WEBVTT - Ep. 83: Hickory-Smoked Parachute Pants 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.680 Thick ass wuthering heights in Jane are not dog like. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.039 I got stockers to catch. I ain't got time for that. 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.240 It looks like you try to catch somebody's ship zoo 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:22.080 with a hat exactly, remember, yeah, yeah, with the zebra stripes. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.400 Yeah yeah, yeah, of course, real quick if you're the 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.760 listener already crafting an email in your head telling us 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.480 what your interpretation of the old man in the sea 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:36.400 has stopped. Yeah, good morning to generate anglers, and welcome 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.360 to Bent, the Fishing podcast that swears to God, if 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.839 you reel that barrel swivel into the tip guide one 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.280 more time, it will not take you out for froyo. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.440 When we get back to the dot, I'm Joe Surmeli 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.880 and I'm Hayden Samac and uh and doesn't like that 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.040 they what do you call the f g eliminate that 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.920 issue like an instentirety. Yes, technically, yes, there's several mainline 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.400 the leaders places out there these days that, if tied correctly, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.240 will allow you to reel the knot all the way 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.399 up onto your reel. But I brought up the swivels 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.840 in the tip top guide because here's the thing, um, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.080 I think people have actually gotten so used to line 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.319 to line connections, especially newer anglers, that if they do 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.040 end up using a rig with a barrel swivel like it, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.160 it just simply does not compute. Right, Like I learned 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.240 to fish with the barrow swivel connecting my leader to 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.200 the mainline. And you know what, like two palamar knots 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.480 against the quality swivel is a damned strong connection. Some 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.120 may even argue stronger than any line in line connection. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.560 And I never, I never, or very rarely, only by mistake, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.120 ever reeled my swivel into my tiptop. I was just 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.920 like cognizant of it and knew not to do that. Yeah, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.880 I mean, I don't think that it's because beginners are 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.920 like used to line to line. That's probably a large assumption, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.280 that is fairly big. But I mean, like, really, a 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:58.160 swivel in is uh not great? No, no, no, no no, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.320 I mean it is the easiest way to cracker chip 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 the insert your tiptop guide. Which is why though getting 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.880 back to beginners for just one sec, you will rarely 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.760 see a charter captain rig his rods with barrel swivels 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.480 for his leader. For that reason, because I've been out 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.960 there and all day long, it's just click tink, click, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.640 and one can only uh, you know, say, don't reel 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.359 the swivel into the tip top guide. So many times, um, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.480 I've experienced that on on my boats. Uh and every 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.480 time you hear it, like you just you just WinCE. Um. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:28.680 And I don't know, to me, it's just not that 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.200 difficult to remember. Yeah, yeah, I mean i'd agree with that. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.120 But have you ever gotten any sort of like legitimate 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.080 damage because of somebody really or because you or somebody 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:45.040 barring your gear? Really? Yeah? No, totally. Um. I I 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.560 lent a surf rod to somebody one time, right, and 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.920 the next time I used it every third cast like 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.000 my ship is just flying off. I'm just like sending 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.200 storm shads off into the distance. Um. And it takes 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.760 a second so you finally figure out, like ship, there's 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.280 a hip in the tip top guide. And I guarantee 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.440 it's because that dude was reeling his swivel in. Um. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.440 So here here's a hot tip, right, And something I 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.120 don't do often, but if if I'm going to be 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.880 fishing in the dark on the surfer sake, going like 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.600 popping for tune, it's something that really matters. When I'm 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.320 packing up my rods, I run a Q tip around 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.280 the inside of each guide, and if there's a chip 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.440 or a crack, it usually phrase the Q tip Because 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.560 to go back to that night on the beach, like 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.280 I mean, I had no I had to go home, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.160 Like I didn't bring to nine ft surf rods. I 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.840 just brought one to go fish for the night. So 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.680 the night was kind of shot, you know. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.360 but like I feel like I feel like it's got 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:45.120 to be like some sort of like mcgiver fixed to that. Yeah, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.200 but see, not a great one in my opinion. Like, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.080 if you have duct tape, you can try wrapping a 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.280 tiny strip around the guide, but it doesn't cast the 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.960 same and the braid will eventually cut through the tape. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.040 Um and those insertain materials are they're so slick that 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.240 even like super like trying to fill it with super 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.400 glimics and stick all that. Well, right, Um, the best 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.480 thing you you could do maybe would just be to 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.640 knock the entire insert out and and and fix the 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.720 whole guide later with the wire frame. Yeah, just fish 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.279 with a wire frame. Uh. And people will likely write 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.279 in with other ideas, but I'm talking about quick fixes 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.200 on the scene. Right. If you can afford to kill 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.880 the time and the hardware stories open, UH, you might 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.760 have better ideas. But I'm talking about midnight, all alone 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.000 on the beach. Um. So this is also why it 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.120 pays to have a good local rod guy. Shout out 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.640 to mine Rick Szakorski of rat Sticks. That dude has 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.440 fixed so many chipped guides for me. Anyway, you must 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.080 have mcgeivered something out there fishing or not. What have 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.440 you mgeivered? Yeah? Well, so I was like elk hunting 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.920 UH in September last year, and I needed to get 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.120 water out of this like little trickle. But it was 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.880 like super shallow. It was just like this little spring 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.040 coming out of this like little seep and it was 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.719 all muddy. So if I like try to like scoop 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.839 my water bottle in it, like I get all sorts 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.480 of yeah, pine needles and ship and um. So what 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.479 I did was there were like some reads next to UH, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.480 next to the water. So I I clipped one of 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.280 these reads with my knife. It was totally hollow in 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.600 the middle. I built up like a couple of rocks 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.200 and like some mud around one end of the read. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.440 Uh let the water build up behind it to the 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.720 point that it went through the read and over this 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.600 little ledge. So now you had like a little spickett 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.160 coming out of this spring. And I used I let 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.760 that run clear, and I used that to fill up 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.560 the water bottle. So that's something I'm scared. I believe 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.160 that there is an exhibit in the Natural History Museum 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.120 of ancient people's doing exactly that. So that is that 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.520 is very good. Anyway, Listen, if you've got a rod 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.479 that's just too beat up, let's say, to be worth 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.920 any kind of costly repairs, how about a new one, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.000 perhaps from our sponsors thirteen Fishing. Um, I don't know 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.480 what it's been like at there. Why I kind of do, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.719 because I mean pictures they we'll talk about in a minute. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.520 I dude, it was it highs in the seventies here 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.760 last weekend, record temps, so uh. I took the old 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.480 oman pan fish and trout rods over the local croppyhole, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.919 thinking they'd be all woke up, but not yet. So 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.719 I got a few good ones ago, but the water 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.719 temps haven't really caught up to the air. But I 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.320 was using the seven foot ultra light model, which is 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.520 fairly slow and um and whippy. But these fish weren't 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.680 like ripping the float under. It was a very subtle bite. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.320 So that flex and softness, um really helped set the 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.479 hook on these fish that kind of like barely had 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.479 these baits in their mouths. So it worked out. The 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.240 uh you know, those thirteen rods are so sensitive that 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.159 me and my buddy Corey, we were we were doing 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:48.960 our last like uh like overnight urbit trip for the Yeah, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.160 I saw what she did. It's cool, tell us tell 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.360 us about it. Well, I'll tell you about what I 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:54.840 think you're talking about, but I'll tell you something that 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.440 was less cool, but nevertheless a testament to the sensitivity 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.160 of a thirteen fishing rod. I was using one of those, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:09.920 a medium action even widow maker dead stick, and we 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.680 were chunking like while we were going to bed in 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.160 like the in like the shels or whatever, and we're 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.080 just kind of like talking and watching our rods, and 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.760 mine just started to go like this. Listeners, you can't 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.160 see it, but I'm like very subtly lifting and lowering 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.200 my extended index finger. Here it looks it looks like 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.120 a swordfish bite on a deep drop rod. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.600 very subtly, and you know, I'd go, I'd pop the 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.600 rod out of the dead stick holder, like real carefully, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.400 so it was not to disturb the bourb but that 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.360 was surely about to get stung. I'd set the hook 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.840 and then nothing. And this happened like five or six times. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.960 It was maddening, and I'm like, dude, I can see 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.440 the bite, but I don't know what's going on. And 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.320 I thought about it for a second, and I remember 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.000 somebody telling me that there were crawfish in the lake 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.760 that would set off their tip ups. What I was 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:05.760 watching was a crawfish crawling onto my bait twenty ft 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.520 down with a medium action rod. Now tell me that 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.440 that's not like a very sensitive ice ory, very sensitive. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.680 And then you go set and he just whooped backwards 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.160 and he's gone. And we found this out by dropping 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.200 a camera down the hole and literally just seeing the 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:26.280 bottom littered with crawfish just crawled. Dud. I'd drill another 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.800 hole and put a trap down. Cold water, crawfish boil, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.680 you bet as soon as ice off, that's what's going 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.640 that's what's going down. And and we ended up we 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.760 caught more than crawfish. On that trip, we caught a 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.559 tagged bourbon. Yeah who tagged that? That was interesting? Like, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.040 who's tagging? Yeah? I don't know. I know that Corey 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.480 submitted the tag to f w P the other day, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.960 so we will I will report back on on what 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.000 came about that. Anyway, we've already shared a couple of 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.320 good tips here, that being always have a camera so 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.520 you can see if you're you're being attacked by cross 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:08.600 or Joe stupid, you know. Guide. So let's carry the 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.560 teaching over. We've got an awkward moment in angling for 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.559 you that captures a teaching moment that, um, it doesn't 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.760 look to be going particularly well. What did you take 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:26.080 a picture? A life? So today's photo comes to us 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.720 from Bent listener Rev. Crimson. Now I don't know if 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.040 that's his real name. Uh though if it is, that's 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.600 totally badass. He may he may be a real reverend, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.720 like an actual man of the Lord, in which case 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.600 forgive us for some of the things we may be 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.360 about to say. Or perhaps it's just a symbolic reverend 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.079 title similar to Rev. Run Run DMC. I think it's 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:50.560 probably that. Yeah, either way, this is a great photo. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.760 Especially if you're a dad. Now I am not a dad, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.480 but this is still a great photo because there is 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.280 a father son moment being captured here. And whereas you 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.680 probably identify with Rev the dad, Joe, I could put 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.200 myself in the in the sun's position just like, just 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.960 like a little bit more easily, it's slightly more recent. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 That's fair. That's fair. Okay, So let's set this up right. Uh. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.400 In the foreground of the shot is Rev's son. He 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.520 didn't provide his name, that's okay, Okay. Now he's a teenager, right, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.000 he's not a little little fellow. Uh. And he's wearing 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.600 a tank top and some some broken in jeans with 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.640 a kind of cloth belt that used to come standard 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.560 on a pair of cargo shorts from Pacific Sunwear. Okay. Uh. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.400 He's wearing a leather necklace. And while the charm at 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.800 the end of it is obscured, right, I'm thinking I'm 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.680 willing to bet just just looking at it, it it is 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.319 a giant one of those giant tribal bone hooks, right, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.000 which is which I assume people wear as a true 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.960 statement of angling prowess, which will make all this funnier 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.000 in just a minute, yeah, so the kids got this 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.040 like wild grown out hair is young is young teenagers 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.800 are sometimes to do. And he's got a flat brim 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.040 hat on backwards, but he hasn't tucked the hair under it, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.880 so it's like one of those things where it looks like, yeah, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.120 you know that look right, Like it's hard to describe, 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.240 and it's like it looks like you try to catch 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:18.120 somebody's ship zoo with a hat and now all you 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.040 can see is just like the tough to fur under it. Anyhow. Yeah, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.040 he's also wearing frameless like Oakley style, and I guarantee 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.800 either gas station beat or sunglasses. And he's he's looking 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.920 down at his hands. Yeah yeah, I still insist on 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.760 referring to those style of glasses as ken Griffe junior glasses. Anyway. Yeah, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.240 so he's looking in his hands and he's fiddling with 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.800 fishing line. Um. The expression on his face is totally blank. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.240 Not much going on there. Uh So now we can 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:53.680 move on to the rev. Rev is the primary focus 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.280 of my roaths because I don't believe in U. If 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.959 say about revs, so I under stand that I couldn't, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.800 so I didn't want want to lay into him too 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.760 hard you know. Okay, So Rev is standing behind him 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.520 and he's doing the open trout vest over a tank 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.199 top thing. Right. His arms are are sternly crossed across 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.720 his his chest. Um, he's wearing a pair of old 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.240 school Vietnam Eric Chamo pants covered up with hip boots. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.800 Let's talk about hip boots for a second. By and large, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.960 you just don't see them in fishing the way you 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.080 used to write, like, I started out as a kid 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.200 with hip boots, but nowadays I feel like the kids 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.240 go straight to chess waiters, just because so many companies 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.719 make little kid chess waiters. Right, did you start with 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.120 hip boots when he first started waiting? Well, you know, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.760 I I like hit boots a lot. And here's why 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.880 if you're kind of doing like a like we've talked 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.960 about how I have an affinity for blue lining brook Trout, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.240 and yeah, that's kind of a waste to wear chess 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.240 waiters for a blue So I get that. In case 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.480 you guys like don't remember, a blue line for brook 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.000 Trout is like or just any trout for that matter, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.559 is finding just a small blue line on a topo 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.160 map and just going in and exploring and hoping that 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.080 there were some fish there more or less. Um, So 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.080 I wear them for that because you can wear your 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.959 hiking boots in pack those hip waiters in just super 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.360 easy and a lot of times you don't need them. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.280 But it's good because a lot of those streams are 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.560 like you know, they have like a you know, maybe 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.599 like a real muddy bank where it's like two and 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.480 a half foot of mud, and even if you were 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.160 in wellies, which you didn't want to hike into in 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.400 the first place, or actually less convenient to carry than 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:39.199 a lot of these breathable like frog TG style hit boots, um, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.480 you going past them and you'd be, yeah, I see, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.320 I see, I see. I just in my observation, I 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.640 see more application in hunting these days because I started 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.280 out with hip boots and inevitably would go in over 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.440 them like it was just not enough coverage, like it 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.679 was just a disaster anyway. So Rev has that totally 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.520 old school like definitely like a or Ohio or West 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.360 Virginia trout fisherman look, and I diget his arms are 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.559 also like covered in tats and I can't make all 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.400 of them out, but I know one is a is 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.040 a big old rose and h Rev has kind of 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.600 a high and tight military haircut. He's rocking some dark 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.680 oval kind of ninety weren't really that man. What they 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.040 look like is their transition lenses, I think, is what's 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.440 going on? You know, you're right, they are transition lenses. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:31.120 But they have that oval like oblong kind of shape about. Yeah. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.600 And he as a killer like what do he called? 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.640 Like the James Hetfield man Chew chew? He has a 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.800 killer fu man Chew. Now most most critically though, Rev's 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.160 head is cocked to the side, looking upon his son 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.400 with a look of complete disdain and frustration. Looks like 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.960 he's in the middle of saying something too. He is, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.040 he is, but here's why here's Rev, Rev writes with 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.400 his photo. The photo is of me and my son. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.880 I have, for the twentieth time that day, tried to 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:09.840 explain how to tie a simple clinch knot, so that 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.040 ties the disdain in the photo together. It's funny. That's 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.640 gonna kind of mess up one of my burns, but 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.360 go ahead, so anyway, he says, anyway always makes me 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.240 laugh when I see it. As a side note, my 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.400 son has since absconded with my new thirteen fishing rod. Hey, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.640 there you go somewhere with your boy lance V. Something 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:33.600 about hashtag Google squad, hashtag chunk bait not hate. Um. Now, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.200 I I understand it's hard to get the full visual, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.120 but Dad's know this look of what the you actually 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.320 doing right now, and it's been captured here perfectly. Like 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.080 I said, I i've i'm i'm personally yet well, no, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.800 that's not sure. I'd give that look to folks all 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.720 the time, but not in a fatherly sort of way. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.680 But I I and I have it on the receiving 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.040 end of it many times myself. Yeah, and Red looks 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.200 like a no bullshit kind of guy, frankly, major dad energy, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.520 as you wrote in your response to him. Um, it 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.920 also looks like like you said, that Rev is mid 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 sentence and I can only imagine the words being uttered. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.640 So now the boy is also in a high pressure 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.680 situation as he tries to tie eight years. Only he 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:20.400 could eat that chicken sandwich. Very impressive. Mike Fitzgiven's son 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:29.440 is a nuclear physicist and my shun kind, so I'm 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.280 very curious about the roast this week. I was gonna 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.280 ask if you're focusing on Rev, but you already said 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.880 on Rev uh my, my new favorite part of awkward moments. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.400 Are you ready? We will put ten seconds on the 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:48.000 clock and go. Dude looks like he doesn't know if 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.960 he's more disappointed than the son's not tying or his outfit. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:58.040 Dude looks like a fisherman character in Apocalypse Now. Dude 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.040 looks like Dude looks like the love child of Bob 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.719 the Garbage Man and Mike i Canelli. Oh my god, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.080 you'll see it when you see the photo. Dude looks 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.880 like he's halfway through a rant about how not strength 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.760 is bogus and that big fishing just wants you to 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.840 tie complicated not so you spend more time tying and 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.199 less time fishing in an effort to save fish as 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:24.480 part of their secret green agenda. Wow, that was masterful. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.399 Was that the last one? That's the last one. I 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.560 spent some time on that. That was masterful. That was masterful. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.280 Oh my god, that was really good. Um wow, you 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.040 like you like took the spit out of my mouth. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.080 That was so good. Anyway, Rev, thanks so much for 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.040 sending that one in. I'm sorry. If the boy is 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.160 going the way the Google squad, that's just too bad. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.120 Tie him up, Rev and make him watch Roland Martin 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.960 DVDs for a few hours. You'll get him back. Um. Hey, 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.639 if you've got a good shot of yourself about to 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.560 open up a can of whoop bass on your child 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.040 while fishing, do please send it along to Bent at 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:00.000 the Meat Eater dot com. So that was a little different. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.800 I enjoyed that one. That's for all the dad's um 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.399 and moms right out there. They get it. And if 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.200 you don't have kids yet, despite how you you may feel, now, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.919 believe me, the day will come that no matter how 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.359 much you love your kids, you will find yourself, um 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.320 asking them if they are stupid, Like that's gonna happen 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.280 you just are you stupid? It just happens naturally. So 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.600 so why I appreciate that photo from Rev so much? 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.720 Man that that realization comes to some quicker than others. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:32.120 Just ask my dad anyway. I've been asking myself if 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.400 I'm stupid all week long after hearing from you guys 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.120 about the Trojan Brook Trout story I covered last week. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.200 So find out if I'm competent and qualified or not. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:49.439 In this week's installment of fish News, fish News that 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.680 escalated quickly alright, so correction time. This happens on occasion. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.760 Maybe this is less of a correction than just a clarification, 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.720 but the masses have spoken and I shall respond. Uh. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.600 Last week I covered the story of the Trojan brook trout, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.720 and while discussing how brookies found their way out west, 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.800 I said that the Mississippi River acted as a natural barrier. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.960 In other words, you have all these native brookies in 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.600 states east of the Mississippi, right Uh. And while they 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.920 could conceivably reach the Mississippi, the chances of them populating 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.800 the western side of the country that way are are 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.560 pretty slim for a bunch of different reasons. Temperatures, predators, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.800 all that stuff. Right. Um, well, everyone, everyone jumped up 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.800 and said, whoa buddy, there are native brook trout in 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.120 the driftless area of Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa, and 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.479 uh guess what, they live on the west side of 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:45.639 the Mississippi. So you're wrong. Um, And okay, apologies Driftless 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.679 area anglers. You are correct. But where I failed was 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.399 to specify that the Mississippi River, when referring to to 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.280 all the states east of it, which have a lot 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.720 more wild brookies than than the Driftless, right, you guys 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.600 have your own strain up there. Um. The point the 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.440 article was making that I pulled from was that brookies 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.040 were populated in the west by people bringing them from 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.520 the east, where you know. Once again, um, there are 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.880 a lot more Brookies than just in the Driftless. So yes, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.040 there are brookies west of the Mississippi and the Driftless, 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.600 but even there, the Mississippi is still kind of a barrier, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.560 like the Brookies and the Driftless would have to have, 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.080 you know, gone through generations of travel hell to populate 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.879 waters all the way out west. So basically, I'm saying 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.720 I apologize for forgetting our friends in the Driftless in 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.800 that little trout country surrounded by walleye and muskie country. Um, 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:36.680 it was just a little out of context, But I 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.840 fished in your waters. I love them dearly, and I apologize. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.720 You do have wild brookies, native brooks. Yeah. I like 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.320 the guy that pointed out that you had talked about 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.240 catching tiger trout in the Driftless and was like, dude, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.920 do the math in reverse. Yeah, yeah, you know that's 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.040 I I. Yeah, I just recently did say that, like 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.960 the Driftless is one of the few places that has 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.840 um wild native tiger trout, which would require brook trout. Again, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:06.960 I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry, it will. I think I 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.160 have a slight correction of my own on that same story. 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.639 Somebody brought to my attention that I I I miss 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:18.159 represented wild versus native trout, or like I I like 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.480 slipped and I said wild when I meant yeah, come on, people, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:26.679 get over come on. That happens all the time. Native 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.719 is something that has been here always. Wild is something 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:34.000 that was introduced and has since developed, like a sustaining population. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.520 So there's there's my correction. Joe. We're both we are 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.160 we are both now correct, we are coming correct. Okay, anyway, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.680 enough on that quick. Thanks to everyone that tuned into 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.520