Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. He
Speaker 1: told me bring a bucket, a macaroni and cat food
Speaker 1: for chump down, Little Glovett. Did you know that I
Speaker 1: was in a punk band in high school that covered
Speaker 1: the theme song to fishing with Orlando Wilson. Hashtag bed
Speaker 1: snag and hashtag private pond, hashtag stocker, hashtag anyone, Kira
Speaker 1: a guide, hashtag live aid, hashtag pet pass, hashtag skinny fogu.
Speaker 1: Poisonings are almost exclusively the result of d I Y mishaps,
Speaker 1: much like backyard moonshine blindness here in the States. Good morning,
Speaker 1: degenerate anglers, Welcome to Ben where we invite fishermen from
Speaker 1: all walks of life, all skill levels, and all factions
Speaker 1: to unite for an audio version of what Burning Man
Speaker 1: might be like if it was held at the Base
Speaker 1: Throw Shops. I'm Joe Surmeli and I'm Miles Nulty and
Speaker 1: it is now officially the full on dog days of summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah man, and uh, I mean, I guess it depends
Speaker 1: kind of on where you live, because it could mean
Speaker 1: a couple of different things. If you're if you're up
Speaker 1: here in the bitter North Country, like me, we're enjoying
Speaker 1: our annual five minutes of shirt sleeve fishing weather or
Speaker 1: or you know, in my case that means just covering
Speaker 1: up with really light stuff because I have a skin
Speaker 1: cancer problem. But if your latitude skews southward, you might
Speaker 1: be you might be hanging out on a couch somewhere,
Speaker 1: mainlining a c and respooling your reels until the water
Speaker 1: temps dropped below the boiling point. I remember learning that
Speaker 1: lesson the first time I ever fished in the West
Speaker 1: many years ago. Like I was boiling midday. We got
Speaker 1: into town late, and then I woke up the next
Speaker 1: morning and went outside the same stuff I was wearing
Speaker 1: at noon, and I was like, oh, no, that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Suddenly it's twenty five degrees anyway, I think out here
Speaker 1: I am, it's it's like somewhere in between, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's too damn hot for trout fishing at least during
Speaker 1: the day. Though this is mousing season. Nighttime is the
Speaker 1: right time, and I do hope you get to do
Speaker 1: some of that soon. But for me, off shore is
Speaker 1: the place to be cool. Offshore breezes, mahi and yellow
Speaker 1: fins and bloody decks. Man, I just have to bring
Speaker 1: along a gym bag full of sweat towels. That's the
Speaker 1: that jim bag that you're always here, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: full of sweat towels. I was assumed, I mean, I
Speaker 1: assumed it was full of bootleg tapes of like live
Speaker 1: guar shows and fish themed Beatie babies. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: learn different gym bag. It's a different gym bag. Learned
Speaker 1: something every day. Since we're on the subject learning things, Uh,
Speaker 1: we have a fishing report and this one comes to
Speaker 1: us from a part of the country that I would
Speaker 1: personally like to learn a whole lot more about. I
Speaker 1: have only fished South Louisiana once and I had an
Speaker 1: absolute blast. Really, you've only been down to South Louisiana
Speaker 1: one time? One time, man, one time. Man. It's like
Speaker 1: one of my favorite places on the planet. I've been
Speaker 1: down there a bunch. And what's funny is when most
Speaker 1: people think of anglers from Louisiana, they think Cajun, like
Speaker 1: like the Landry's on that alligator show that's been on,
Speaker 1: yeah for thirty years, but the storyline hasn't changed once,
Speaker 1: like not to get off of Like do people still
Speaker 1: buy the Chewdham shirts. That hasn't that run its course,
Speaker 1: I hope. So anyway, my crew down there, they're the
Speaker 1: boys in the Delta, right. They're not the Cajun dudes,
Speaker 1: and it's weird. They're like Southern dudes with a Northeast swagger.
Speaker 1: It's like Louisiana meets like Staten Island people, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how else to describe it. They're all good people, though,
Speaker 1: and I'm really happy that my bud down the Road
Speaker 1: Darren could make time his busy crabbing and hog shooting
Speaker 1: schedule to provide us with a solid report for this region. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: this is a down the Road Darren. At least that's
Speaker 1: what my partners called me. I'd use my real name
Speaker 1: for the reports, but I got a couple of warrants
Speaker 1: out in New Orleans for a little incident on Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street when I'm Mike Tyson, Kota Cowboys fan after the
Speaker 1: Saints whipped the Asses. I guess the Dacor's at the
Speaker 1: super Dome wasn't quite strong enough that night, so I
Speaker 1: peeled into a six pack of full Locos and ship
Speaker 1: got real weird after that. So, as far, as you notice,
Speaker 1: is down the road down anyway. This week's South Louisiana
Speaker 1: Fishing Report is brought to you by my ex old
Speaker 1: lady Shantell. I'm back in her good graces again. She
Speaker 1: finally let me go over to a place and pick
Speaker 1: up some rods and reels I left over there a
Speaker 1: while back. So I brought her a bushel of crabs,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we're back to getting along. So
Speaker 1: shout out to her for that. Unfortunately, she already pawned
Speaker 1: my generator. But like the good Lord says, I'll forgive
Speaker 1: and forget. Speckled trout was on fire last week. If
Speaker 1: you could get away from the dirty ass river water ship.
Speaker 1: I had to run all the way to Gosha Island
Speaker 1: to find clean water. But we was catching trout every
Speaker 1: cast as fast as you could throw for a while.
Speaker 1: The main thing is to have good lives shrimp under
Speaker 1: a popping cork or a Carolina rig. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: take the rode to Gosha, and make sure you bring
Speaker 1: plenty beer, because you could skin eighteen deer and the
Speaker 1: time it takes to get all the way to out there.
Speaker 1: My little cousin Timmy said they're wearing the snapper out
Speaker 1: on the rigs outside of out West Pass. Red snapper
Speaker 1: season opened a couple of weeks ago, and it's a limit.
Speaker 1: Every time they go. The man grows a biting good too.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.
Speaker 1: He told me bring a bucket of macaroni and cat
Speaker 1: food for chump. Then little love it. It pulls him
Speaker 1: off the rig faster than the backseat bang on prom night. Now,
Speaker 1: the red fishing hadn't quite picked up yet. The damn
Speaker 1: grass in the ponds is so thick this year thanks
Speaker 1: to global warming or whatever it is. We never had
Speaker 1: a cold winner, so the grass never died back, and
Speaker 1: the reds hadn't got in there thick yet. Best bet
Speaker 1: for Red's it probably to stick to the lakes with
Speaker 1: a dead shrimp under a cork. How alight, my boy, Rodney.
Speaker 1: When you get down around Shell Beach, she's got fresh
Speaker 1: shrimp he's selling right off the boat. Look for the
Speaker 1: boat called the Coolga Hunter. When you get down to
Speaker 1: the dock. It's freaking Africa hot right now. So get
Speaker 1: out real early or late in the afternoon. You're still
Speaker 1: gonna be sweating your ass off, but it's worth getting
Speaker 1: a few fish in the box. And if you don't
Speaker 1: get no fish in the box, how my boy Joey
Speaker 1: Campo he shot fifteen wild pigs last night and he
Speaker 1: don't feel like cleaning them all. Just bring you ice chests.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much it for this week's report. As always,
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank my unofficial sponsors, Milla High Life,
Speaker 1: Ugly Stick Rods and the tackle section at Walmart. Now
Speaker 1: look holler at me if you want to go fish.
Speaker 1: They took my captain's license away for a little incident
Speaker 1: involving a fifth of vodka and too many red bulls.
Speaker 1: But I'm running trips under the table and I could
Speaker 1: put you on them. I can't actually give him a
Speaker 1: number out here, but you know, just hang out at
Speaker 1: the McDonald's a mirror until you see my truck. It's
Speaker 1: the white GMC with the dark tent all around all right. Later, wait,
Speaker 1: the cat food and the macaroni as snapper chum. That
Speaker 1: was bullshit, right? Oh absolutely not, man, that's that's real. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've I've been down that road that works. I love
Speaker 1: the Louisiana Meat Fishing Cruise because they're loaded with all
Speaker 1: sorts of tricks like that to get it done. They
Speaker 1: ain't coming back empty handed like that. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just not an option, even if that means switching from
Speaker 1: the ugly stick to like an a R fifteen. Man,
Speaker 1: I've seen some ship down there, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: that does fit all right. Like I said, I've only
Speaker 1: been there once, but the dude I fish down there
Speaker 1: was so dialed, so die hard and so deadly, and
Speaker 1: and it kind of seemed like that whole catching release
Speaker 1: fishing culture hadn't really caught on. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I was coming from Montana, where most people treat trout
Speaker 1: like faberge eggs, and my man Shane just started ripping
Speaker 1: reds a tossimate in the cooler. Yeah, that's how you
Speaker 1: do That's definitely how they do it down there. And
Speaker 1: I've been out with guides that end up catching more
Speaker 1: than the clients, especially if the clients are rookies, because
Speaker 1: it's this, it's this, this is the truth. Man. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be the guide at the lodge that
Speaker 1: evening that didn't limit that's no bullshit. It's unacceptable like
Speaker 1: among guide pools down there. But you know, honestly, I'm
Speaker 1: all about catching and releasing fish to protect fisheries and
Speaker 1: being smart about harvest and all that good stuff. But
Speaker 1: I will also house some red fish on the halfshell.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah. And on that note, let's move on to Finclips,
Speaker 1: the part of the show where we tell you everything
Speaker 1: you never thought you wanted to know about a fish
Speaker 1: you may or may not have heard of. And this
Speaker 1: week we're talking about a fish that you might want
Speaker 1: to think twice about eating. This week we're talking about fugu,
Speaker 1: a fish so delicious it might kill you or maybe
Speaker 1: just get you real high. Fugu is the Japanese term
Speaker 1: for puffer fish, and it has long been a delicacy
Speaker 1: charged with a hint of danger and a lot of hype.
Speaker 1: Puffer Fish contain a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin that's lethal
Speaker 1: to humans. Ingestion causes loss of muscular control, so the
Speaker 1: victim slowly stops being able to breathe, but remains completely conscious. Worse,
Speaker 1: tetrodotoxin poisoning has no anted out or treatment, So why
Speaker 1: would anyone eat this fish? See? The toxin isn't found
Speaker 1: in the meat, It's concentrated in the liver, ovarise eyes
Speaker 1: and skin. The flesh, when prepared correctly by a trained chef,
Speaker 1: is perfectly safe and supposedly really delicious. A firm white
Speaker 1: meat that's usually eating rob but sometimes blanched to fried,
Speaker 1: fubu has long been a delicacy in Japan, Korea, and China,
Speaker 1: but the fish gain global notoriety in seven when a
Speaker 1: famous Japanese kabuki actor died from eating it. Legend has
Speaker 1: it that if you consume just a tiny amount of
Speaker 1: the toxin, your mouth and tongue go numb and you
Speaker 1: catch a unique buzz, and like other drugs, the more
Speaker 1: you consume, the higher your tolerance. Back then, it was
Speaker 1: fashionable in certain circles to have the chef makes a
Speaker 1: small amount of fugu liver with the soy sauce that
Speaker 1: you dip your meat in. Chef's got to know their
Speaker 1: regular customers levels of tolerance and adjusted their dosage accordingly. Apparently,
Speaker 1: this actor, like so many others, odeed on his favorite
Speaker 1: drug has just happened to be a poisonous puffer fish
Speaker 1: instead of heroin. Today, the Japanese government strictly regulates fugu
Speaker 1: sale and consumption. Chef's train for years to become licensed
Speaker 1: food cutters, and playing Russian Roulette with liver in the
Speaker 1: soy sauce is no longer kosher these days, Fugu poisonings
Speaker 1: are almost exclusively the result of d I y mishaps,
Speaker 1: much like backyard moonshine blindness here in the States. Fun
Speaker 1: side note turns out that humans might not be the
Speaker 1: only creatures dosing tetrodotoxin for fun. A BBC film crew
Speaker 1: making a TV series about dolphins witnessed a pod passing
Speaker 1: a puffer. According to an article in the UK's Daily Mail, quote,
Speaker 1: they nudge the fish with their snouts and as the
Speaker 1: toxin is released into the water, they seem to lapse
Speaker 1: into a trance like state. The dolphins were filmed gently
Speaker 1: playing with the puffer, passing it between each other for
Speaker 1: twenty thirty minutes at a time, unlike the fish they
Speaker 1: had caught as prey, which were swiftly torn apart. End quote,
Speaker 1: I myself have gotten numerous puffer fish us lee when
Speaker 1: I was getting my ass kicked by bone fish and
Speaker 1: need a little confidence booster. Like bone fish, puffers come
Speaker 1: up onto shallow sandy flats to feed on shrimp and crabs.
Speaker 1: Unlike bones. They're incredibly easy to see, pretty difficult to spook,
Speaker 1: and eat just about anything you put in front of them.
Speaker 1: They also fight like well, they actually fight exactly what
Speaker 1: you would expect a balloon full of water with tiny
Speaker 1: little fins to fight like. Pretty underwhelming so far, I
Speaker 1: haven't been adventurous or desperate enough to try and eat one.
Speaker 1: As an American, I prefer to have my food kill
Speaker 1: me slowly. Uh. Question for you, I'm a batanman. You're
Speaker 1: gonna say, yes, you ever seen The Serpent in the Rainbow. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I have. It's been it's been a at least twenty years,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I remember that was that West Craven. Yes,
Speaker 1: great movie about voodoo in the Islands and foogoo powder.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the starring role, Like that's how
Speaker 1: they turn people into zombies that I forgot all about
Speaker 1: that kids Urpen in the Rainbow rent at a blockbuster. Um. Anyway, anyway,
Speaker 1: up here, right, we we actually target puffer fish all
Speaker 1: the time. It's actually a big deal, like this, this niche,
Speaker 1: little Northeast thing. But of course are puffers, which are
Speaker 1: northern puffers. They don't contain the toxin they don't have
Speaker 1: the poison, and dude, they are delicious. And when you
Speaker 1: clean them, you leave the tail on and the finished
Speaker 1: product looks like like a chicken drumstick, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because they're small, Yeah, and the meat just
Speaker 1: runs along the back, so the way when you clean them,
Speaker 1: it just looks like a chicken drumstick. And you target
Speaker 1: them with super tiny hooks and little pieces of shrimp,
Speaker 1: and they tend to come in the summer and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a big deal. Like you'll see reports like
Speaker 1: you know, Baze loaded with puffers, you know, And so
Speaker 1: they are so good, I highly recommend them. So eating
Speaker 1: northern puffer fish great idea. Eating fugu kind of bad idea.
Speaker 1: Pissing off pissing off your fishing guide or charter captain
Speaker 1: also a bad idea, which leads up to this week's
Speaker 1: smooth move, nice segue, Joe. Why this is the part
Speaker 1: of the show where we call up one of our
Speaker 1: guide or charter kapner outfitter buddies and uh and have
Speaker 1: them tell us a story about one of the most
Speaker 1: ridiculous things they've had clients do on the boat. Every
Speaker 1: good guid or outfitter has amazing stories about clients doing
Speaker 1: stupid things on the water, and we love to bring
Speaker 1: those to you. This is smooth Moves, and today we're
Speaker 1: talking with our good friend Alvin Dido. Alvin, how's it going, man? Man?
Speaker 1: It is just going great today. Oh. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever heard you say anything else. And all the
Speaker 1: times we've hung out, it's you don't have bad days,
Speaker 1: do you, dude? If I'm alive, it's a great day,
Speaker 1: except for maybe the occasional hangover day. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: you get out there, you get on the water usually
Speaker 1: usually clears you up pretty good. Yeah. I could be
Speaker 1: having a bad day and here Alvin sam having a
Speaker 1: great day and I'm like, now you know I am
Speaker 1: now too, just the way you said that, just positive vibes. Man,
Speaker 1: that's right man, you put it out there, you make
Speaker 1: it happen. As a as a long time guide, I
Speaker 1: know sometimes you have clients to do their best to
Speaker 1: make your great day not so great. And we brought
Speaker 1: you here to tell us one of those stories. Man,
Speaker 1: what do you got? What's your smooth move? All right?
Speaker 1: So this this was a pretty awesome smooth move. It
Speaker 1: was in the boat adjacent to my boat, one of
Speaker 1: my guide buddies. So I got to witness this and
Speaker 1: this was this was so smooth. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I wish I had it on film. So my buddies
Speaker 1: got his client in the back of the boat throwing
Speaker 1: a spin and rod. We're fishing for bass. He's using
Speaker 1: a fluke, you know, plastic artificial and it's super weedless.
Speaker 1: But in order to hook the fish, you have to
Speaker 1: really set the hook, you know, so that that hook
Speaker 1: pokes through the plastic and actually hooks the fish. And
Speaker 1: this guy in the back of the boat, um, he
Speaker 1: would see the the bait disappear, bright pink bait, so
Speaker 1: you know the the you know the guys like, all right, dude,
Speaker 1: when you see that bait disappear, set the hook. Bait
Speaker 1: would disappear, and he just started reeling with the rod,
Speaker 1: just pointed right at the fish. You know. The fish
Speaker 1: never got hooked, just spits it out over and over again.
Speaker 1: So finally I see my buddies getting a little frustrated
Speaker 1: with the guy. So he goes, hey, dude, look, here's
Speaker 1: the deal. When you see that pink thing disappear, you
Speaker 1: got to rear back, set the hook and get that
Speaker 1: fish hooked and get him in the boat. You know.
Speaker 1: So dudes like, all right, all right, I think I
Speaker 1: got it. I think I got it. So about five
Speaker 1: minutes later, massive bass smashes his bait. He rears back,
Speaker 1: sets the hook so hard that he falls over out
Speaker 1: of the boat. I look over, I hear a splash,
Speaker 1: and the dude its feet are sticking straight up in
Speaker 1: the air. Luckily, luckily it was in fairly shallow water.
Speaker 1: So he stands up, and of course he hooked the fish.
Speaker 1: That time, reel's fishing, gets back in the boat, sits down.
Speaker 1: My buddy turns around, looks at him and goes, all right, dude,
Speaker 1: next time, I want you to set the hook almost
Speaker 1: that hard. When he landed the fish. Yeah, he made it,
Speaker 1: the fish man. He set He finally set the hook.
Speaker 1: You know, Now, once you get that hook set, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's all over that that is that
Speaker 1: is a true smooth move there, Like falling out of
Speaker 1: the boat. Manage you get the fish in. That's that's quality.
Speaker 1: Stood up soaking wet, you know, pieces of weeds and
Speaker 1: stuff dripping off his face and everything. But he landed
Speaker 1: the fish. He did sport about it? Or was he
Speaker 1: embarrassing it wrecked his day? Oh? No, dude, he was.
Speaker 1: He was a good sport. He's like, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think, uh think I get what you're telling me.
Speaker 1: Taking off of eleven, dial it back to eight ish, Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: He had a great rest of the day. You know,
Speaker 1: we're in Texas. It was it was warm, it was nice.
Speaker 1: A little dunk just said him straight, have you have
Speaker 1: you ever fallen out of the boat, Joe? You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's strange, man, You think they'd be a write
Speaker 1: of passage for hardcore anglers, but I never have. I've
Speaker 1: done that. I've gotten stuck with a lot of hooks.
Speaker 1: That's also a write of passage, obviously. And I've come
Speaker 1: close to fallen out of the boat many times, though
Speaker 1: it's never actually happened, but I have been knocked off
Speaker 1: a few jetties during my younger stupider surfcasting days. Man
Speaker 1: about you, have you ever gone full man overboard? I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that while he was telling that story,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember. I can't personally remember ever falling
Speaker 1: out of the boat, but I remember I will my
Speaker 1: buddy will never let me live this down. Because when
Speaker 1: I was first learning to row a drift boat, I
Speaker 1: I did smash a rock so hard that I launched
Speaker 1: this friend of mine completely clear over the gunnal and
Speaker 1: right into the Madison. And it was so his wife
Speaker 1: was hooked into the biggest brown shout of her life
Speaker 1: at the time. And I was so focused on trying
Speaker 1: to get that fish landed that I just completely missed
Speaker 1: this boulder and I ted that thing like full on
Speaker 1: t boned it on the chine and he was already
Speaker 1: leaning over with the net and just ejected, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of saved it because it was like, well,
Speaker 1: now you're out of the boat, you got the net,
Speaker 1: you might as well get the fish, and and it
Speaker 1: all worked out. But no, he hasn't let me. He
Speaker 1: hasn't let me forget about it. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: remind me never to let you row my boat. But
Speaker 1: quick up better. I know I know you have. But
Speaker 1: with safety lesson, they're all the same because I've run
Speaker 1: into similar issues, like, no matter where you are when
Speaker 1: you hook a fish, just just put the damn anchor down,
Speaker 1: because I've done the same thing. You're so wrapped up
Speaker 1: in the fight that it's it's it's like all that matters,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I've I've rammed some stuff in all of
Speaker 1: my boats. Alright, enough about falling out of boats. Let's
Speaker 1: stay in this metaphorical craft that we're calling a podcast
Speaker 1: because it's time for fish news. Fish news that escalated quickly,
Speaker 1: all right. For this segment, Joe and I have compiled
Speaker 1: what we think are the most interesting fish related news
Speaker 1: stories that we could find this week, the catches that
Speaker 1: neither of us know what the others about to say.
Speaker 1: So this is really just a little a little friendly
Speaker 1: competition between the two of us to see you who
Speaker 1: can who can bring the most interesting and and entertaining topics,
Speaker 1: And we're just hoping that we don't steal each other's thunder. Really,
Speaker 1: but how you feeling this sweet show? You think you
Speaker 1: think you got the goods? I think I do. I'll
Speaker 1: also add that um on a weekly basis, it's not
Speaker 1: always easy to find like super awesome fishing news. There's
Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot of so some of these
Speaker 1: it's fun because it's like how can I stretch this
Speaker 1: to be entertaining? Because there are there are a lot
Speaker 1: of slow news weeks and fishing as we're learning. But
Speaker 1: I'm feeling confident I let this off last time. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna, you're gonna kick. And and to be clear,
Speaker 1: it's fish news, not fishing news, because I think you know,
Speaker 1: some of mine might be a stretch to call them
Speaker 1: fishing news. I'll just be honest about that right now.
Speaker 1: And most of us are interested in fish, all right,
Speaker 1: So Joe, I'm gonna start this with a little, uh,
Speaker 1: a little word association game. All right, all right, what
Speaker 1: comes to your mind when I say carp trash? Not
Speaker 1: that I think they are, but it's just that's just simple,
Speaker 1: just just trash. Uh. Yeah, I think that's fair. But
Speaker 1: I got I noticed that that there are three things
Speaker 1: you didn't say. You didn't say nanotechnology, mechanical engineering, or
Speaker 1: futuristic super armor. The last one, the last one would
Speaker 1: have been the next thing I said, but I I went,
Speaker 1: truly the thing that popped into my head. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's probably because you didn't find The study that
Speaker 1: I did out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explains
Speaker 1: how this group of researchers used advanced X ray imaging
Speaker 1: techniques This is like super science fiction stuff too. They
Speaker 1: used advanced X ray imaging techniques to figure out the
Speaker 1: secrets of carp scales. It turns out the carp scales
Speaker 1: and and a lot of other fish scales are incredibly
Speaker 1: tough and yet very flexible, much like me. There, puncture
Speaker 1: resistance to a plyability ratio is better than any armor
Speaker 1: that humans have been able to invent so far. Right,
Speaker 1: So this is this is all in the realm of biomimicry.
Speaker 1: I gotta say that's wrong, man, because I've seen arrows
Speaker 1: bounce off a lot of ship but they correct. Hold on,
Speaker 1: just let me get there you alright, alright, alright. This
Speaker 1: is all coming out of of the area of study
Speaker 1: called biomimicry, which is the emulation of model systems and
Speaker 1: elements found in nature to solve complex human problems. Right.
Speaker 1: The thinking here being that the process of evolution has
Speaker 1: had a pretty long period of of of trial and
Speaker 1: error to figure out what works and what doesn't as
Speaker 1: far as as life on our planets concerned. So you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we should look to natural systems for design principles.
Speaker 1: In this particular case, these researchers are looking at how
Speaker 1: common carp scales can help us design better armor, right,
Speaker 1: And the idea of using fish scales as a blueprint
Speaker 1: for armor is actually really old. Scale armor was popular
Speaker 1: with the ancient Romans, Persians, and Byzantines. It's been around
Speaker 1: for more than three thousand years. But this new researches
Speaker 1: is like it's taken it to the next level. And yeah,
Speaker 1: some other people like Joe out there are probably going like,
Speaker 1: oh man, it can't be that good us seeing carpet
Speaker 1: killed with bows and arrows all the time, and yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you're right. Common carp scales can't like force a compound
Speaker 1: bow arrow to bounce off as they occur in nature.
Speaker 1: But we're not talking about covering your body in carp scales,
Speaker 1: Joe and sending you out to the field of fire.
Speaker 1: That's not what this is the idea. The idea is
Speaker 1: to borrow the design of carp scales to make armor
Speaker 1: from different materials that could withstand the force of an
Speaker 1: arrow shot from a compound bow or maybe even like
Speaker 1: you know, around from a high powered rifle without the
Speaker 1: weight and rigidity of current armor. Well, go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 1: fish like As of right now, that super the super
Speaker 1: dupercarp armor doesn't exist. Don't go out looking for it.
Speaker 1: You can't buy car like supercarp armor yet. But the
Speaker 1: researchers have finished mapping the fiber structure of the scales
Speaker 1: and they're now working on how to reproduce them with tougher,
Speaker 1: tougher materials, So we might actually have like carp armor
Speaker 1: in our future fighting forces. Well, okay, and that's cool,
Speaker 1: Like I think that's neat. But what it's got me
Speaker 1: thinking about is, if you're gonna do a study like that,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you agree? Like several other fish come to mind
Speaker 1: right away that if I was going to study their
Speaker 1: scale structure and how it relates to making armor, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been carp. Like dude, alligator gar black drum
Speaker 1: you could play. I mean, like, dude, I've clean big
Speaker 1: black drum in South Jersey. They're tough, man. This this
Speaker 1: study actually did say like I didn't have time to
Speaker 1: get into all the details. They started with arapaima because
Speaker 1: those things are like crazy armored, but I guess they
Speaker 1: were just too complicated, like they couldn't figure it out,
Speaker 1: so they had to step it down to something a
Speaker 1: little simpler that or they or they didn't have the
Speaker 1: budget to go where Arapaima live and do this study there,
Speaker 1: Like you guys got thirty bucks. Figure it out. There's
Speaker 1: a ditch out back. I support there, We'll study them instead. Now, dude,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating. I just it's just strikes me as odd
Speaker 1: that carp of all things. Yeah, I mean I think,
Speaker 1: like I said, I think that that is striking the
Speaker 1: balance I want you can understand from when I read it,
Speaker 1: striking the balance of not so complicated that they can't
Speaker 1: study it, but also has a lot of the characteristics
Speaker 1: that they wanted. Right. They went into all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy detail that I didn't bother. But it's it's really
Speaker 1: interesting how the different layers of the scales fused together,
Speaker 1: going from like really rigid to really appliable, and that
Speaker 1: allows those fish to be able to move. But still,
Speaker 1: you know, like have predators teeth bounce off of them again? Right, Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so with that said, I know somebody who who probably
Speaker 1: wishes they had some carp scales wrapped around their leg
Speaker 1: not too long ago. And this story has been all over,
Speaker 1: but we can't I can't not bring it back up again.
Speaker 1: You got to bring it up. It has to because
Speaker 1: it's just so unique and I've got so much to say.
Speaker 1: That was a really good segue, by the way, like
Speaker 1: nicely done taking that, and yeah, that was well done.
Speaker 1: I was straight off the cuff. Dude, man nailed it,
Speaker 1: Thank you. This is coming from the New York Post.
Speaker 1: Not even the lakes are safe this summer. Now, there's
Speaker 1: been some sharp ark attacks, right, pretty bad one up
Speaker 1: in Maine. But Kim Driver was standing chest deep on
Speaker 1: the beach at North Star Village along the Winnipeg River
Speaker 1: near Minaki, Ontario, when she was attacked by a musk
Speaker 1: a lung fish commonly known as a muskie which had heads.
Speaker 1: Musk along attacked by a musk along, which had heads
Speaker 1: resembling alligators and can grow up to six ft long
Speaker 1: and weigh more than fifty pounds. Now quote here, All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, she just said, someone, not something, Someone's
Speaker 1: got my leg. And I don't know why, but that
Speaker 1: just brings to my mind, like the the dingo took
Speaker 1: the baby. Quote someone's got my leg. Dingle took the baby.
Speaker 1: And then she started screaming and her arms went up
Speaker 1: and she went underwater, and uh, we all kind of
Speaker 1: stood there in complete disbelief and didn't know what was
Speaker 1: going on. Kim's husband, Terry told Vice, now you've probably
Speaker 1: seen the pictures a lot of us. I mean the damages.
Speaker 1: No poke, right, says Kim suffered extensive damage to her
Speaker 1: right leg and was taken to the hospital. And then
Speaker 1: Terry tear as I like to call him, goes on
Speaker 1: say it completely engulfed her calf from pretty much need
Speaker 1: an ankle. Uh, nobody's ever seen a musky t bone
Speaker 1: someone's calf. Now, the way I'm reading and interpreting this
Speaker 1: is that this muskie actually pulled Kim under allah the
Speaker 1: little kindner boy in Jaws, which I find a little
Speaker 1: hard to believe. I don't know, maybe right like she
Speaker 1: she she was not like a super petite lady, and
Speaker 1: I can understand if this was a little kid. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the story is this. Meanwhile, Terry
Speaker 1: is out for revenge. The couple plan on visiting the
Speaker 1: lake this weekend, and while Kim said she will stay
Speaker 1: out of the water, Terry said, I might throw a
Speaker 1: couple of musky lowres in that particular area and see
Speaker 1: if I can get a little bit of payback. You won't, Terry.
Speaker 1: That's my prediction, because muskies just sucked, and I'm convinced
Speaker 1: they'll be quicker to eat the curly tail grub you're
Speaker 1: throwing for croppy is on six pound tests or your
Speaker 1: wife's leg faster than a proper musky Laura fly. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if he was going to be really serious
Speaker 1: about this, he might have to say, hey, honey, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna need a chunk your leg. We need
Speaker 1: some bait. We know what it's after, bloods in the water.
Speaker 1: He's already had a taste of you. He'll come back
Speaker 1: for more. This is totally some ship that would happen
Speaker 1: to me, and it would happen on day five of
Speaker 1: another Musky list Musky fly fishing bender like zero action,
Speaker 1: but my my, my foot would get severed or like
Speaker 1: I tossed the ships who in for a cool dip
Speaker 1: and down would go scribbles, no shaking, no tender rice,
Speaker 1: like the irony, the whole thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm sorry, dude, Like I've said this before,
Speaker 1: so I don't mind saying it again to me. I
Speaker 1: think muskies are overrated and I'll put that on record, Like,
Speaker 1: I personally would much rather spend serious coin to fly
Speaker 1: up to Saskatchewan, you know, and spend three or four
Speaker 1: days reefing on forty plus inch pike, then spend three
Speaker 1: or four days trying to get one muskie to you.
Speaker 1: But that that's just me. But that's what they do.
Speaker 1: They bite your leg, they killed the dog. I remember
Speaker 1: that story story. You can throw them bucktails all day
Speaker 1: long and they don't give a shit. Yeah that I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, they've seen a zillion bucktails. They haven't
Speaker 1: had very many dogs, snacks like, I can understand them
Speaker 1: once some diversity and the like. Screw those things. I've
Speaker 1: eaten those before. Nothing good happens out of that. I
Speaker 1: cannot agree with you, though, because but it's partially because
Speaker 1: of my history, Like I got bit by the musky
Speaker 1: bug when I was probably seven years old. You have
Speaker 1: not been able to shake it. And I just got
Speaker 1: done filming the episode that you all of you out
Speaker 1: there will get to see. And I know what a
Speaker 1: pain in the ast they are. And that's still I
Speaker 1: can't quit them. Yeah, I just I can't quit you. No, no, no, dude.
Speaker 1: And and and I get it right, I like to
Speaker 1: joke around and mouth off about my my disdain for muskies.
Speaker 1: But again that's also just geographical. Like if I grew
Speaker 1: up in the Midwest, in Minnesota, Wisconsin, I would be
Speaker 1: that guy, and we have plenty of them here on
Speaker 1: the East Coast, but there's so many other things, like
Speaker 1: people always bust there like you still haven't have you
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I haven't, but I could have
Speaker 1: if every time I had free time to go fish.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm doing nothing but that until it
Speaker 1: gets done. But I see, I can't bring myself to
Speaker 1: do that now, like a little musky here, a little
Speaker 1: musky there. But I also recognized that's not the way,
Speaker 1: like the the way to get things done if you
Speaker 1: really have a musky goal. I mean I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd agree with that. I'd say that
Speaker 1: a healthy balance is good in anyone's life, no matter
Speaker 1: what you're doing, and that includes fishing. And you should
Speaker 1: fish for musky when it's fun, and then when you
Speaker 1: get annoyed, go grab some worms and fill a cooler
Speaker 1: with pan fish and giggle like a four year old kid.
Speaker 1: That's what I think you should do. You gotta get
Speaker 1: that balance in there. That's just my opinion. I hope
Speaker 1: we will continue to cover musky and pike attack stories
Speaker 1: because they are endlessly interesting to be And this one's
Speaker 1: different than anyone I've ever seen. Like you hear a
Speaker 1: lot about oh it was attacking the someone was was
Speaker 1: you know, had their fingers in the water and saw
Speaker 1: some jewelry and that bit the finger and cut the finger.
Speaker 1: This is a different level of musky aggression you think
Speaker 1: about it. Even if the report is three quarters true,
Speaker 1: that had to be one big ass musky. That wasn't
Speaker 1: the thirty two inch or that will be my first
Speaker 1: fly musky after all that time in Afria. No, No,
Speaker 1: definitely not. That was really not a small one. One
Speaker 1: thing I will say is that that now is the
Speaker 1: time to go musky fishing. Uh. Musky populations in North
Speaker 1: America are in better shape than they've been in in generations.
Speaker 1: They're doing really well. That we are living in the
Speaker 1: golden age of musky fishing, But we're we're not living
Speaker 1: in the golden age of of reefs. Reefs are not
Speaker 1: doing that great right now. And I'm gonna throw another
Speaker 1: question out as I get into the story for you personally,
Speaker 1: are you you kind of strict me? Maybe maybe you're
Speaker 1: you're kind of a probiotics guy. Spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time thinking about your your gut biome. Oh, I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time thinking about my gut but just
Speaker 1: more so how awful it is. My gut biome lives
Speaker 1: on cheese kords in line in Google's I wish it
Speaker 1: once cheese currents. I don't have those here. I just
Speaker 1: do Freedo's. Uh notcho cheese damp Those are delicious, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not really into probiotics either, but this
Speaker 1: story has got me thinking about prob probiotics and maybe
Speaker 1: being more of a fan in than in general, because
Speaker 1: you know how, like you know, of the planet's coral
Speaker 1: reefs are dying as we speak, and you know how,
Speaker 1: like coral reefs are home to of all the marine
Speaker 1: life on the planet, including some badass fish that we
Speaker 1: both like to catch. Indeed, well so, this research team
Speaker 1: that includes members from Brazil, the US, the UK, and
Speaker 1: Australia recently found that feeding corals probiotics improves their health
Speaker 1: and helps them survive stresses, including heat stress, which is
Speaker 1: one of the main things killing off all the reefs.
Speaker 1: So far, yes, yes, so far this is only worked
Speaker 1: in a lab setting, But the researchers are are when
Speaker 1: they can find a way to scale this up and
Speaker 1: and use it to help combat the massive reef die
Speaker 1: offs that are happening everywhere. So I read a couple
Speaker 1: of articles on this, and I'm gonna admit something I
Speaker 1: didn't actually dig up, like the peer reviewed journal study.
Speaker 1: I just I just read the articles about it. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that going around now, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, just in general, was peer reviewed stuff
Speaker 1: just whatever is on Facebook. That's really hard. You know.
Speaker 1: It has a lot of big words in it, and
Speaker 1: I don't I'm I'm scared of them, but uh, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that they're not actually going out and
Speaker 1: like spreading yogurt on the reefs. That's just an analogy
Speaker 1: so that stupid non scientists like me can better understand
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Like, no one's going out in the
Speaker 1: Great Berry Reef with ocean tankers full of that that
Speaker 1: that awesome yogurt, you know, the one with the kangaroo
Speaker 1: on the label and just closing the reef down with
Speaker 1: like a covering it. But that that is the image
Speaker 1: that I cannot get out of my head, and I
Speaker 1: wish that's actually what it was. So that's my question.
Speaker 1: Do they talk about how they would on a grander
Speaker 1: scale administer something like that. The At this point, what
Speaker 1: I understand is that their their bacteria right there, these
Speaker 1: these beneficial bacteria that when they add them into these
Speaker 1: closed systems like the tanks that they're growing this reefs,
Speaker 1: and that the coral that had these these beneficial bacteria
Speaker 1: added into those tanks, we're better able to survive stress.
Speaker 1: So there was no talk about the actual mechanism for
Speaker 1: deploying this at this point. I think they're still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the details that I think all they've
Speaker 1: got so far is like, hey man, we got this
Speaker 1: bacteria that makes the coral stronger. What are we gonna
Speaker 1: do about it? Because this might help? And I hope
Speaker 1: they figured out and and again I'm sure it's not
Speaker 1: like a yogurt blaster, but I kind of wish it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's what I buy for myself as those squeeze
Speaker 1: yogurts dan And there's no probiotics in that, but it's
Speaker 1: just like one like squeeze coral reef talking about yeah,
Speaker 1: go gurt, go gurt. I forgot about gogurt. They tried
Speaker 1: to make it interesting for the kids by putting somebody
Speaker 1: with a skateboard helmet on it. You don't need those
Speaker 1: fre doos. Here's some go gurt. It's cool to go gurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah ah man, Well, I mean they that that's good news,
Speaker 1: and we certainly need that. I just hope that some
Speaker 1: day I actually end up in one of the places,
Speaker 1: like I've never fished the Great Barrier or anything, So
Speaker 1: I hope they figure it out and I get there.
Speaker 1: But that costs a lot of money. That's why I
Speaker 1: car like to go back to your other story. That's
Speaker 1: why I carp fish and don't do arapaima. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean here. But I like knowing that they're there.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel good. Well, okay, if that makes
Speaker 1: you feel good. So not only are we gonna save
Speaker 1: the reefs with go gurt, Okay, we're also going to
Speaker 1: lessen the strain on the fish on those reefs because
Speaker 1: in in what could be the most revolutionary thing to
Speaker 1: ever happen to fishing. Kevin Kevin Harrington, a former Shark
Speaker 1: Tank Shark and the man behind the as seen on TV.
Speaker 1: Brand has just put his super Angler trusted stamp of
Speaker 1: approval on the bait Tenader hook, the baiton eader that
Speaker 1: that just makes me think of Bacon Eader like Wendy's
Speaker 1: has got to be coming for this guy. It's a possibility.
Speaker 1: He's he's got more money than Davy Crocodile. He'll take
Speaker 1: Dave Thomas down like it ain't no thing. And this
Speaker 1: comes from the news center at pr Web and quote Harrington. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: ordinary jay hook's result in gut hooking fish, which critically
Speaker 1: injures them and oftentimes leads to their deaths. He explains,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm excited to tell you about baiton eader
Speaker 1: fish hooks perfect for catching release fishing. Baiton Eader wait
Speaker 1: is the only j hook on the market that greatly
Speaker 1: reduces gut hooking fish. Now, so we're clear, it's still
Speaker 1: a fully barbed, big ass jay hook. But here's the
Speaker 1: magic alright, So follow with me. Picture this in your head.
Speaker 1: Picture a small plastic bell, okay, and your line is
Speaker 1: attached to the top to the narrow end of the
Speaker 1: bell when there's an islet up there, and inside the
Speaker 1: bell is a metal rod that goes down the center.
Speaker 1: It's got a spring around it, and the jay hook
Speaker 1: connects to the bottom of the metal rod at the
Speaker 1: wide end of the bell. So what you do is
Speaker 1: you keep threading corn kernels on the hook and up
Speaker 1: the rod, thereby compressing the spring within the bell. So
Speaker 1: each time a wiley bullhead rips the kernel off the
Speaker 1: tip of the hook, another colonel just slides right into place,
Speaker 1: just slides right down the rod in the place. So
Speaker 1: the reason at least I'd say the baton eader greatly
Speaker 1: reduces gut hooking is because between the spring mechanism constantly
Speaker 1: feeding corn down the hook and covering the tip, plus
Speaker 1: the fact that only the very tip of the hook
Speaker 1: protrudes past the bottom lip of the bell. Of side
Speaker 1: effects may include the baton eator never actually having the
Speaker 1: ability to get into fishes mouth, never hooking a fish.
Speaker 1: All you'll do is feed bait to fish. So exactly,
Speaker 1: So that's that's why it's it's genius if you just
Speaker 1: if you literally just want to feed them. And the
Speaker 1: quote says, spend less time baiting and more time fishing.
Speaker 1: Harrington summarizes, but most importantly, help save and protect our
Speaker 1: fish for future anglers. Um but per the per the video,
Speaker 1: it only seems to work with corn, and the clip
Speaker 1: focuses on catfish being caught at what, to my eye
Speaker 1: is a pay leg where nobody ever went ever to
Speaker 1: catch and release anything. Ever, So, according according to the story,
Speaker 1: the full baiton Neator infomercial will air very soon across
Speaker 1: cable networks and social media platforms, which we we know
Speaker 1: means just one thing. Okay, two to three weeks from
Speaker 1: right now, one of our headlines is destined to read
Speaker 1: man combines power of tack to bite fish, call rattlesinker,
Speaker 1: mighty bite, one shot bait bullets, and the baiton Neator
Speaker 1: hook to catch everything fish in Lake Winnipesauke twice. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, the so I bullhead catfish. I can see
Speaker 1: it maybe working, But can you imagine trying to sell
Speaker 1: that to one of the finished fishing guys, like like
Speaker 1: a highly pressured bass lake or a walleye lake or
Speaker 1: a permit fishery, Like those fish are not gonna eat
Speaker 1: a bell shaped plastic cone. Yeah, that's basically you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about like a mini parking cone with like a
Speaker 1: couple of kernels of corn sticking out of the bottom,
Speaker 1: and they gotta come eat. They have to not be
Speaker 1: wigged out or scared of the whole mechanism. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm calling bs on this whole thing. I don't buy
Speaker 1: it at all. I mean, maybe prove me wrong. Here's
Speaker 1: what I'll say, Prove us wrong, send us what we're missing,
Speaker 1: because clearly either we're missing something or this is like
Speaker 1: the worst fishing lure idea since the banjo minnow. Prove
Speaker 1: us wrong, you see, see if we're gonna get off here?
Speaker 1: But that actually bend or middle. I know because that
Speaker 1: was a precursor to some serious swim baiting technology before
Speaker 1: the other things. I've talked for years about buying all
Speaker 1: this crap and doing videos, and then I realized four
Speaker 1: billion people have already done that, and I'm just going
Speaker 1: to be a follower taking them down. Uh, the bait
Speaker 1: neater doesn't actually interest me as much as the tack
Speaker 1: to bite fish call. Have you've seen that? Which is
Speaker 1: a speaker that you throw out midst sounds? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean just real fishermen don't don't buy this stuff.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, like I don't know spend
Speaker 1: less time baiting and more time fishing. It's got a
Speaker 1: nice ring to it depends on the baiting. It's a
Speaker 1: great tagline. I'll give him that. It's a great tagline.
Speaker 1: I fully endorsed their typeline. Well, dude, these were good.
Speaker 1: We didn't overlap and uh this was Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: another successful great segways. We're just killing the segways. But anyway,
Speaker 1: now I got to bring the temperature of the room
Speaker 1: down because from breaking the Internet with fishing gimmickry to
Speaker 1: breaking the Internet with skills for days, I unfortunately the
Speaker 1: one that has to tee up our new segment trolling
Speaker 1: with Lance don't you laugh. Don't laugh. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: all of you are already familiar with Internet fishing phenomenon
Speaker 1: Lance V. And if I'm being honest, this is why
Speaker 1: I'm pissed. I was totally against this segment. I really
Speaker 1: wanted absolutely nothing to do with this because our budget
Speaker 1: here at Bent is kind of dog shit and the
Speaker 1: only way to get a celebrity quote celebrity celebrity bullshit
Speaker 1: like Lances to just fully pay up right, And this
Speaker 1: is like we pissed away months on negotiations. We had
Speaker 1: to deal with his lawyer who was subsequently his mom.
Speaker 1: But Miles thought it was worth it because in the
Speaker 1: modern age, being a successful Internet fisherman is probably more
Speaker 1: important than most of you than being real fisherman. And
Speaker 1: Lance and Lances obviously the Tony Robbins of Internet fishing.
Speaker 1: Wisdom to the land, to the boats, to the like,
Speaker 1: to the sea, getting up the n on net put
Speaker 1: your boy lads, what's up? Wanna beast? Welcome back to
Speaker 1: trolling with Lance. I'm Lance Vie, better known as Extreme
Speaker 1: Hog Ropers nine because when I'm not winning an Internet
Speaker 1: fishing I'm either roping hogs or sixty nine in probably
Speaker 1: with your mom hashtag mill squad. Today, I'm gonna teach
Speaker 1: you how to comment on YouTube videos. Most of you
Speaker 1: put no thought or effort into this valuable and important craft.
Speaker 1: You just vomit whatever bullshit comes to the top of
Speaker 1: your head through your little keyboards. Harmless, right wrong. You're
Speaker 1: ruining the Internet and wasting my time making me scroll
Speaker 1: through your useless words. Typing nice fish bro or great
Speaker 1: video shows everyone who knows anything about Internet fishing that
Speaker 1: your opposer. YouTube comments were invented for one reason, and
Speaker 1: one reason only, to prove you're better than other anglers
Speaker 1: by pointing out everything they do wrong and insulting their
Speaker 1: little bitch egos. Your job is to tear down all
Speaker 1: who threatened you. Wish your be everybody with a YouTube
Speaker 1: fishing channel. If you're a genius like me in the
Speaker 1: Google squad hashtag Google for life, you'll find endless ways
Speaker 1: to attack and harass other people's VIDs. But here are
Speaker 1: my top five starting points from those of you who
Speaker 1: don't have the natural gift of shipping on other people
Speaker 1: that I do. Numero one fish size, duh, this is obvious.
Speaker 1: Everyone else is fish or small no matter what, even
Speaker 1: if they look big. You claim wide angle lens is
Speaker 1: fully extended arms, or my favorite small hands. I always
Speaker 1: have hold it closer to the camera. In a word document,
Speaker 1: ready to cut and paste into the common section of
Speaker 1: any given video hashtag tiny hands, Numero dose technique. In
Speaker 1: any fishing video, you can find something that could have
Speaker 1: been done better casting, fish, fighting, lipping, flipping, or netting
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. Think of this like a treasure hunt.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in that half hour video is a mistake. It
Speaker 1: might be in the corner of the frame for half
Speaker 1: a second, but I promise it's there, you just have
Speaker 1: to find it. When you do, you can prove to
Speaker 1: all of YouTube that everything that person does or says
Speaker 1: is bullshit, because seriously, who needs to look down to
Speaker 1: find their trolling motor pedal? Only a loser who doesn't
Speaker 1: know anything about fishing. Hashtag it's under your foot nw
Speaker 1: merrow trays gear. If everything but the rotten reel isn't
Speaker 1: a Google Squad product, it's useless, period. Tell everyone new
Speaker 1: Merrow four hot spotting. Look really hard at the background
Speaker 1: of every bid. If you find any landmark, a rock,
Speaker 1: formation of building, a damn, a sewer treatment plant, a tree,
Speaker 1: really anything at all that could be identified by the
Speaker 1: human eye, calling a spot earner for giving away intel
Speaker 1: on your super secret spot if you legit know the spot,
Speaker 1: totally naming in the comments and add that you've been
Speaker 1: fishing there for years. If you have no idea, put
Speaker 1: them on notice by just commenting I know where you're at.
Speaker 1: When they follow your comment looking for verification, do not respond.
Speaker 1: They'll lose sleep over that ship. Hashtag burned hashtag keep
Speaker 1: them guessing Numero five Arino hashtag it if you can't
Speaker 1: find anything at all to talk about a video, which
Speaker 1: is super rare. I pull from a stack of hashtag burns,
Speaker 1: whether they fit the FID or not. Examples include hashtag
Speaker 1: bed snag and hashtag private pond, hashtag stocker, hashtag anyone
Speaker 1: can hire a guide, hashtag live bait, hashtag pet pass,
Speaker 1: hashtag skinny sprinkle them shits around man like Benjamin's in
Speaker 1: a trap video. Remember, no one reads YouTube comments or
Speaker 1: any Internet comments to feel better about themselves or humanity.
Speaker 1: The whole purpose is to remind us why we all
Speaker 1: hate each other. Comments offers a safe space where you
Speaker 1: can attack of the people without having to back any
Speaker 1: of it up with facts. Please use the comments section
Speaker 1: as God intended. Hashtag Jesus take the wheel. That's it
Speaker 1: for this week's edition of Trolling with Lands. As always,
Speaker 1: Joe and Miles, You're welcome. I'm the only thing given
Speaker 1: this lame ass podcast any Internet cred I keep doing
Speaker 1: this and sell them part of the goon Squad, which
Speaker 1: just totally happening. I meant Andrew Flair to Wendy's about
Speaker 1: a year ago. He was totally into my ship, So
Speaker 1: hashtag googn takeover. Well, uh, I mean Lance definitely said
Speaker 1: some words and I mean, I guess I think I
Speaker 1: think most of those were were words. What you just
Speaker 1: said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I
Speaker 1: have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent
Speaker 1: response were you even close to anything that could be
Speaker 1: considered a rational thought. Joe, I know you've you've posted
Speaker 1: a few fishing videos to YouTube couple in your past.
Speaker 1: Lance ever throw any shade your way? You know, I'd
Speaker 1: have to go back and look through the comments. But
Speaker 1: I mean, the dude so all over the place, so ubiquitous,
Speaker 1: he probably did. I I don't know if it's if
Speaker 1: his lance, but I may or may not have been
Speaker 1: the victim of a few hashtag pet bass and hashtag
Speaker 1: pet trout in my day. You know. And now that
Speaker 1: I understand that that's a strategy of internet fishing pros,
Speaker 1: I feel less hurt by them. I'm like, Oh, that
Speaker 1: guy wasn't really he was just doing his thing, you know,
Speaker 1: he was actually smart strategy. It's a strategy, it really is.
Speaker 1: So every tackle shop and fly shop you've ever been
Speaker 1: to has a sale bin, right, well, all the good
Speaker 1: ones I go to, Yeah, except most of most of
Speaker 1: the time they're just filled with junk that nobody else
Speaker 1: wants or needs. So welcome to our version of that,
Speaker 1: the digital saleban, if you will. Why did you put
Speaker 1: the hand to pay? You don't know what I'm getting, man,
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be so hurtful with me so angry.
Speaker 1: Miles and I are both devout garage sale shoppers. We
Speaker 1: love a good flea market. My my vintage tackle collection
Speaker 1: is vast, but COVID sadly has largely robbed us of
Speaker 1: the pleasure of digging through someone else's trash bare handed
Speaker 1: looking for that special something, which means I've spent a
Speaker 1: ton of time on Facebook, Marketplace, let Go, and Craigslist
Speaker 1: during this pandemic just to try and get some kind
Speaker 1: of fixed. But it's it's just not the same, man,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? No, I mean I used
Speaker 1: to buy the vast majority of my fly time materials
Speaker 1: at garage sales because it's so cheap and and those
Speaker 1: materials are so expensive if you buy them from a store,
Speaker 1: and not to mention like, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: in doing that digging, I'd come across stashes of federally
Speaker 1: banned stuff like polar bear fur that you can't get
Speaker 1: but Joe I. I. So far, anyway, I have not
Speaker 1: been able to get into the online shopping thing. It's
Speaker 1: not the same, it doesn't bring the same satisfaction. I
Speaker 1: spend enough time staring at screens all week and I
Speaker 1: just I don't want to do that on my days off.
Speaker 1: It's not fun for me. No, I get it. And
Speaker 1: what I do is I find things that I get
Speaker 1: excited about, and I'm like, oh, man, that's the thing
Speaker 1: I'd hope to find in person someday, not in this Like, man,
Speaker 1: I would love to find that at the flea market.
Speaker 1: But most of the time I don't buy anything. But
Speaker 1: as I've been digging through these online selling platforms, you know,
Speaker 1: while you you find a gem on occasion, right, most
Speaker 1: of what you find is total trash, just the most
Speaker 1: ridiculous fishing related ship out there. And some of it
Speaker 1: is so bad that I can't help but make fun
Speaker 1: of it, Okay, And that's essentially what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: And this is great because whenever we think of it,
Speaker 1: whenever you think it will add to the comedic value,
Speaker 1: Miles and I will reach out, posing his interested buyers
Speaker 1: to engage the seller and coax out more information it's
Speaker 1: basically giving us license to jack with people. And we
Speaker 1: started doing that with a lady in Gainesville, Florida, whom
Speaker 1: threw up a post on Facebook marketplace and the title
Speaker 1: reads antique pre ninety h N. L. Leonard Rod Company
Speaker 1: Phishing Vest excellent condition. It's like, oh, that sounds cool.
Speaker 1: That's a cool vintage item to super vintage bro. But
Speaker 1: I sent this post to Miles with no further explanation
Speaker 1: to see how long it took him to figure out
Speaker 1: why this is so ridiculous. I should I should give
Speaker 1: some context that the Joe, ever since he came up
Speaker 1: with this idea, has been sending me a number of
Speaker 1: these ridiculous posts just to sell me on why this
Speaker 1: would be a great segment. And most of them are
Speaker 1: completely obvious, Like I looked at it and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. We can definitely make fun of that. But
Speaker 1: this one I really had to think about. So picture
Speaker 1: this the main photo, the primary photo that has put
Speaker 1: up online to sell This is just a close up
Speaker 1: of the tag that the tag that's sewn inside of
Speaker 1: the vest and it says H. L. Leonard Rod COO
Speaker 1: Midland Park, New Jersey, size extra large, and I didn't
Speaker 1: get it. I'm thinking, I mean, we we make fun
Speaker 1: of fishing vests on this show, we do that with
Speaker 1: some consistency, and I was thinking Joe was trying to
Speaker 1: build off of that joke, but I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: see how it was funny. And then I kept reading
Speaker 1: further down and there's another little tag below the main tag,
Speaker 1: and it says machine washable in mild soap at medium temperature.
Speaker 1: Do not spin, dry, tumble dry at low setting. Garment
Speaker 1: may be pressed with a warm iron. And then I
Speaker 1: kept reading down and re read the title of the post,
Speaker 1: which again is antique, at which point all the stars
Speaker 1: lined and I realized how ridiculous this is, because because
Speaker 1: there's no way in hell that are vest comes with
Speaker 1: machine washing instructions. North Tide Pods in the longer description
Speaker 1: read antiqu high quality fishing vests made in the early
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred. It's parentheses no later than or so closed
Speaker 1: parentheses one years old, and it's an absolutely excellent condition.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know why because obviously whoever bought it followed
Speaker 1: those instructions, they didn't machine washing because machine washing machines
Speaker 1: didn't exist exactly, So that is why it's museum quality.
Speaker 1: But I was like, oh man, this is so perfect, honey,
Speaker 1: you're victim number one. Gotta be So I sent a
Speaker 1: little note and I said, Hi, I collect vintage tackle,
Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering how you know this is pre
Speaker 1: Can you verify that in any way? And she fired
Speaker 1: right back and she says, I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time trying to find that answer, but it's been a
Speaker 1: while and I can't remember at the moment. Give me
Speaker 1: a few and let me get back to you with that.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and end conversation. She's not getting
Speaker 1: back to me with that. She knows she's just been busted,
Speaker 1: and uh, end of the line for me. And dude,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it? Six hours later, it was like midnight.
Speaker 1: Here my phone pings and it's her, and I have
Speaker 1: to read her her follow up response in the inflection
Speaker 1: in which I feel like it would have been delivered,
Speaker 1: and said, sir, you already knew I was wrong about this,
Speaker 1: didn't you. Didn't you? And then she quickly tacked on
Speaker 1: a longer explanation to make herself not seem dumb. And
Speaker 1: it was like, last time I misunderstood I thought that
Speaker 1: because he he I guess meaning H. L. Leonard closed
Speaker 1: his business around that time, that no more products were
Speaker 1: made afterwards in his brand, which to me is like
Speaker 1: saying every four It must be because that's the year
Speaker 1: Henry Ford passed away business. He just died. The business
Speaker 1: kept going. It's just it's just a classic like Zinger Zanca.
Speaker 1: I love a good zonking, and now I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: do it because I need to tell you people about
Speaker 1: my zon Kings. It won't just be uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for not anyway, we need your help with sale bin. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if you find some bizarre, funny, downright idiotic, or
Speaker 1: for that matter, like super cool must see items for
Speaker 1: sale online locally, please please please send the link to
Speaker 1: bent at the meat Eator dot com so we can
Speaker 1: not only highlight them here but then also mess with
Speaker 1: people in your hometown via messenger. But as usual, we're
Speaker 1: gonna close out the episode with the end of the line,
Speaker 1: well it's not allowed enough. Did you know that I
Speaker 1: was in a punk band in high school that covered
Speaker 1: the theme song to Fishing with Orlando Wilson. Now you do,
Speaker 1: but not only where many pits opened up at firehouses
Speaker 1: and Legion halls across New Jersey because of Orlando. Old
Speaker 1: Orlando also taught me the power of the Zoom super fluke. Now,
Speaker 1: there are many versions of this tapered soft plastic darting
Speaker 1: gliding bait fish imitator on the market today, and what's
Speaker 1: interesting is they're all lumped together as flukes, right, much
Speaker 1: like any brand of cotton swab is called a Q tip.
Speaker 1: But only Zoom makes the original super fluke. And while
Speaker 1: I've tried countless similar baits, the O G reigns supreme
Speaker 1: for me. There's something about the density of the plastic
Speaker 1: that makes it sink quicker and wobble different than others.
Speaker 1: And I also swear it darts and cuts at sharper angles.
Speaker 1: Then similar quote flukes. Now, Orlando Wilson was fishing them
Speaker 1: on a jig head for Southern sea trout, which I
Speaker 1: adopted back in the day for weak fish and stripers.
Speaker 1: I guess we're talking late late nineties here, But in
Speaker 1: those early days, I've come to believe in the versatility
Speaker 1: of the fluke. Rigged weightless on a wide gap hook,
Speaker 1: it'll walk like a spook on the surface and get
Speaker 1: crushed as it flutters on the drop right, pinned through
Speaker 1: the nose on a small finesse hook, it'll twitch like
Speaker 1: Linden Blair with a splash of Holy water man. From
Speaker 1: snakeheads to stripe as small as to pickle. I can't
Speaker 1: think of many fish that I can't get to chew
Speaker 1: a fluke. Honestly, I never really go anywhere without at
Speaker 1: least one bag of Flukes in white. If you're salty,
Speaker 1: bubblegum mathiholate that's a good color too, But you shouldn't
Speaker 1: go anywhere without a pack of white Flukes. And I
Speaker 1: know some of you are gonna say, whoa, what about
Speaker 1: the best assassin man? What about the live target ghost
Speaker 1: tail minnow that costs eleven dollars per pack? Yeah? Those
Speaker 1: are all good. I fished those. Those are good too,
Speaker 1: They're just not as good as the original Zoom super fluke.
Speaker 1: Did you seriously do a punk cover of the theme
Speaker 1: song to Fishing with Rando Wilson? Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Damn right, we did, dude, And here's how it went down.
Speaker 1: I remember very clearly. We did this thing where every
Speaker 1: band member got to write down a song he wanted
Speaker 1: to cover, and we threw them in a hat and
Speaker 1: that was mine and it got picked. Eyes were rolled.
Speaker 1: But fair is fair and um the band side of
Speaker 1: creative differences a few months later and split up. No, no,
Speaker 1: no connection, I'm sure. Uh listen. I went to I
Speaker 1: don't know how many punk and hardcore shows I went
Speaker 1: to as a teenager in the nineties, usually a decommissioned
Speaker 1: naval peers for the red that's that's cool of the
Speaker 1: Legion halls. Great acoustics, man. Uh. But and I was hid,
Speaker 1: like my secret fishing addiction from my cool punk friends.
Speaker 1: So I think that's badass. And and I would have
Speaker 1: gone absolutely ape ship had one of those bands I
Speaker 1: was seeing covered the Fishing with Orlando Wilson. Themes so
Speaker 1: well done on your part. I wish you'd grown up
Speaker 1: where I did and you were at those shows, like
Speaker 1: maybe you're voicing the awesomeness of that would have kept
Speaker 1: a band together and and being would I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: here doing this ship right now. I'd be the next Blinks.
Speaker 1: Thanks for nothing. I mean, I just want the money.
Speaker 1: I don't care about their music anyway. Those were the days,
Speaker 1: and I think about them often, and I actually missed
Speaker 1: them dearly. But life moves on, and so does this podcast.
Speaker 1: That wraps up another episode. We hope you got something
Speaker 1: out of it, even if only a few minutes of
Speaker 1: fury screaming at no one about what we got wrong,
Speaker 1: anything along those lines. And if that was you, if
Speaker 1: you were the ones screaming into the void, tell us
Speaker 1: you don't have to be in void. Tell us personally.
Speaker 1: We will listen. Let us know what you liked, what
Speaker 1: you hated, what we messed up, and you know, generally,
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Speaker 1: if you like this show, tell two friends about it,
Speaker 1: then they'll tell two friends and so on. I really
Speaker 1: want to make a coronavirus Joe here, but it's it's
Speaker 1: just not that it's not that funny anymore. So I'll
Speaker 1: let it lie. Thank you for listening, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: go fishing.