Speaker 1: Best Bengals coverage, and those Cincinnati Reds, the Xavier Musketeers,
Speaker 1: the Ucy Bearcats, FC Cincinnati, anything and everything that's sports
Speaker 1: in this town.
Speaker 2: Am I? How did that? How did that come out?
Speaker 3: That work?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And I'm not a sports durbil, Okay, I'm an outdoors
Speaker 1: gurbil kind of more like a chipmunk.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The raccoon, I'll tell that story after a bit. I
Speaker 1: never never had raccoons in my tree over my tree
Speaker 1: stand before. But I'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1: So I grabbed Rick Strauss this morning. He is released
Speaker 1: a new podcast, which I assume he does when he
Speaker 1: feels like it. Maybe it's weekly, but we'll find out more.
Speaker 2: Hear. It's called Bluegrass, Woods.
Speaker 1: And Waters and Rick, welcome to the Big outdoors Man.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks so much for having me on Chip.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Yeah, so what uh you know?
Speaker 2: And I'm there, I don't know how much.
Speaker 1: And you're on the iHeartMedia platform, so that's great. Just
Speaker 1: look up Bluegrass, Woods and Water. So have you celebrated
Speaker 1: one month yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think we've had three podcasts out so far.
Speaker 3: I'm working on my third. I just got done interviewing
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Jason Ping from Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife
Speaker 3: Resources yesterday, so I'm working on getting that published for
Speaker 3: the first the next week, so we'll be up to
Speaker 3: four episodes.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: So do you plan these for a weekly release or well,
Speaker 1: I assume you can do it. You can do them
Speaker 1: anytime you want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of. I try to do them weekly,
Speaker 3: but fishing and funt sometimes gets in a way, so
Speaker 3: they're either going to be every week, every other every
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. I really don't have that much of
Speaker 3: a schedule.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, let's face it, Kentucky has a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about, a ton to offer. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got many more huntable mammals. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: throwing the black bear and the bobcat and you know,
Speaker 1: say Ohio.
Speaker 2: Variety of fish.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting you probably haven't done it is
Speaker 1: you know, when you compare the record fish list from
Speaker 1: Kentucky to that of Ohio, I think Kentucky has probably
Speaker 1: fifteen more species that you know, people have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to set a state record with than like Ohio, which
Speaker 1: I thought was kind of neat because they add a
Speaker 1: lot of the you know, take the creek jub or
Speaker 1: the shine, you know, some things like that, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of neat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kentucky offers a wide array of fish
Speaker 3: species to target and traphy fish species, especially in the
Speaker 3: Cumberland River basin where I do most of my fishing
Speaker 3: for striper and trout.
Speaker 1: So what do you what are your plans as you know,
Speaker 1: as you look forward in terms of like subject better,
Speaker 1: I mean because it had you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to put you on a spot or anything, but you know,
Speaker 1: there the opportunities are just I mean overwhelming, unlimited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. I tried to,
Speaker 3: you know, stick to my guns. What I do a
Speaker 3: lot of so striper fishing, trout fishing. I talked a
Speaker 3: lot about there. I had an elk outfitter on my
Speaker 3: first ELF, my first episode and probably one of the
Speaker 3: better ELF fitters this side of the Mississippi in Kentucky,
Speaker 3: Hurley Cims Junior from Lost Mountain Outfitters. He's been doing
Speaker 3: it for years. He has multiple Kentucky state record bulls.
Speaker 3: So the conversation was great. I became great friends with
Speaker 3: him after I killed my bull about ten years ago
Speaker 3: down there, So great conversation. He knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: And and just just to talk about you know, the elk.
Speaker 3: They're just majestic animals you know here in Kentucky's for sure.
Speaker 1: Well that and that heard is like over ten thousand
Speaker 1: animals and the court's on it.
Speaker 2: It's on the draw system.
Speaker 1: And being a non resident, they don't pull you know,
Speaker 1: as many drawings for for for those from out of
Speaker 1: state that they do you know in state. So maybe
Speaker 1: I'll have an opportunity to use that outfit or down
Speaker 1: the line if you know, if I can. Uh So
Speaker 1: you are you just focusing on fishing and hunting is
Speaker 1: that the plan?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And conservation conservation for sure. Like next week I'm
Speaker 3: interviewing Ethan Noon in a Kentucky fish and wildlife biologists
Speaker 3: here in northern Kentucky. So we're going to talk land management,
Speaker 3: w n A management, uh CD, you know, the diseases
Speaker 3: that are running out there right now, CWD and all that.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be an interesting conversation about conservation
Speaker 3: here in northern Kentucky for sure.
Speaker 2: Well that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I applaud you for jumping on
Speaker 1: that that wagon.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to ask you why in just a
Speaker 2: minute here after the breaks. Yeah, we gotta know you know, yes,
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 1: Have an answer, so you said, tight Re Strauss, we'll
Speaker 1: be back with more of the big outdoors News Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW Cincinnati back in the moment, the home
Speaker 1: of the best Bengals coverage. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: know that people are probably already started talking about, uh
Speaker 1: spring training, has it come up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay? And what's that banana group that.
Speaker 1: The oh Savannah Bananas. Okay, see here we are. We
Speaker 1: haven't even had Halloween yet or Christmas. Okay, we're already
Speaker 1: in the next summer. I'll let the Gerbils, you know,
Speaker 1: take care of that. By the way, Gary Jeff Walker
Speaker 1: will be up after the news at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour with his cast of characters. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's got a cast, award winning cast, Gary Jeff did
Speaker 1: they have to do anything? It's that award winning And
Speaker 1: Michael k at nine AM, ken Brew and sports and
Speaker 1: sports and sports. Rick Strauss is with me a new
Speaker 1: podcaster in the northern Kentucky area. It's called Bluegrass, Woods
Speaker 1: and Waters. You can find it on the iHeartMedia platform
Speaker 1: as well as WAH the Big Outdoors thirty years up
Speaker 1: there on that platform if I'm not, but you have
Speaker 1: to look at the date. It doesn't have the subject matter,
Speaker 1: so we'll work on that later. So, Rick, what what
Speaker 1: was the impetus for this? Okay? You felt there was
Speaker 1: lacking in the market for Kentucky covery.
Speaker 3: For sure, And I would say the bigger reason chip
Speaker 3: was just my love of Kentucky and the outdoors. If
Speaker 3: I'm not in the woods, I want to talk about it,
Speaker 3: you know, And I feel like there wasn't a specific
Speaker 3: you know area talking about Kentucky outdoors. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of the big dogs out there, you know,
Speaker 3: talk about it nationally, going around out West, South everywhere else.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to really focus on Kentucky outdoors.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any lack of opportunities out there
Speaker 1: for for listeners to pick up on it, and I
Speaker 1: encourage you know that they do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And so what's the typical length of your podcast?
Speaker 2: What? What? What is comfortable for you?
Speaker 3: So they're running and right now I have one at
Speaker 3: an hour. There's anywhere between forty five minutes and an
Speaker 3: hour right there, right now. I try to I try
Speaker 3: to bring an interviewee in every time and then also
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about sports, and then also talk about,
Speaker 3: you know, just what's going on that right now in Kentucky,
Speaker 3: what hunting seasons, what's going on conservation wise, things like that.
Speaker 1: Let's see, God, I had something on the tip of
Speaker 1: my tongue and it just it just it just it
Speaker 1: just went away. But your focus is statewide and it's
Speaker 1: not on a specific region.
Speaker 3: Correct, Correct? I do since I do most of my
Speaker 3: hunting in northern Kentucky, I do most of my fishing
Speaker 3: down in the Lake Cumberland area, So I do tend
Speaker 3: to talk about that more than more than the other parts.
Speaker 3: But moving forward, it's not just going to be about
Speaker 3: those two areas. It's going to be I'm going to
Speaker 3: try to elaborate statewide.
Speaker 2: Do you work for a living?
Speaker 3: I do? I do. I work in logs.
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: Now that's a good Uh. There's a few around here
Speaker 1: that could use some logistics. Uh background, don't think Danny. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what what I wanted. What I
Speaker 1: also wanted to find out was what the fishing is
Speaker 1: like at Lake Cumberland right now. Since you're you're down
Speaker 1: there frequently, I assume and uh back and forth. You
Speaker 1: don't guide, but uh, you do fish a lot down there.
Speaker 1: So what's happening in that.
Speaker 2: In you know, on the.
Speaker 3: So on Lake Cumberland right now? It's right in the
Speaker 3: middle of the fall transition, and the bike's still really hot.
Speaker 3: Typically around this time of year, the bike gets pretty tough,
Speaker 3: but water temperatures are up higher because it's been warmer.
Speaker 3: They're in the mid sixties and stripers are really starting
Speaker 3: to move from their summer patterns where they're schooled up
Speaker 3: on main channels on the main lake, and they're starting
Speaker 3: to move up into the mouth of the larger creeks
Speaker 3: Otter Beaver Indian. You know, the weekend Warriors and the
Speaker 3: outfitters are pooling live though why shed on planar boards,
Speaker 3: you know, like normal down there and drop lines. They're
Speaker 3: catching fish anywhere between twenty two and thirty six inches,
Speaker 3: and some of the outfitters actually caught some real nice
Speaker 3: traphy fish every forty inches in September. So the fish
Speaker 3: is still real hot.
Speaker 1: And there was a period I'm thinking it was prior
Speaker 1: to the last draw down, you know, when they were
Speaker 1: pairing the dam that you know, your fish weren't running,
Speaker 1: you know, as big as they had in the previous years.
Speaker 1: But let's see that that was probably ten years ago
Speaker 1: when they drew it down and.
Speaker 2: Repaired the dam.
Speaker 1: And then when you know, the water came up and
Speaker 1: was in all the timber, so you had that explosion
Speaker 1: of bait fish and probably you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, all of your other you know, shore species
Speaker 1: if you will. And now I've been seeing some nice
Speaker 1: fish coming out of that lake.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a nice transition.
Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, there's some definitely trophy striper coming out
Speaker 3: over there lately.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Hey, Rick, you sit tight. We'll be back
Speaker 2: with more.
Speaker 1: Rick Strauss in his podcast Bluegrass, Woods and Waters on
Speaker 1: the Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati News
Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, Home of the Best Bengals Converence.
Speaker 2: Rick Strauss is my guest new to the media world,
Speaker 2: and he's uh.
Speaker 1: He began a podcast a little over month ago called Bluegrass,
Speaker 1: Woods and Waters and you can find in on the
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia platform. And Rick, so you know, tell me, Okay,
Speaker 1: you've covered the striper. You know, we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: Cumberland River. Has anybody figured out the walleye?
Speaker 3: So I I there are some fishermen really starting to
Speaker 3: pop up that are that are having success down on
Speaker 3: the Cumberland with a walleye. I don't know of any
Speaker 3: outfitters yet, but one of my outfitter buddies is going
Speaker 3: to start doing that this spring and try to figure
Speaker 3: it out. But kind of been inch to anyone. They've
Speaker 3: been stocking walleye down there pretty heavily, so really people
Speaker 3: have been catching them. Yeah yeah, and I've actually caught
Speaker 3: a couple by mistake, you know boards, Yeah, yeah, targeting stripers.
Speaker 3: So I thought, uh, this spring, I thought one that
Speaker 3: was real close to seven pounds, so it was a
Speaker 3: it was a trophy, uh trophy walleye, for sure.
Speaker 1: That is a that is a nice fish for you know,
Speaker 1: especially since you really don't you know, little is somebody
Speaker 1: knows something they're not talking, okay, other than that, little
Speaker 1: is known about the walleye and where they go and
Speaker 1: what they do.
Speaker 2: You know, they I gotta believe you know, they go deep.
Speaker 1: During the summer and won't space it you know, you
Speaker 1: have two hundred foot of water.
Speaker 2: They can go just about anywhere.
Speaker 1: But you know, figuring those puppies out is just you know,
Speaker 1: I'd be great when it happens, but other than that,
Speaker 1: it's like incidental incidental catches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think there are some. I think there
Speaker 3: are some fishermen out there that's strictly targeted. But they're
Speaker 3: trying to keep it on the download to the weekend warriors.
Speaker 3: You know, can they can keep the fisher themselves.
Speaker 2: It's a big lake.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not a Lake Eriie Walleye fishery, but
Speaker 1: you know it's still a big lake. There's got to
Speaker 1: be a decent population.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, I'm there is so.
Speaker 1: Switching over well, you can be posted on that if
Speaker 1: somebody's figured it out. Somebody figures it out, and if
Speaker 1: they want to talk about it, fine, I want to
Speaker 1: talk to them. Switching switching over to the Cumberland River
Speaker 1: where I guess, uh, you've cut your teeth with Randall Gibson.
Speaker 1: Uh just you know, fabulous uh striper and and uh
Speaker 1: a trout fisherman that you know when he wasn't on
Speaker 1: the lake, he loved that Cumberland River as you know, treacherous,
Speaker 1: as you know it can be with a boat, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the fishing down there is just you know,
Speaker 1: could be off the charts.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable as far as trophies go.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I love fishing the lake, but there's nothing like being
Speaker 3: on that river. You did mention it as treacherous. You
Speaker 3: have to watch generation schedules. You have to. It's not
Speaker 3: just your Ohio River. When it's one big pool you're
Speaker 3: working with. You're working with runs and you know, shoots
Speaker 3: and all kinds of things where and you can you
Speaker 3: can be fishing it when they're generating and you could
Speaker 3: have twelve foot of water and by the time you're
Speaker 3: fishing after six hours, you can be down to two
Speaker 3: foot of water. So you really got to watch the
Speaker 3: generation schedule. You have to really be be careful on
Speaker 3: that river for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not for the feint of heart, and it's
Speaker 1: something that you don't want to put your own boat
Speaker 1: on unless you really know what you're doing. And I
Speaker 1: guess if you were to do it, you go down
Speaker 1: by Burksville and work that you know where it's you know,
Speaker 1: the water is a little obviously slower by that time
Speaker 1: and not as rocky.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: Correct. Yeah, Burksville is one of the areas that I
Speaker 3: fish a lot, and that's really I've learned that from
Speaker 3: you know, Randall Gibson and Greg Carey, who I still
Speaker 3: stay in contact. He's just an unbelievable fisherman. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Burkesville and Salena, Tennessee. I put in in the OUDI
Speaker 3: there and fish that water up to the Kentucky state
Speaker 3: line there because in Tennessee you can you can use
Speaker 3: rainbow trout as a bait. And I believe other than
Speaker 3: skip jack, the rainbow trout or a great bait like
Speaker 3: baits for us.
Speaker 1: You make a good point because you can't use the
Speaker 1: trout in Kentucky waters, uh to fish with, and only
Speaker 1: Tennessee and uh Randall called them like the silver bullet
Speaker 1: or something like that. But man, that's I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a fish that is just totally protein.
Speaker 3: Oh, totally protein, and just the amount of energy. If
Speaker 3: you've ever taken a trout off off a hook, they're
Speaker 3: just like the one big muscle. They stay moving the
Speaker 3: whole time, and I think that's you know, what the
Speaker 3: striper wants. They like they like live meat, so yeah.
Speaker 2: For sure, absolutely.
Speaker 1: So we're about out of time this morning, Rick, So
Speaker 1: how best to find you on iHeartMedia app and you
Speaker 1: know everywhere else but iHeart First.
Speaker 3: Yeah, iHeart First definitely. But you can find me on
Speaker 3: those platforms Bluegrass, Woods and Water. You can also check
Speaker 3: out my website Bluegrasswoodsanwater dot com and I'm on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Check out the gallery's pictures and the outsitter corner where
Speaker 3: you can play in your next adventure.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, well listen, hey, good luck to you. Stay
Speaker 1: in touch and give me a you know coming up
Speaker 1: this winter. Give me a report on the fishing at
Speaker 1: Cumberland in the winter, you know where it's not like
Speaker 1: before the ice over.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe we'll do all.
Speaker 2: Right, Greg, but that we got to hit a break
Speaker 2: chip part.
Speaker 1: And my guess has been Rick Strauss on The Big
Speaker 1: Win News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, fact the Big
Speaker 1: Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnatia, Chippart And at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, Gary Jeff is next, and
Speaker 1: let's see, uh, maybe you might be interested in operating
Speaker 1: a boat dock at one of the state parks or
Speaker 1: other Ohio divisional wildlife waters. They have a lottery and
Speaker 1: for sixteen state parks and it closes on October thirty first,
Speaker 1: So you have to find your lottery application. If you
Speaker 1: wear a business it has an interest in something like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now it's not all fun and games just because you're
Speaker 1: outside on a boat dock. Okay, you got to take
Speaker 1: care crap. That's you know, and customers, so you got
Speaker 1: to have that customer service appeal. Okay, all right, Well
Speaker 1: that ruled out a bunch of people, didn't it.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: This from the Cowboys State Daily. You know you talk
Speaker 1: about hitting deer, hitting elk on the road. Well they're
Speaker 1: suggesting that hitting a cow won't just totally your car,
Speaker 1: it'll demolish it. And that's because you have open range
Speaker 1: out west for cattle where they cross the roads. Now,
Speaker 1: do we need to tell people in an article that
Speaker 1: your car is going to get screwed up if you
Speaker 1: hit a cow? I you know, apparently apparently? Hmm, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's some dumb people out there. I mean, why, why hell?
Speaker 1: Cow don't move that fast? So it's not like a
Speaker 1: deer running in fross in front of you. They're just
Speaker 1: standing in the road and they're telling you to not
Speaker 1: hit one, okay, and no, you don't get to keep
Speaker 1: the beef if you do. I'm out of here. Gary
Speaker 1: Jeffer is next. So's Danny. He's out of here too.
Speaker 1: The Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Be safe in the woods and safe on the water.