Southeast Texas. And
there are more to come perfect days. I guess to
be wasted on work that Monday through Friday part, you know,
over the course of a year. I don't know. Is
it asking too much of the weather Melbourne that we

(00:55):
get ugly weather, nasty weather, just yucky stuff Monday through
Friday when we have to we have to go to work.
And then the two good days of the week. They
probably it probably averages out to about two really good
days every week. Just put them on Saturday and Sunday
and let everybody have some fun.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is that too much to ask?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, not at.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
All, Thank you. So I don't know who to add, well,
I do know who to ask, but I suspect that, yeah,
I suspect that there's more important business than making sure
that you and I get to go fishing.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Every now and then, or play golf or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I am though I have as soon as I saw
the forecast. It was about on Wednesday maybe that the
forecast for this coming Monday, for tomorrow started looking really good,
and I just I'm positively kiddy. This will be the
third week in a row, the third Monday in a row,

(01:54):
that I have wanted to go play golf, and tomorrow
it's actually gonna work out. This past Monday, the golf course,
every golf course in town was sloppy, wet.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I got an email from Alan. He went and.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Played I think it was either Gus or I think
it was Gus Wortham, and was not terribly surprised to
be one of only maybe a handful of people even
on the golf course. And he said it was just
just dreadfully sloppy, wet, and more power to him for
opening up and making it available. But that's just not

(02:29):
my cup of tea anymore. And that's something I'm actually
going to talk about in the nine o'clock hour A
little bit about practicing golf and some of the things
you have to do to make golf better for you.
Let me go talk to Brandon here. We'll tee him
up first this morning. Hey, Brandon, what's up man? Oh,
it's not working again. I'm gonna have to put him

(02:50):
back on hold and let you tee him up. There
you are, Brandon, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
My friend doing?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay? I was watching the walk this scheme.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
West night, how they do? Didn't get to see it.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
We got the lead and and we was and we
got no we got to read, stay to read, and.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Then we was ended up losing.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Dad.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Come at that's two in a row, isn't it. Oh
that's too bad, man. They'll be all right though that
that's a young bunch. They're resilient, and they they won
a couple of games honestly that they shouldn't have or
not shouldn't have, but it was unexpected the way things
were going. And I think all in all, they'll they'll
do fine. And if this team, I'll be surprised if

(03:40):
they don't make the playoffs this year, and I'll be
I'll be thrilled if they go a little deeper than
first round is. They've got the spunk, they've got the athleticism,
and uh, they've got a lot of good things going
for them, and a lot of the young players who
have come in are playing extremely well.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I'm not gonna worry about him.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
I'm way for the Astros.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, i am too. I'm ready for baseball. I'm always
ready for baseball. I was talking to somebody about baseball yesterday,
as a matter of fact, after the show, I was
I can't remember who it was, but.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Uh, that was somebody.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Okay, all right, Well, anyway, I gotta go call a
Rick if you don't mind. How what are you gonna
do today? Brandon? You're getting outside?

Speaker 5 (04:29):
I'm can I want we have drug TV app?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Okay, Well, try to get outside, get a little sunshine. Man,
It's gonna be a beautiful day.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
It is.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh yeah, absolutely, it is today, Tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
I think at least before there's any worry about anything
to do with the weather. Maybe even next Thursday. I
think it's still good. So get outside and have a
little fun, get some fresh air. All right, you're not

(05:03):
gonna watch it? Why not? Quiet?

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I thought it was just a quiet protest against all
the pampering that Patrick Mahomes gets.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
And I'm sure of him waning them ball.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Sorry, he flops worse than soccer players. Man, that's amazing.
It's amazing to watch and amazing to watch the flags
fly every time somebody, somebody gets inside his shadow. Oh boy,
you gotta hear it comes. Here's fifteen yards to help
him on down the field. It's frustrating to wash it

(05:45):
really isn't. And it's hard to deny when you when
you look at the evidence and really am like it's
it's just hard to deny that some of these calls
are going his way when all of the calls made
in any sport are supposed to be dished out equally,
and it's just now that's Patrick Mahomes. I mean, we better,
we better make sure he's okay. Patrick Mahomes will be

(06:07):
okay for the rest of his life, and so will
the next three generations in his family. So we don't
have to worry about Patrick Maholmes. He's a great player.
I'm not I'm not denying anything. I'm not saying anything
against his ability to play the game. But I think
that he gets he gets preferential treatment when when the

(06:28):
officials could go either way, and in a lot of.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Cases when it should go in a specific way.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
If you you know, if you're looking at the video,
they were looking at the same thing we're looking at,
and they just saw it very differently from the way
I see it sometimes. And again, I'm not knocking him.
He's a tremendous player. He's a tremendous play maker.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
I will watch the highlights of it, but I'm just
going to watch it again.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
All Right, Well, I gotta go. I need to go
check in with Rick. See what's on his mind.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Okay, can't have a good day and have a good week.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah you too, man, see Brandy audios. All right, let's
tee up.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
There you are, Rick, what's up?

Speaker 8 (07:12):
Man? Good morning. We're both on the clock here.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
That was a perfect crow hunting day. Little fog, light fog,
just little patchy fog, no leaves on the trees, no wind,
and then the fog sets in and I can't see
in front of my truck. Exatuation, But I mean it's
that bad. You mean, tell you just how much moisher.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
And water is in the air. You know where I'm going?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I think I do.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Go ahead, there's so much water and marshy in my hair,
my little pond down here. I'm afraid that I'm gonna
see my fish wim by.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Just right in front of your face.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
And you know I had so I mean, I'm telling you, buddy,
it's it's tough up here.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I gets so thick sometimes I can remember. I'm flashing
back to when I was guiding waterfowl hunts and you know,
a nice, a nice thick fog all the way up
and even with a little bit of visibility low, it's
actually better because they'll fly under it. But some days
it was just so thick, man, you just couldn't see

(08:26):
your hand in front of your face.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
And that's the way it was this morning at six
thirty five. I'm sending here night.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
I can't see my windmill. Now I have said, you
even got out of the truck. I ain't gonna walk for.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
You might try, but you gotta be careful. You might
drown if you do well.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
I'm gonna a couple of things that one get on, Okay,
I gotta. I had to go pick up a mox
for my son, my my rabbit duck hunter, and I
could tell that I knew it was gonna be either
a fish or a.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Duck, okay, and I'm mount yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
So I opened it up.

Speaker 9 (09:04):
It was a duck.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
It was a green head. And I'm talking, well that
he must have shot that somewhere up Northes. We don't
have no greens down here to speak of. And he
hunts all over the United States in Canada. And so
I pulled it out. It's got a band on it nice,
and so I looked at the number and that just

(09:26):
just just just for fun, that.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
That mallard was uh, he was hatched.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
In Idaho, which surprised me. In twenty eighteen. Wow, Travis
harvested that bird in January of twenty one in Washington.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
State' yep, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 8 (09:50):
That bird's going the wrong way.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
I don't know, but anyway, I'll just find that as
many birds to see his shot in his laugh all
over everywhere. That's the first banded bird.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, yeah, banded birds are more rare than people think.
And a lot there were guides when I was guiding too,
that had had every guy is looking for bands on
every bird that shot over them, and a lot of
hunters and knock on, I promise you.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I never did this.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I never kind of snuck a band off of someone
else's bird, but I know a lot of GUIDs who did,
and they had him draped around their necks like like
like metals. Yeah, it's just this necklace of bands that
were gathered here, there and everywhere, and it's it. That's okay.

(10:46):
I don't have a problem with that if somebody's bragging
about bands they got as long as they shot the
birds themselves. But a lot of those guys didn't. It
was still fun to look up the numbers though. That
was really kind of cool. Uh. We had one shot
out of our spread or one of my oshpreads once
that had made I don't know how many trips to Texas.
I can't remember exactly how many, but was for some reason,

(11:08):
I can't remember what it was, what the what the
uniqueness of it was. If I think about it long enough,
I'll remember what it was. But it just shouldn't have
been where it was. Basically, it was it was off
its beaten path. It was fun.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
Got one of the quick things.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:26):
I had to go open the gate last night for
some some thorough houll hunters with some with some home dogs. Yeah,
and these guys were pros.

Speaker 8 (11:34):
They got the best kind.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Of dogs, They got to catch dogs, and they got
you know, chase dogs, got all the electronics on them
and all that. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
And if you want to And I didn't go with
them last night. I just took the one lock off.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
And then they put one on the I'm gonna go
take it off so they can't go back in.

Speaker 8 (11:52):
But if you've never been on one of those hunts
and you can take a little bit of over excessive
a droolin, get with one and go with them. Been there,
check that out.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
I've been there, man. It's crazy, absolutely crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It is. It is.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
I was on one a couplet a month ago. But
these guys here, they take it serious. And I haven't
heard from them yet this morning. See that win. But
if you ever want to have, if you really want
an ultimate rush nol on a home dog hunt.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
My friend Robbie Granger, the guy who he and I
went made a trip down to Argentina when I was
on magazine sign when it was his his group that
put this hunt together for a bunch of women, a
big game hunt for women.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I was covering it for some magazine.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I can't remember which one, but the long and the
short of it is he's got a big place up
north of Hempstead, and he's got a woman who has
a group of these dogs and some guys who go
with her, and he lets them on his property a
lot to keep the hogs off a bit. It's fascinating
what he says they do. What's what's his name, Robbie Granger?

(13:08):
I might know him, but anyway, Yeah, he runs a company,
Exciting Outdoors, that's what it's called.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
Well, it's the ultimate for fixes. I mean, it's like
hunting the line, you know, face to face.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh yeah, no doubt, Yeah, true. That is the Texas Lion,
isn't it.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
It is?

Speaker 8 (13:24):
Oh you got when you got catch dogs and taste
dogs and catch dogs and are different.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Breeds, Yeah they are, Yeah they are.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
But anyway, Uh, that's all I got.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
I'm all right, I'm gonna let this rise and I'm
gonna go try to call something in.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, try to get out from under that fog man.
Good luck.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I'll see buddy, I'll see a little bit, all right. Audios.

Speaker 10 (13:47):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Back back to the Doug Bike Show. Alvis says, it's
Salsa Sunday, so be prepared.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
Is that? A?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is that like a tip of the cap to Mike
Mercado at Brass River Provisions kind of sort of A yeah?
How about that? It was time to put I let
a spice in my life. It's too early. I snap
a hip. I got up and started dancing. Man only cow.
That was I like that stuff. I like that music though.

(14:21):
That's pretty good. Uh where was I?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pull back on on Rick's
assertion that the feral hog is the lion of Texas.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
I just can't.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I can't run with that. I have I've watched a
lot of documentaries about lions, and I have never once
seen them eating grub worms or roots that they don't
do that. So I'm gonna pull back on that. I
don't know what the Texas lion would be. We do
have mountain lions, so they count what would be the

(14:55):
more There's really nothing more aggressive or not more aggressive,
but a better hunter probably than the mountain lion in Texas.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
So we're gonna leave them.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Alone and not not make fools of ourselves at least
I'm not and not Ricky.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
We're just joking about that.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
But the funny part of it is that, yeah, they're
they're crazy animals, they really are. They're they're probably the
most adaptive animals, and I think they're on par at
least on a level par with mountain lions as far
as adaptability goes. And coyotes, those three faral hogs, coyotes,

(15:34):
and mountain lions, and for different reasons too. The coyotes
can live in the middle of a city, and if
you don't believe it, walk the banks of Buffalo Bio
and look for their footprints right in the right, just
right through the middle of town. There are coyotes living
closer to anywhere you live than you think in this

(15:57):
great state of ours. And then the faral hogs they
need a little bit more, a little bit less development.
They can't they can't find something to eat on concrete
where a coyote can go grab a rat. The mountain lion,
and the mountain lion needs the most territory of all,
and thank goodness, they don't try to come into town.

(16:18):
They had problems with mountain lions in California coming into
town for several years now. For many years now, I've
been reporting on that, and was even back when I
was at the newspaper. They had mountain lions just waddling
right into town because they had been pushed out of
their native habitat. And of course they everybody panics and.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
They all want them.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
They all want them killed, which is not necessary really
out there. If they had managed their mountain lions to
keep them from over populating instead of just calling a
moratorium on hunting of them, they'd have been better off
in the long run. But hey, it's California and they
don't do much of anything right, to be perfectly honest.

(17:00):
So they had mountain lions coming into towns. We don't
have that around here. Let me go talk to Alan,
see if I can click it. Nope, I'm gonna need
your help, Melvin, give him a pop, Melvin, where do
I well?

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Kind of now hit it?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Can hear me?

Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
I gotcha? Holy cow? What's up?

Speaker 9 (17:23):
Yeah? You did?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Somebody's coming in here and messing with our stuff. Afterwards,
what do you got so do you?

Speaker 9 (17:29):
I know you've done a little fly fishing. I've done
a little fly fishing. I have do you know do
you remember the what size lines there are? I mean
there's there like too many to count, or they going
to Canada. Okay, I'm going to Canada in August, and
I'm trying to figure out. Well, I'll tell you, I
think the best way for me to do is there
a fly shop in town.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
There there's great fly shops in town. One is Gordian Sons,
and then Orbis has a tremendous fly fishing selection as well.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
I knew Orbis had one.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I wanted sure where it was. But in fishing tackle
I'm Gonta also, So any of those here, let me
let me give you a little tip. Though you're not
going fishing in Galveston. You're going fishing in Canada, and
they have fly shops there too.

Speaker 9 (18:11):
Yeah, but I want to kind of be ready. I mean, well, ye.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Call them and say what do I bring that any
of these fly fishing shops. If somebody from Canada called
any one of the three places I just mentioned and said, hey,
I'm coming down here to fish for red fish in
your bays, what do I need to bring, they would tell.

Speaker 9 (18:29):
Them, yeah, okay, because I've got the rods. Yeah, I
just need to I'm just trying to forget what kind
of line I need. But that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
What do you you're going to want to match the
line to the rods right a six way?

Speaker 6 (18:42):
And wait?

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Whatever are you worried about sinking lines or floating tips
and just all the other little subtleties.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
Yeah, I had done it in a minute, and I.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
Was like, I got I got to learn this.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, went in Rome, do what the Romans do. But
you need you need to call Roman. You know, I
call the Canada. It costs you a dollar, you know,
whatever dollar well spent. And and again, if you can
get into any of these those three fly shops I
mentioned the one at Fishing Tackle Unlimited or Gordian Sons

(19:16):
or Orbis, and there are a couple more around town, I.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Believe still too.

Speaker 9 (19:19):
I think there's one in the Woodlands, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, but you'll get there.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
They got to see you know.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
The good news is the fly fishing shops are gonna
want to help you as much, as much or more
than any other sporting goods people in any other part
of outdoor recreation. They're so helpful and so forthcoming with information.
They just want you to have a.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
Good time, agreed, and they probably they may know them
guys up there.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, who knows?

Speaker 9 (19:48):
Sh shed back and forth.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Sure, get the chip chat going. Man, thanks for the call.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
Well, I sure appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh my pleasure.

Speaker 9 (19:55):
Thanks, good day you.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Bet okay, Well, he's going to Canada. I expect pictures.
I expect pictures. I'd love. I'd love living vicariously through
some of you because I don't get to go as
much as I used to. But boy, I like seeing
everybody else will smiles on their faces. I'm kind of
at that point in my in my outdoors world and

(20:20):
it's it's it's a good feeling. That's something I wanted
to talk about when we come back. I want to
take this break here and go out a little bit early,
and when we come back, I'm going to kind of
try to fall into what I really wanted to talk
about today, and I think it'll be a good topic
and I think we'll all learn something. Is that Dave,
I can get him before the break. Let's do that, Dave,

(20:40):
what's up?

Speaker 9 (20:40):
Man? Will?

Speaker 4 (20:43):
I'm out here on Lake Conro It is foggy clean,
you know. Yeah, Well, I mean like when I'm looking
way out over here, because I'm at eight point thirty
where that is he here where they got the boat line,
that'll be one boat kind of trolling around over on
some But yeah, then when you look farther, I can't
even hardly see the house is across the lake there.

(21:06):
But hey, there was a young man over here, Adam,
and and I said, wait, let me think Adam's staying
with Okay, now I can remember your name. Anyway, he
was over here with this one of the big telescopic
cameras and everything. And I went and asked him. I said,
he's a bird watcher man and you know, yeah, and
he films birds and stuff like that. And I told

(21:28):
him that I saw that that black hawk come over here,
and boy, he started rattling off all kinds of stuff, like,
you know, he got one this way, he got one
that way, he got one. I mean, he knew, he
was knowing everything. He's probably listening. I told him he's
going to get in his truck. I told him turn over.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yes, yeah, all those cameras around, man, they get heavy
after a while.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, he had it on the tripod, you know. Yeah. Okay,
but right now, and we bear got a ripple.

Speaker 11 (22:01):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
There's about twenty five boats or trucks and trailers over here,
and but I only see that one boat straight out
from here. What I'm gonna do is this one truck
just kind of parked up here where I kind of
you know, I put my chair out. I got plenty
of your room, and then I'm going to throw some
rain scues out here and pitch some more cap.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Gets catch them. Stay out of the way of those
guys out there for the MLF tournament, though. You gotta
watch out. There's twenty of them out there today, I
believe it is. Yeah, twenty guys and Nick Lebron, the
guy we talked to yesterday who had the pass because
he won the first two days with one hundred and
thirty five pounds of scorable bass. Oh my god, man,

(22:43):
how long they can take me and you to go
catch I hunt thirty five pounds of bass out the sold.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Our life and the rest of our life.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah I know, man, Yeah, I'll be dead before I
could do that. Only conrode by myself.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Hey, the best the best bass deal one time was
we were in the pond that we had built over there.
It's almost like a lake, you know, at the farm. Sure,
and we were out there in the boat and there
was a front coming in and we're out there in
the boat and we started hitting the shoreline with some
top waters and man, you know, they were all like
one and a half pounders around there somewhere, you know.

(23:18):
But I mean we just we kept catching them, catching them,
catching them and releasing them. And then you know, like man, boy,
and then you know, and fish coming flurries like that,
you know, and and hey, when the time is right,
I tell you about when I call the thirty cap
fish in one hour and the crappy and everything else,
you know, and then but the time is long and

(23:39):
in between.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, well that's what makes it special when you do. Though,
if you call it thirty fish every time you went,
you'd quit going. It become boring. Yeah, that's something that
I just deeply love about fish because unlike bird hunting
or deer hunting, if there's no deer around, you don't
see any deer. If there's no birds around, you don't
see any birds. But if you're fishing, you don't know

(24:03):
what's in the water because you can't see them, especially
around here up north. Lot cleaner water down in the
Caribbean a lot of cleaner water. You can tell it
there's fish or not. But around here most of the
time you just you just keep chunking and wine until
something bites correct.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
And like you were talking about, like the boat bone fishermen,
you know, in that clear water in there on the
towers or whatever.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
I've seen stuff on that stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know that many times.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Oh, I love that man.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
And you know what, one of the one of the
coolest things, like you're saying, is like you go back
up to Stokefille Lake over there, and you know noodland
is legal. I'm talking about you crawl down in there.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I will never do that.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Yeah, my ancestors did do that because I remember my
mom saying that one of my grandfathers, he stuck his
leg in a big cat is his mouth and he
got him out there and pulled him out. Yeah, you
know it's it's me, No I doing that snapping turtle
in there.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, I just learned to have.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
There's some bigles. Yeah, you know, And like we always
say safety over the water, safety in the woods, and
double safety in the hood. But right now over here
and cool, there's a little me I live in I
live in the hood over there, but I'm getting out.
I'm getting out there. I'm getting out of there.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
So look, all right, buddy, hell I gotta run, man,
I gotta get.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Out to go on with it, Brodie, thank you, all.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Right, David, hang on, we'll get to you, and just
as soon as we get back, I promise I may
never get to my topic today, and that'll be perfectly
fine with me, because I enjoy so much talking to
you guys.

Speaker 10 (25:46):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at Sports
seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Pike, Hey.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Look at through the email basket here, John Wade in,
that looks like the geese are heading north here in
East Bernard. I don't think they're leaving just yet, John,
but they're probably just looking for lunch somewhere other than
where they've been looking. It's a little bit early, I

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think for them to turn around and go home, barely
into February.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
There's still a lot of winter to come.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
But the fact that they're on the move just tells
me that they're kind of running out of food. Well,
you know, it's time. It's early in the morning in
East Bernard. Yeah, I could see them getting up and moving.
Now if they're at ten twelve thousand feet and you
can just barely see them up there, Yeah, they're trying
to pack out of here. But I still I think

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it's a little bit early. They're just relocating. Boy, if
I had a nickel for every goose i'd seen or
heard flying over my house when I first moved to
sugar Land, east and west and north and south, they're
just kind of relow katon probably, I want to think.
So I'd like to still just get out and drive
that prairie down around El Campo and look at the

(27:06):
birds and figure out where they are, and maybe take
a few contemporary of a few modern era pictures of
how many geese are out there. And I've still got
those surveys over here somewhere in this stack of papers
I carry around that show the difference between the populations
twenty years ago and the population now, and what we're

(27:29):
getting here as migration, at least for snow geese is
about ten percent of what it was. And if you're
ever driving around out there and you see this big
giant wad of geese get up and you think, wow,
that's a that's a lot of geese, a lot of
snow geese there. Just imagine ten times as many. Because

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that's the lucky, fortunate, wonderful experience I got growing up
as a goose hunter and guiding goose hunts out there
on those And I hope that we can turn it
around that we still have there's still enough open land
out there. If the price of rice would ever double,
I think we'd have a lot more geese down here
within about two years. But it's still it's an uphill climb.

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Dan asked, as I mentioned. A couple of weeks ago,
right in the midst of that freeze, whatever the weekend
was that that was going on, I found one of
the lizard the many lizards that live out in my
yard and around my house, one of the biggest ones
that I became kind of a regular sighting. We exchanged

(28:38):
glances many a time out there. He had succumbed to
the cold, and I wasn't one hundred percent sure whether
he was entirely dead. Sadly, despite my efforts to warm
him up and give him a shot, he didn't make it.
So unfortunate turn of events there and on a really

(28:58):
weird note.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I don't know if I want to do this one. Yeah,
i'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
When I was cleaning out my garage in a back
corner where I don't I don't know how it got there,
when it got there, what got there, but there was
a I felt like an archaeologist who had stumbled across
a bone yard of dinosaurs. Only the dinosaur skeleton that
I found, and it was only a skeleton at this point,

(29:26):
was that of about a three inch long lizard, and
that was one of the one of the things that
was least likely I thought to be found in my garage.
But then again, somehow, some way, that that little animal
just got in there and either got overheated. I doubt
he got overheated, possibly in the summertime, more likely a

(29:49):
victim of maybe a freeze long ago. I don't know,
but it was just I felt bad I did, and
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna put up a heat
lamp out there for all the lizards together around, but
if I see one that needs little help, I'll give
it to him. I'm not a I love animals. I

(30:09):
like to hunt, but that doesn't mean I can't love
animals as well. Faux pro tee him up? Uh hold on, well,
I forgot. It's a two man show this morning.

Speaker 7 (30:18):
Hit it.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
There we go. What's what's going on?

Speaker 10 (30:22):
Man?

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Is sitting? Let's sit there? Ed you saying along to
the all commercial breakover here? I say, she's gonna have
to do the guests of to Day on the on
the music because I sure ain't.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
You don't have to worry about guessing. It's only on
Saturday that you have to do that.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Oh okay, so yeah, Salsa Sunday.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, it's just salsa Sunday. You know.

Speaker 7 (30:40):
That's kinda does been drinking over there? He got your
sauce of gold to Day.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I don't pick those man. That's all Melvin. That's all Melvine.
It's a good thing. Will yeah.

Speaker 7 (30:51):
Oh sit been watching these times? It's actually the top
ten today.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Oh that's right. Yeah, only they whittled it down to
ten and those guys.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
To the credit of MLF, they have adopted a program
that affords everybody who's qualified, everybody who was there pretty
much that top twenty. At least they all take a
check home. And so I think the minimum on the
pace scale was like fifteen grand and that at least

(31:18):
covers all your expenses and maybe gets you a nice
dinner a couple of nights while you're out of town
driving that truck around at four dollars a gallon for
gasoline in some parts of the country.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Still, yeah, that'll pay there. That'll pay their trip to
the Harris Chain of Lakes in Florida where they're headed.
Two decks. Yep, yeah they've been. They've been fishing about
an hour and one guy leading Cooper, he's already got
fifteen bass or thirty one pounds plea your buddy Nick's
and seventh with five fish at ten pounds. Most of
them are live scope in this first period, but a

(31:50):
lot of little guys have bottle were saving it for later.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So yeah, that's not a bad idea either. Try to
come from I don't know what would you do. Would
you go first period or second or third?

Speaker 7 (32:00):
I would go first period since it's cold like and
try to catch as many, try to bag as many
as I could, and you know, the live scope in
the first period one it was so cold like yesterday,
you know, me and my buddy went to Lake Acadochius
and sacked up some pretty good craffee. I caught one
well over two pounds. I mean, he just looks like
he may saw the other ones look like they're not
even keepers when.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
You look at them last year. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
Sure, but I'm waiting for it to warm up to
go fill a them this morning. But uh, but you know,
about three o'clock, I told him, I said, man, I said,
we can't come to like acadochius and not bass fish
a little bit. I know, just kid, I said, we
picked the I two roger chatter bait thought. I said,
let's just go back to the first big creek we see,
go back to the back. And we were back in

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a little pocket full of shad. Oh boy, my troll
motor was on the bottom and we were casting further
fitness ditch and caught two nice you know, two two
and a half pound bass in the dirt at three
o'clock the afternoon on chatterbacks. I said, well, we got
the hat trick. But it's a pretty pretty neat little lake.
It was a little dirty it. We fished on the
main river channel most of the day for crappie and

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it was just And that's another thing about Livescope that
just you know, crappy people. They get on a tree,
they're schooled up, go sit on a tree all day.
M hm, Well, we'd see two or three on a tree,
But probably half of the fish we caught were single
loaners roaming out in the abyss doing nothing. You'd throw
at it and you'd hook it. It's like it'd be
a big croppy. It's like, what's this one crappie doing.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Being able to see these fish is rewriting every book
about fishing.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Oh yeah, if you ever get to see a podcast
with Mark Zona and Kevin van Dam, yeah I've seen that.
Van Dam says, he goes, he goes. I'm gonna take
all these books I wrote all these years ago, and
I'm gonna throw them out of the truck on the
way down the road.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
But you know I mentioned that yesterday. I watched that
video and for for those guys to talk start talking
about how it changes everything, it really it's it's opening
a lot of eyes. A lot of these fish just
don't give a petot about structure at all. The big
old fat sALS are out there in the middle of
the lake sitting on nothing.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
Yeah, it's like looking at Jacob Wheeler. Right now, he's out.
You know, he's out in the place I'm usually running
seventy miles an hour. He's out there catching his bash
and fifteen twenty feet of water. But the bash of
three feet deep.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Wow, he was just right under Holy Can.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
And we caught I caught two big crappy yesterday and
uh we were twenty five feet of water, caught him
three feet deep. I was like, I said, those are
probably white bash through my little jig out their food,
big crappy. Oh, I just give up. I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I know I'm gonna take that book I wrote and
just use it for firewood. I got a few copies left. Yeah,
I was looking.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
I was looking at that the other day, so I
didn't have to get you know, I did to buy that,
you laid.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Don't you have one of those yet?

Speaker 7 (34:47):
You know, I probably knew somewhere in the archives, but no.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
I thought i'd given you one, just semi your address again.
I'll stoat you one up there, Okay, I'll be sure right, Yeah,
that's be kind of a it'll almost be a humor
book based on what's fact.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
Now, Holy Cow, I'll put it over there with my
Encyclopedia Britannic Collection.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, yeah, just just promise me you won't highlight all
the stuff that's wrong now.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Oh my yeah, I'm I'm sure it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I learned from some good, pretty good players.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I think I've told you I got schooled by Mike
I Connelly once and I mentioned that to Nick yesterday too.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
I thought for sure I could, I could hold my own,
you know, and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Really, It'd be like like weighing one hundred and twenty
pounds and trying to go fight Mike Tyson. He just
he schooled me so bad.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
And I'm not a I'm not a bad fisherman. I
think you would agree with that.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
And yeah, I felt like I was okay, but he
was seeing things and realizing things much faster than I could.
And he, I mean that he did it for a
living and I didn't. He probably couldn't write. I bet
he couldn't write a story about himself. But that was
my you know, And we had a great time. We

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really did, very spriendly. Got it.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, that was a good interview yesterday. I couldn't call
yesterday because it's somewhere, you know, Nate lack of Doosi's
got him in the middle of nowhere, I said, I
was intermitted. I'd get part of the show and not
part of the shows, but they're not calls that's probably
gonna drop.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
So yeah, I swapped him. So I swapped text messages
actually with him afterward and asked him if it'd be
okay to call him and have some more talk about
bass fishing. Absolutely, yeah, let's go, would be cool. Yeah,
I can get him on.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
I did talk to what I did talk to one
guy to wrap out a flat tire on my trailer,
and this guy had an electric compact impact does that
was helpful, but boy, yeah, we talked to him. He
had an eight five that morning on a chatter baiting
about three foot of water or something like that. They're
they're getting ready, they're moving up. I mean, all these
fish of comod three to five foot of water and
their water temperature about fifty five fifty six degrees. So

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then Bashler, they're pre spawned right now for sure?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Melbourne. Are we five minutes late?

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Oh? My bad?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Hold on, no, that's cool a little bit. Okay, I'm
gonna have ask you one more question, faux pro. Then
I gotta go with all this Livescope information that we're gaining. Now,
do you foresee any renewed interest in trolling for bass?

Speaker 7 (37:15):
You know what? We actually talked about that the last
couple of times. And get out there with a crank
bait that would stay like that. The edge of this
channel's nineteen feet, the bottom is twenty six. If you
had a crankbait that run sixteen seventeen feet deep and
just troll the channel, yeah, very slowly, you know, yeah,
you mean, I mean, you know it's not legal in tournaments,
but as far as it's going to catch.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, we should do that. At Fayette County. Jane Ballad
and Rick Rul and I just when we get tired
of whatever wherever, especially when those baths were schooling in
the summer, they go down on you and we really
couldn't see them with the electronics we had, but we
knew they were out there in a general area. He
dropped something down twelve to fifteen eighteen feet and just

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very slowly troll motor around out there, and all of
a sudden, there they are to go old school real quick.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
My dad used to troll a mut bug.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh god, that's a dredge holy cow, they can get
you one lake drag one of those across the bottom.
You could plant corn in what it left behind. A
cow man, that's hilarious. All right, I gotta go fo bro.
All right, buddy, we'll talk to you, yes, sir, anytime. Man,
Thank you audios. All right, we gotta take a little

(38:27):
break here, Kevin, hang on, I'll get to you first
when we get back. Your rockets and astros live here.
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues. This
as the Doug Pike show. In there, salsa dancing in there, Melbourne.

(38:48):
We're moving a bottom moving, got your sequin pants on,
bell bottoms, of course, got your got your shirt open
all the way down of your belly button, showing all
the gold. A couple of gold chat. Yeah, man, you
gotta flash that gold, Holy cow. Put Kevin on the
phone before we go down a really dark turn. Kevin, Yes, sir,

(39:09):
I was over here tapping my foot too. I know,
I know it makes you want to wake your wife
up and do a little dancing. Huh yeah, how's it
going up? It's going great?

Speaker 12 (39:18):
What about you, man, I'm just out patrolling my parks
down here in the County.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yep, another beautiful sunny day.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
That's good. Yeah, my boy, I came in for that.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
My wife and I.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Went for a walk yesterday afternoon quick sidebar.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
And usually we walk late in the afternoons on weekdays,
and yesterday being the first sunny weekend day we've had,
like in about a month, it seems like there were
people everywhere and dogs everywhere, and just everybody had come
outside to suck up a little vitamin D.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
And it was.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Really it was like a totally different place. I didn't
even know that many people lived around there. Holy cow, yep.
So what's going on before it finally lets up?

Speaker 12 (40:04):
What's that weather finally lets up that people will get
out and get out like ants crawling around.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I know what's going on in Brezuek County.

Speaker 12 (40:12):
Well, I emailed you my first fishing tournament that I'll
be working this year. It's going to be March twenty second,
and Oyster Creek out there kind of like the intersection
of five twenty three and where you go to hide away.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
On the golf there's a place called Harvest for the Hungry.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yeah, I was looking. I'm looking at the email right now.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
As a matter of fact and harvest for the hungry.

Speaker 12 (40:38):
The sixty four acres where they raised crops and things
and raised chickens and oh wow, and then they they
sell they donate the vegetables and eggs to the local
food pantry. Well, they've got to They've got a probably
about a i'd say maybe between the thirty and forty
acre lake. It has bask bass, catfish, and also they

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release caught and release redfish.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
They just survive in there too, don't they.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah they can, they get big, but they just can't reproduce.
Yeah they might, they might end up regretting that as
far as their next year's bass hatch goes. But yeah,
you live and you learn. Well, who do you got
to know to get access to that lake? Holy cow?
That sounds fun.

Speaker 12 (41:26):
Well, it's they let people go out there and fish it.
There's actually an office there on the corner of the
intersection of the road that goes to Hideaway in five
twenty three. If you leave it, if you're leaving Oyster
Creek heading towards Angleton, the first crossroads you come to
with a turn to the right, it's right there on

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that corner.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Oh wow, I think I know exactly where you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Yeah, I might. I might kind of just make a
fun day to go down there and walk the bank
or something, make a little donation to the costs.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
You know.

Speaker 12 (41:58):
Yeah, and all the pros, all the proceeds that from
the fishing tournament that they're raising is going toward their
angler education program.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Fantastic, fantastic. Seven o'clock in the morning to twelve thirty
in the afternoon. That's a nice little chunk of time
to be out there having fun. Huh. Oh yeah, is
this just for kids?

Speaker 6 (42:17):
I had?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
I did? Yeah, well, no, it's kids and adults. Oh lord.

Speaker 12 (42:21):
And actually actually I worked it for him last year
and that they've got like a little doc that I
was working to had my skills set up on. Then
they had another way master actually on the other side
of the lake. Yeah, that's a good idea weighing fish
for people on the other side.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
But yeah, it was a good event and fun.

Speaker 12 (42:41):
And they also had the local SPCA that was out
there that were given free shots inoculations for people's pets.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Yeah, that's little little tournaments like that. How many people
did it?

Speaker 12 (42:55):
Draw probably had about fifty anglers participated in it. Nothing
real big, little events like that are the backbone of
the future of fishing, of the future of places where
vegetables and egg boil.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Those eggs are worth their waiting, gold hunt and all
of these things. Oh yeah, fifty people here, fifty people there,
to somebody driving by on the way to Freeport or
something like that, that's just well, there's something's.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Going on over there. I wonder what it is.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
But if people will stop and take the time to
look into these things and go give up a couple
of hours of a Saturday morning and participate in them,
all of a sudden, these things will grow into bigger
and bigger, which they need to be, because there still
are there still are hungry people in our country. There
still are people who need things in our country. They

(43:47):
need the inoculations for their pets. And this is man.
I'm thrilled to help you guys anytime, anytime.

Speaker 7 (43:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, that's a good event.

Speaker 12 (43:55):
And it's more than I'd say probably three quarters the
people that were out there had their kids with them too,
So thank goodness, getting the kids in the outdoors.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Nothing beats people doing that. So how big was the
biggest bass last year? The biggest one I weighed was
just a hair under four pounds. That's pera a fun fish. Man.
I had a red fish.

Speaker 12 (44:19):
It probably went thirty three inches, probably twelve and a
half thirteen pounds.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
There go your one pound bass. Yeah, like having a
cormorant with gills in your leg.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Oh my work.

Speaker 12 (44:35):
And then there were a couple of couple of catfish
caught that were in the two and a half pound range.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, that's fun. That's great because that's that's not anything
that a kid can't handle. But for a kid to
bring in a thirty inch red fish or a couple
of pounds of catfish or bass and they're thrilled to death. Man,
that's awesome. Oh yeah, yep, good job, good job exactly.
Oh holy cow, I'm late. I got to get to
a break.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
My gosh.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
All right, buddy, Thank you Kevin to talking to you here, buddy, Yes.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Sir, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I'll tell you. Well, we'll take a little break here,
We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
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Speaker 2 (45:19):
Now Here's Doug Pike. Second hour of the program starts
right now, and glad to do it. Meloyne, let me
know that Punk Satni Phil what did he see his
shadow or nazee it?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
I don't remember which is which.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I think when you see your shadow six more it's
six more weeks. Well, whatever it was, the official verdict
of punk Satni Phil was that we'll have six more
weeks of winter. However, if that concerned you in the least,
here's the deal, Punk Satanni Phil. I had a story
that I saw this week. There are actually twenty groundhogs

(45:58):
around this country of ours that are charged with predicting
more or no more winter. Did you know that, Melbourne?
There're no idea. I guess they're like the B Team
or something like that. I thought it was just one no, no, no, no, no,
not in this grand nation of art.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Or maybe it's across the continent.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Maybe some of them in Canada are also charged with
deciding whether or not we're gonna have six more weeks
of winter. And who knows, they've got as good a
shot as any weather man at being right. But here's
where guests where out of the top twelve well d twenty,
the twenty groundhogs that are supposed to come up with

(46:38):
whether we're gonna have more weather or winter weather or not.
Where does Phil rank in his accuracy? Hmm, interesting, I'm
gonna give you a hint. I'm gonna give you a hint.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Just go ahead and pull out your flip flops in
short pants.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Now.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
So where is Phil on.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
On a one to twenty one being the most accurate,
twenty being the least accurate? Where is Punk Satawny Phil?
I would say he's right there. Maybe I'll give him
a eleven. He's seventeenth. Wow, seventeenth. He couldn't He couldn't
pick an egg out of a chicken's nest. That man,

(47:24):
bet Punk's a towny Phil. What does he know? He
don't know anything. It's a groundhul for God's sakes, give
him a break, get the ac rady. Well, this is
punks and towny Phil. Let me get my map up
over here on the blue screen, green screen, whatever it is,
and I'll push a couple of buttons and tell you
there's more winter coming. Oh, don't put away your snowplow

(47:48):
just yet. Who cares? The groundhog gets all for fun
and show, and I saw a picture this morning the
people who are doing the the presentation I actually did
it was I kind of had to laugh. They've got
the garb from the eighteen hundreds on. They've got the
black coat and the snappy white shirt all pressed, and

(48:09):
got the top hat and all that stuff to look
so authentic from as though they were just they've stepped
out of time from the eighteen hundreds when Punk Satawny
fill In his ancestors first started predicting the weather. And
what is this guy? There's one guy holding the groundhog
up in the air and he's holding away from him

(48:29):
so it doesn't mess his shirt up.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
I see that.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Okay, you see it. And what's the other guy got on?
That's not really true to the period. He's got a
headset microphone on. They didn't have those in the eighteen hundreds.
You see it now? Like hook, come on, who are
we fooling here? Just go ahead and dress like you're
going to work. Put on your khakis, put on your

(48:54):
your button down shirt and your your sport coat, and
then just come on out and say, hey, here's Phil.
Well you got you got a one in ten chance
that he's gonna be right. This year, it's like every
other year. Yeah, it's great and it's fun. I guess
it's it's spectacle and it's something to do on a
Sunday morning up there up north. But other than that,

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it's just a groundhog picking the weather and based on nothing.
By the way, it's not even his fault, because the
only criteria is whether or not he sees his shadow.
So if a sun's out, it's an automatic in one direction.
It's a sun's not out if there's a cloud and

(49:38):
it's gonna be. I mean, it's just it's not even
punks the Tawny Phil's fault. It's the people who came
up with this and a hundred years ago whenever it was.
I don't know when it started, but it's just like, really,
come on, really, come on, hold on. I just got
an email from Kevin. Uh No, that's not okay, that's
not the one I'm looking for. I gotta go here,

(49:59):
hold on, I got to refresh. Yeah, Dennis weighs in
with exactly what I'm talking about. Still better than most
TV weather people. I trust TV weather people I trust,
but only for about forty eight hours out. I trust
the Weather Channel about seventy two to ninety.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Six hours out.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
And then there are a couple of other kind of
oddball sites that I start watching when tropical weather develops
that seem to be a little bit a little bit
more reliable than others. But if you're trying to predict
weather around Southeast Texas any more than about a couple
of days out, if you're making your plans based on

(50:43):
weather forecasts on TV at six o'clock or five o'clock
or four o'clock, it's almost around the clock now, then
don't just don't the Let me get to my I
got to get to this other page here and go
to the PGA Tour dot comite because I want to
take a look at what's going on out at the

(51:04):
Pebble Beach at and T Pebble Beach pro Am Sepstrauca.
Let me get the full leaderboard up here real quick,
and I'll give you a couple of things to think
about when you watch the final round today. Sepstraca one underthrew. Yeah,
this is all yesterday's scores. Nevermind, they're not even out yet.
It's so early over there. I keep forgetting there two
hours earlier. Sepstraca sixteen under par leads by one shot

(51:29):
over McElroy and Lowry, then Justin Rowe They're at fifteen obviously,
then Justin Rose, Tom Kim and Cam Davis at fourteen,
Lucas Glover at thirteen, Russell Hensley at twelve, and Austin
eck Wrote at eleven, and then tied for tenth place.
You got five or six guys any, including Scotty Scheffler,

(51:53):
by the way, and Scheffler he's made a great kickoff
his season this year after coming off that surgery on
his hand after he cut himself several months ago, actually
a pretty deep cut apparently, and just now getting back
to competitive golf. That he's even in the top twenty

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five on this particular tournament just tells you how good
he is. There were a lot of people thinking, oh, yeah,
if Scheffler doesn't come right out and just come out
swinging and go win this one, we're gonna have to
start worrying about him. No, this is his first time
out and he's tied for tenth place. He's looking pretty
square in the eyes of a top ten finish after

(52:37):
not hitting a competitive golf ball in months, So hats
off to him. The other thing, well, no, you know,
I toe you what. I got to get to George
and talk to him for a minute. I'm gonna come
back to something golf related maybe, but I also want
to get on something fishing related.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Te up George for me, will you?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Melvin? Hey, George, what's up?

Speaker 7 (52:59):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
How you doing? I'm good? Thank you?

Speaker 11 (53:03):
Yes, sir, I wanted to ask you what you thought
about the pier they've begun to work work on at Bolivar.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Fingers crossed if they do something at Bolivar after what
they did to Rollover, right, and well they you know,
they made those.

Speaker 11 (53:19):
Promises, you know, to us, or you know, they allegedly.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (53:23):
I didn't do that much research on it promise, but
I did some recently, and they're underway and you'll be
able to tune into the camera down there and watch them.
And they've got plans for it's going to be like
a thousand foot These are the tentative plans, a thousand
foot with it like a dog leg kind.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Of to the Yeah, that's that's well, you know, that's
a good idea that creates a bit of a teahead situation. Okay, sure,
I mean I'm all about getting that pier up and
running as fast as they can. I'd still I would
still rather have rollover pass. But a pier is it's
just kind of like throwing you a bone, you know,
here's something exactly.

Speaker 11 (54:04):
It's disappointing, you know, but at least it's something for
the people that the regulars and people a lot of
people that you know, they never waited and stuff they
had to drive down there.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
For whatever reason and fish on this on the bank.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
You know, it gives them an opportunity.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
To because we used to have and see that's another thing.

Speaker 11 (54:22):
We used to have that great pier down at the past.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Oh boy, I wish I had a nickel for every
trout I caught off that pier.

Speaker 11 (54:29):
All the memories that you know, we had from years back.
It's and of course you know, uh but anyway, you know,
to me, it's just something, uh you know. Now, and
they've got plans for like a bay camp there and
maybe somebody at least like some kind of dining or maybe.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Some food trucks.

Speaker 11 (54:46):
You know, So it'll be interesting to see how it
all evolves. But uh, you know, I hope they don't
make somebody who's making uh uh suggestions of Uh a pirate.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Uh, I don't want to.

Speaker 11 (54:59):
See you know, commercial line or dolphin watching or just
build a pier, you know, just build a peer and
go away. Oh and they're going to have a birning
uh sanctuary. Okay, they've got an area and they're gonna
have a burning tower and okay, so you know, so

(55:20):
maybe they the birders, maybe they can start contributing something
like us fishing trances. His old dad of thirty two million,
I complain twelve years ago.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
This is a consolation funds they did.

Speaker 11 (55:38):
They dip into it. See is the general fund. That's
that's what we protested about.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Yeah, it's a consolation prize. It's a consolation prize, and
and that's what bothers me the most about it. The
best thing they can do is just make it a
simple fishing pier. If you've got extra money, make the
peer bigger. If you've got extra money, make the you're stronger,
so it doesn't blow away in the next hurricane.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
We get through here.

Speaker 11 (56:03):
Exactly a thousand foot you know, that's pretty pretty good
lengthy pier.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
When you say, yeah, a thousand well that's three hundred yards. Okay,
so that's pretty good. But still anyway, I want to
keep that area.

Speaker 11 (56:16):
I said, my favorite place the way it is it is,
and it's it's hard to get there because of the
fairy but it was always a pocket. It's very shallow,
but in the early spring and summer it can be
very productive, you know. And it's it's isolated there, and
that's a feeling, that's that's that's an an experience, Doug.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
It's hard to.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Find on this Upper Texas.

Speaker 11 (56:41):
S Louis Pass used to have that feel twenty five
thirty years ago. And I can go back to the sixties,
you know, when I was just younger, you know, uh,
because I'm seventy years old. Sure, but anyway, and anyway,
I thought it was something positive. Yeah, I'd like to
mention in passing real quick smart meters. Do you know

(57:05):
anything about them? We're second you know. I'm an electrician,
if you recall, and we're second only to California and
the number of smart meters. If you can keep them
off your home, it's important. But they have a lithium battery.
I keep a flashlight and a leather glove as an electrician.
If I can get to that, if I see any anomalies,

(57:26):
I have my power go off twice this week.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
And I'll live over here in Fort ben like yourself.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Yeah, and they're making upgrades, you know, so I'm not
getting them there. I do have some much I can
sling out them and to see smart meters.

Speaker 11 (57:38):
Because they put out I got a Trifield meter and
they put out they put out a lot of EMFs.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
It's not good for you.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
So I'll look into that.

Speaker 11 (57:46):
But anyway, that's I just want to put that out
there because they're real fire has and if you could
turn that breaker off, that main breaker, at least that
would isolate your conductors inside your house.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Shoot me an email on that, and I'll shoot me
an email on that, so I know better how.

Speaker 8 (58:01):
To talk about Okay, So fucking send you there.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Oh good lord. All right, what's your what's your email?

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Get Doug Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Harm Okay, thanks dog,
thank you.

Speaker 10 (58:14):
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Speaker 2 (58:24):
Doug tonight twenty six on Sports Talk seven ninety Salsa
Sunday says Melvin, I'm surprised you haven't teed up covid
cabana yet.

Speaker 11 (58:37):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Is it coming?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Or is it? What? What is the deal?

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Who doesn't like a good Berryman, low up tempo song
on a Sunday morning. We can put that into this,
especially on salsae. Now I'm not making a special request.
I'm just I'm just throwing that out there. You don't
have to play it. If you've got other things already
lined up, bring them because they've all been good.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
They've all been good so well.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
One of the things I had, I had so much
on my list today to talk about. I had this
look a look at all this Melbourne.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
See.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
I know you know the camera's not working, is it?
We've got to figure out who's been coming in here.

Speaker 9 (59:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
A couple of things I wanted to talk about were
was and I'll do it next weekend.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Pardon me, I had a little hiccup there.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Uh. Preventive maintenance is something I wanted to deal with,
and that coming into well, we have a twelve month
fishing season here. Okay, that's that's fine. But coming into
the fishing season that starts now for everybody who's been
hunting all winter long. Starts now for everybody who is

(59:41):
allergic to cold weather or just really doesn't want to
deal with it anymore.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
And I respect that.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
I've been fishing a long time, and there was a
time in my life when I would go fishing. I
don't care as long as it's not lightning, as long
as it wasn't cracking lightning everywhere, and the boy, one
of the best bass fishing days of my life came
on a day when there was lightning cracking all around me,
and I was too young and stupid to get out

(01:00:09):
of it. But man, I caught some big mess. But
the bottom line is, as you change seasons and move
forward into full fishing season, which was what a lot
of us are doing right now, it's time for a
little preventive maintenance to make sure you don't break stuff
and don't don't take away any opportunity you might have

(01:00:31):
to catch a really, really big fish. Now, if you
just casually fish and you really don't care, and that's fine,
you don't have to change your line every time you
make a cast. You don't have to buy brand new
rods and reels every couple of weeks. Some people I
know are like that. They want the best, and they
want it now. And they want to maintain the best

(01:00:53):
and as soon as something better comes out than what
they've got, they replace what they have.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
And more power to you. You can do that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
It's it's fun and I've enjoyed for many, many years
fishing with quality equipment.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
It does make a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
You're making investment if you if you like to fish
and you hope you catch a really big fish someday,
it doesn't make sense to go out and buy some
cheap rod and reel and put cheap, the cheapest line
on it and buy the cheapest lures with the cheapest hooks.
You're just setting yourself up for disappointment if you if
you want to be in the game, then you're going

(01:01:29):
to have to invest a little bit of money. At
least you don't have to go top of the line,
but you at least need to be above the bottom
of the line. And once you do that, then you
you establish you establish where you are in that in
that arena of fishing tackle and boy a great place

(01:01:51):
to go looking at that stuff. Next year or next
not this week coming but a week after it's going
to be that fiftieth Annual Fishing Show at the George R.

Speaker 11 (01:01:59):
Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
I'll be telling you more about that as we get
closer to it, But you still need to maintain your stuff.
That's where I was kind of wanting to go this morning.
And how I just going to ask you, And we
don't have time to get into it now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
I've only got a half an hour left.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
But be thinking about this and we'll talk about it
more next week. How often do you swap out your line?
How often do you clean stuff? How often you change stuff?
You rearrange stuff in tackle boxes? And I'm betting a
lot of you are thinking right now something you probably
should have done in the past couple of weeks. It's
still on the board to be done before you go fishing,

(01:02:36):
even though you've already been once or twice since you
thought about doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Especially changing lines.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Reels have to be cleaned periodically, and they're arguably a
lot more important than the rod. Actually, the rod is
there for a purpose. And there are subtle differences in
everyone you pick up. And I'll say this about fishing rods,
if they're like clubs. If you can't tell me what
benefit you will get from having a specific rod or

(01:03:06):
a specific reel for that matter, If you want to
upgrade to something really expensive. Tell me why, and if
you can convince me that you're going to be a
better fisherman for having this, and give legitimate reason other
than it costs more, then now it's time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Same with golf clubs, same with golf balls.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
There are a lot of people playing golf with expensive
golf balls thinking that's going to make them a better golfer,
when in reality, if you just save a little money
on balls, save a little money on clubs, and take
some lessons, you'd be a little bit better off. So
back to the fishing part, though you changeing the line,
I guess is a big one, and that brings me

(01:03:46):
to an email I got from Danny. Danny shared that
he wants to get back into surf fishing. He's been
out for a little while, pretty extended absence actually, and
he's got three quality rods and reels that he used
years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
These are vintage setups right now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
If you're an old school surf fisherman, you will recognize
everything I'm talking about. Okay, he's got a couple of
Harrington rods, he's got a Fenwick rod and each of
them is attached, or to each of them is attached
one or the other of these. He's got a pen
jigmaster with a newal conversion kit, and if you don't

(01:04:26):
know what that is, you weren't doing a lot of
surffishing forty fifty years ago. There's a pen four widespool
and a pen squidter, and all of those things. All
three of those were kings of surf fishing in their day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
But it's been a hot minute.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Now he can put all that gear back into service
if he doesn't want to reinvest and upgrade to something
that doesn't belong in the museum.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
And I've still got.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
A there's at least one squidter, I think hanging in
the garage of mine. But I can tell you that
the line is not as old as what he said
is on his He conceded in his email that he
hadn't taken the monofilament off those reels, and I think
what he said on one of them was about fifty

(01:05:15):
years So I don't think he'll have any trouble getting
that line off. In fact, if you just grab it
and tug on it a little bit, it'll start breaking
off into little pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
I wouldn't even try to make a cast with fifty
year old monofilament that's been on the spool that long,
it'll come off like a pigtail, and it just there's
a good chance it's going to break, just on the
strain of loading up the rod for the cast. But
nor do you have to You don't have to change
your line every time you go fishing, and that's something

(01:05:50):
I think that the braid has helped keep people from
having to replace line as often as they do. It
depends on where you're going and how important that trip
is to you. For Oh, I'm late again, huh Melvin,
Oh my gosh, Okay, let's take this break. I'm looking
down at my note about the Perot Bolivar, and I
have so much I want to say about that too,

(01:06:11):
but I'm gonna wait until I get the email and
and do a little more research before I come down
too hard on them for throwing us this bone that
they think is gonna make up for Rollover Pass. Or
you could. You could build a pier from here to
the middle of the Golf of Mexico and it still
wouldn't be as accessible as as would roll Over Pass

(01:06:32):
if it were back.

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Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
That's the name of that song.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
That's awesome, man, don't get me to make it up words.
We're gonna call it Melvin's Mambo Sunday next week.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Maybe how about this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Yeah, I know that one very man. I'm sure they're
always were the passion fun All right, let me get
back to the outbors. I had a couple of guys
emailed this week talking and wanting to talk a little
bit about top waters, because that's I don't know whether
they know it or not, but that's my favorite type

(01:07:24):
of lurd to throw. It really is, It really really is.
And I remember years ago when I was at the paper,
Big Grinds and I would fish a good bit on
Mattagorda Bay, and if he and I and two other
people were in the boat, he and I would put on.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Top waters as before we left the dock.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
We would go out there and we would throw top
waters pretty much all day, regardless of how many fish
the other anybody else in the boat was catching on.
What didn't matter. I don't care if they started throwing
soft plastics and started getting bites, a lot of bites.
He and I were going to try to make them
eat on top. And that's kind of where I am
in my fishing life now. I've caught a lot of

(01:08:05):
fish and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do that.
I fished with some of the best fishermen on the
planet and some of the best places on the planet.
And I still enjoy just going to a little stock
pond somewhere and catching one pound bass almost almost as
much as I do going down to the coast and
catching big trout. The big trout or a special thing

(01:08:28):
for me, snook and tarp and special for me, bonefish
special for me. I've never caught a pike in North
America that's on my bucket list just because it's my name.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
But if I have the opportunity, I'm gonna go. I
will go. And I don't foresee that one and I
would I would.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
I would pass on a trip to do that, to
go back to to go back to the Bahamas, to
go back to the Caribbean, to go back to pretty
much any qualities of Florida, any quality saltwater destination that's Saltwater's.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
In my blood, it really is. I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
And there's a struggle going on right now for the
top water guys. And I think if you fish pretty
much south of Mata Gordy, you'll understand this. Man, there's
just so much dead grass. I can't believe how many
people are still trying to figure out how to throw
top waters in grass, because there are ways. You just

(01:09:30):
have to change lures. One of my favorites for that
is a bait that Mark Nichols put together down there
at Doa several years ago, many years ago. Now, I
guess that PT lure and I won't tell you what
the acronym stands for. It doesn't matter. If you know
anybody who throws them, they can tell you. But that's
just a simple this thing. It looks like a little

(01:09:52):
elongated a little bit bigger than a vienna sausage. But
the way the hook is set up in it and
the way it is built, it's virtually weedless. You could
probably work it across your lawn and not hang it up.
And it really is a good bait to throw in
that condition when it's like you're trying desperately to use

(01:10:14):
a traditional walk the dog plug. But you realize very
quicker you go from walking the dog to raking the yard.
That's all you're doing with that thing. You're dragging grass
back every time you've gone from walking the dog to
raking the yard. And you're not going to catch fish
on that. So you either have to bail on the

(01:10:37):
top water idea or go to something that will work
on top and that pt from da is one of
the best for that. I've got enough of them to
last me a while, and that's one where one leer
I don't really give away in any big hurry, especially
down south. The other way to do that is to
just take a big salt plastic rig. It weedless and weightless,

(01:11:02):
the most most any bait casting reel on this coast
that's worth the money you paid for it will enable
you to throw that thing a long ways. It's not
a big secret to do that. You know, you lose
the rattle aspect of the top water, but nothing else.
And as that thing plows through all that grass and
bounces around there, anybody who's fishing that stuff knows they

(01:11:24):
are little holes. And if you can hit one of
those little holes with a traditional top water, you could
get about four or five little jerks on it, and
then it hits the grass, and then you got to
drag it all the way back to the rod tip
again and start over. But with that pet with a
just a good chunky, soft plastic that's gonna push a
lot of water and cause a lot of vibration. You're

(01:11:45):
still in the game. You're still in the game. And
that's just I'm so I get giddy thinking about catching
big trout on Top Waters. It gives me flashbacks to
the trip that I'm not gonna dwell on that. We
got to take one more, a little break, then we'll
come back and wrap up.

Speaker 11 (01:12:01):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
I just got hung up on Top Waters and I
couldn't stand it anymore. I couldn't stop talking about him.
I apologize, Melvin, Sorry, buddy.

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Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Now more Doug Fite title an artists, please good look
Eddy Santiago. Okay, and the title and that's not the
name of the song, is it?

Speaker 9 (01:12:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
I figured as much. I'm not gonna even try to pronounce. Oh,
come on, you can't even pronounce the names of these songs. Okay,
let's try take a shot Ka Lea and t DT.
We should have just left it alone. Yeah, we should
have left that long. Totould have made something up your kiddo,

(01:12:48):
taco bell. It has a nice beat though. I love it. Yeah,
all that music does it really does? Uh, And it
is unique, and it's in its own length, and it
stays in its own lane, which is what I like.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
I don't I don't know that there are a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Whole lot of crossover singers from salsa to to blues,
or from salsa to pop. I doubt you'll ever hear
Taylor Swift sing a salsa song, or Willie Nelson or
anybody from any other genre. It's just it's it's a cool,
unique lane. And I appreciate all kinds of music, I

(01:13:25):
really do. I can. I can listen to anything at
any most not all, but most right, as long as
there are the energy it gives me. Well, I don't
like vulgar lyrics, so I have to rule out some
of the states. But nonetheless, it's just that's a form
of expression and I don't really want to take that
away from people.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
I think I think there could be a little more.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Attention paid to the age of the audience and the
appropriateness of the lyrics sometimes, but that's just me. Maybe
call me fuddy duddy if you like. That's fine. I'll
just go right back outside and start fishing again and
not worry about it. Not enough time for a phone call,
really not not to do anybody justice. So I'll just

(01:14:06):
kind of ease into let me see if I had
anything that just had to be mentioned today.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
I've got that covered. I'm okay on that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I'm okay on that. I think I might go. I
might lean back into the maintenance thing. Captain Scott just
sent me an email a minute ago talking about how
he's going to have to start revitalizing and refreshing. He
he works with some top manufacturers and and and has

(01:14:36):
a nice quiver of rods and reels to work with
each year, and as it should be for someone of
his caliber, and he's got to he's got to set
about changing out a lot of stuff. And I think
he would be the first one. And any other professional
guide would tell you that there's a lot of work
that goes into rolling over stuff, just turning it over

(01:15:00):
from from the old to the new. A lot of
work goes into that, and that goes everything from changing
out a little rusted split ring to changing out hooks,
to mashing the barbs hooks of hooks. One of the
things that I meant to mention, and I'll do it
now and I'll probably do it again next week, is

(01:15:22):
if you are going to subscribe to what I like
to do and mash all those barbs down on your hooks,
make sure that you're mashing them with plyers rather than
just pulling out some little, tiny, little drimmal tool with
a grinding head on it, or any other sort of grinder.

(01:15:42):
Because if you have that fast spinning, little little rough
piece of metal or piece of stone rolling across that hook,
what you're gonna do is heat it up way too
much for it to tolerate.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
And the hook might not bend and break then, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Have weakened that metal to the point that when you
catch that, when you hook that thirty four inch trial
this winter or next winter, the hook snaps off. That's
not what you want. Use your pliers, take care of
business so that you don't hook yourself and have to
go to the hospital. Get outside, more importantly today, tomorrow,
in the next two or three days, get outside, get

(01:16:21):
some sunshine, have some fun with your family. Go fishing,
go play golf, go do whatever you want, but don't
just sit around the house. It's gonna be a beautiful
several days ahead. Take advantage. I'll be back Tuesday live
on fifty plus at noon on KPRC, then right back
here next Saturday, God Willing on Sports Talk seven ninety
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