WEBVTT - Ep. 2: Slippery Dicks and Macaroni Chum 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:03.600 I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. He 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.960 told me bring a bucket, a macaroni and cat food 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.520 for chump down, Little Glovett. Did you know that I 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.440 was in a punk band in high school that covered 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.320 the theme song to fishing with Orlando Wilson. Hashtag bed 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.720 snag and hashtag private pond, hashtag stocker, hashtag anyone, Kira 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.960 a guide, hashtag live aid, hashtag pet pass, hashtag skinny fogu. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.759 Poisonings are almost exclusively the result of d I Y mishaps, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:34.560 much like backyard moonshine blindness here in the States. Good morning, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.919 degenerate anglers, Welcome to Ben where we invite fishermen from 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.479 all walks of life, all skill levels, and all factions 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.479 to unite for an audio version of what Burning Man 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.200 might be like if it was held at the Base 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.680 Throw Shops. I'm Joe Surmeli and I'm Miles Nulty and 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.480 it is now officially the full on dog days of summer. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.320 Yeah man, and uh, I mean, I guess it depends 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:58.960 kind of on where you live, because it could mean 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.840 a couple of different things. If you're if you're up 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.560 here in the bitter North Country, like me, we're enjoying 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:09.000 our annual five minutes of shirt sleeve fishing weather or 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.440 or you know, in my case that means just covering 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.600 up with really light stuff because I have a skin 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:18.480 cancer problem. But if your latitude skews southward, you might 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.600 be you might be hanging out on a couch somewhere, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.680 mainlining a c and respooling your reels until the water 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.720 temps dropped below the boiling point. I remember learning that 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.400 lesson the first time I ever fished in the West 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.720 many years ago. Like I was boiling midday. We got 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.400 into town late, and then I woke up the next 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.440 morning and went outside the same stuff I was wearing 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.400 at noon, and I was like, oh, no, that doesn't work. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.520 Suddenly it's twenty five degrees anyway, I think out here 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.600 I am, it's it's like somewhere in between, it's it's 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.840 it's too damn hot for trout fishing at least during 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.200 the day. Though this is mousing season. Nighttime is the 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.760 right time, and I do hope you get to do 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.400 some of that soon. But for me, off shore is 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.800 the place to be cool. Offshore breezes, mahi and yellow 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.240 fins and bloody decks. Man, I just have to bring 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:05.600 along a gym bag full of sweat towels. That's the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.960 that jim bag that you're always here, that's that's that's 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.200 full of sweat towels. I was assumed, I mean, I 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.679 assumed it was full of bootleg tapes of like live 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.040 guar shows and fish themed Beatie babies. But uh, you know, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.320 learn different gym bag. It's a different gym bag. Learned 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.280 something every day. Since we're on the subject learning things, Uh, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.359 we have a fishing report and this one comes to 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.919 us from a part of the country that I would 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.880 personally like to learn a whole lot more about. I 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.600 have only fished South Louisiana once and I had an 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.560 absolute blast. Really, you've only been down to South Louisiana 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.560 one time? One time, man, one time. Man. It's like 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.919 one of my favorite places on the planet. I've been 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.239 down there a bunch. And what's funny is when most 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.160 people think of anglers from Louisiana, they think Cajun, like 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.280 like the Landry's on that alligator show that's been on, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.600 yeah for thirty years, but the storyline hasn't changed once, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.040 like not to get off of Like do people still 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.960 buy the Chewdham shirts. That hasn't that run its course, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.320 I hope. So anyway, my crew down there, they're the 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.880 boys in the Delta, right. They're not the Cajun dudes, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.040 and it's weird. They're like Southern dudes with a Northeast swagger. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.760 It's like Louisiana meets like Staten Island people, but I 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.680 don't know how else to describe it. They're all good people, though, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.359 and I'm really happy that my bud down the Road 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.920 Darren could make time his busy crabbing and hog shooting 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:39.200 schedule to provide us with a solid report for this region. Hey, y'all, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.400 this is a down the Road Darren. At least that's 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.080 what my partners called me. I'd use my real name 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.520 for the reports, but I got a couple of warrants 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.800 out in New Orleans for a little incident on Bourbon 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.080 Street when I'm Mike Tyson, Kota Cowboys fan after the 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.480 Saints whipped the Asses. I guess the Dacor's at the 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.280 super Dome wasn't quite strong enough that night, so I 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.840 peeled into a six pack of full Locos and ship 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.240 got real weird after that. So, as far, as you notice, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.760 is down the road down anyway. This week's South Louisiana 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.720 Fishing Report is brought to you by my ex old 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.120 lady Shantell. I'm back in her good graces again. She 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.040 finally let me go over to a place and pick 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.920 up some rods and reels I left over there a 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.440 while back. So I brought her a bushel of crabs, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.000 and uh, you know, we're back to getting along. So 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.599 shout out to her for that. Unfortunately, she already pawned 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.640 my generator. But like the good Lord says, I'll forgive 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.600 and forget. Speckled trout was on fire last week. If 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.200 you could get away from the dirty ass river water ship. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.120 I had to run all the way to Gosha Island 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.520 to find clean water. But we was catching trout every 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.799 cast as fast as you could throw for a while. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.360 The main thing is to have good lives shrimp under 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.120 a popping cork or a Carolina rig. If you're gonna 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.200 take the rode to Gosha, and make sure you bring 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.560 plenty beer, because you could skin eighteen deer and the 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.800 time it takes to get all the way to out there. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.560 My little cousin Timmy said they're wearing the snapper out 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.920 on the rigs outside of out West Pass. Red snapper 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.440 season opened a couple of weeks ago, and it's a limit. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.040 Every time they go. The man grows a biting good too. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.680 And I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.839 He told me bring a bucket of macaroni and cat 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.160 food for chump. Then little love it. It pulls him 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.640 off the rig faster than the backseat bang on prom night. Now, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.640 the red fishing hadn't quite picked up yet. The damn 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.880 grass in the ponds is so thick this year thanks 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.360 to global warming or whatever it is. We never had 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.880 a cold winner, so the grass never died back, and 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.600 the reds hadn't got in there thick yet. Best bet 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.520 for Red's it probably to stick to the lakes with 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.680 a dead shrimp under a cork. How alight, my boy, Rodney. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.960 When you get down around Shell Beach, she's got fresh 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.320 shrimp he's selling right off the boat. Look for the 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.640 boat called the Coolga Hunter. When you get down to 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.320 the dock. It's freaking Africa hot right now. So get 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.520 out real early or late in the afternoon. You're still 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.720 gonna be sweating your ass off, but it's worth getting 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.640 a few fish in the box. And if you don't 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.240 get no fish in the box, how my boy Joey 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.520 Campo he shot fifteen wild pigs last night and he 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.440 don't feel like cleaning them all. Just bring you ice chests. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.920 And that's pretty much it for this week's report. As always, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.200 I'd like to thank my unofficial sponsors, Milla High Life, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.839 Ugly Stick Rods and the tackle section at Walmart. Now 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.040 look holler at me if you want to go fish. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.800 They took my captain's license away for a little incident 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.520 involving a fifth of vodka and too many red bulls. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.800 But I'm running trips under the table and I could 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.760 put you on them. I can't actually give him a 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.800 number out here, but you know, just hang out at 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.040 the McDonald's a mirror until you see my truck. It's 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:38.800 the white GMC with the dark tent all around all right. Later, wait, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:44.479 the cat food and the macaroni as snapper chum. That 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:50.160 was bullshit, right? Oh absolutely not, man, that's that's real. Okay, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.920 I've I've been down that road that works. I love 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.719 the Louisiana Meat Fishing Cruise because they're loaded with all 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.640 sorts of tricks like that to get it done. They 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.720 ain't coming back empty handed like that. It's just it's 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.760 just not an option, even if that means switching from 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.920 the ugly stick to like an a R fifteen. Man, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.200 I've seen some ship down there, yeah, I mean that 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.840 that does fit all right. Like I said, I've only 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.000 been there once, but the dude I fish down there 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.120 was so dialed, so die hard and so deadly, and 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.440 and it kind of seemed like that whole catching release 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.600 fishing culture hadn't really caught on. I mean, you know, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.800 I was coming from Montana, where most people treat trout 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.280 like faberge eggs, and my man Shane just started ripping 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.880 reds a tossimate in the cooler. Yeah, that's how you 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.000 do That's definitely how they do it down there. And 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.800 I've been out with guides that end up catching more 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.320 than the clients, especially if the clients are rookies, because 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.160 it's this, it's this, this is the truth. Man. You 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.160 don't want to be the guide at the lodge that 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.440 evening that didn't limit that's no bullshit. It's unacceptable like 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.720 among guide pools down there. But you know, honestly, I'm 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.280 all about catching and releasing fish to protect fisheries and 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.600 being smart about harvest and all that good stuff. But 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.760 I will also house some red fish on the halfshell. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:14.200 Hell yeah. And on that note, let's move on to Finclips, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.160 the part of the show where we tell you everything 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.480 you never thought you wanted to know about a fish 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.920 you may or may not have heard of. And this 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.440 week we're talking about a fish that you might want 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:30.920 to think twice about eating. This week we're talking about fugu, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.920 a fish so delicious it might kill you or maybe 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.040 just get you real high. Fugu is the Japanese term 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.599 for puffer fish, and it has long been a delicacy 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.400 charged with a hint of danger and a lot of hype. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.600 Puffer Fish contain a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin that's lethal 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.400 to humans. Ingestion causes loss of muscular control, so the 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.439 victim slowly stops being able to breathe, but remains completely conscious. Worse, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.840 tetrodotoxin poisoning has no anted out or treatment, So why 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.439 would anyone eat this fish? See? The toxin isn't found 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.079 in the meat, It's concentrated in the liver, ovarise eyes 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.280 and skin. The flesh, when prepared correctly by a trained chef, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.640 is perfectly safe and supposedly really delicious. A firm white 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.360 meat that's usually eating rob but sometimes blanched to fried, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.720 fubu has long been a delicacy in Japan, Korea, and China, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.040 but the fish gain global notoriety in seven when a 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.360 famous Japanese kabuki actor died from eating it. Legend has 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.800 it that if you consume just a tiny amount of 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.640 the toxin, your mouth and tongue go numb and you 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.480 catch a unique buzz, and like other drugs, the more 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.319 you consume, the higher your tolerance. Back then, it was 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.080 fashionable in certain circles to have the chef makes a 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.440 small amount of fugu liver with the soy sauce that 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.400 you dip your meat in. Chef's got to know their 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:54.280 regular customers levels of tolerance and adjusted their dosage accordingly. Apparently, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.520 this actor, like so many others, odeed on his favorite 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.120 drug has just happened to be a poisonous puffer fish 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.160 instead of heroin. Today, the Japanese government strictly regulates fugu 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.840 sale and consumption. Chef's train for years to become licensed 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.040 food cutters, and playing Russian Roulette with liver in the 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.560 soy sauce is no longer kosher these days, Fugu poisonings 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.839 are almost exclusively the result of d I y mishaps, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.240 much like backyard moonshine blindness here in the States. Fun 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.760 side note turns out that humans might not be the 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.880 only creatures dosing tetrodotoxin for fun. A BBC film crew 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.960 making a TV series about dolphins witnessed a pod passing 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.160 a puffer. According to an article in the UK's Daily Mail, quote, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.840 they nudge the fish with their snouts and as the 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.120 toxin is released into the water, they seem to lapse 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.600 into a trance like state. The dolphins were filmed gently 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.000 playing with the puffer, passing it between each other for 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.400 twenty thirty minutes at a time, unlike the fish they 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.120 had caught as prey, which were swiftly torn apart. End quote, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.320 I myself have gotten numerous puffer fish us lee when 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.079 I was getting my ass kicked by bone fish and 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.360 need a little confidence booster. Like bone fish, puffers come 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.199 up onto shallow sandy flats to feed on shrimp and crabs. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.800 Unlike bones. They're incredibly easy to see, pretty difficult to spook, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.679 and eat just about anything you put in front of them. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.240 They also fight like well, they actually fight exactly what 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.160 you would expect a balloon full of water with tiny 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.720 little fins to fight like. Pretty underwhelming so far, I 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.360 haven't been adventurous or desperate enough to try and eat one. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.400 As an American, I prefer to have my food kill 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:38.160 me slowly. Uh. Question for you, I'm a batanman. You're 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.240 gonna say, yes, you ever seen The Serpent in the Rainbow. Oh, yes, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.680 I have. It's been it's been a at least twenty years, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.360 but yeah, I remember that was that West Craven. Yes, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.600 great movie about voodoo in the Islands and foogoo powder. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.400 It's like it's like the starring role, Like that's how 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.000 they turn people into zombies that I forgot all about 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.760 that kids Urpen in the Rainbow rent at a blockbuster. Um. Anyway, anyway, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.839 up here, right, we we actually target puffer fish all 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.640 the time. It's actually a big deal, like this, this niche, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.000 little Northeast thing. But of course are puffers, which are 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.679 northern puffers. They don't contain the toxin they don't have 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:22.360 the poison, and dude, they are delicious. And when you 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.040 clean them, you leave the tail on and the finished 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.559 product looks like like a chicken drumstick, you know what 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.880 I'm saying, because they're small, Yeah, and the meat just 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.040 runs along the back, so the way when you clean them, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.280 it just looks like a chicken drumstick. And you target 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.640 them with super tiny hooks and little pieces of shrimp, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.760 and they tend to come in the summer and it's 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.200 it's it's a big deal. Like you'll see reports like 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.240 you know, Baze loaded with puffers, you know, And so 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.520 they are so good, I highly recommend them. So eating 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.960 northern puffer fish great idea. Eating fugu kind of bad idea. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.600 Pissing off pissing off your fishing guide or charter captain 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.280 also a bad idea, which leads up to this week's 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:10.880 smooth move, nice segue, Joe. Why this is the part 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.079 of the show where we call up one of our 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.600 guide or charter kapner outfitter buddies and uh and have 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.000 them tell us a story about one of the most 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.480 ridiculous things they've had clients do on the boat. Every 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.680 good guid or outfitter has amazing stories about clients doing 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.360 stupid things on the water, and we love to bring 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.720 those to you. This is smooth Moves, and today we're 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.280 talking with our good friend Alvin Dido. Alvin, how's it going, man? Man? 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.360 It is just going great today. Oh. I don't think 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.320 I've ever heard you say anything else. And all the 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.280 times we've hung out, it's you don't have bad days, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.719 do you, dude? If I'm alive, it's a great day, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.960 except for maybe the occasional hangover day. Yeah. You know, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.440 you get out there, you get on the water usually 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.400 usually clears you up pretty good. Yeah. I could be 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.440 having a bad day and here Alvin sam having a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.000 great day and I'm like, now you know I am 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.719 now too, just the way you said that, just positive vibes. Man, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.559 that's right man, you put it out there, you make 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:13.080 it happen. As a as a long time guide, I 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.160 know sometimes you have clients to do their best to 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.280 make your great day not so great. And we brought 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.720 you here to tell us one of those stories. Man, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.680 what do you got? What's your smooth move? All right? 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.560 So this this was a pretty awesome smooth move. It 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.440 was in the boat adjacent to my boat, one of 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.800 my guide buddies. So I got to witness this and 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.800 this was this was so smooth. I couldn't believe it. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.880 I wish I had it on film. So my buddies 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.360 got his client in the back of the boat throwing 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.520 a spin and rod. We're fishing for bass. He's using 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.000 a fluke, you know, plastic artificial and it's super weedless. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.400 But in order to hook the fish, you have to 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.240 really set the hook, you know, so that that hook 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.000 pokes through the plastic and actually hooks the fish. And 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.920 this guy in the back of the boat, um, he 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:06.720 would see the the bait disappear, bright pink bait, so 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.640 you know the the you know the guys like, all right, dude, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.680 when you see that bait disappear, set the hook. Bait 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.200 would disappear, and he just started reeling with the rod, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.120 just pointed right at the fish. You know. The fish 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.800 never got hooked, just spits it out over and over again. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.320 So finally I see my buddies getting a little frustrated 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.360 with the guy. So he goes, hey, dude, look, here's 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.880 the deal. When you see that pink thing disappear, you 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.840 got to rear back, set the hook and get that 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.320 fish hooked and get him in the boat. You know. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.800 So dudes like, all right, all right, I think I 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.920 got it. I think I got it. So about five 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:51.240 minutes later, massive bass smashes his bait. He rears back, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:56.400 sets the hook so hard that he falls over out 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.440 of the boat. I look over, I hear a splash, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.720 and the dude its feet are sticking straight up in 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:08.000 the air. Luckily, luckily it was in fairly shallow water. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.120 So he stands up, and of course he hooked the fish. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:17.240 That time, reel's fishing, gets back in the boat, sits down. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.880 My buddy turns around, looks at him and goes, all right, dude, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.240 next time, I want you to set the hook almost 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:29.920 that hard. When he landed the fish. Yeah, he made it, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.320 the fish man. He set He finally set the hook. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.080 You know, Now, once you get that hook set, I mean, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.640 you know, it's it's all over that that is that 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.440 is a true smooth move there, Like falling out of 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.040 the boat. Manage you get the fish in. That's that's quality. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.000 Stood up soaking wet, you know, pieces of weeds and 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.600 stuff dripping off his face and everything. But he landed 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.840 the fish. He did sport about it? Or was he 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.560 embarrassing it wrecked his day? Oh? No, dude, he was. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.280 He was a good sport. He's like, I think, uh, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.400 I think, uh think I get what you're telling me. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.280 Taking off of eleven, dial it back to eight ish, Yeah, exactly, exactly. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.119 He had a great rest of the day. You know, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.040 we're in Texas. It was it was warm, it was nice. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:23.280 A little dunk just said him straight, have you have 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.679 you ever fallen out of the boat, Joe? You know, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.920 it's it's strange, man, You think they'd be a write 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.880 of passage for hardcore anglers, but I never have. I've 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.760 done that. I've gotten stuck with a lot of hooks. 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.840 That's also a write of passage, obviously. And I've come 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.240 close to fallen out of the boat many times, though 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.359 it's never actually happened, but I have been knocked off 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.760 a few jetties during my younger stupider surfcasting days. Man 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.639 about you, have you ever gone full man overboard? I 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.440 was thinking about that while he was telling that story, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.720 and I can't remember. I can't personally remember ever falling 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.879 out of the boat, but I remember I will my 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.199 buddy will never let me live this down. Because when 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.560 I was first learning to row a drift boat, I 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.440 I did smash a rock so hard that I launched 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.000 this friend of mine completely clear over the gunnal and 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.040 right into the Madison. And it was so his wife 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.280 was hooked into the biggest brown shout of her life 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.160 at the time. And I was so focused on trying 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.720 to get that fish landed that I just completely missed 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.000 this boulder and I ted that thing like full on 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.600 t boned it on the chine and he was already 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:34.240 leaning over with the net and just ejected, and uh, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.040 you know, I kind of saved it because it was like, well, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.280 now you're out of the boat, you got the net, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:38.959 you might as well get the fish, and and it 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.040 all worked out. But no, he hasn't let me. He 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.160 hasn't let me forget about it. Well, first of all, 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.399 remind me never to let you row my boat. But 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.960 quick up better. I know I know you have. But 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.080 with safety lesson, they're all the same because I've run 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.600 into similar issues, like, no matter where you are when 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.480 you hook a fish, just just put the damn anchor down, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.320 because I've done the same thing. You're so wrapped up 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.160 in the fight that it's it's it's like all that matters, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.359 and yeah, I've I've rammed some stuff in all of 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.720 my boats. Alright, enough about falling out of boats. Let's 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.040 stay in this metaphorical craft that we're calling a podcast 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:19.800 because it's time for fish news. Fish news that escalated quickly, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.359 all right. For this segment, Joe and I have compiled 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.440 what we think are the most interesting fish related news 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.440 stories that we could find this week, the catches that 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.240 neither of us know what the others about to say. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.760 So this is really just a little a little friendly 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.080 competition between the two of us to see you who 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.000 can who can bring the most interesting and and entertaining topics, 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.160 And we're just hoping that we don't steal each other's thunder. Really, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.399 but how you feeling this sweet show? You think you 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.840 think you got the goods? I think I do. I'll 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.480 also add that um on a weekly basis, it's not 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:57.080 always easy to find like super awesome fishing news. There's 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.840 a lot, there's a lot of so some of these 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.400 it's fun because it's like how can I stretch this 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.119 to be entertaining? Because there are there are a lot 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.760 of slow news weeks and fishing as we're learning. But 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.359 I'm feeling confident I let this off last time. I'm 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.880 gonna you're gonna, you're gonna kick. And and to be clear, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.639 it's fish news, not fishing news, because I think you know, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.239 some of mine might be a stretch to call them 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.000 fishing news. I'll just be honest about that right now. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.479 And most of us are interested in fish, all right, 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.119 So Joe, I'm gonna start this with a little, uh, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.800 a little word association game. All right, all right, what 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:38.359 comes to your mind when I say carp trash? Not 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.800 that I think they are, but it's just that's just simple, 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.520 just just trash. Uh. Yeah, I think that's fair. But 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.000 I got I noticed that that there are three things 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:53.359 you didn't say. You didn't say nanotechnology, mechanical engineering, or 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.880 futuristic super armor. The last one, the last one would 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.360 have been the next thing I said, but I I went, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.359 truly the thing that popped into my head. So that's 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.560 a that's probably because you didn't find The study that 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:12.040 I did out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explains 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.520 how this group of researchers used advanced X ray imaging 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:21.360 techniques This is like super science fiction stuff too. They 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.399 used advanced X ray imaging techniques to figure out the 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.680 secrets of carp scales. It turns out the carp scales 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.040 and and a lot of other fish scales are incredibly 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.720 tough and yet very flexible, much like me. There, puncture 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:40.520 resistance to a plyability ratio is better than any armor 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.959 that humans have been able to invent so far. Right, 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.600 So this is this is all in the realm of biomimicry. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:51.240