WEBVTT - Ep. 4: Eating Fried Smallmouth off the Waffle House Kid's Menu 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:03.840 I bought him a couple of tubes at Dill Pickle 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.320 Pringles and wish them the best. This looked like a 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:11.080 chicken exploded and someone glued it to a hook. Remember, 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.879 if they don't come to you a stroke a check 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.040 while winding and dining you on a corporate card at 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.520 the Sizzler, you're not actually on the pro staff. If 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.799 you guys know anybody that will trade some rolland Martin 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.759 D b D s first from repair work, you better 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:28.600 hit me up. Good good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.440 to Benton where we dropped to know how to get 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.440 you on a hot bite faster than you can eat 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:38.880 a bag of white Castle burgers. I'm Joe Surmellie Miles Nulty, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.800 and this week we've got a real buffet for you guys. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.240 Except it's not like the expensive buffet at the MGM 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.600 Grand or you get them crampled legs. It's more like 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.559 the buffet at the Flying j the restaurant connected to 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.880 a truckster and you're mostly schemed out. They have good showers, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.600 yeah they Yeah, you can rent them by the by 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.600 the minute. You're mostly schemed out that the choices biffe. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.440 But there are still a few things. You know, you 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.160 just can't help A pile on your plate. You're like, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.520 that's gonna make me vomit. But them chicken feet look 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.160 real good. I'm gonna I'm gonna feel terrible later. But uh, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.600 you know, we've got We've got supy bread pudding, We've 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.119 got shoe leather, prime rib and potatoes salad for days. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.679 But before we hit our main courses, we need to, uh, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.720 we need to help get you guys dialed in with 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.759 a regional fishing report. So we know there's a lot 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.240 of tournament bass fans out there, and Miles and I 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.520 aren't two of them. I know, not at all. I mean, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.479 but to be fair, I have a lot of respect 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:40.000 for those folks. I know that they are incredibly talented anglers. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.520 But it's kind of like how I know that Dave 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.520 Matthews is an incredibly talented musician, but I'm still I'm 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.920 still not listening to Crash into You anytime soon. Like 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.080 I'm not going to play that at my house. It's 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.440 actually crash into me. And I hate that. I know 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.400 that because I don't like I don't like to whatever. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.480 You know what I'm saying, It's terrible so, but but 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.840 I respect the grind completely with these guys. And while 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.200 I enjoy bass fishing myself, um, I never wanted to 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.720 be the thing that helped me pay my mortgage or 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.280 put more frozen chicken nuggets on my kids plates. But 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.600 as you guys know, we welcome all anglers here at 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.560 BAT and we certainly want to cater to the once 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.280 and needs of you bass addicts. And I personally just 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.720 love fishing for large mouth bass. That was probably one 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.360 of the first fish that I just got totally sucked 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.280 into and couldn't get enough of. I mean, to this day, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.920 one of my favorite things in the world is to 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.760 fish a frog through heavy cover and watch a bass 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.400 blow up on it. I think that is one of 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.959 life's great joys, and you know it is. I don't 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.399 care I'm a brown bass guy. I'm a brown bass guy, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.840 but if I'm in the mood, I'll go for the 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:50.560 green ones whatever. I despite your you're throwing shade. Those 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.720 those big mouth bass guys, they know a lot, and 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.799 I respect their hustle, but I've always been more interested 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.320 in that tournament scene from like a like a sociological respect. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.600 It's it's interesting seed weird ship that goes on in 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.560 there that I genuinely don't understand, right, So we want 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.280 to do a segment about it. But since we don't 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:10.760 know what we're talking about, we figured we needed to 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.680 bring in an actual expert. Yeah, I mean, the original 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.680 plan was to get an occasional weekly tournament report from 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.000 one of the top tier pros, but it turns out 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.359 they all require money that we don't have. I don't 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.200 don't have any of that. So this week's tournament report 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.840 comes from a man on the ground, self described pro 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.480 Rant Stimpkins. An interesting story with this kid, which I 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.000 believe I've told you, but I met him at a 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 Dollar General in Stucky, South Carolina a few years back, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.280 and I just I just popped in looking for a 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.520 bottle of tile and all PM, and this Rants kid 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.360 comes up to me, totally invades my personal space and 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.400 he's trying to sell me a radar detector and used 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.440 radar used radar detector right, and spouting off some ship 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.480 about needing a hundred more bucks to get into a 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.920 tournament on Lake Murray, which is bizarre. But he was 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.600 so nice, right like us Northeastern as were all jerks 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.200 and like everybody in the South of so nights. He 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.360 was so nice that I actually felt bad for him, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.880 and I didn't I didn't buy the radar detector because 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.760 I don't need a radar detector, but I bought him 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.760 a couple of tubes of dill pickle pringles and wished 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.040 him the best. And the funny thing is like years 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.919 later he had no idea that was his big break. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.080 Because now we need a legit bass pro to give 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:28.480 us occasional bass reports, so we give you Rants Stimpkins, Hey, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.600 Professional Bicycle or Ranch Stimpkins. Here. Before we get into 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.040 the meat of this report, I've got to thank Evan 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.160 Rude out Boards for always getting me up and down, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.880 like I mean, except for that one time I knocked 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.000 my lower unit off at say Te and had to 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.160 spend the night roped up to some ripper out Other 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.360 than that, though, it's got me back to the ramp 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.040 every time. As I'd like to say, without a Rude 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.200 you'd be screwed. Look, I know y'all are dying for 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.240 this inside scoop on this recent little goat rodeo we 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.880 had at lake Fort Van Dam and Ike and then 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.720 may have had thirty pounds a day, but all rants here. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.840 I was watching them online on Saturday while eating off 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.280 the waffle House Kids menu and home by the time 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.159 they got their checks on Sunday, shame of it is, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.599 I was this damn close again. All right, guys, here's 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.640 what happened. I only had three of my very special 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.160 beat diving crank baits. I'm not gonna tell you which 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.840 ones though, mostly because the company doesn't cut me a 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.279 check yet, but also because I buy the good ones 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.880 on eBay, not those shifty Maiden China ones that don't 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.320 hunt where the ship. I set them on the dashboard 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.320 of my truck until the sharp trouse and blue back 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.920 are perfectly faded and that paints bubbling just a little bit. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.200 It's a deal I learned about from an old timer 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.880 down there on Seminole. Bitch of it is. I gave 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.920 one to my roommate Travis, because he hasn't cut a 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.839 check all year and I need him to stay on 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.560 the road with me. I mean, I gotta split expensive 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.560 with somebody, and I figure it. I guess I can 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.120 beat them semi consistently. So that left me with two cranks, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.120 and I mean I was just apps of lutely smoking 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.840 them on it. In practice. I was feeling myself so 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.040 much that I took the last day of practice off 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.000 while Travis was still pre fishing, hoping he'd left that 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.159 crank I gave him out. I was gonna grab it 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.600 and blame meth heads hanging around the trailer we'd rented, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.200 but he was smart enough to lock it away. And 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.760 then it's a tournament time and I lose one of 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.760 them cranks the first day in morning, and now I'm 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.960 down to my last one. So I start throwing some 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.159 other patterns, figuring that I go back to that crank 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.400 on championship Sunday, get myself a comeback win and basking 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.560 the glory all them people, finally getting to know the 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.560 name Rants Stampkins. Well, I only ended up with one 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.240 two pounder all day, but that didn't give me down. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.400 I mean, this is lake freaking fork, ten pounders growing 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.280 trees around here, and I knew where they lived. But see, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.960 I was boat sixty seven, and by the time I 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.520 got to my spot, there's four dudes already fighting over it. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.000 So I did the sportsman like thing and left. Well, also, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.599 one guy won't name here threatened to have my eighty 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.120 eight Rangers sunk if I didn't get the hell out them. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.760 Veterans are like that, though, but I think they'll come 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.360 around as soon as I get that big win. It's coming. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.120 I can feel it, man. I don't know what happened. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.200 They just quit and I'm a sacred crank. I mean, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.280 I hit all spots where I was wearing them out 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.320 in practice, but I just barely managed a twelve pound limit. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.160 That was the end of it for old rants. I reckon. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.280 But hey, don't worry about me none. I'm keeping my 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.400 head up. I just need a good breaker three and 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.280 a six figure title sponsor. Oh ship. I also need 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.840 to replace the rear suspension in my Dodge. So if 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.080 you guys know anybody that will trade some Rolling Martin 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.480 DVDs for some repair work, you better hit me up now. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.480 Listen here, folks. If y'all want to know how a 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.440 real pro attacks the country's best lakes for absolute fence pandas, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.920 check out my YouTube channel. I mean, I haven't created 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.960 it yet, but I've got tons of footage that will 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.080 blow you all away. Also, a damn Instagram account got 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.480 hacked after I bought a bunch of knockoff Sanko's from 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:53.640 Holly Express, but I'll have that back up shortly. You 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.600 know him, man, I actually believe in rants. I think 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.640 he's rape. I feel good about that, dude. I mean, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.440 I know he's not really pulling it off, but I 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.920 think he's just like one good break away from making 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.320 it and then he can he can retire all those 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.760 second hand jerseys We've been seeing him dumpster dive out 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.280 of the back of sports authorities. It's like the crystal 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:21.120 clear PEPSI jersey. I like that, dude. I think we 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.800 should keep him around. He'll get there, and we should 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.360 keep him around. I'd like to hear from him again, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.720 trying to track his progress, you know what I mean, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.280 supposed to do that. You know what else I think 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.079 we should keep around. The Weekly Words segment, let's do that. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:40.760 Webster's Dictionary defines fish as This week, we're taking a 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.560 look at adipose, as in adipose fin, as in that 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.920 fleshy little nub that sticks up between the tail and 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.760 the dorsal fin of trout, salmon, catfish, in about six 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.360 thousand other less popular fishes. The word comes from the 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:58.120 Latin root at a pimp, which means soft fat of animals. See. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.240 Up until the last twenty years or so, fish reason 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.400 biologists thought that the adipose fin was just a leftover 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.440 fat deposit the natural selection hadn't gotten around to scraping 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.920 off yet like a rubbery little appendix. Turns out that's 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.760 not correct. Recent research has shown that one the adipose 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.840 fin isn't actually made of fat, and two it seems 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.880 to serve some kind of purpose. We're just not entirely 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.880 sure what that purpose is yet. Since at least two 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.839 separate lineages of fish catfishes, and salmon, it's evolved at 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.480 a post fins, it's likely that these warty looking bulbs 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.800 serve some function. Recent findings show that adipose fins are 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.440 connected to the nervous system, and they're mostly found in 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.640 fish that live in moving water. The hypothesis goes that 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.920 they might act as flow sensors, helping fish feel and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.840 navigate current. And that's all well and good for scientists, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.679 but for trout, steelhead and salmon fisherman, the adipose means 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:57.120 one thing, and one thing only wild fish Because for generations, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.480 hatcheries have been cutting the adipose off pen based fish 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.320 so that anglers can tell them apart from the wild ones, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.040 and since wild salmon and steelhad are protected in most 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.440 places these days, the presence are absence of an adipose 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.240 fin determines if you're allowed to keep that fish. It 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:17.480 literally dictates the fate and identity of a fish. West 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:22.240 Coast steelhead Paris will cradle unclipped wildfish with awe and reverence, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:29.040 then chuck aside a mildly mutilated cousin muttering goddamn hatchery rats. Consequently, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.960 those weird little skin tags have become symbols for wildness, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.840 healthy fisheries, and the cultural divide between anglers who fish 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.000 for meat and those who fish for sport. Macro photos 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.280 of adipose fins have become one of the new stand 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.000 ins for grip and grains, especially among the fly fish 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.360 and catch and release crowd. In fact, there's even a 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:52.080 popular driftboat manufacturer out here in Montana called Adipose Boat Works. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.840 We may all have trouble agreeing on the function, importance, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.960 and significance of that little fin, but just about everyone agrees, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.480 myself included, Those are some badass boats. I suspect we 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.600 only care about the adipose fin because we're so obsessed 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.960 with trout and salmon. If that spinal bump only protruded 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.000 off the backs of candle fish and whiskery bottom feeders, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.680 I kind of doubt any of us would even know 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.160 what it's called. As an experiment, I think I'm gonna 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.679 start doing like artsy photos of great catfish nubs glistening 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.640 in the sunlight and see if that catches on. Joe, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.800 what do you think? Um? What I think is that 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.800 they have to refill the catfish nubs tray at the 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.160 truck stop Biffe pretty much every time I'm there, because 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.400 those are delicious. You slap a little Texas pizza and 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 a dash and lemon pepper. Hell, you know, I just 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.199 cut those off like shark fins and let and let 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.000 the fish go when I'm catfishing. That's what I think 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.400 about those catfish nubs. Also, uh, you use the term 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.640 rubbery little appendix. I'm claiming that is the name of 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.760 my next commercial dry fly for the Unquick catalog. So 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.840 please back off, sir, Melie. You know I trademarked anything 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.760 halfway clever that I ever come up with. You know, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.240 how do that? Moving on, let's get the trivia. Uh 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.800 and if I'm not mistaken, we've got one of your 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.719 very best friends playing today, right we do, yes, sir, 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.200 Captain Eric kerber Of on a mission fishing adventures here 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.880 in Jersey, from Striper's to Tuna to Flounder to Fluke. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.640 He's your man, one of my oldest pals, and we'll 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.320 be hearing from from him more in the future, rest assured. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.400 But for now, I'm just gonna try and throw old 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.440 curbs off with a little trash talking slang. You gotta 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.440 be highly skilled for these shows. You understand that if 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.559 I do on there, you're well versed. They are. You're 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.960 very smart man. All right? Playing today, we have one 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.360 of my oldest and dearest friends, Captain Eric kerber Of, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:49.400 on a mission fishing adventures. Jersey Boy, Like me, what's up? Brokayre? 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.520 You ready to play? Guess I'm excited about this trivia 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.520 question because it's like Taylor made for you. As soon 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.800 as I came up with it, I was like, this 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:03.400 is a question for Eric, all right. So I don't know, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.880 I don't know whether you're gonna get it or not, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.480 but you're gonna like it. You're gonna you're gonna use 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.800 it when you're done. All right, So here's here's your 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:15.600 triviuta question. All right. Hollywood is a slang term for 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:20.800 which of the following. A guy that insists every fish 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.359 he swings on is a giant, only to typically backpedal 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.960 and say, man, it's not as big as I thought 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.959 it was. A guy that owns a boat costing more 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.719 than two hundred thousand dollars but has no idea how 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.080 to run it. A guy that insists on keeping the 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.320 clicker on so everyone can hear his fish run. A 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.080 guy who shoots hours of headcam footage while fishing, but 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:49.160 then never edits or posts the video anywhere. Which one 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.800 of those is a Hollywood? Let's say all except d No, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.800 it's not like that. It's on. It's one answer. There's 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.560 no nope, there's no all the above. It's it's a 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.800 specific answer. I'd go with the so be a guy 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.120 that owns a boat costing more than two hundred thousand 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.560 dollars but has no idea how to run it. That 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.680 is incorrect, A Hollywood. Now here's why I thought of you. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.200 Hollywood is a West Coast term, and you spent some 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:23.800 time in California. Living in California, in Hollywood, actually so 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:28.600 on the West coast. Hollywood is the douchir that insists 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.200 on keeping his clicker on so everybody knows that he's 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.800 got a fish running on the other end. That was 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.640 gonna be my second choice, or or the first one. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.880 But I thought of you because I don't know how 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.960 many times you've been out. You're like, turn that goddamn 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.960 clicker off. Clicker off, turn that clicker off. Clicker can 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.320 get it can get a little bit annoying. So now 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.840 this season you can start throwing out Hollywood when all 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.280 your people do that. All right, good attempt, though, thanks 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:08.520 for playing. I like the Hollywood Hollywood. I like that. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 I like that. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.280 wrong though, but yeah, I know, but I would have 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.960 gone with the first one. I would have gone with 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.480 the guy who's like every single fish he swings like 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.520 like he's a monster. I got a big one, but 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.880 I mean probably that's that's because I don't actually use 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.320 clickers ever, so I'm kind of out of my element 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.240 on that one. Yeah, dude, I can't tell you how 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.880 often I've thrown clickers off on my boat, Like when 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.520 you're fishing like a big live bait, like live bunker 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.840 for stripers. You know, if you know what you're doing, 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.680 if you've been doing that a long time, you don't 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.760 even need the clicker. You just feel it. You feel 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.840 it with your thumb. But when you have nubs on 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.200 the boat the clicker, it's less for them and more 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.680 for me. Right, I want to be able to hear 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.120 the tone of the runoff because all I need is 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.400 the audio to know if a striper picked up the 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.240 bait or it's just the bait pulling, Because I mean, 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.040 even with the clicker on, it's like that him, is 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.280 that him? At him? I'm like, no, you'll know it's 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.840 gonna it's gonna it's gonna be a lot higher pitched 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.600 and faster, like that's no, no. And as soon as 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.520 I'm finally like yeah that is him, now set the 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.240 hook and they come tight, I just walk over and 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.120 I'm like, good job. Let me just switch that clicker 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.640 off for your room. Yeah, but then we're gonna you 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.080 do that, But then how how's that news supposed to 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.040 let everyone else know around what a badass she is 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.560 on her first time out. You gotta let him know. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.280 And you're a badass when you get it to the net. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.400 You know what I'm saying. Like that, then you're the 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.600 badass when you put it on the Graham. Anyway, get ready, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.680 because we're about to let all of you know we're 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.720 not just talking about clickers. We are talking about news. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.160 Put on your thinking caps and grab a turkey leg 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.360 while Joe and I joust medieval time style to see 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.080 who brought the best newsy bits to the table this week. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:17:00.800 Fish That escalated quickly, So here we are. We've landed 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.920 at fish News, which, for those of you have been 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.680 following along, is not only designed to keep you informed 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.800 about all things fishing and fishy going on, but I 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.520 also let you in on this little news competition that 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.320 Miles and I have going because we do not know 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.520 which news stories the other is bringing to the table, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.600 which makes this fun. However, before we get into news, UM, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.040 just a quick quick note here that um, we are 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.480 listening to you guys. Okay, since the show has started, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.639 we've been getting a ton of amazing feedback. So I 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.560 just wanted to say, because I don't know if it 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.720 will ever be an actual weekly word, but for the 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.080 like dozens of people from Wisconsin who wrote in to say, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:44.520 please use the acronym FIBs f I b S as 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.639 one of your weekly words. I'm not sure I'll do that, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.760 but I do appreciate it. Um and and that's what 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.480 I guess Wisconsin people refer to Illinois people as, and 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:58.760 that would be effing Illinois bastards. So apparently you guys 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.080 are really digging the derogatory terms for out of staters 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.600 a feedback tidal wave of FIBs from throwing into the inbox, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.520 and we do appreciate it, so we are listening to you. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.000 I just want to give a little bit more context 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.320 on the Pebble Mind permitting situation that I talked about 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.960 last week. A number of you have written to me 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.520 about that one, so just so we're all clear, the 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.440 mining permit was not accepted as written by the Core 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.480 of Engineers, but Northern Dynasty minerals can still change their 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.960 application and resubmit. Point being, this isn't over and we'll 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.119 probably be covering it again. But despite all that, the 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.480 decision last week was still a huge success because you know, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.360 digging was about to start happening imminently, and at least 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.760 we got that stayed. And uh, you know it's just 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.960 another move towards what our ultimate goal is, which again 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.200 we're not finished with, but kind of keeping that mind 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.280 from ever happening at all. Yes, it's a battle one 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.080 within a big war, and it was definitely worthy of 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.399 an extra white claw or two last weekend, So we 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.680 hope you did at and hopefully I won't need a 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.000 few white claws after this because it is your week 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.280 to lead off, and you always want to be the 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:11.399 leadoff man in this news competition. I give you the floor, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.080 my friend. I appreciate. And just so you guys know, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:19.119 we're making a slight change to this segment because you know, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.159 like up until now, we've each just sort of like 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.120 independently claimed victory without any fair judgment and just assumed 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.640 that we both won, but who knows who won right 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.200 and and I don't know about human, but it's starting 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.560 to wear on me, Joe, because I'm competitive and I 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:39.320 want an actual winner. So that's that's fine, you feel better? Well, 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.520 Just so I know, the only solution that we can 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.000 come up with is to bring our very own filled 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:50.640 engineer as judge, jury and executioner moving forward, Phil will 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.040 be the decider and one of us will emerge victorious, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.120 namely me. All Right, I'm gonna start out this week 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.400 with something that's a big problem for many fisheries and 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.760 uh and some new research that just came out that 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.720 might help mitigate that problem. I'm talking about algae, all right. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.320 Algal blooms pose a significant threat to many of our 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.919 lakes and estuaries, which are some of the most fertile 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:22.280 fish habitat in the world. Big blooms can cause big problems. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.640 They can choke out other aquatic plants, produced nasty neurotoxins, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.200 and when they inevitably die off, the surrounding water can 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.480 be completely depleted of oxygen. Red tides are often exacerbated 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.399 by algal blooms, and the growing marine dead zones that 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.480 you may have read about are usually the result of 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.760 those blooms. Between warming water temps and increased fertilizer runoff, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.120 algae blooms have been growing in scope and frequency all 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.640 over the world, a trend that researchers referred to as 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.160 you trophication. If you pay attention to fisheries news at all, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.680 you know what I'm talking about, right. Just two weeks ago, 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.840 there's a massive fish kill reported in Biscayne Bay, Florida. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.120 So far, water quality managers have been the only ones 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.200 working to find solutions for this problem, but a recent 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.600 study out of Sweden suggests that fisheries managers may have 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.720 a role to play in controlling alga blooms as well. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.919