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Speaker 1: From the fish filled Midwest lakes to the deep woods

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Speaker 1: of the North Upland prairies filled with pheasants, to the

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Speaker 1: whistling wings of duck ponds. This is Saturday Morning Fan Outdoors,

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Speaker 1: your show for hunting and fishing tips, topics and conversations.

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Speaker 1: the Fans, Captain Billy Hildebrand.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Fan Outdoors, faithful, Good morning to you on

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Speaker 2: the Saturday, the first day of November, and for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five it's my life vast cabin cast of this year.

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Speaker 2: That's a sad day in my world, but it's still

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Speaker 2: a day, and it's still one that at this time

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Speaker 2: of day it's dark, I mean really dark, and it's

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Speaker 2: cloudy out too, which enhances the darkness. And I was

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Speaker 2: thinking last night, gosh, and looking across the lake at

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Speaker 2: all the lights when it got dark early in the evening,

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Speaker 2: all the lights on it. There's an awful lot of

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Speaker 2: people that are here, either they're late seasonals as I am,

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Speaker 2: or they're permanent on the shores of the lake, and

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Speaker 2: so many more than years ago. Because when I looked

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Speaker 2: across the lake. I was aware of most of the

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Speaker 2: people that lived there, because my aunt had a cabin

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Speaker 2: just across from this one, and the family would spend

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Speaker 2: time on that side and this side, and we would

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Speaker 2: run back and forth with small fourteen foot boats twelve footboats,

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Speaker 2: back and forth, varrying things for meals and people and whatever.

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Speaker 2: But it's got to be permanent now, because it's getting

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Speaker 2: a little bit nippy in the mornings out here. Right now,

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Speaker 2: it's thirty seven degrees and I'm told I haven't looked

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Speaker 2: at a forecast, nor do I necessarily believe it, but

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Speaker 2: I'm totally it'll be back in the fifties next week,

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Speaker 2: but for highs anyway, a little bit different than years ago,

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Speaker 2: although not different last week. One day day before yesterday,

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Speaker 2: I believe, I woke up and it was dark, getting

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Speaker 2: I usually do. In fact, this morning, I'm on my third,

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Speaker 2: But looking out, I noticed a lot of activity on

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Speaker 2: divers had moved in, blue bills, ruddy ducks, there was

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Speaker 2: some golden eyes in it, and honest to goodness, there

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Speaker 2: were a couple of thousand ducks and they were in

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Speaker 2: small groups of five to ten, winging right over the

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Speaker 2: top of the water, back and forth. And I thought, oh, oh, Hildebrad,

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Speaker 2: you better get go out that green shed that's just

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Speaker 2: out by the road. And there's about two hundred blue

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Speaker 2: bill decoys out there right now. And I got to think, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm all alone out here right now. We'll just bree

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Speaker 2: and I got to go out. If I put decoys out,

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Speaker 2: this is kind of end middle of the game here,

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Speaker 2: so to speak, because the birds are here and they're moving.

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Speaker 2: Put a bunch of decoys out, I just got to

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Speaker 2: pick them up. And let's say I get a couple

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Speaker 2: of shots. Picking up decoys in the fall is cold,

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Speaker 2: at least on my hands. It's always been cold, less

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Speaker 2: so now than it was fifteen years ago, though, But

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Speaker 2: and I decided, nah, because then I've got to clean

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Speaker 2: them and it's no I'm just watching. And I did,

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Speaker 2: and I called my son Eric and told him, and

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Speaker 2: he was all fired up about it, but couldn't come

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Speaker 2: it was really pretty fun, and it lasted until fifteen

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Speaker 2: minutes after nine and things settled down and there were

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Speaker 2: no birds flying whatsoever. Boat went up the lake, this

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Speaker 2: huge flock of ducks took off. I'm guessing a thousand,

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Speaker 2: two thousand. There was just this giant flock of ducks.

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Speaker 2: They took off, and eventually they came back. By two

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Speaker 2: wherever they're going to go to spend the winter, and

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Speaker 2: I think Stan would say probably down around the Gulf

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Speaker 2: of Mexico or someplace down in those waters. And it's

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Speaker 2: they used to stay when when I was much younger,

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Speaker 2: we have shot an awful lot of ducks off this bank.

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Speaker 2: They had a lot of decoys put out and and

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Speaker 2: an awful lot of fun was had. And I still

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Speaker 2: It was. It was pretty cool just to think back

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Speaker 2: always the last thing to freeze. This lake was because

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Speaker 2: it was the biggest body of roter in the area.

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Speaker 2: So these birds would pile into the lake and they'd

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Speaker 2: No shots were fired, no birds were shot. And yesterday

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Speaker 2: I saw just a lone hand mallard right down off

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Speaker 2: and I don't want to do that. That's a hen.

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Speaker 2: It was a drake could be a little bit different.

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Speaker 2: I'd go sneak down there and jump it and see

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Speaker 2: if I could knock it down. But nope, so she

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Speaker 2: the the extent of my water fowling this week on

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Speaker 2: some hands no roosters, and that's not so unusual for

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Speaker 2: this time of year. A lot of those young birds

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Speaker 2: this time right now, they've been educated and they're tougher

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Speaker 2: to get a lot of things make a difference too.

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Speaker 2: And along the same note, one week from today will

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Speaker 2: be the firearm opener of the Minnesota deer season. And

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Speaker 2: you know, one thing comes to mind, and as I

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Speaker 2: was thinking quite a bit about that, and I know

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Speaker 2: that this year, the slug season in farm country is

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Speaker 2: still it's still the rule of the land, and there's

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Speaker 2: no rifles to be had down here yet, and that

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Speaker 2: maybe will change next year. Although in talking with some landowners,

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Speaker 2: some farmers, not a lot, probably eight to a dozen,

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Speaker 2: I haven't talked to one person that's in favor of

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Speaker 2: that yet. If you live out in the country, they

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Speaker 2: are not in favor of it, as I am not

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Speaker 2: in favor of it at all. I think that the

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Speaker 2: one particular legislator that has been driving this for the

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Speaker 2: last few years is a hundred down in southeastern Minnesota

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Speaker 2: and he compares Minnesota to Wisconsin, and evidently Wisconsin they

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Speaker 2: can shoot rifles over there. And I'd just like to say,

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Speaker 2: to be on the record, this is not Wisconsin. This

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Speaker 2: is Minnesota. When you get out in farm country, the

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Speaker 2: landowners I talked to said that often they're in the

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Speaker 2: field and a rifle slug is not a shotgun slug.

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Speaker 2: Even though even though some of these Sabbath guns with

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Speaker 2: rifle barrels are accurate out one hundred and fifty yards,

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Speaker 2: they are not rifle slugs. These legislators have not hunted

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Speaker 2: when their people are dry. A group of people are

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Speaker 2: driving a cornfield, so to speak, they get up in

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Speaker 2: a line and go through and hopefully move the deer out,

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Speaker 2: and somebody is sitting on the end. I me, I

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Speaker 2: have done that. I have had rifled slugs. Whistle. You

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Speaker 2: know what they sound like going over your head? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just sounds like a jet going over your head.

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Speaker 2: It's no. I am not in favor of that. Minnesota

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Speaker 2: farm country is not Wisconsin. But it's up to the counties.

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Speaker 2: They have to decide. So if you definitely have an opinion,

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Speaker 2: call your county commissioners, let them know some people in

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Speaker 2: the county and county government. Let them know your thoughts

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Speaker 2: for or against, because that's the only way you're going

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Speaker 2: to be heard. And just give it a little bit

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Speaker 2: of thought too. If you've got experience hunting in farm

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Speaker 2: country for deer, and I have done both. I have

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Speaker 2: hunted in the big woods. I have gone into the

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Speaker 2: deer woods for no longer. We never lasted longer than

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Speaker 2: six days. But it was so much fun going up

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Speaker 2: just awesome. It gets a little it gets a little

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Speaker 2: stinky sit, so to speak, when you've got five or

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Speaker 2: six guys staying in a very small area after a

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Speaker 2: few days. But it's still a blast. It's really fun

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Speaker 2: getting up in the morning, putting that sling over your

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Speaker 2: shoulder and heading out into the abyss. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: different feeling than walking out in farm country in the dark,

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Speaker 2: but it is. I have shot deer in the woods

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Speaker 2: with rightf I have shot deer in farm country with slugs.

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Speaker 2: It's still still a really, really exciting time. And I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't change it for one moment. Nope, wouldn't change it

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Speaker 2: for a moment. And I know we have we being myself,

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Speaker 2: Eric and Chad, and mainly Eric and Chad have started

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Speaker 2: hunting muzzleoder and I'm hopefully going to join them this

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Speaker 2: fall on some private ground with blinds already on it.

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Speaker 2: Heated blinds man. When I grew up hunting, Oh, we're

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Speaker 2: going to have to go to break soon. I was

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Speaker 2: decided I wanted to go. It took me three years

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Speaker 2: to finally see a deer. And I remember I'm sitting

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Speaker 2: it was, I called it a deer stand. It was

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Speaker 2: a death trap because there were little saplings about an

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Speaker 2: cut down earlier and nailed together, and it was about

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Speaker 2: a two x three square between three trees. So it

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Speaker 2: was the most uncomfortable thing you'd ever heard of. But

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Speaker 2: I sat there. I had a piece of paper. I

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Speaker 2: probably told this story in the past. If you're a

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Speaker 2: regular listener, write a piece of paper page from Outdoor

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Speaker 2: Life tore that showed how to field dress a deer

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Speaker 2: folded up in my pocket and it was there for

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Speaker 2: three years until I finally got a shot a deer.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a man walking out of the

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Speaker 2: by International Falls on some property my own. It was

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Speaker 2: just a stop step step, crunching leaves as somebody was

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Speaker 2: this clearing with open sites. I picked the rifle up,

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Speaker 2: shaking like a leaf, and I looked at it and

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Speaker 2: I thought, no, Hildebrand, what have you done? Now? What

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Speaker 2: do you do? I got that piece of paper out

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Speaker 2: field dress that deer, and I was blood from the

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Speaker 2: top of my shoulders all the way down to my

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Speaker 2: and I got it field dressed. It was a mess,

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Speaker 2: but I got it done. The smell. I went back

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Speaker 2: to this old house that we were staying in that

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Speaker 2: my aunt again owned, and I proceeded to get sick

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Speaker 2: for two days. But that was the beginning of my

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Speaker 2: deer honting, and it was with a rifle. Also shot

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Speaker 2: deer driving cornfields. I've shot deer in the grass. I

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Speaker 2: have shot deer a number of different ways, all legal,

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Speaker 2: but I've shot them and it's been a hoot. And

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Speaker 2: the adrenaline when you see one, you hear one, it

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Speaker 2: still runs rampant. The thing that I started this with,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to tell everybody that you'd need to see

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Speaker 2: your target, but look beyond the target opening the pheasant season.

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Speaker 2: I put up a bird, a rooster, and it flew

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Speaker 2: Tommy George, you think he's been fishing, we'll find out

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back man.

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Speaker 2: We're back, Happy fan outdoors morning to you. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: am Billy Hildebrand and you're listening to Fan Outdoors, and

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Speaker 2: Tommy George. Good morning, sir, Tommy. Are you there?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: And you hear me?

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Speaker 2: No, I can hear you now, buddy. I was worried

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Speaker 5: Not yet, okay, anyway, No, I'm still I hope I'm

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Speaker 2: No, you're not. I'm here. Oh.

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Speaker 5: Oh, okay, good, everything's good.

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Speaker 4: Dull up.

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Speaker 5: The water temperatures really low. It's in the low fifties now,

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Speaker 5: and so that that says a lot to me. And

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Speaker 5: it's like you said, it's really chilly in the morning

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Speaker 5: in the thirties, So I don't know this next week.

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Speaker 5: You said you don't check the weather very much. I

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Speaker 5: And that says a lot to where I'm going to

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Speaker 5: if I'm going to actually fish off shore, and lately

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Speaker 5: I've been fishing off shore really and I sent you

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Speaker 5: trout I've been catching, which are biting now. Whis is

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Speaker 5: fabulous And these were brook trout that I sent and

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Speaker 5: there just got to be the prettiest trout out there,

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you ever caught a big bullhead, like

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Speaker 5: It's in Wisconsin, and it's in Glenwood City, and it's

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Speaker 5: it's got some of the most beautiful sunfish and nice crappies,

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Speaker 5: But the sunfish is what really gets me going over there.

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Speaker 5: And that's where I was fishing, and it didn't excuse me.

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Speaker 5: I was actually using the worms and I had a crawler.

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Speaker 5: I put a crawler on, but Billy, I dunked it.

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Speaker 5: I dunked the crawler in gulp juice itself and I

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Speaker 2: Well, have you given up on your marshmallows already?

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Speaker 5: You know what Billy has to got?

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Speaker 6: I tried.

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Speaker 5: I didn't have any marshmallows with me that day because

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Speaker 5: I was basically fishing for sunfish. And I mean when

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Speaker 5: It's got all the stuff in it for trout. I

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Speaker 5: some of the rainbows that are in there, which are

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Speaker 2: Well are you are you fishing out of a boat

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Speaker 5: Shore Glenn Lake is from shore and from Perch Lake

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Speaker 5: is from shore, and you can get a boat in there.

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Speaker 5: But both those lakes you can only use the trolling

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Speaker 5: motor and it's so much fun. It's beautiful lake and

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Speaker 5: it's nice and quiet. No jet skis, no outboards, no skiing,

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Speaker 5: it's it's just it's got I sit back and Billy,

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Speaker 5: there sometimes when even when I've got a couple of

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Speaker 2: Do you have to have since you're paying a fee

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Speaker 5: Yes, and you also have to have a trout stamp

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Speaker 5: when every you're When I get my license, I always

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Speaker 5: and it's well worth it. And the trout are just amazing.

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Speaker 5: And I didn't really fish trout very very much before

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Speaker 5: it many years ago. And it's it's so much fun.

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Speaker 5: And they're fighters too, and rainbows and and these brookshows.

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Speaker 5: But these brooksh ought are big. I mean, the one

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Speaker 5: broodstock in this lake and they just they're just gorgeous fish.

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Speaker 5: So I'll be trying to, you know, do or have

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Speaker 2: They must be all stocked fish, then, aren't they, Tommy.

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Speaker 5: Yes, they are, Billy, And you know, if you if

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Speaker 5: you catch these fish right away when the DNR stocks them.

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Speaker 5: They're basically pellet fed fish, and if you catch one

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Speaker 5: and you clean them, they're kind of white. But as

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Speaker 5: feeding on their bugs and their natural you know, pray

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Speaker 5: minnows and stuff like that, then they get a nice

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Speaker 5: pink color to the meat, and it is a different flavor.

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Speaker 5: It truly is. Oh, that's why I don't mind wait,

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Speaker 5: you know, waiting until the fish are stocked to fish,

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Speaker 2: Interesting. I've seen pictures and stories about people that were

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Speaker 2: just they'll follow almost I don't know if they actually

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Speaker 2: it's probably like fishing at a fish pond at a

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Speaker 2: sports show or something, because they just drop in. They're hungry,

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Speaker 5: That could be true, Billy, but I've never been there

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Speaker 5: when the DNR put them in, and it's usually in

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Speaker 5: the fall when the water's cold, and but it's it's

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Speaker 5: better if you, you know, if you catch these trout

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Speaker 5: and you clean them up, and you notice the wheat

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Speaker 5: you know, they just stock them fish and they will

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Speaker 5: usually when they're pelant fed. The pellet feed is not

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Speaker 5: as good favor if you've eaten some of the fish

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Speaker 5: we'd cook them up, and it's a different flavor trus me.

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's okay, but it's not as good as

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Speaker 5: for a while. So that's one thing I do notice, Tommy.

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Speaker 2: I noticed on this particular body water there aren't very

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 5: Only talked to a guy just last week and he

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Speaker 5: and he says, here's what I got him on. And

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Speaker 5: he was I mean, he wasn't trying to keep any secrets.

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Speaker 5: He showed me exactly what I says, And you got

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Speaker 5: well as as his partner was. But anyways, it was

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00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 5: it was so much fun. I went out there the

431
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,239
Speaker 5: day later and I caught a nice mel ficker. I

432
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 5: sent you a picture of him in the live oak,

433
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 5: just my motor runner.

434
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: It was.

435
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 5: It was just a quick meal that I wanted to get.

436
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,239
Speaker 5: And the fish are really going now, Bill, they truly are.

437
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 5: I know you guys are hunting. God blesses. I hope,

438
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 5: I hope you're the best success out you know, in

439
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 5: the field and on the lake. But this is my

440
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 5: time of year, and to me it's it is the best.

441
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 5: I've had a fabulous summer. But now it's time to really,

442
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 5: you know, go out there and hunt these fish.

443
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 4: And the fish are deep.

444
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 5: The crappies are very deep. Some of the sunfish and

445
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 5: fishing are in ten to twelve feet of water and

446
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 5: they're still biting. And I'm catching lots and lots of

447
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 5: little ones. I'll catch ten fish and I'll keep one

448
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 5: that you know seven and three quarters to eight inch sunfish,

449
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 5: and those are nice and I only keep like ten

450
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 5: and that's enough.

451
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 4: For a meal.

452
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 2: Tommy. Last question for you, my friend, and that would

453
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: be if you find some sunfish, or you see some

454
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: people fishing an area that you know are catching sunfish,

455
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: is that a place? Will those fish stay until we

456
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: get some mites?

457
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 5: They will build, But there is a transition now that

458
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 5: the fish are going through. And because of the temperature

459
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 5: the water, that's why it's a big time. You know,

460
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 5: it's always good to have a temperature gauge in your boat,

461
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 5: and the surface temp tells you a lot. And now

462
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 5: being in the low fifties, it tells me that these fish.

463
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 5: Most of the fish will stage out in deep water

464
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 5: and they'll sit out there until it's freezing. And if

465
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 5: you get some nice weather and it gets in the

466
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 5: sixties or whatever. Now it's supposed to be nice next

467
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 5: week for a couple three days, and it's going to

468
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 5: be in the fifties and possibly in the higher fifties

469
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 5: or maybe sixties, some of these fish will move right

470
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 5: into the shallow water. Billy, this is when you can fish.

471
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: Off shore again.

472
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 5: So this is a good time. To fish off shore,

473
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 5: to tell you the truth, and if you're lucky enough,

474
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 5: these fish will move in right where you're fishing and

475
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 5: you can catch a bunch of fish right there. But

476
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 5: then after starts getting cold again, these fish do tend

477
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 5: to stay in the deeper water for the whole winter,

478
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 5: and that's why you'll get some of the nicest schools

479
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 5: of fish in some of the deep holes in these lakes.

480
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 5: And that's why you see all these fish houses sitting

481
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 5: in basically one area, and if you look it over

482
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 5: on a map, they're sitting over some of the deepest

483
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 5: water in that lake. So that just tells you where

484
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 5: these fish are moving.

485
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: Okay, well, sir, I'm assuming you're going to fish today.

486
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, and it's going to be for trout again

487
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 5: and I will have marshmallows.

488
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: Okay, Tommy, Well, we'll catch up in a week or

489
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: so and find out if you had success or having

490
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: success and if we can share that with our listeners.

491
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 2: As you're so good at my friend, thank.

492
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 5: You, thank you, thank you, Billy, and you have a

493
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 5: fabulous weekend yourself, and we'll talk soon.

494
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: We will. That's Tommy George, prom angler, Tommy George and

495
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: he is never afraid to tell somebody where he is

496
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: and what he's doing, and that's helpful to a lot

497
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: of our listeners, including yours. Truly. We'll take a pause

498
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: and be back, and we've got some deer talk coming up,

499
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: some fish talk coming up, and general it's some random

500
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: conversation right after this with mister Tony Mariatti. We'll be

501
00:31:42,880 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: right back few minutes after the hour of six am

502
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: on a Fan Outdoors Saturday. I am Billy Hildebrand, really

503
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: glad you're here being taken care of very very well

504
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 2: by our executive producer, mister Brett lake Bourne. He has

505
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 2: done just a fabulous job for the time he's been here,

506
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: and he's been here quite a while. We're glad that

507
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: very pleased that he is able to stay with us too.

508
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: I like that it's welcome on next guest because he's

509
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: a pretty much of a regular on Fan Outdoors and

510
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: I know when last I spoke to him, he was

511
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: not able to join us because he was on his

512
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: way to Lake Winnipeg on an open water fishing trip

513
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: up there. Mister Tony Mariotti, Well, the experience on Winnipeg

514
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:59,959
Speaker 2: was it as positive as the last time you were

515
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 2: were up there on hard water, well, it.

516
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: Was not quite as positive simply because Big Windy lifted

517
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 4: up to his name, and uh it was windy and

518
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 4: blowing and we got some beautiful fish. But it definitely

519
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 4: was a challenge because we dealt with four and five

520
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 4: foot waves, very visibility.

521
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 2: Holy smowy, wow, those are those are big waters.

522
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 4: Man, big waters, big big Windy, And I mean it's

523
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 4: such a cool fishery. But yeah, we I think we

524
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: were up for three and a half days and we

525
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: were only able to get on the water for about

526
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 4: seven or eight hours could be out there safely. So

527
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 4: it was tough. But the fish that were there definitely

528
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 4: cooperated at times. But I think you know, there were

529
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 4: the state we had three and four inches of visibility.

530
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 4: Dropped your jig down and three four inches was all

531
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 4: you could see. And then on day three it calmed

532
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 4: down and we had about fifteen inches of visibility. You

533
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 4: could drop that jig down, you know, see it for

534
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 4: a foot foot and a half and then it was gone.

535
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 4: And when when you had that much visibility, the fish

536
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 4: definitely cooperated a little bit better. But she was she

537
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 4: was tough, and uh, you know, but Billy, I say

538
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 4: it every fall with you. This is my favorite time

539
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 4: of the year. So one one tough outing doesn't doesn't

540
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 4: make the whole fall.

541
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: No, No, not at all, not at all, And it's

542
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: it doesn't make any difference, Tommy. It's in fact, I've

543
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 2: got or Tony. It's I found a deal on social

544
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: media and I copied it, that copied the picture to

545
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: my phone that said, one way, one day we will

546
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 2: hunt our last hunt until then, enjoy every single moment

547
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 2: of it. And the same goes for fishing too, Is it,

548
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 2: my friend?

549
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 4: You know, I've been blessed and been fortunate twenty some

550
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 4: years of getting to play play this game and the outdoors,

551
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 4: and I don't take any of it for granted. I've

552
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 4: been super fortunate and I still love it. I mean,

553
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 4: I was out two nights ago, my son and I, uh,

554
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 4: seven thirty at night, we headed out to one of

555
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 4: our favorite little fall secret spots and we got out

556
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 4: there at about I don't know, seven forty five, and

557
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 4: at eight about eight thirty, he said, I'm cold. We

558
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 4: haven't seen any we haven't caught any. And I just

559
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 4: had to remind him that, no, they're not here yet.

560
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 4: But Hey, Bud, let's come back in a few nights,

561
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 4: because one of these days they're going to be here

562
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 4: and when it all pays off, it's so worth it. Man.

563
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree. But if you and if you

564
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: don't go, you don't know. I mean, that's the key.

565
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 4: Yep.

566
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 2: Well you got back from one more question about Winnipeg

567
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: through the ice, is it a different ball game then?

568
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 4: You know, through the ice I've been I've been pretty fortunate.

569
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 4: I I have been up to uh Lake, Winnipeg, I

570
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 4: think for the last four years, and I have never

571
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 4: hit it where the weather's been you know, unbearable, where

572
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 4: you haven't been able to travel.

573
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 2: I've been out there.

574
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 4: We've been able to drive pickups, We've been able to

575
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 4: fish outside and been able to hop around. So you know,

576
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 4: this this open water trip was for me. It was

577
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 4: a bit of a fluke because I hadn't experienced the wind,

578
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 4: and I hadn't experienced you know, how how rough the

579
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 4: water can be, how rough the conditions can be. So yeah,

580
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 4: it was just it was different. But during the winter,

581
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 4: I think, you know, you're you're not dealing with the

582
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 4: wind or you're not dealing with the turbidity. Because you

583
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 4: can see where you know, the ice has has formed

584
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 4: rough or you can see where the pressure religions are.

585
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 4: During open water, you don't you don't see what's happening

586
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 4: underneath the water. So you only have that you know,

587
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 4: the visibility to go by where Okay, well I don't

588
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 4: have any visibility, and things are just tougher. But no,

589
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 4: I mean it was a fun trip. I will definitely

590
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 4: do it again. It just was a little bit tougher

591
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 4: than I had experienced in the in the hard water season.

592
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: Well, Tony, we're almost at the Minnesota deer Opener, and

593
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 2: I know that's something that you enjoy also a great deal.

594
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 2: Have you been thinking about that yet? I have.

595
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 4: Last Friday, I actually headed up to the deer shack

596
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 4: and spent the day getting things ready. I got the

597
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 4: pro painting tanks filled, I you know, made the rounds,

598
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 4: ended up shooting a few grouse, got up and I mean,

599
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 4: I get excited for this time of year. You know,

600
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 4: it's fall in Minnesota. It's you know, like the old

601
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 4: Christmas song, It's the most wonderful time of the year. So, yeah,

602
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 4: we've got deer camp ready, I've got all the cameras

603
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 4: out My wife is getting very frustrated and annoyed because

604
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 4: I sit on my phone and check those cameras and

605
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 4: I talk about this. You know, Hey, I got my

606
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 4: sleeping bag here, and yeah, I love this time of year.

607
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 2: Well so I understand that. And it's you know, I

608
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 2: years ago, I was I got I got to receive

609
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 2: some criticism from listeners because we weren't talking enough deer

610
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: and it was craps. It was like February and he

611
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 2: was already wanted to talk about the next season and

612
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 2: that's months and months away. But if you are a

613
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 2: deer hunter, it's it's an addiction that you have grown into.

614
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: You don't just assume that you get that addiction. You've

615
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 2: grown into it and you've earned it rightly so, but

616
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 2: it's it's something that's definitely it gets into your blood.

617
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 2: And I have no idea why other than the adrenaline

618
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: rush that happens when the deer comes by. Is it

619
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 2: never goes away? Man, it just never goes away.

620
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 4: I hope not, because I absolutely love it. You know,

621
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 4: I tell people yesterday there was the mega meat sale

622
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 4: was on at the grocery store in town, and somebody

623
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 4: was complaining, you know, They couldn't believe that ribbis were

624
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 4: going for eighteen ninety nine a pound. And I heard

625
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 4: a guy comment, you know, well, deer seasons next week.

626
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 4: And I thought, if eighteen ninety nine pound is too much,

627
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 4: you don't need to get into deer hunting, because, let

628
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 4: me tell you something. For the seventy pounds the deer

629
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 4: meat I enjoy bringing home, between the gas and the

630
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 4: food plots and the cameras and all, this eighteen ninety

631
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 4: nine pound for my venison.

632
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we don't like to talk about that doing

633
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: because I don't care if it's fish per pound or

634
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 2: wild pound. You just can't. You can't put a price

635
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 2: tag on that. You really can't. I it's priceless in

636
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: my opinion, it.

637
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 4: Truly is, you know, and as especially as a dad

638
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 4: as you know, you know, getting your kids out there,

639
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 4: getting the their buddies, their friends out there, it's something

640
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 4: that I truly enjoy. And I don't care really if

641
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: I shoot a deer. It's about being out there.

642
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: You know.

643
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 4: My wife on day five or six will be like,

644
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 4: well are you are you coming home? You know, are

645
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 4: you seeing anything? And no, no, not seeing much. As

646
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 4: I you know, make sure she's not checking the cameras

647
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 4: that show the deer in front of me. But no,

648
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 4: I love it.

649
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 2: I love this the year.

650
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 4: I mean, the walleyes are cooperating, the crappies are cooperating,

651
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 4: We have deer cooperating. I even had five grouse the

652
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 4: other day in one trail camp photo, sitting in a

653
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 4: food plot, and I just thought, oh, you know, I

654
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 4: should get their grouse hunting. You know what am I doing?

655
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 4: And I love it?

656
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, Tony. And there's there's something I don't

657
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: know what exactly. We have to take a break pretty quick,

658
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 2: but I don't know what it is, but there's something

659
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,479
Speaker 2: addictive about the outdoors. And somebody I would just ask

660
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago if I had any intention of

661
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: moving south for the winter and then coming back, and

662
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 2: I said no. I mean I complain about the winter

663
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 2: when it's long and it's cold and it's dark, but no,

664
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: I people have to have something to complain about or

665
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: they're just not a human. But no, I love the

666
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: seasons too, man. And it's a it's really really incredible.

667
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: Minnesota is a special place for that reason.

668
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, it truly is, and I enjoy it. If we've

669
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 4: got to go to a break. I can certainly hang

670
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 4: on here, but yeah, I look at you know, I'm

671
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,959
Speaker 4: ten twelve years away from retirement, and at that point

672
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 4: I think, do I want to leave Minnesota? Well maybe

673
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 4: for maybe for a month, and then I want to

674
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 4: go somewhere warm where I can fish and be in

675
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 4: a boat, and I want to do the same things

676
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 4: I do here. So I completely understand.

677
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too, man, I do understand. But I

678
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: love being behind my dog or dogs as the case

679
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: may be, and I'm looking forward to the plural part

680
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: of that. But there's more to it than just what

681
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: you put in your game pouch or what you have

682
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 2: in your live well or what you're taking home. There's something,

683
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: there's something intrinsic about it that I can't put words to,

684
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: but I've experienced it, and I do each time I

685
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: go Tony, we will take that pause, and we will

686
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: maybe a little literally, but we'll take that pause and

687
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 2: we will be back and you could say with us, correct, Yep,

688
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 2: I'll be here, wonderful, Tony Marriotti is our guest. We

689
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: will will take that come back and ask Tony if

690
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 2: he's got some dear stories that he can share with us. Also,

691
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 2: stories are fun because the everybody's got him. And whether

692
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: it's a successful story or a miss or one that

693
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 2: you just couldn't find and it's still bothering you there

694
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 2: years later, it makes a difference. So we'll take that pause.

695
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 2: We'll be back with more after this over back. Yep,

696
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 2: we are back. I just watched a green light followed

697
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: by a white light heading up the lake to the north,

698
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 2: and uh, it's obviously a motor boat heading up to fish.

699
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: And it's dark. I mean it's really dark. Our guest

700
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: is Tony Ryottie. We're talking well, deer hunting, fishing, and

701
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: all things in between. Tony, if you were going out

702
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: it seems in the fall and cold like this, do

703
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 2: you really have to get out this early?

704
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 4: You don't have to, But for some of us, like

705
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 4: maybe you like me, come six o'clock. It seems like

706
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 4: I'm a lake and the house is awfully quiet this morning,

707
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 4: so it's a perfect time to sneak out. I don't

708
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 4: have anybody wanting to come with me. I don't have

709
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 4: anybody needing an extra pair of mittens or an extra snack,

710
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 4: So I love to sneak out this time of the morning,

711
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 4: and here in Detroit Lakes. You know, the only people

712
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 4: that I'm seeing out on the lakes this early are

713
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,919
Speaker 4: the musky guys. A lot of monkey fishermen are hitting

714
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 4: the water early in the morning, and it seems like

715
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 4: even late at night, I see those green and red

716
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 4: lights you know, out in the lake as the monsky

717
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 4: fishermen are doing what they do.

718
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. I but you know, honestly, my friend,

719
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: I am not equipped to in my either mentally or

720
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 2: with the equipment wise, to be out this early and

721
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: try to accomplish anything. I mean, if I can't see

722
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 2: what's going on, there ain't no way I'm going to

723
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: get it. And traveling in the dark two by boat

724
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 2: with just the red and green bow light, that's a

725
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 2: little bit. Well, I've done it, but it helps to

726
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 2: be able to see where you're going to It does.

727
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 4: But you know what, I guarantee that those boats are

728
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 4: younger than you and I. And there was a time

729
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: that I was that angry at the fish that I

730
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 4: was out there early. I had my headlamp and getting

731
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 4: things to see. As I'm getting a little bit older,

732
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 4: it seems like I'm not that angry at the fish.

733
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 2: I hear you. I really I was just thinking that

734
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 2: the other day when I was hunting. In fact, I

735
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: had I had a hand mallard. I told people our

736
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: listeners earlier in the show, I had a head mallard

737
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 2: right down on the bank, and nah, you know it's

738
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 2: she's definitely she could be dead, but it's just not

739
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 2: that important anymore. Plus then I've got to take the

740
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 2: time to clean it and go put boots on to

741
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: get it, and I don't want to do that. That's why.

742
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 4: That's why I think as we get older, pheasant hunting

743
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 4: becomes more more intriguing and more popular because you can't.

744
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 4: You can't get out there till mine in the morning.

745
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,959
Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to. I just I can't.

746
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have breakfast, I'm gonna sleep and enjoy

747
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 4: that extra cup of coffee and yeah, cosant huntings where

748
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:56,479
Speaker 4: it's that billy.

749
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, boy, I'm with you, I really am.

750
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 2: Although my oldest son just can't understand that. He just

751
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: thinks that's, uh, it's a travesty not to be out

752
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: there at be awake at you know, three o'clock in

753
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 2: the morning, can be out there trumping through the whatever.

754
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 2: It just seems like a lot of work. And you're right,

755
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,240
Speaker 2: I'm not that mad anymore.

756
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 4: Hey, go ahead, go ahead, No, I said, I'd still

757
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 4: her kids giggling at eleven forty five last night as

758
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 4: Halloween wrapped up and daughter had friends over. And yeah,

759
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 4: if I'm getting up at four am, you're not going

760
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 4: to hear anybody giggling at eleven pm.

761
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I hear you, man, I really do.

762
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 2: Hey with we were talking deer hunting just before, and

763
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: you mentioned you got cameras out and things like that.

764
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 2: You've got to have some memories that of deer hunting,

765
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 2: her deer hunting trips or or shots or a particular animal,

766
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 2: or your kids first dear or just taking them. I'll

767
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: bet that they stick vividly in your mind.

768
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are so many great memories.

769
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 2: You know.

770
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 4: I grew up and I had the real interest in hunting,

771
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 4: and my dad didn't hunt.

772
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: My dad was a true.

773
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 4: Fisherman, was a musky guy back in the late seventies

774
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 4: early eighties, where they would go all day and if

775
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 4: you saw a fish, that was a successful day. And

776
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 4: so I grew up not really getting introduced to hunting.

777
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 4: But then I met a buddy Who's who in ninth grade,

778
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 4: This old dat us as well. I had my shotgun

779
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 4: in my locker and I would have the bus driver

780
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 4: drop me off on the way home so I could

781
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 4: hunt rabbits. And I remember this kid, Adam, said hey,

782
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 4: you hunt, and I said, yeah, I like to, and

783
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 4: he and I formed the friendship. And his dad actually

784
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 4: passed away in March two years ago, and his dad

785
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 4: just kind of took me under his wing and let

786
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 4: me hunt their farms. And I mean, I shot my

787
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 4: first deer on one of their farms.

788
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 2: And.

789
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 4: I was drawn to the sport. And I've had both

790
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 4: my kids out for you season. My daughter chose not

791
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 4: to shoot a deer. She had the gun up and

792
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 4: we had deer in front of us, and she looked

793
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 4: at me in one big crocodile teer ran down her

794
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 4: face and she kind of shook her head, and I

795
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 4: just said, it's okay, you know, let's just watch, and

796
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 4: I took the gun and we watched raccoon. We watched

797
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 4: several deer. We had a crow land on top of

798
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 4: the deer stand, and it is a memory in my

799
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 4: mind that wasn't the you know, in the general term,

800
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 4: wasn't a successful hunt, but it was an awesome experience

801
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 4: with my daughter and she still loves to go and

802
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 4: sit in the deer stand, just no desire to hunt.

803
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 4: My son shot his first dole last year youth season,

804
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 4: and it's something I will never forget. But then, you know,

805
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,919
Speaker 4: this year, I said, hey, gonna go to you season.

806
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 4: He's like, well, do you have any bucks on camera?

807
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 4: I said, nope, but you never know what's going to

808
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 4: show up and he said, no, I don't. If I don't,

809
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 4: if I'm not going to have a chance of the buck,

810
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 4: I don't want to go. And I said, okay, that's

811
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 4: up to you. And you know, those are the things

812
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 4: for me that really stick out because I had such

813
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 4: a drive and a passion for it at a young

814
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 4: age that I didn't care if I didn't see anything.

815
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 4: I just wanted to be out there. And my kids

816
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 4: don't have that flight, burning desire, but I'm there for him.

817
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 4: If they want to do it, let's do it. They

818
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 4: have that opportunity. So those are both things that stick

819
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 4: out in my mind. I don't know, I get a

820
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 4: kick out of deer camp A couple of years ago,

821
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 4: I gave my brother for for Christmas, I said, this

822
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 4: is for the deer camp. And I gave my brother

823
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 4: a pair of gym Zumbos boots. They were ostrous boots

824
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 4: that came from an ostrich that he killed and I

825
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 4: had him signed and they are our talking point at

826
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 4: the deer Shock. And you know, we go in and

827
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 4: those those boots tho zumbos are there and okay, is

828
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 4: this is going to be the year and we share

829
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 4: stories and as silly as an old pair of boots

830
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 4: to an old hunter, or that belong to the old hunter,

831
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 4: I mean, those are things we go around. Imagine what

832
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 4: those boots have seen. Imagine imagine the stories that those

833
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 4: could tell, and we share them every year, and yeah,

834
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 4: the stories never get old. I just I love it.

835
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 4: I love this time of years.

836
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree with you, Tony, and both the

837
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 2: stories of your kids are our wonderful memories. And oftentimes

838
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 2: it's not the deer that's hit the ground, the the

839
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 2: deer that died, the deer that provided food for your table.

840
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 2: It's it's the whole activity of the whole experience. And

841
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: when you're talking about the boots that you are and wondering.

842
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 2: You know, where they've been and what they've seen. I've

843
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 2: got this giant, giant tree out on my driveway, or

844
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 2: you drive into the cabin and I keep thinking, you know,

845
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 2: you can't get your it would take three sets of

846
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 2: arms to get it around it. And I keep thinking,

847
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 2: if you could only see just glimpse into the past

848
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 2: of what this tree has seen as it's grown, it

849
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 2: would be so incredible, so so incredible, because it's got

850
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: to be hundreds of years old. But those are all things,

851
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 2: and the experiences in the outdoors they cause some of

852
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 2: the wondering about the boots that you've got. You know,

853
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 2: what they've seen, where they've been, and you can fantasize

854
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 2: about it. You can you can pretend that you're wondering

855
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 2: what it's about. Maybe you know but it or you

856
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: don't know. That's the magical part of all this. And

857
00:52:55,640 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 2: sitting on a deer stand, at least for me, on

858
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 2: a deer stand, watching for sometimes hours, your mind just

859
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 2: goes through all kinds of scenarios and you imagine a

860
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 2: deer walking, or you imagine something something coming and it's

861
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: a squirrel or a pheasant going through dry leaves, or

862
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 2: a grouse. A grouse makes so much noise when they're

863
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 2: going through the woods. You just have no idea until

864
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 2: you've experienced it. And all those things that you'd never

865
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 2: even think about happen on a deer stand when you're waiting,

866
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 2: and when the actual animal walks by, the adrenaline and

867
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: my heart just absolutely pounds until it's time to squeeze

868
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: the trigger. And then everything goes quiet and you squeeze

869
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 2: the trigger. And if you know it's a good shot,

870
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 2: or if you've missed, you know that too. You had

871
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 2: to hate to think about that, or wound a deer,

872
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 2: You just hate to think about that. But you're going

873
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 2: to wait for a long time, and then you're going

874
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 2: to get down and go look, because if you don't wait,

875
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 2: I've kicked myself too there and I'll bet you have to, Tony.

876
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: You don't wait long enough, and you get over where

877
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 2: it was and said it jumps up and it's gone,

878
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: and then you're trying to track it, you lose the

879
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 2: blood trail, and uh, goodness, gracious, you got to learn.

880
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 2: And it's hard to wait.

881
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 4: And I can tell just by that little story that

882
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 4: you shared that that's the allure of the outdoors, and

883
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 4: until you experience it, you can't describe it. And you

884
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 4: just a great job of describing it. I laughed, because

885
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 4: when I'm in a deer stand or I'm on a

886
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 4: fish house, whatever, there's no way that back that hurt

887
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 4: this morning doesn't hurt anymore, that neck doesn't Oh, everything

888
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 4: kind of goes away and you're just in a moment.

889
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 4: And maybe it's that as we get older, I just

890
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 4: I can't describe that feeling because there there is there's

891
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 4: no aches and pains, there's no other thoughts in my

892
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 4: mind than being in the moment. And that's what's so

893
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 4: great about the outdoors. That's what does it for me

894
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 4: that that has become you know, my or my drug

895
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 4: is that feeling of nothingness. Nothing hurts, nothing is missed.

896
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 4: You know, Hey was that a shooting star?

897
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: Hey?

898
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 4: Look at that all over there. It's all about the

899
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 4: experience of being in the outdoors.

900
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, total, totally, totally, totally agree, Tony. Hey man, we're

901
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 2: out of time, but I want to wish you success

902
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 2: for the upcoming deer season, and I'm looking forward to

903
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 2: catching up with you again. We can talk, we can

904
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 2: talk stories, we can talk about the the hunt that

905
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: is going to be and I wish your success that

906
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 2: I hope you good times. You know the other thing, Tony,

907
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 2: that at deer Camp food tastes so much better than home,

908
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 2: and I can't tell I won't tell that to my spouse,

909
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 2: but it doesn't I can't rep I can't duplicate it

910
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 2: when I go home and I'm trying to cook there.

911
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 2: But everything tastes good at dear camp.

912
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 3: Man.

913
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 4: Every two day old chili just barely warm enough is

914
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 4: amazing at dear camp. We're at home. Yeah, I'll I

915
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 4: think I'll have a standlmpon said. I agree with you, Billy.

916
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 4: I truly appreciate it, and we're going to be at

917
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 4: first I soon it and I can't wait to talk

918
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 4: fishing even you know, coming up in the next few weeks.

919
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 2: I'm wonderful. Best of luck, my friend, and thank you

920
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 2: for joining us this morning too. It's much appreciated.

921
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Thanks, Billy, good luck this season.

922
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 2: Thank you man. That's Tony Marriotti. He is. He's an

923
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 2: awesome guy, and he enjoys the outdoors as much as

924
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 2: I do. He really really does. And he's a good guy.

925
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: I do. I wish him success. I wish you all success,

926
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: I really really do. If you go afield, But like

927
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 2: I said earlier, please please be safe, besed not only

928
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 2: you but your family, the strangers that you're about to meet.

929
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 2: Be safe and know where you're going. Take care of

930
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 2: that gun muzzle and know what's behind your target too.

931
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: We'll take a pause, be back with Tackle Terry right

932
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 2: after this man. Eighteen minutes after the hour of seven o'clock.

933
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 2: We're joined now by Tackle Terry Tuma Tackle. Are you

934
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 2: still in your boat or are they put away and

935
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 2: you're watching from the shore just dreaming about fishing again.

936
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 6: Well, good morning, Bill, and good morning everyone. No, I

937
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 6: just checked the last boat into story, so what a

938
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 6: little shed of tear. I didn't expect whether to stay

939
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 6: this warm. But I am going to be looking at

940
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 6: shore fishing, which can be fat. Company was just asking

941
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 6: me about the shore fishing the other day. You can

942
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 6: have some really some great results, Bill, Well.

943
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 2: You can. And you know there's not a lot of

944
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 2: effort that people have as far as places to shore

945
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 2: fish other than some piers, not like it was years ago.

946
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 2: Because years ago, Terry, I could walk down to the

947
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 2: park here in town and there would be a whole

948
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 2: line of anglers down there and they're all fishing from shore.

949
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 2: The boats were much smaller, but shore fishing was something

950
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 2: that was a real popular thing, but not so much anymore.

951
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 6: You're exactly right, Bill, And I don't know the reason

952
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 6: why if everybody's just once they put their boats away,

953
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 6: they're so involved in hunting and maybe thinking ice fishing

954
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 6: that they have, you know, just sort of resigned from

955
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 6: shore fishing. But you're right, you can have some unbelievable

956
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 6: fishing fat I just talked to somebody yesterday and they

957
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 6: were fishing at channel, catching walls up to twenty two

958
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 6: inches in Yeah.

959
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the channels are something I know when I

960
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 2: was out at Devil's Lake. It's a lot of rock

961
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 2: and things like that, but the channels, the channels afforded

962
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 2: some real success and we have that here on Sock

963
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 2: Center too, the Narrows Bridge.

964
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 6: There's a lot of areas that do have these channels.

965
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 6: And you know also too, you know, night fishing, evening fishing,

966
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 6: just before dark. If you can find a nice flat

967
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 6: shoreline area where lakes have a lot of water, you'll

968
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 6: see those walls come right up into the shadows to

969
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 6: feed and if you've got a flash flight, you can

970
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 6: see those eyes just glowing.

971
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 2: You can. The problem I always had terry as a

972
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 2: youngster was I'd put them on a stringer on the shore.

973
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 2: My kids don't know what a stringer is anymore. And

974
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 2: then how did you lock it in? I used to

975
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 2: put some rocks on them, but invariably, once in a

976
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 2: while they pull it out of the rocks and the

977
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 2: stringer and the fish are gone.

978
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 6: But you're exactly I remember those days to using that stringer.

979
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 6: But you know too now what you know, especially fishing

980
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 6: crappies and something you can you know, obviously use a bucket,

981
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 6: but for a wallet, yes, the stringer was a big factor.

982
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 6: And I think a stringer today is almost an antique.

983
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 2: And I think so, well, it's just you and I

984
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 2: remember them, my friend.

985
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 6: Right, I know they're still for say, I was just

986
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 6: at the local day shop and they still have them.

987
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 6: But yeah, we have really really changed, and I think

988
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 6: too right now is in fact, I had another question

989
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 6: about putting boats away, and it's something I or have

990
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 6: you put your boat away? It appears that most angry,

991
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 6: not all of them, by no means of survey angers

992
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 6: have put their boats away, and here too, if you

993
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 6: doing the ice fishing, you have a heated garage, or

994
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 6: you into that regular garage, you can fish throughout the winter,

995
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 6: especially on the river system, providing it doesn't stay at zero.

996
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 2: Well, Terry, it used to be on the lake that

997
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 2: I'm sitting on right now, about this time of year,

998
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 2: the lake would be practically froze. All the small bodies

999
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 2: of water would be frozen by now, and this was

1000
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 2: the only thing left. But it was unheard of, underheard

1001
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 2: of to have a boat on this body of water

1002
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 2: when it was this late in the year.

1003
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 6: Oh, you're right. I was just thinking about that this morning.

1004
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 6: In fact, Bill, you know, I just looked at the

1005
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 6: extended the forecast for the next couple of weeks. Yeah,

1006
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 6: and it doesn't look like we're going to have It's

1007
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 6: going to cool way down, which is normal and probably accepted,

1008
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 6: but here too, it's not this real cold weather that

1009
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 6: we normally would have. And maybe it's a good thing

1010
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 6: to built right now. Anyway, we're getting quite a bit

1011
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 6: of rain at home, and if it was snow, I

1012
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 6: think we'd be pollen snow by now.

1013
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 2: You get that nail man that's true.

1014
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of buses, but you're right,

1015
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 6: you know, we can really get out there and have

1016
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 6: some you know, great, great fishing right now, even if

1017
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,960
Speaker 6: the boats are stored. You know, just in fact, somebody

1018
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 6: was asking where I fish from shore. I mentioned told them,

1019
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 6: And I think a lot of people are sort of

1020
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 6: under that aspect of well, we're just not going to

1021
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 6: have any results, you know, or just too quota we

1022
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 6: don't want to stand I'm sure, But to be very

1023
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 6: honest with you, I really enjoy short fish. It's a

1024
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 6: big change in you know, fishing. It's sort of fun

1025
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 6: in sort of relaxing and just getting out there and fishing.

1026
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 6: And you know, we always have that early morning concept

1027
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 6: early evening, but throughout this time frame, even a nice

1028
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 6: sunny day, throughout the day, you can do quite well fishing.

1029
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 2: What do you look for in a spot to go

1030
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 2: darry Well.

1031
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 6: Generally speaking, what I do you know some of that

1032
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 6: even at this time of the year, for several species

1033
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 6: of fish with sandy beaches can be very productive because

1034
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 6: there again the water warms up a little bit and

1035
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 6: even you know, throughout the day you can have a

1036
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 6: good bite going sun or no sun and also to

1037
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 6: some of the fishing piers that are out there can

1038
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 6: old fish and then any kind of you know, there's

1039
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 6: some green wheeze left, and there are going to be

1040
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 6: a few green wheeze left. Those are going to be

1041
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 6: extremely productive. And I do a like where you have

1042
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 6: deeper water. If you can cast a deeper water, then

1043
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 6: bring your baits and lures back up into the shadows.

1044
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 6: That can be extremely productive for it just about every specie.

1045
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 2: Would you primarily fish with a bobber or maybe something

1046
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 2: on the bottom rather than casting real.

1047
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 6: No, I don't, Bill, I do both. I do cast

1048
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 6: with and use a bobber, but I also do some

1049
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 6: crank bait fishing. And if I'm fishing bass, I'm going

1050
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 6: to use a wacky work and net drags. Both those

1051
01:03:55,320 --> 01:04:00,160
Speaker 6: extremely productive. And then two for walleye fishing. For cropping sunfish, yes,

1052
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 6: a barber can be very productive, but it really depends

1053
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 6: on the bite, you know, how active they are. But

1054
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 6: I think so often we feel well in the fall

1055
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 6: fishing short needs to be a bobber. I've watched some

1056
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 6: of English. In fact, I drew by a lake the

1057
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 6: other day and an anger. This was in the evening,

1058
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 6: and I'm sure he was fishing crappie.

1059
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 2: He was using a.

1060
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 6: Bobber and Barbara's are good to a certain point. But

1061
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 6: if you got some active fish, or if you're targeting

1062
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 6: like walleyes in bass, I would definitely go with you

1063
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 6: crank Baker plastics.

1064
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 2: You know the other thing, Terry, you mentioned bass fishing,

1065
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 2: when years ago nobody fished bass late into the fall, nobody,

1066
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 2: not one person. Now, all of a sudden, it's become

1067
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 2: quite popular. I'm surprised at that.

1068
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, it really has become very, very and you're right,

1069
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 6: you know, it wasn't a real space that was pursued here,

1070
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 6: you know, a few years ago, but now it is,

1071
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:00,919
Speaker 6: and you can have some unbelievable fishing at this time

1072
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 6: of the year. In fact, one of the biggest best

1073
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 6: ever clock bill was at this time of the year

1074
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 6: and two feet of water. And so therefore, then, you know,

1075
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 6: we I think so often it almost seem that we

1076
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 6: sort of follow trends in fishing. You know, this specie,

1077
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 6: that specie, this bait, this lower and so forth, and

1078
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 6: here too, we can have I think in the fall

1079
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 6: lake fall bass fishing is really productive along with walleye fishing.

1080
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 2: I know walleye fishing because as they transition, I have

1081
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 2: no idea where they're going, but I'm told that they

1082
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 2: will transition. It like on this particular body of water,

1083
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 2: they go under the they move back and forth through

1084
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 2: the bridge, which is a very narrow spot from the

1085
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 2: upper lake to the lower lake where there's a dam

1086
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 2: down there, and as they move people are fishing in

1087
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 2: that and moving water. But I really don't know a

1088
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 2: whole lot about it because there are Honestly, Terry, I've

1089
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 2: never done it.

1090
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 6: I fished below there, no real recently, but you know

1091
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 6: a few years even all the way up to things giving.

1092
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 6: Fact one thing is giving a few years ago, I

1093
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 6: put him on my bigger pike. In those conditions, you

1094
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 6: can you know, fishing below dam can be extremely productive.

1095
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 6: I think, especially for walleye fishing. You can again to

1096
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 6: provide you've got a walleye population, but you can have

1097
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 6: some fantastic walleye fishing and even in the evenings, a

1098
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 6: fishing like rip raps along the river bank. Again a

1099
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 6: very very productive timeframe of catching walleys and nobody's fishing.

1100
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very true. I mean I have seen one

1101
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 2: boat thus far today heading up the lake and with

1102
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 2: lights on. That's just well, they still have to have

1103
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 2: lights on. But there there's just nobody out now, and

1104
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case about a week ago. We had

1105
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 2: a number of boats out fishing. But yeah, and like

1106
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 2: you said too, a lot of people have their boats

1107
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 2: put away, but there's more and more people that are

1108
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 2: keeping their boats. And whether their garages are heated or not,

1109
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 2: I think they just put them away and they seem

1110
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 2: to be okay. I don't know if I would do that,

1111
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 2: but again I'm the product of winter rise. Put it away,

1112
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 2: cover it up, and there we go.

1113
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 6: Well, I think if you have you know, I think

1114
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 6: a lot of people have, you know, sometimes the room

1115
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 6: prop issues and so forth. You know, where can we

1116
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 6: store it? What do we have storage available at home?

1117
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 6: And yes, you can use your boat drought the wintertime,

1118
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 6: you know, especially if you're river fishing. Is all you

1119
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 6: have to do is you know, make sure you're life

1120
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 6: while drained obviously, and then just hit the key a

1121
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 6: couple of times on your outboard. Just pump up now

1122
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 6: you don't want to start it. And the same thing

1123
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 6: with your toting more to just drop it down, let

1124
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 6: it drip out the water, and you can go constant,

1125
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 6: constant fish through out the winter time. Just use common

1126
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 6: sense is the main thing.

1127
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:06,439
Speaker 2: Well, And I think dropping your motor down straight, Terry,

1128
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 2: so you drain all the water out of it, rather

1129
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 2: than tip it up and load your boat on a

1130
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 2: trailer and then head home and leave it tipped up

1131
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 2: like that. You've got water inside that and that will freeze.

1132
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 6: Oh, there's no question about that. Yeah, you know, and

1133
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 6: you're one hundred percent right, Bill. If you drop it

1134
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 6: way down, it's amazing how much water comes out of

1135
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 6: that prop area. And that's another big, big pus factor.

1136
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 6: It just and what you can do too if it's

1137
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 6: you know, if you go you're making sure that your

1138
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 6: life well is you know, completely dry, and hit the

1139
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 6: bills pump a couple of times too, because that will freeze.

1140
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 6: And then you got issues the same thing with the lines,

1141
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 6: and you can what you can do if you really

1142
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 6: are concerned, like in the wintertime, depending on where you're fishing,

1143
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 6: how you're fishing, and what kind of storage, you can

1144
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 6: pull the RV and I freeze in there. That'll help

1145
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 6: the situation.

1146
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Terry does If you do put some

1147
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 2: RV any freeze in it? Do you have to pump

1148
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 2: when you're gonna use it again? Do you have to

1149
01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 2: run some water and drain it before you put fish

1150
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 2: in there? Yes?

1151
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 6: I would definitely do that. Yes, and the bed, you know,

1152
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 6: you can easily do that. Not you know, maybe just

1153
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 6: before you leave, take a you know, just a little

1154
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 6: pail of water just or just before you unload your

1155
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 6: boats and wherever you're going to be fishing. It just

1156
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 6: rints that out because what's going to have You know,

1157
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 6: if you're not going to use your live well, then

1158
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 6: you can leave it in. But if you're going to

1159
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 6: use your live well, especially for walleye fishing, you need

1160
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 6: to pump it up. But you don't want that a

1161
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 6: freeze in there would fish.

1162
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 2: I know that. I've talked to some people that have

1163
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 2: seen boats that are bunk boats, bunk trader boats. Do

1164
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 2: they up in the rainy or something up on rainy

1165
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 2: river They might fish and then load the boat. Well,

1166
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:59,839
Speaker 2: the bunks freeze to the boat's freeze to the bunks,

1167
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 2: and it makes it a little more difficult to launch it.

1168
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 2: Plus they'll slide right off if you don't tie them

1169
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:06,759
Speaker 2: down too.

1170
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 6: Well, you're exactly right. In fact, I'm glad you brought

1171
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 6: that up, Bill, because I remember this is not you know,

1172
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 6: in the last couple of years, but maybe three four

1173
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:20,760
Speaker 6: years ago, somebody had a brand Ulan boat and this

1174
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,840
Speaker 6: was up on the rainy and they backed in with

1175
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 6: the bunk trailer and they the bunked froze and they

1176
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 6: loaded up the boat. But makes some sort of easy loading,

1177
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 6: of course, but they didn't tie them tie it down.

1178
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 6: So the boat brand new land sip right off on

1179
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 6: the ram laying there. That's not a good situation, No,

1180
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:44,600
Speaker 6: it's not.

1181
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 2: I mean then you scratch your head. You get out

1182
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 2: and look at it and wondering, first, stupid, what did

1183
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 2: I do that for? Next to what am I gonna do?

1184
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 6: Exactly right? And you know, and all the damage. You know,

1185
01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 6: how are you going to load it? Doing?

1186
01:10:57,640 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 2: Thing?

1187
01:10:57,840 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 5: You can do it?

1188
01:10:58,479 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 6: Just try to push it back in the water.

1189
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah. And the other thing I'll do, Terry. I

1190
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:07,560
Speaker 2: always keep my humbird electronics down in the basement. I

1191
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 2: keep warm and I don't let those freeze up. I

1192
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,519
Speaker 2: don't know if it'll hurt them or not, probably not,

1193
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 2: but I just don't like that.

1194
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, and there's nothing wrong wrong with doing that

1195
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 6: same thing with batteries. You know, you don't have to,

1196
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 6: you know, the old philosophy used to be, I'll take

1197
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 6: your batteries out and put them in a warm area,

1198
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 6: and you don't have to do that anymore. But I do,

1199
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 6: you know, on the vexas I do, I'll turn that

1200
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 6: power off completely, and on the smaller boat, I disconnect

1201
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 6: the battery and I do leave it in, just making

1202
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 6: sure that you're fully charged. And I think you said

1203
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 6: too that you have a trickle charger that you usually

1204
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:45,720
Speaker 6: all winter long.

1205
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a Hummingbird on board charger in it

1206
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 2: or a Minkota on board charger, and I just leave

1207
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 2: it plugged in all year long, so it requires it

1208
01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 2: knows when it wants some charge, and the trickles at

1209
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 2: all winter long. I get in the spring, I'll just

1210
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 2: uncover it, unplug it, and we're ready to roll. I mean,

1211
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 2: that's it's been working for years and years like that,

1212
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to stop doing it.

1213
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 6: Well, and there's no reason too, you know. And you

1214
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 6: know by doing all this, you know, cleaning out your boat,

1215
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 6: taking your rods out and so forth, and then in

1216
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 6: the spring, then you're all set to go. I don't

1217
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 6: know how many times you've talked there, Well, we got

1218
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 6: to do this, we got to do that. We need

1219
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 6: to get the oil change or whatever. Do it now,

1220
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 6: or do it in the fossil when open water does come,

1221
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 6: or if you're going fish river system, you're ready to go.

1222
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 6: You don't have to do all that prep work of

1223
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 6: launching and getting the boat ready.

1224
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 2: Are you going fishing today, Terry?

1225
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 6: No, I'm not as raining here. Okay, just you know,

1226
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 6: it's been sort of goofy week for weatherwise, but I

1227
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 6: just in fact, I just looked at the forecast. I'm

1228
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 6: gonna be fishing out next week, but you're talking maybe

1229
01:12:58,640 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 6: even sixty next week.

1230
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had rain all day yesterday and it's pretty

1231
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 2: wet outside, but neither.

1232
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 6: Of the two yesterday, and then we had rain prior

1233
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 6: to that. So we've had a few rainy days, which

1234
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 6: is fine for the trees and the grasses and lawns

1235
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 6: and so forth before it freezes up.

1236
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 2: Terry, we'll catch up in a couple of weeks, sir.

1237
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 2: Until then, I hope you have a great day and

1238
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 2: some fishing if you go.

1239
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 3: Well.

1240
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 6: Thank you, Bill, you to take care and hate to

1241
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 6: all of us. We don't have to put our boats

1242
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 6: away yet, but if you are show for a shame.

1243
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,160
Speaker 2: There you go. That Stackletary joins us every other week

1244
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 2: on Fan Outdoors. We will take a pause on our return.

1245
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:46,440
Speaker 2: We're going to talk some more stories with Andy Peterson

1246
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 2: of Wellman Sports Marketing. Andy has two youngsters that love

1247
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:55,599
Speaker 2: to hunt, and I think, well, we'll talk to Andy

1248
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 2: about whether or not they've had success and what his

1249
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 2: plans are for next weekend's Dear season, Dear opener. Right

1250
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:40,479
Speaker 2: after this last segment, The music tells you that doesn't

1251
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 2: it If you've been listening for a while, That is

1252
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 2: that particular music was selected by our executive producer. And

1253
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 2: so we all know that it is the last segment.

1254
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 2: But we have certainly not we're not shortage of information

1255
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 2: coming out because our next guest has he's a friend,

1256
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:09,679
Speaker 2: but he's also an accomplished hunter and fisherman too. Mister

1257
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 2: Andy Peterson from Wellman Sports Marketing is going to join us,

1258
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 2: we hope, and the delay is my fault because I

1259
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 2: gave I gave Brett the wrongful number for Andy, and

1260
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 2: I hope he's trying to contact him now. But I

1261
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 2: know Andy has two young children that are loving the

1262
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 2: sport of deer hunting, and he has some stories that

1263
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 2: we've shared and over the years we talked about another

1264
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 2: one of his relatives who is now an adult and

1265
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,560
Speaker 2: she's just married. But it was the cutest interview I

1266
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 2: think I've had on this station because she had just

1267
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 2: gotten her first dear and she explained it word for

1268
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 2: word to us, and that was pretty special. And I

1269
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 2: thought I had a copy of that interview, and I

1270
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 2: can't find it if I do, And so I'm not

1271
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 2: sure if if Brett is having any success with Andy

1272
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 2: or not.

1273
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 5: Not a lot.

1274
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 2: All right, well we can. I'll tell you one of

1275
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 2: my stories then about I think I have shared it

1276
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,840
Speaker 2: in the past, but we talk about youngsters and hunting,

1277
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 2: and one of the for my youngest son, his first

1278
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 2: deer was we were out on some private land up

1279
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 2: around Detroy Lakes. It was actually around Audubon and he

1280
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,560
Speaker 2: was up on a knob on the top of a

1281
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 2: hill and he wanted to hunt by himself. Well, Dad

1282
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 2: didn't want to be very far away because this would

1283
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 2: be the first time he would be on a stand

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01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 2: by himself, making their own decisions. And so I went

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01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 2: down below this hill and I'm sitting there and I'm

1286
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 2: watching for deer, but I'm more thinking about him and

1287
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 2: this particular instant, and I waited. It was for a

1288
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 2: couple hours, and all of a sudden he was shooting.

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01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 2: He was shooting a shotgun, a twenty gage and all

1290
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 2: of a sudden the gun blast went off. Startled me

1291
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 2: so much that I almost fell out of the tree.

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01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 2: And I wasn't very high. I was about four feet

1293
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 2: off the ground on a portable stand so and I

1294
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 2: have visions of falling out, and if I'd fought doze

1295
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 2: or fall asleep. I didn't like that anyway. So I'm

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01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 2: sitting there and bang, and I'm jumped, and I thought, oh,

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01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 2: I wonder if he got it. I just but I

1298
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 2: had hammered into his head that he couldn't he couldn't

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01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 2: move for a long period of time, and just wait,

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01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 2: You've got to wait, you gotta wait. And at about

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01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 2: twenty minutes later, I heard this little tiny voice above

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01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 2: me say, Dad, I think I got one. And he

1303
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 2: was excited, I could tell in his voice. And he

1304
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 2: waited until I got up there to the top of

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01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 2: the hill, and it didn't take me long either, because

1306
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 2: they wasn't real far away. Well here, about fifteen twenty

1307
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:27,679
Speaker 2: yards away, lay a dough in the leaves. He made

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01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,719
Speaker 2: an excellent shot, and we did a lot of high fives,

1309
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 2: took some pictures, and he told me the story and

1310
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 2: exactly how it happened over and over again, and he

1311
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 2: was just thrilled, thrilled with it. And we got it

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01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 2: field dressed up there and drug it down to the

1313
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 2: bottom of the hill, and then we went back into

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01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 2: the farmhouse and got a four four wheeler, took it

1315
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 2: out there and hooked it, put it on the wheeler

1316
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 2: on the rack, and came back into the house. But

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01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 2: it was his first dear and it was an It

1318
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 2: was really really fun. Now. The other one with Eric

1319
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 2: was before that, obviously, because he's oldest, and we were

1320
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 2: hunting farm country and once again he's shooting a youth

1321
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 2: model twenty gauge and I was shooting the twelve gauge.

1322
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 2: I had five shots, he had three. A buck came

1323
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:34,560
Speaker 2: on full sprint across a field full sprint, and I

1324
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 2: picked the gun up and he was he was a

1325
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 2: ways away, but not that far. I picked the gun

1326
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:45,760
Speaker 2: up and I shot not once, but five times at

1327
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 2: that buck. It was a big one too, and I missed,

1328
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 2: just flat missed. Eric took that twenty gage and he

1329
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 2: was a little ways away from me. He took one

1330
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 2: shot with that twenty game and that buck rolled down

1331
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:10,719
Speaker 2: the ravine absolutely tipped head over tea gettle and rolled

1332
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 2: down the ravine. I looked dumbfounded at him, and he

1333
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 2: was pretty excited because he had knocked it. He had

1334
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 2: tipped it over, and we hustled over to see if

1335
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:25,160
Speaker 2: he was dead, and he was dead as a door nail.

1336
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 2: That big buck was dead. And he had taken him

1337
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 2: on a dead, flat run and one shot and he

1338
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 2: dad had shot five and not touched a hair on

1339
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:43,640
Speaker 2: that animal. So both of them both are memories that

1340
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 2: I will never have and they will be with me

1341
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 2: until my last day on this earth. And it was

1342
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 2: so much fun. And I think there's a lot of

1343
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:59,560
Speaker 2: us that have first memories or have memories of it.

1344
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 2: I mean, when I was in I mentioned earlier, I

1345
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 2: had hunted up in the big in the north Woods.

1346
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,799
Speaker 2: We took a camp or trader back into the woods

1347
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 2: quite a ways back away from everything, and set the

1348
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 2: trader up in camp. It was an annual thing went

1349
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 2: up there and we had a place that we put it.

1350
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:26,200
Speaker 2: And it was three years I had gone without filling

1351
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:29,719
Speaker 2: a tag. Well, I filled my tag, but I didn't

1352
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 2: shoot them. And on the fourth ear I walked back,

1353
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier, in the dark, walked all the

1354
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 2: way back, had a stand back there in a clearing

1355
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:46,759
Speaker 2: and the corner of a clearing, and for some reason

1356
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 2: that particular year, the deer came through there and I

1357
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 2: tipped him over as they came, I mean one back

1358
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 2: to camp, and then the cup more later that day,

1359
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,719
Speaker 2: and the next day I think I got two more,

1360
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 2: and they were all hanging in a pole. We referred

1361
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 2: to it as the meat pole in camp, and they

1362
01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:18,640
Speaker 2: all were tagged legally because we were party hunting. And

1363
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 2: I shot five of the six that we had that year,

1364
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 2: and it was absolutely phenomenal. I mean, the guys walked

1365
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,600
Speaker 2: back because we had to drag him back and we

1366
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:36,600
Speaker 2: got him and they looked around at the at the

1367
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:40,600
Speaker 2: piles of well they're referred to his gut piles, and

1368
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 2: looked around and they were spread around that clearing, and

1369
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 2: he said, unbelievable. I can't fathom that number of guys.

1370
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 2: A couple of guys did. They were just amazed as

1371
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:58,560
Speaker 2: I was. I had been three years without seeing a

1372
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 2: live animal, and all of a sudden, I've got an

1373
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:05,799
Speaker 2: influx of them coming through this particular spot on it again.

1374
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 2: Never did see another deer back there another year and

1375
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:13,720
Speaker 2: a year after that, never saw another deer. But it

1376
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 2: was sure fun and it was exciting when it happened.

1377
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 2: And they were dandies most I think they were. Of

1378
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 2: the five I got, I think four were bucks and

1379
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 2: one whatever. We must have had some dop permits or something,

1380
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 2: because I think I had a dop permit and use

1381
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 2: that on one of the animals. But the rest were

1382
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 2: all tagged with the buck tags and they hung there

1383
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 2: and it was It was quite a It was quite

1384
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 2: an experience. And those are memories too, and they sit

1385
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 2: vividly in my head from times past, as vividly as

1386
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 2: the ones I've missed, the ones I didn't see. The

1387
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 2: ones when you walk back to camp and there's some

1388
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 2: snow on the ground, you walk back to camp because

1389
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 2: your froze your feet or froze your hands are freezing.

1390
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 2: Your body gets the shivers and you've got to get

1391
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 2: warmed up again, walk back to camp, and when I

1392
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 2: come back after getting a bite to eat, there's always

1393
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:27,639
Speaker 2: always deer tracks in your tracks when you head back out,

1394
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 2: and I think all the time, if I just would

1395
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 2: have waited, if I just wait, they'd come back around.

1396
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 2: And the other things that you see while you're hunting.

1397
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 2: We talked about that earlier today. It's phenomenal. I mean,

1398
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 2: it's so exciting and just the peace of mind when

1399
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,599
Speaker 2: you get out there and I found myself and I've

1400
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 2: thought about this a number of times too. You're racing around.

1401
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 2: It takes me a day to a day and a

1402
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 2: half to just slow down and just enjoy the moment.

1403
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 2: And that's what deer hunting brings to me. That's what

1404
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 2: hunting brings to me. You just slow down, enjoy that day,

1405
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 2: and there's nothing that's really more important than that particular

1406
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 2: point in time. It's pretty special. And I hope you

1407
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 2: have that special time too. I hope you have time

1408
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 2: that you can enjoy and you can spend time, and

1409
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 2: you can get out in the wild. Whether you put

1410
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 2: something on the ground, you put meat on the table,

1411
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 2: you put a bird in your bag, doesn't make that

1412
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,360
Speaker 2: much difference really when you stop and think about it.

1413
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,720
Speaker 2: I've got a pointer. My little bree dog is in

1414
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 2: the other room sleeping, and she just she came out,

1415
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 2: looked at me once and thought, there's no sense in

1416
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,680
Speaker 2: getting all excited about this. But I'll tell you what.

1417
01:25:55,479 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 2: When you get out in the field and she goes

1418
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 2: on point, it's it's as exciting as anything I can

1419
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 2: imagine a little dog. And I showed my grandson. I said,

1420
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 2: see Jack, he's on point. A little bit later, Jack says, Papa,

1421
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 2: she's froze again. She's froze again. And we go back

1422
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,600
Speaker 2: out and look it as hens, but it's fun. So

1423
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 2: the music is playing, which means I will say thank

1424
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:29,440
Speaker 2: you to our guests, to Tommy George, to Tony Mariotti

1425
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 2: for sharing his stories with us, or tackle Terry Tuma,

1426
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 2: and thank you for allowing us to travel with you

1427
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 2: on this Saturday morning. Andy, I'm sorry we couldn't catch up, buddy.

1428
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 2: We'll do it another time. For Brett Blake Moore, my

1429
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:49,640
Speaker 2: executive producer and friend. I'm Billy Hildebrand saying I have

1430
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 2: a fabulous week, get outside today. Okay until next Saturday.

1431
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with tatas