Speaker 1: I bought him a couple of tubes at Dill Pickle
Speaker 1: Pringles and wish them the best. This looked like a
Speaker 1: chicken exploded and someone glued it to a hook. Remember,
Speaker 1: if they don't come to you a stroke a check
Speaker 1: while winding and dining you on a corporate card at
Speaker 1: the Sizzler, you're not actually on the pro staff. If
Speaker 1: you guys know anybody that will trade some rolland Martin
Speaker 1: D b D s first from repair work, you better
Speaker 1: hit me up. Good good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome
Speaker 1: to Benton where we dropped to know how to get
Speaker 1: you on a hot bite faster than you can eat
Speaker 1: a bag of white Castle burgers. I'm Joe Surmellie Miles Nulty,
Speaker 1: and this week we've got a real buffet for you guys.
Speaker 1: Except it's not like the expensive buffet at the MGM
Speaker 1: Grand or you get them crampled legs. It's more like
Speaker 1: the buffet at the Flying j the restaurant connected to
Speaker 1: a truckster and you're mostly schemed out. They have good showers,
Speaker 1: yeah they Yeah, you can rent them by the by
Speaker 1: the minute. You're mostly schemed out that the choices biffe.
Speaker 1: But there are still a few things. You know, you
Speaker 1: just can't help A pile on your plate. You're like,
Speaker 1: that's gonna make me vomit. But them chicken feet look
Speaker 1: real good. I'm gonna I'm gonna feel terrible later. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got We've got supy bread pudding, We've
Speaker 1: got shoe leather, prime rib and potatoes salad for days.
Speaker 1: But before we hit our main courses, we need to, uh,
Speaker 1: we need to help get you guys dialed in with
Speaker 1: a regional fishing report. So we know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of tournament bass fans out there, and Miles and I
Speaker 1: aren't two of them. I know, not at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: but to be fair, I have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for those folks. I know that they are incredibly talented anglers.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like how I know that Dave
Speaker 1: Matthews is an incredibly talented musician, but I'm still I'm
Speaker 1: still not listening to Crash into You anytime soon. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play that at my house. It's
Speaker 1: actually crash into me. And I hate that. I know
Speaker 1: that because I don't like I don't like to whatever.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's terrible so, but but
Speaker 1: I respect the grind completely with these guys. And while
Speaker 1: I enjoy bass fishing myself, um, I never wanted to
Speaker 1: be the thing that helped me pay my mortgage or
Speaker 1: put more frozen chicken nuggets on my kids plates. But
Speaker 1: as you guys know, we welcome all anglers here at
Speaker 1: BAT and we certainly want to cater to the once
Speaker 1: and needs of you bass addicts. And I personally just
Speaker 1: love fishing for large mouth bass. That was probably one
Speaker 1: of the first fish that I just got totally sucked
Speaker 1: into and couldn't get enough of. I mean, to this day,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things in the world is to
Speaker 1: fish a frog through heavy cover and watch a bass
Speaker 1: blow up on it. I think that is one of
Speaker 1: life's great joys, and you know it is. I don't
Speaker 1: care I'm a brown bass guy. I'm a brown bass guy,
Speaker 1: but if I'm in the mood, I'll go for the
Speaker 1: green ones whatever. I despite your you're throwing shade. Those
Speaker 1: those big mouth bass guys, they know a lot, and
Speaker 1: I respect their hustle, but I've always been more interested
Speaker 1: in that tournament scene from like a like a sociological respect.
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting seed weird ship that goes on in
Speaker 1: there that I genuinely don't understand, right, So we want
Speaker 1: to do a segment about it. But since we don't
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, we figured we needed to
Speaker 1: bring in an actual expert. Yeah, I mean, the original
Speaker 1: plan was to get an occasional weekly tournament report from
Speaker 1: one of the top tier pros, but it turns out
Speaker 1: they all require money that we don't have. I don't
Speaker 1: don't have any of that. So this week's tournament report
Speaker 1: comes from a man on the ground, self described pro
Speaker 1: Rant Stimpkins. An interesting story with this kid, which I
Speaker 1: believe I've told you, but I met him at a
Speaker 1: Dollar General in Stucky, South Carolina a few years back,
Speaker 1: and I just I just popped in looking for a
Speaker 1: bottle of tile and all PM, and this Rants kid
Speaker 1: comes up to me, totally invades my personal space and
Speaker 1: he's trying to sell me a radar detector and used
Speaker 1: radar used radar detector right, and spouting off some ship
Speaker 1: about needing a hundred more bucks to get into a
Speaker 1: tournament on Lake Murray, which is bizarre. But he was
Speaker 1: so nice, right like us Northeastern as were all jerks
Speaker 1: and like everybody in the South of so nights. He
Speaker 1: was so nice that I actually felt bad for him,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't buy the radar detector because
Speaker 1: I don't need a radar detector, but I bought him
Speaker 1: a couple of tubes of dill pickle pringles and wished
Speaker 1: him the best. And the funny thing is like years
Speaker 1: later he had no idea that was his big break.
Speaker 1: Because now we need a legit bass pro to give
Speaker 1: us occasional bass reports, so we give you Rants Stimpkins, Hey,
Speaker 1: Professional Bicycle or Ranch Stimpkins. Here. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the meat of this report, I've got to thank Evan
Speaker 1: Rude out Boards for always getting me up and down,
Speaker 1: like I mean, except for that one time I knocked
Speaker 1: my lower unit off at say Te and had to
Speaker 1: spend the night roped up to some ripper out Other
Speaker 1: than that, though, it's got me back to the ramp
Speaker 1: every time. As I'd like to say, without a Rude
Speaker 1: you'd be screwed. Look, I know y'all are dying for
Speaker 1: this inside scoop on this recent little goat rodeo we
Speaker 1: had at lake Fort Van Dam and Ike and then
Speaker 1: may have had thirty pounds a day, but all rants here.
Speaker 1: I was watching them online on Saturday while eating off
Speaker 1: the waffle House Kids menu and home by the time
Speaker 1: they got their checks on Sunday, shame of it is,
Speaker 1: I was this damn close again. All right, guys, here's
Speaker 1: what happened. I only had three of my very special
Speaker 1: beat diving crank baits. I'm not gonna tell you which
Speaker 1: ones though, mostly because the company doesn't cut me a
Speaker 1: check yet, but also because I buy the good ones
Speaker 1: on eBay, not those shifty Maiden China ones that don't
Speaker 1: hunt where the ship. I set them on the dashboard
Speaker 1: of my truck until the sharp trouse and blue back
Speaker 1: are perfectly faded and that paints bubbling just a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's a deal I learned about from an old timer
Speaker 1: down there on Seminole. Bitch of it is. I gave
Speaker 1: one to my roommate Travis, because he hasn't cut a
Speaker 1: check all year and I need him to stay on
Speaker 1: the road with me. I mean, I gotta split expensive
Speaker 1: with somebody, and I figure it. I guess I can
Speaker 1: beat them semi consistently. So that left me with two cranks,
Speaker 1: and I mean I was just apps of lutely smoking
Speaker 1: them on it. In practice. I was feeling myself so
Speaker 1: much that I took the last day of practice off
Speaker 1: while Travis was still pre fishing, hoping he'd left that
Speaker 1: crank I gave him out. I was gonna grab it
Speaker 1: and blame meth heads hanging around the trailer we'd rented,
Speaker 1: but he was smart enough to lock it away. And
Speaker 1: then it's a tournament time and I lose one of
Speaker 1: them cranks the first day in morning, and now I'm
Speaker 1: down to my last one. So I start throwing some
Speaker 1: other patterns, figuring that I go back to that crank
Speaker 1: on championship Sunday, get myself a comeback win and basking
Speaker 1: the glory all them people, finally getting to know the
Speaker 1: name Rants Stampkins. Well, I only ended up with one
Speaker 1: two pounder all day, but that didn't give me down.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is lake freaking fork, ten pounders growing
Speaker 1: trees around here, and I knew where they lived. But see,
Speaker 1: I was boat sixty seven, and by the time I
Speaker 1: got to my spot, there's four dudes already fighting over it.
Speaker 1: So I did the sportsman like thing and left. Well, also,
Speaker 1: one guy won't name here threatened to have my eighty
Speaker 1: eight Rangers sunk if I didn't get the hell out them.
Speaker 1: Veterans are like that, though, but I think they'll come
Speaker 1: around as soon as I get that big win. It's coming.
Speaker 1: I can feel it, man. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: They just quit and I'm a sacred crank. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hit all spots where I was wearing them out
Speaker 1: in practice, but I just barely managed a twelve pound limit.
Speaker 1: That was the end of it for old rants. I reckon.
Speaker 1: But hey, don't worry about me none. I'm keeping my
Speaker 1: head up. I just need a good breaker three and
Speaker 1: a six figure title sponsor. Oh ship. I also need
Speaker 1: to replace the rear suspension in my Dodge. So if
Speaker 1: you guys know anybody that will trade some Rolling Martin
Speaker 1: DVDs for some repair work, you better hit me up now.
Speaker 1: Listen here, folks. If y'all want to know how a
Speaker 1: real pro attacks the country's best lakes for absolute fence pandas,
Speaker 1: check out my YouTube channel. I mean, I haven't created
Speaker 1: it yet, but I've got tons of footage that will
Speaker 1: blow you all away. Also, a damn Instagram account got
Speaker 1: hacked after I bought a bunch of knockoff Sanko's from
Speaker 1: Holly Express, but I'll have that back up shortly. You
Speaker 1: know him, man, I actually believe in rants. I think
Speaker 1: he's rape. I feel good about that, dude. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he's not really pulling it off, but I
Speaker 1: think he's just like one good break away from making
Speaker 1: it and then he can he can retire all those
Speaker 1: second hand jerseys We've been seeing him dumpster dive out
Speaker 1: of the back of sports authorities. It's like the crystal
Speaker 1: clear PEPSI jersey. I like that, dude. I think we
Speaker 1: should keep him around. He'll get there, and we should
Speaker 1: keep him around. I'd like to hear from him again,
Speaker 1: trying to track his progress, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: supposed to do that. You know what else I think
Speaker 1: we should keep around. The Weekly Words segment, let's do that.
Speaker 1: Webster's Dictionary defines fish as This week, we're taking a
Speaker 1: look at adipose, as in adipose fin, as in that
Speaker 1: fleshy little nub that sticks up between the tail and
Speaker 1: the dorsal fin of trout, salmon, catfish, in about six
Speaker 1: thousand other less popular fishes. The word comes from the
Speaker 1: Latin root at a pimp, which means soft fat of animals. See.
Speaker 1: Up until the last twenty years or so, fish reason
Speaker 1: biologists thought that the adipose fin was just a leftover
Speaker 1: fat deposit the natural selection hadn't gotten around to scraping
Speaker 1: off yet like a rubbery little appendix. Turns out that's
Speaker 1: not correct. Recent research has shown that one the adipose
Speaker 1: fin isn't actually made of fat, and two it seems
Speaker 1: to serve some kind of purpose. We're just not entirely
Speaker 1: sure what that purpose is yet. Since at least two
Speaker 1: separate lineages of fish catfishes, and salmon, it's evolved at
Speaker 1: a post fins, it's likely that these warty looking bulbs
Speaker 1: serve some function. Recent findings show that adipose fins are
Speaker 1: connected to the nervous system, and they're mostly found in
Speaker 1: fish that live in moving water. The hypothesis goes that
Speaker 1: they might act as flow sensors, helping fish feel and
Speaker 1: navigate current. And that's all well and good for scientists,
Speaker 1: but for trout, steelhead and salmon fisherman, the adipose means
Speaker 1: one thing, and one thing only wild fish Because for generations,
Speaker 1: hatcheries have been cutting the adipose off pen based fish
Speaker 1: so that anglers can tell them apart from the wild ones,
Speaker 1: and since wild salmon and steelhad are protected in most
Speaker 1: places these days, the presence are absence of an adipose
Speaker 1: fin determines if you're allowed to keep that fish. It
Speaker 1: literally dictates the fate and identity of a fish. West
Speaker 1: Coast steelhead Paris will cradle unclipped wildfish with awe and reverence,
Speaker 1: then chuck aside a mildly mutilated cousin muttering goddamn hatchery rats. Consequently,
Speaker 1: those weird little skin tags have become symbols for wildness,
Speaker 1: healthy fisheries, and the cultural divide between anglers who fish
Speaker 1: for meat and those who fish for sport. Macro photos
Speaker 1: of adipose fins have become one of the new stand
Speaker 1: ins for grip and grains, especially among the fly fish
Speaker 1: and catch and release crowd. In fact, there's even a
Speaker 1: popular driftboat manufacturer out here in Montana called Adipose Boat Works.
Speaker 1: We may all have trouble agreeing on the function, importance,
Speaker 1: and significance of that little fin, but just about everyone agrees,
Speaker 1: myself included, Those are some badass boats. I suspect we
Speaker 1: only care about the adipose fin because we're so obsessed
Speaker 1: with trout and salmon. If that spinal bump only protruded
Speaker 1: off the backs of candle fish and whiskery bottom feeders,
Speaker 1: I kind of doubt any of us would even know
Speaker 1: what it's called. As an experiment, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start doing like artsy photos of great catfish nubs glistening
Speaker 1: in the sunlight and see if that catches on. Joe,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Um? What I think is that
Speaker 1: they have to refill the catfish nubs tray at the
Speaker 1: truck stop Biffe pretty much every time I'm there, because
Speaker 1: those are delicious. You slap a little Texas pizza and
Speaker 1: a dash and lemon pepper. Hell, you know, I just
Speaker 1: cut those off like shark fins and let and let
Speaker 1: the fish go when I'm catfishing. That's what I think
Speaker 1: about those catfish nubs. Also, uh, you use the term
Speaker 1: rubbery little appendix. I'm claiming that is the name of
Speaker 1: my next commercial dry fly for the Unquick catalog. So
Speaker 1: please back off, sir, Melie. You know I trademarked anything
Speaker 1: halfway clever that I ever come up with. You know,
Speaker 1: how do that? Moving on, let's get the trivia. Uh
Speaker 1: and if I'm not mistaken, we've got one of your
Speaker 1: very best friends playing today, right we do, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: Captain Eric kerber Of on a mission fishing adventures here
Speaker 1: in Jersey, from Striper's to Tuna to Flounder to Fluke.
Speaker 1: He's your man, one of my oldest pals, and we'll
Speaker 1: be hearing from from him more in the future, rest assured.
Speaker 1: But for now, I'm just gonna try and throw old
Speaker 1: curbs off with a little trash talking slang. You gotta
Speaker 1: be highly skilled for these shows. You understand that if
Speaker 1: I do on there, you're well versed. They are. You're
Speaker 1: very smart man. All right? Playing today, we have one
Speaker 1: of my oldest and dearest friends, Captain Eric kerber Of,
Speaker 1: on a mission fishing adventures. Jersey Boy, Like me, what's up? Brokayre?
Speaker 1: You ready to play? Guess I'm excited about this trivia
Speaker 1: question because it's like Taylor made for you. As soon
Speaker 1: as I came up with it, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is a question for Eric, all right. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you're gonna get it or not,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna like it. You're gonna you're gonna use
Speaker 1: it when you're done. All right, So here's here's your
Speaker 1: triviuta question. All right. Hollywood is a slang term for
Speaker 1: which of the following. A guy that insists every fish
Speaker 1: he swings on is a giant, only to typically backpedal
Speaker 1: and say, man, it's not as big as I thought
Speaker 1: it was. A guy that owns a boat costing more
Speaker 1: than two hundred thousand dollars but has no idea how
Speaker 1: to run it. A guy that insists on keeping the
Speaker 1: clicker on so everyone can hear his fish run. A
Speaker 1: guy who shoots hours of headcam footage while fishing, but
Speaker 1: then never edits or posts the video anywhere. Which one
Speaker 1: of those is a Hollywood? Let's say all except d No,
Speaker 1: it's not like that. It's on. It's one answer. There's
Speaker 1: no nope, there's no all the above. It's it's a
Speaker 1: specific answer. I'd go with the so be a guy
Speaker 1: that owns a boat costing more than two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars but has no idea how to run it. That
Speaker 1: is incorrect, A Hollywood. Now here's why I thought of you.
Speaker 1: Hollywood is a West Coast term, and you spent some
Speaker 1: time in California. Living in California, in Hollywood, actually so
Speaker 1: on the West coast. Hollywood is the douchir that insists
Speaker 1: on keeping his clicker on so everybody knows that he's
Speaker 1: got a fish running on the other end. That was
Speaker 1: gonna be my second choice, or or the first one.
Speaker 1: But I thought of you because I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times you've been out. You're like, turn that goddamn
Speaker 1: clicker off. Clicker off, turn that clicker off. Clicker can
Speaker 1: get it can get a little bit annoying. So now
Speaker 1: this season you can start throwing out Hollywood when all
Speaker 1: your people do that. All right, good attempt, though, thanks
Speaker 1: for playing. I like the Hollywood Hollywood. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten
Speaker 1: wrong though, but yeah, I know, but I would have
Speaker 1: gone with the first one. I would have gone with
Speaker 1: the guy who's like every single fish he swings like
Speaker 1: like he's a monster. I got a big one, but
Speaker 1: I mean probably that's that's because I don't actually use
Speaker 1: clickers ever, so I'm kind of out of my element
Speaker 1: on that one. Yeah, dude, I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: often I've thrown clickers off on my boat, Like when
Speaker 1: you're fishing like a big live bait, like live bunker
Speaker 1: for stripers. You know, if you know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: if you've been doing that a long time, you don't
Speaker 1: even need the clicker. You just feel it. You feel
Speaker 1: it with your thumb. But when you have nubs on
Speaker 1: the boat the clicker, it's less for them and more
Speaker 1: for me. Right, I want to be able to hear
Speaker 1: the tone of the runoff because all I need is
Speaker 1: the audio to know if a striper picked up the
Speaker 1: bait or it's just the bait pulling, Because I mean,
Speaker 1: even with the clicker on, it's like that him, is
Speaker 1: that him? At him? I'm like, no, you'll know it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna it's gonna be a lot higher pitched
Speaker 1: and faster, like that's no, no. And as soon as
Speaker 1: I'm finally like yeah that is him, now set the
Speaker 1: hook and they come tight, I just walk over and
Speaker 1: I'm like, good job. Let me just switch that clicker
Speaker 1: off for your room. Yeah, but then we're gonna you
Speaker 1: do that, But then how how's that news supposed to
Speaker 1: let everyone else know around what a badass she is
Speaker 1: on her first time out. You gotta let him know.
Speaker 1: And you're a badass when you get it to the net.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like that, then you're the
Speaker 1: badass when you put it on the Graham. Anyway, get ready,
Speaker 1: because we're about to let all of you know we're
Speaker 1: not just talking about clickers. We are talking about news.
Speaker 1: Put on your thinking caps and grab a turkey leg
Speaker 1: while Joe and I joust medieval time style to see
Speaker 1: who brought the best newsy bits to the table this week.
Speaker 1: Fish That escalated quickly, So here we are. We've landed
Speaker 1: at fish News, which, for those of you have been
Speaker 1: following along, is not only designed to keep you informed
Speaker 1: about all things fishing and fishy going on, but I
Speaker 1: also let you in on this little news competition that
Speaker 1: Miles and I have going because we do not know
Speaker 1: which news stories the other is bringing to the table,
Speaker 1: which makes this fun. However, before we get into news, UM,
Speaker 1: just a quick quick note here that um, we are
Speaker 1: listening to you guys. Okay, since the show has started,
Speaker 1: we've been getting a ton of amazing feedback. So I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say, because I don't know if it
Speaker 1: will ever be an actual weekly word, but for the
Speaker 1: like dozens of people from Wisconsin who wrote in to say,
Speaker 1: please use the acronym FIBs f I b S as
Speaker 1: one of your weekly words. I'm not sure I'll do that,
Speaker 1: but I do appreciate it. Um and and that's what
Speaker 1: I guess Wisconsin people refer to Illinois people as, and
Speaker 1: that would be effing Illinois bastards. So apparently you guys
Speaker 1: are really digging the derogatory terms for out of staters
Speaker 1: a feedback tidal wave of FIBs from throwing into the inbox,
Speaker 1: and we do appreciate it, so we are listening to you.
Speaker 1: I just want to give a little bit more context
Speaker 1: on the Pebble Mind permitting situation that I talked about
Speaker 1: last week. A number of you have written to me
Speaker 1: about that one, so just so we're all clear, the
Speaker 1: mining permit was not accepted as written by the Core
Speaker 1: of Engineers, but Northern Dynasty minerals can still change their
Speaker 1: application and resubmit. Point being, this isn't over and we'll
Speaker 1: probably be covering it again. But despite all that, the
Speaker 1: decision last week was still a huge success because you know,
Speaker 1: digging was about to start happening imminently, and at least
Speaker 1: we got that stayed. And uh, you know it's just
Speaker 1: another move towards what our ultimate goal is, which again
Speaker 1: we're not finished with, but kind of keeping that mind
Speaker 1: from ever happening at all. Yes, it's a battle one
Speaker 1: within a big war, and it was definitely worthy of
Speaker 1: an extra white claw or two last weekend, So we
Speaker 1: hope you did at and hopefully I won't need a
Speaker 1: few white claws after this because it is your week
Speaker 1: to lead off, and you always want to be the
Speaker 1: leadoff man in this news competition. I give you the floor,
Speaker 1: my friend. I appreciate. And just so you guys know,
Speaker 1: we're making a slight change to this segment because you know,
Speaker 1: like up until now, we've each just sort of like
Speaker 1: independently claimed victory without any fair judgment and just assumed
Speaker 1: that we both won, but who knows who won right
Speaker 1: and and I don't know about human, but it's starting
Speaker 1: to wear on me, Joe, because I'm competitive and I
Speaker 1: want an actual winner. So that's that's fine, you feel better? Well,
Speaker 1: Just so I know, the only solution that we can
Speaker 1: come up with is to bring our very own filled
Speaker 1: engineer as judge, jury and executioner moving forward, Phil will
Speaker 1: be the decider and one of us will emerge victorious,
Speaker 1: namely me. All Right, I'm gonna start out this week
Speaker 1: with something that's a big problem for many fisheries and
Speaker 1: uh and some new research that just came out that
Speaker 1: might help mitigate that problem. I'm talking about algae, all right.
Speaker 1: Algal blooms pose a significant threat to many of our
Speaker 1: lakes and estuaries, which are some of the most fertile
Speaker 1: fish habitat in the world. Big blooms can cause big problems.
Speaker 1: They can choke out other aquatic plants, produced nasty neurotoxins,
Speaker 1: and when they inevitably die off, the surrounding water can
Speaker 1: be completely depleted of oxygen. Red tides are often exacerbated
Speaker 1: by algal blooms, and the growing marine dead zones that
Speaker 1: you may have read about are usually the result of
Speaker 1: those blooms. Between warming water temps and increased fertilizer runoff,
Speaker 1: algae blooms have been growing in scope and frequency all
Speaker 1: over the world, a trend that researchers referred to as
Speaker 1: you trophication. If you pay attention to fisheries news at all,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, right. Just two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: there's a massive fish kill reported in Biscayne Bay, Florida.
Speaker 1: So far, water quality managers have been the only ones
Speaker 1: working to find solutions for this problem, but a recent
Speaker 1: study out of Sweden suggests that fisheries managers may have
Speaker 1: a role to play in controlling alga blooms as well.
Speaker 1: And that's good news because the more tools that we
Speaker 1: can find to combat these blooms, the better equipped we
Speaker 1: might be to combat them. So this research team, they're
Speaker 1: studying the relationship between large predators, small predators, grazers and algae.
Speaker 1: In this case, the large predators were pike and perch.
Speaker 1: They eat the small predators, in this case sticklebacks, which
Speaker 1: eat the grazers, and the grazers feed on algae. That
Speaker 1: part is key. The team found that when large predator
Speaker 1: populations started to decline, algal blooms increased. Fewer pike and
Speaker 1: perch meant more stickleback. All those sticklebacks eight the grazers
Speaker 1: that would have otherwise eaten the algae. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: might seem like esoteric science nerd stuff, but it really
Speaker 1: matters for us anglers because it suggests that fisheries management
Speaker 1: might help us deal with increasing algae. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: we still got to mitigate the floods of nutrients that
Speaker 1: weren't pumping into our waters. But this study suggests that
Speaker 1: maintaining strong populations of top predators might also knock back algae.
Speaker 1: Extra bonus, those top predators, those are the fish that
Speaker 1: we target. So another way to look at this is
Speaker 1: that the lakes and estuaries with more of the fish
Speaker 1: that you and I want to catch are also more
Speaker 1: resistant to large algae booms. Right, so this is a
Speaker 1: win win if we can figure out how to do
Speaker 1: this right. Wow, Okay, so I'm there was about to
Speaker 1: take it. No, you didn't lose me at all, But
Speaker 1: that was a lot to take in um, because I
Speaker 1: absolutely understand what you're saying, like it's all like sort
Speaker 1: of it's all food chain related obviously, But I think
Speaker 1: I'm missing the part about how fisheries biologists can help
Speaker 1: this or what we can do with predator fish. When
Speaker 1: you're dealing with situations in Florida where those algae blooms
Speaker 1: are completely out of control because outside factors like how
Speaker 1: do we not have them kill the predator fish in
Speaker 1: the ecosystem they're affecting, They're still going to do that, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's not This isn't a panacea or like a
Speaker 1: fix all. What it's saying is that if we can
Speaker 1: maintain high populations those predatory fish, that we can help
Speaker 1: keep the grazers around that can feed on the algae.
Speaker 1: It's not a one size fits all kind of solution.
Speaker 1: We still have to deal with these massive nutrient influxes
Speaker 1: that are happening, but it's one more tool that might
Speaker 1: we might be able to put in the toolbox for management.
Speaker 1: So it's not all on water quality engineers. The fisheries
Speaker 1: managers might have a role to play that we might
Speaker 1: be able to help this whole thing out. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to suggest, and none of the researchers have said, hey,
Speaker 1: we got this figured out, But even a slight possible
Speaker 1: wind in that direction, I'm calling that fantastic news, particularly
Speaker 1: in this case when it says, hey, if we can
Speaker 1: keep the populations of fish that you guys like, hi,
Speaker 1: it might help knock back some of these algae blooms. No, no,
Speaker 1: I get it. And it is really interesting because we
Speaker 1: have a lot of us have heard about these blooms
Speaker 1: over the last few years, and a lot of it's
Speaker 1: associated with Florida. Like you hear about it in Florida
Speaker 1: so much, but it is happening in other places. In fact,
Speaker 1: just last summer, um to local lakes that I've been
Speaker 1: fishing since I was a kid, had some sort of
Speaker 1: bloom that that all of a sudden calls signage all around.
Speaker 1: It was like, don't swim in here, don't fish in here,
Speaker 1: don't eat anything in here. This is really bad. That
Speaker 1: has never happened here in my entire life. So I
Speaker 1: do I do think this is important science now because
Speaker 1: this is happening more in places at it didn't before,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's all over the country, and it's
Speaker 1: all over the world. It's not just in those estuaries
Speaker 1: that like we hear about it a lot in Florida
Speaker 1: and Louisiana and some places like that. But it's also
Speaker 1: like you're saying, happened in freshwater lakes. More nutrients are
Speaker 1: coming into those lakes. It's the same, the same situation.
Speaker 1: You get big algae blooms, particularly blue green algae, which
Speaker 1: produces those cyanobacteria neurotoxins, and then you can't swim there,
Speaker 1: you can't eat the fish. It's bad for everything. So
Speaker 1: the short version is that we can use we can
Speaker 1: use pike and walleyes and predators as a tool to
Speaker 1: fight the algae. Right, Yes, that's the gist. So I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna use that to jump over it
Speaker 1: to to my story, um, where high powered rifles are
Speaker 1: used to fight something else. Yes, this is fantastic. This
Speaker 1: is the one that I thought you were going to grab.
Speaker 1: And uh so I was actually first alerted to this
Speaker 1: story by listener Mike Gillen, and I thought at the
Speaker 1: time it was just sort of a weird one off,
Speaker 1: like something dredged up from somewhere, you know. Um, And
Speaker 1: within a very short time this was blowing up on
Speaker 1: several news outlets. But I will start with the version
Speaker 1: that Mike sent, which was on Task and Purpose dot
Speaker 1: com headline, we salute the badass coast these who opened
Speaker 1: fire on a freaking shark that crashed his crew's swim
Speaker 1: call headline of the century right there. It's a really
Speaker 1: good headline, right Okay. So, um, this happened essentially in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Pacific Ocean is and one quote
Speaker 1: in one of the stories puts it a zillion miles
Speaker 1: from land and um the story says, as a way
Speaker 1: to but right zillion, you know it's whatever, as a
Speaker 1: way to break up the daily monotony of life at sea.
Speaker 1: The crew of the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Kimball
Speaker 1: was recently rewarded with a swim call, meaning everyone kicks
Speaker 1: off their flippy floppy's parenthesies or combat boots and leaps
Speaker 1: into the wide open ocean. However, they had an unexpected
Speaker 1: and entirely unwanted guest, an eight foot echo shark. Now,
Speaker 1: other reports have it as either a mako or a
Speaker 1: pelagic thresher, but to my eye looking at the photos,
Speaker 1: that head is way too pointing to be a thresher.
Speaker 1: So I'm going I'm going with mako. So the crew
Speaker 1: of the Kimball is swimming, and I need to add
Speaker 1: they also had an inflatable unicorn, which is great. Cheers guys,
Speaker 1: You guys are so awesome in American badasses out there.
Speaker 1: When someone on the bridge of the cutter said shark
Speaker 1: over the radio, and UH Maritime Enforcement Specialist first Class
Speaker 1: Samuel Cintron was the dude on the flight deck tasked
Speaker 1: with shark overwatch during this swim and when the mako
Speaker 1: appeared near the ship's rescue door, Cintron got locked on target.
Speaker 1: So this Task and Purpose article quote it also quotes
Speaker 1: the Facebook post from crew members on the boat, and
Speaker 1: my favorite line is our animal lover chief who wants
Speaker 1: to save every animal she finds, yelled shoot ite. As
Speaker 1: the mako moved towards the swimmers still in the water,
Speaker 1: Cintron fired off a quote well aimed burst right over
Speaker 1: top of the shark. And he says the shark would
Speaker 1: wave off with each burst because they were multiple bursts,
Speaker 1: but kept coming back towards the shipmates. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: several of these stories, including the Task and Purpose story,
Speaker 1: made a point of pointing out that the shark was
Speaker 1: not injured. Okay. And there's a quote in there from
Speaker 1: a crew member that says, our goal was to keep
Speaker 1: it away from ship mates mates, not harm it if possible. Um,
Speaker 1: But like I said, he did shoot at it more
Speaker 1: than once, and everyone got out of the water safely.
Speaker 1: There was no injury. Even the inflatable unicorn lived to
Speaker 1: tell the tale. But here's the thing, all right, I
Speaker 1: watched the video of this because there is very good,
Speaker 1: very clear video, Okay, from the flight deck. And I
Speaker 1: gotta say, if Cintron was purposely trying to just scare
Speaker 1: the shark away, he might be the greatest marksman ever,
Speaker 1: because to my eye, he wasn't shooting near the shark
Speaker 1: or next to the shark like. It looks like he
Speaker 1: was going for center mass man like. And and this shark,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember, it's right into the surface. You can
Speaker 1: you can see it very clearly, and you also clearly
Speaker 1: see it doesn't go belly up and there was no blood.
Speaker 1: But if you watch how he placed those bursts, I
Speaker 1: do not understand how that was not a dead shark.
Speaker 1: They both looked dead onto me. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to be clear, right, I'm all about shark conservation. I've
Speaker 1: done some shark fish and it's been a long time,
Speaker 1: but they've been hit hard, and I believe we should
Speaker 1: leave the sharks alone. And many rules have changed. I mean,
Speaker 1: even out here on the East Coast, you can still
Speaker 1: kill a mako, but it's got to be pretty big.
Speaker 1: They've changed the rules. They've made it harder. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this crew, per the story, had been trapped on the
Speaker 1: cutter for four weeks straight, and God bless him, again,
Speaker 1: you guys are badasses, and this swim was the first
Speaker 1: time they got off of this boat in four weeks,
Speaker 1: So would it have been so terrible given that the
Speaker 1: shark was posing the threat to end this story with?
Speaker 1: And then the crew feasted on delicious grilled mako and
Speaker 1: enjoyed Mako sandwiches for the next three days. You know,
Speaker 1: instead of the standard chef ward he Ravioli's or whatever
Speaker 1: you eat for a month on a Coastguard cutter, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, we give him one. We could have given
Speaker 1: our boys one shark would have been I would have
Speaker 1: been fine with that end. Yeah, that would that would
Speaker 1: not have made me sad, And I'm with you. I'm
Speaker 1: pro pro sharks as as I think I talked about
Speaker 1: in the last episode, like sharks generally don't want to
Speaker 1: attack us. We don't need to attack the sharks. But
Speaker 1: in a situation like this, you know, sharks sharks out
Speaker 1: a line. Yeah, he was an hornery shark. He kept
Speaker 1: coming I mean the video he keeps coming back. Um, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: if if if he was shooting in such a way
Speaker 1: that like he knew he was going to get that close.
Speaker 1: But miss he's the man, right, I mean, let's just
Speaker 1: call it that. He's the man and and you know,
Speaker 1: a much better trained marksman than either of us, and
Speaker 1: my hat goes off to him. Yeah. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think this was pretty justified me. It It was
Speaker 1: an absolute safety issue with a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the water in the open ocean. Um. But like you know,
Speaker 1: there's some offshore dudes in Louisiana, Texas do this stuff
Speaker 1: every other Sunday, you know what I mean. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I can't I can't actually support that, but this, I
Speaker 1: think this would be a case of justified shark aside. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna transition us to a much smaller
Speaker 1: predator and one that didn't win the battle. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I gotta say, this is very different from the stuff
Speaker 1: I've been reporting on recently. But this is just a
Speaker 1: cool story and it comes from your side of the country. Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember the somewhat awkwardly named tropical storm
Speaker 1: you say us, Oh, dude, the I literally came over
Speaker 1: my home. Yeah, we know each other. Well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: A lot of people out here, by the way, are
Speaker 1: calling it Hurricane easy Es. That is fantastic. That was
Speaker 1: not mentioned in the coverage, and I know, I know,
Speaker 1: it knocked out a lot of power in a lot
Speaker 1: of communities like over by you um. And one of
Speaker 1: those communities that lost power was Barkhamstead, Connecticut. And that's
Speaker 1: where our stories protagonist, Leslie Slater, just happens to live.
Speaker 1: So Leslie and her family were having a tough day.
Speaker 1: It was brutally hot. The power was out, so there's
Speaker 1: no air conditioning. There's still a global pandemic going on,
Speaker 1: so they have a lot of options on what they
Speaker 1: could do. But Leslie and her family, they did not
Speaker 1: wallow in their misfortune. Uh No, they did what all
Speaker 1: of us should do in a situation like that. Leslie,
Speaker 1: her husband and kids packed up their kayaks and fishing
Speaker 1: gear and they headed out to the local river. All right,
Speaker 1: So Leslie's her kayak, she's got her kids, she's got
Speaker 1: her husband, she's got her light spinning rod, and she's
Speaker 1: just fishing and floating and relaxing and making the best
Speaker 1: of a tough situation. Now, according to the story she
Speaker 1: told the Department of Energy and environ Mental Protection, she
Speaker 1: was quote jigging a rooster tail for trout, which I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever jigged tail, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let that one go. When when she got bit and
Speaker 1: no surprise, it didn't turn out to be some dinky,
Speaker 1: little finless Toby Stock tank rainbow. After a very long
Speaker 1: and apparently very exciting fight, Leslie brought in a forty
Speaker 1: six in twenty nine pound pike. You know what I
Speaker 1: did see that I did not? Yes, yes, months and fish.
Speaker 1: You guys, this thing is a beast like it really is.
Speaker 1: Do a little googling and you can find it for yourselves.
Speaker 1: And somehow Leslie managed to bring this thing in on
Speaker 1: like spinning tackle without breaking the rod, without breaking the line,
Speaker 1: and then she wrestled it into this teeny little like
Speaker 1: tippy kayak. This wasn't a fishing kayak at all. This
Speaker 1: is not This is just like a regular kayak that
Speaker 1: she didn't even have a skirt on. She wrestled this
Speaker 1: thing into the kayak without capsizing. Somehow she didn't get
Speaker 1: any of her digits bitten off, which I also don't understand.
Speaker 1: Then the whole family paddles overshore takes pictures with the fish,
Speaker 1: which they exactly should have done. I mean, things amazing.
Speaker 1: They tried to release it, but between the long fight
Speaker 1: on the light tackle and the warm water, I mean,
Speaker 1: that fish was just done. So their next mission was
Speaker 1: to try and get it weighed at a certified scale
Speaker 1: and see if it was a state record. But you
Speaker 1: know that that also proved to be quite the challenge
Speaker 1: because again you're in the middle of a total power
Speaker 1: outage everywhere and and and all the COVID shutdowns. So
Speaker 1: the first place they took it to was a local
Speaker 1: Delhi as she like carries this giant fish in and
Speaker 1: sets it on the local deli counter. But the fish
Speaker 1: is too big for the scale. The ham scale, like
Speaker 1: the lunch meat scale, can't possibly be certain. Mean, look,
Speaker 1: you know what, in a in a tough situation, I
Speaker 1: give him credit for that move, right, but like that scale,
Speaker 1: but I mean least the exactly and and this is
Speaker 1: my favorite image. They like slap it down to the
Speaker 1: Delhi County. They put on the scale, and you know,
Speaker 1: the head and the tail just fall down onto the counter. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's not gonna work, and later described the reactions
Speaker 1: from other Delhi customers as quote priceless and I can
Speaker 1: only imagine like you're standing a line to get your
Speaker 1: lunch meat and there's this giants a pike hanging off
Speaker 1: either end of the scale. So anyway, finally they did
Speaker 1: get the fish to a certified scale at the local
Speaker 1: county store and it officially tied the state record pike.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, man, I love everything about this story.
Speaker 1: It's just like a positive attitude pays dividends. And we've
Speaker 1: said this before. If you're having a terrible day, just
Speaker 1: take it from Leslie, go fishing better. It's just gonna say, man,
Speaker 1: I have lived through. I got spared by easy s.
Speaker 1: I didn't lose my power, but I've been there for
Speaker 1: five days and no power or and like on day
Speaker 1: four it's like, Okay, the family is somewhere else and
Speaker 1: I'm just manning this, you know, shut down home, you
Speaker 1: go fishing. So she's right on the money, and um man,
Speaker 1: this this news post, however, might and my follow up
Speaker 1: might upset our friends in Connecticut because as a man
Speaker 1: who loves pike I am. I am a pike junkie.
Speaker 1: I am long overdue for some pike missions in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: And there is some seriously good pike water in that
Speaker 1: tiny state, clearly, and and now the world knows where
Speaker 1: one of them is so well. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna end up either in in her family's
Speaker 1: belly or on her wall. But uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that was you guys. That was a huge pike, twenty
Speaker 1: nine pound pike. That thing's a monster. That must have
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun. Good on you, Leslie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's like Saskatchewan numbers, right, I mean, that's that's incredible. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we'll go from We'll go from big predators okay
Speaker 1: to teeny tiny worms. How does that sound like it?
Speaker 1: This story comes to us from the environmental section of
Speaker 1: Buffalo Rising dot com, based out of Buffalo, New York,
Speaker 1: and it reads as if we didn't have enough to
Speaker 1: worry about, now we've got jumping earthworms on our hands. Yep,
Speaker 1: you heard it right. A new invasive species has reared
Speaker 1: its eyelis and squirming head in these parts, causing another
Speaker 1: concerning echo stir and similar to the actions of Asian
Speaker 1: carp another invasive species that is on our doorstep. When
Speaker 1: these suckers are disturbed, they thrash about, hence they're jumping moniker.
Speaker 1: It is also significant to note that these unwelcome critters
Speaker 1: are also slightly iridescent and leave behind granular castings that
Speaker 1: resemble ground beef, according to earthworm scientists Nick Henshew Right now,
Speaker 1: so apparently these more aggressive jumping earthworms are cropping up
Speaker 1: in significant numbers in western New York and the article
Speaker 1: says that they've actually been down in the south for
Speaker 1: a number of years now and have really only been
Speaker 1: noticed widely in places like New England in the past
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty years. UM. And it says it is
Speaker 1: thought that the earthworms arrived in a shipment of mulch,
Speaker 1: similar to how invasive species arrive in the hands of humans.
Speaker 1: The kicker here is that these destructive worms live close
Speaker 1: to the earth's surface, where they can scavenge for fallen leaves,
Speaker 1: and typically these leaves are left to decompose and then
Speaker 1: get recycled back into the soil, thus providing the trees
Speaker 1: with the nutrients that they need to thrive. Um. And
Speaker 1: then we're gonna get to the fishy part, because it
Speaker 1: does connect to fishing directly. It goes on to say
Speaker 1: the ability of these worms to reduce the leaf litter,
Speaker 1: to mix up soil horizons, and to add a whole
Speaker 1: lot of bacteria to the soil is very disruptive to plants,
Speaker 1: to animals, and to organisms that live in that soil.
Speaker 1: And the fear right is that the jumping earthworm could
Speaker 1: actually displace the beneficial regular old earthworm that already exists
Speaker 1: in an area. Um. But this is where it gets
Speaker 1: really funky. Right, According to the story, regular old earthworms,
Speaker 1: which I did not know, are technically not native to
Speaker 1: Western New York either. Earthworm scientist this Nick Henshu dude
Speaker 1: who's like the worm you know, savant right, says it's
Speaker 1: light right, worm guy, I got worms. He says it's
Speaker 1: likely that the glaciers moved earthworms well south of the area.
Speaker 1: In other words, they were there, and then when the
Speaker 1: glaciers came through, the glaciers should have pushed them well
Speaker 1: out of Western New York. And the reason that they
Speaker 1: exist in Western New York and other northern areas is
Speaker 1: that boats bait potted plant soil being moved easily transports
Speaker 1: teeny tiny earthworm egg cases. And hence you says, people
Speaker 1: go to these pristine areas on fishing trips, and we
Speaker 1: see this as an invasion front. They dumped their bait
Speaker 1: overboard because they think it will kill the earthworms or
Speaker 1: the fish will have a good meal. And what they
Speaker 1: don't realize, and I didn't know this, is that earthworms
Speaker 1: can live quite happily underwater for about three weeks or
Speaker 1: more if the water is oxygen eated enough. Really, I
Speaker 1: didn't I did not know that three weeks. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, you take
Speaker 1: your container and nightcrawlers and just go off and dump them.
Speaker 1: You think, well, they're gonna drown, right, Like, I know
Speaker 1: they live in the dirt, but there's like a little
Speaker 1: air channels and stuff. I thought in the in the dirt,
Speaker 1: like they have to have air. But no, according to
Speaker 1: the worm guy, three weeks or more underwater. Okay, lots
Speaker 1: of layers to this first that that last pieces fascinating
Speaker 1: and will forever change the way I think about disposing
Speaker 1: a worm bait. But what about the new worms? Like
Speaker 1: they sound like they might be dynamite bait. So there's
Speaker 1: a there was a little video embedded in this, and
Speaker 1: if you didn't know what you're looking at, you really
Speaker 1: wouldn't know. It wasn't your your straight up nightcrawler. They
Speaker 1: have like a little bit more milkiness like some milky bands.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the iridescence they're talking about. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they have the big worm in someone's hand
Speaker 1: close up, and it is it's wriggland and and and
Speaker 1: twitching all over the place. But I mean, in the
Speaker 1: right circumstances, I've pulled regular nightcrawlers out of the dirt
Speaker 1: in my yard and they do that too, so it's
Speaker 1: not super noticeable side by side. However, the end of
Speaker 1: this article, it does say, although these pests have now
Speaker 1: made their way into western New York, it's important that
Speaker 1: we do our part to slow the spread. God that
Speaker 1: sounds familiar of the worms by practicing the following don't
Speaker 1: use jumping worms as bait, be vigilant when taking part
Speaker 1: in plant swaps, obtain clean mulch, and compost from reliable sources.
Speaker 1: Al Right, well, it doesn't sound like feeding him to
Speaker 1: fish is going to be the solution to this problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, chances are, if if there's as many as
Speaker 1: people are saying, people are feeding in the fish all
Speaker 1: the time. If you're digging your own worms, I swear
Speaker 1: man like, if you if you didn't hear this like,
Speaker 1: chances are you wouldn't even be paying enough attention. UM,
Speaker 1: but I do think it just it brings up sort
Speaker 1: of a more interesting point in um bait transport overall.
Speaker 1: You know, like a lot of people just go catch
Speaker 1: crayfish in this creek and go fishing in this river.
Speaker 1: You know, things like that. There are laws state by
Speaker 1: state that you really need to check before you do
Speaker 1: anything like that. You think it would be so benign
Speaker 1: to you know, even with shiners, there's there's so many
Speaker 1: lakes that say do not dump your unused bait, and
Speaker 1: this sort of ties back to that. I just think
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't think about. And what the effects of dumping a
Speaker 1: few shiners are bringing a few crayfish from here to there,
Speaker 1: you know, can do you no huge problem. Bucket biology
Speaker 1: extends beyond just the fishing live well, and that's I
Speaker 1: think that's a really good thing for people to remember. Alright,
Speaker 1: So Phil, you have a lot to digest. You've got
Speaker 1: gunning down sharks, algae, jumping worms, do record pike the
Speaker 1: record pike, Phil, I don't know how you're gonna pick,
Speaker 1: but I know you're gonna pick the shooting of a
Speaker 1: shark anyway, So we're gonna find out who won. And then,
Speaker 1: right after Phil has declared a victor, if you are
Speaker 1: not already full on jumping earthworms, we're gonna kick it
Speaker 1: over to our own. Jannis patelis for this week's Yanni's Desk,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna tell you why cash darn it, you
Speaker 1: should be eating some small mouth bass. Here ye, here ye,
Speaker 1: all rise for the honorable judge filled the engineer who
Speaker 1: can count the number of fish he has caught in
Speaker 1: his lifetime. On one hand, Myles Nulte came in hot
Speaker 1: this week, spending the gamut from the scientific to the sensational.
Speaker 1: But the allure of guns, sharks, jumping worms, it was
Speaker 1: all too much for me to deny him. Therefore, I
Speaker 1: declare Joe Surmeli the winner of Week one. Thank you too.
Speaker 1: Whoever will be keeping track of this on the Bend
Speaker 1: wiki page, please find something better to do with your life,
Speaker 1: all right, Welcome back to Yannie's Desk today. Small mouth
Speaker 1: is on the menu. That's right, you heard it on
Speaker 1: the menu, because it is good to eat. I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are, how many small mouths you've caught,
Speaker 1: what body of water you're catching them out of If
Speaker 1: you think otherwise, you are simply a bad cook, or
Speaker 1: whoever is cooking the fish for you doesn't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I would put it right up there with
Speaker 1: a red fish. Very similar actually in flesh, the texture
Speaker 1: and the density, very similar to a red fish. The
Speaker 1: flavor might be a little bit different, definitely a little
Speaker 1: bit more freshy water tasting, but awesome. I recently caught
Speaker 1: a couple decided to grill them up. You can definitely
Speaker 1: fry them. You can fry any fish and make it
Speaker 1: taste good, but it tastes like corn meal and oil
Speaker 1: and whatever seasonings you put on there. If you want
Speaker 1: to taste what a fish really taste like, it's good
Speaker 1: to keep it simple, throw it on the grill. And now,
Speaker 1: my buddy Ryan Callahan told me about this method of
Speaker 1: preparation for Smalley's, so we decided to try it and
Speaker 1: it worked out slick. I simply filate them and I
Speaker 1: did not scale them. Steve has talked about this before,
Speaker 1: and I noticed this. I really dolled up my knife
Speaker 1: fileting these fish and working through those scales, so we
Speaker 1: had some good sized one sees. Some people will scale
Speaker 1: fish just for that reason, so that their knife will
Speaker 1: work better when they're fileting the fish. Then. But I
Speaker 1: just filate them, left the scales on, and then we
Speaker 1: did them a couple of different ways as far as
Speaker 1: seasonings go. We had olive oil and salt and pepper
Speaker 1: on a couple. We had olive oil and Cajun seasoning
Speaker 1: spices on a couple. And I also, this is a
Speaker 1: trick I learned from our friend Jesse Griffiths down in
Speaker 1: Texas is we caramelized a whole bunch of onions and
Speaker 1: it took those caramelized onions and put them right on
Speaker 1: top of the raw filet. And then we took all
Speaker 1: those filets and just sent them on a hot grill,
Speaker 1: put the lid on. It definitely didn't take more than
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and those filets were cooked. Didn't cook them
Speaker 1: too long. I don't want to dry them out, but
Speaker 1: they were ready to roll. Let me tell you, they
Speaker 1: were delicious. Everybody thought they were delicious. You should go
Speaker 1: try it out. You need to be careful though. Small mouth,
Speaker 1: unlike their large mouth cousins, are slow to grow and
Speaker 1: long lived. They often take five years just to reach
Speaker 1: twelve inches, which is the legal harvest size in many states.
Speaker 1: The oldest records small mouth lived to a right bold
Speaker 1: age of twenty six years. That is an old fish.
Speaker 1: You kind of feel bad about killing them on that
Speaker 1: old but you're not gonna be able to know when
Speaker 1: you catch them, so they don't spawn every year. Only
Speaker 1: about the males make nests in a given year. Small
Speaker 1: Mouth also produced far fewer eggs, and large mouth about
Speaker 1: half as many per fish. Now, this all isn't to
Speaker 1: say that you shouldn't harvest and eat Smalley's, but just
Speaker 1: be thoughtful about it. Only harvest from healthy stocks, avoid
Speaker 1: harvesting the large females, and only keep what you need
Speaker 1: for a meal. It's not like a giant salmon run
Speaker 1: where you're gonna, you know, fill your freezer for the
Speaker 1: next year. But it's definitely worth eating fresh. I've never
Speaker 1: frow and once. I can't tell you what it tastes
Speaker 1: like after it's been frozen for a while. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's still good. But uh, I think just to keep
Speaker 1: your local fishery or wherever you're at healthy, take what
Speaker 1: you need for a meal, enjoy it, fry it up,
Speaker 1: grill it, do whatever you want to do there you
Speaker 1: go small, he's on the menu. Well, if that wasn't
Speaker 1: controversial enough, here comes our boy Lance V in this
Speaker 1: week's Trolling with Lance. Uh. He's gonna teach you how
Speaker 1: to get on a pro staff, and some of what
Speaker 1: he's going to explain will undoubtedly be hard from any
Speaker 1: of you to hear, and I apologize, But sometimes the
Speaker 1: only way to make it as a successful Internet angler
Speaker 1: is through the school of hard knocks, the land to
Speaker 1: the boats, to the lake to the sea, getting up
Speaker 1: then on net. But the boy Lance, what up? Ask clowns.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another installment of Trolling with Lance. I'm Lance
Speaker 1: V and I just racked up more Instagram followers in
Speaker 1: the time it took to introduce myself than you could
Speaker 1: in ten years hashtag Triflin. But I'm not here to
Speaker 1: be discouraging. That's what mirrors and selfies are for. I'm
Speaker 1: here to keep it real and help you on the
Speaker 1: path to Internet fishing greatness. I haven't read any of
Speaker 1: my d m since like, but I know a ship
Speaker 1: ton of them goes something like this, Your Lance, I
Speaker 1: just hit two five followers on Instagram. How do I
Speaker 1: get on a pro staff? Great question? After all, being
Speaker 1: a legit internet fisherman has nothing to do with enjoyment
Speaker 1: of the sport. Sharing useful phishing info, or creating a
Speaker 1: community is about free gear, mother or at least the
Speaker 1: appearance of free gear. It's about making people think your
Speaker 1: ship is so tight that companies throw endorsement deals that
Speaker 1: you like your dart board. Now, this is kind of
Speaker 1: a complex topic because there are two kinds of pro staffs,
Speaker 1: real ones and imaginary ones. When you see me drop
Speaker 1: hashtag Gucci, hashtag Nitro, hashtag monster energy, hashtag hook, hashtag
Speaker 1: Applebe's hashtag Netflix, hashtag benn against, hashtag thirteen fishing, hashtag
Speaker 1: def jam, hashtag Spencer gifts, and hashtag Mega bass. It's
Speaker 1: mad real. It's so real that if I backed out
Speaker 1: of those deals, there's social media presence would drop harder
Speaker 1: than a scrillics breakdown hashtag truth hurts, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: In this segment, I'm gonna give you some tips for
Speaker 1: getting on an imaginary pro staff, because let's face it,
Speaker 1: you ain't getting on any real ones. That would be
Speaker 1: like telling a blind kid he could drive like they
Speaker 1: do in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift if he works really,
Speaker 1: really hard. I mean, I ain't fronted with false hopes
Speaker 1: that just ain't right. So here are the four levels
Speaker 1: of imaginary pro staff status hashtag dream big level. You know,
Speaker 1: tag you're in. Choose anywhere from fifteen to forty seven
Speaker 1: fishing gear brands you like. Actually using any of their
Speaker 1: products is not required. Tag all of them, and every
Speaker 1: single post you drop you're now on all of their
Speaker 1: pro staffs. I mean, it's total bullshit, but you're the
Speaker 1: only one that knows that, right dog, every other poser
Speaker 1: will tremble with reverence and respect. It's simple psychology. Most
Speaker 1: people naturally assume that if you tag a brand, you
Speaker 1: were affiliated with it. If you aren't, why the hell
Speaker 1: would you give the company free promotion? For no reason,
Speaker 1: nobody would ever do that. Hash technologist power level two.
Speaker 1: Stick them up. There's no way you get enough money
Speaker 1: in that birthday card from your Graham Graham to buy
Speaker 1: that Shimano stella you've been tagging, but you do earn
Speaker 1: enough in one shift at Chick fil A to purchase
Speaker 1: copious amounts of Shimano stickers. Your sticker portfolio is more
Speaker 1: important than your stock portfolio. For real, every time you
Speaker 1: take a picture of one of your cheapass tackle trays.
Speaker 1: Because you ain't catching ship, there needs to be a
Speaker 1: different sticker on the lid. Nobody will ever assume you
Speaker 1: paid your harder and money for a sticker er. Go.
Speaker 1: When they see that jack All sticker on your home
Speaker 1: depot bucket, they'll assume jack All hunted your grass down
Speaker 1: to represent hashtag jacket level. Trace the friend zone. I
Speaker 1: know you don't have many friends, but you know that
Speaker 1: one guy with a hook up. Maybe your cousin gets
Speaker 1: an employee discount of Walmart, or your uncle in Florida
Speaker 1: knows someone who makes soft plastics and you get a
Speaker 1: free bag for Christmas. It really doesn't matter. You just
Speaker 1: have to be able to flaunt that you don't pay
Speaker 1: full price for ship. More importantly, once you've establish a
Speaker 1: line to some level of discounts for freebees, you have
Speaker 1: to tell your three friends you can hook them up,
Speaker 1: but then never follow through. Hashtag suckers level areno quatrou big.
Speaker 1: Let's assume you have an insignificant number of Insta followers,
Speaker 1: like less than three hundred thousand. If you got the
Speaker 1: time to send hundreds of d m s and emails,
Speaker 1: eventually you get on the pro staff of some half
Speaker 1: ass company. You might be saying, lance, isn't that like
Speaker 1: being on a real pro staff. No, it's still imaginary.
Speaker 1: You'll have to commit to buying a certain amount of
Speaker 1: their ship off, rest assured giving you that fake discount
Speaker 1: will not hurt their bottom line. You'll then spend the
Speaker 1: rest of your life over tagging out of them and
Speaker 1: smile ever your time you do it. By the time
Speaker 1: you finally realize that they'll sign anyone with a pulse,
Speaker 1: it's too late. You'll have to eat to keep fishing
Speaker 1: with their garbage that you're actually paying for, or revert
Speaker 1: back to complete loser status online because you're not on
Speaker 1: a pro staff hashtag choose wisely. Remember if they don't
Speaker 1: come to you and stroke a check while winding and
Speaker 1: dining you on a corporate card at the Sizzler, you're
Speaker 1: not actually on the pro staff. But don't sweat it,
Speaker 1: because for nine of Internet fisherman, being on an imaginary
Speaker 1: pro staff is just as good, maybe even better. Real
Speaker 1: pro staffs come with real responsibilities. Yo, you gotta produce
Speaker 1: pressures on sun. You gotta catch fish, and I mean
Speaker 1: somewhere other than the pond and your friends, gated golf course, neighborhood,
Speaker 1: hashtag bow money, more problems. So that's it for this week.
Speaker 1: I know Miles and Joe would love me to drop
Speaker 1: hashtag bent all over my post, but meet Beater ain't
Speaker 1: got that kind of scrilla. I'll catch you next time
Speaker 1: if you're lucky and I'm not a full fledged member
Speaker 1: of a Google squad by then hashtag John b is.
Speaker 1: But Jesus, every time I hear Lence talk, every time
Speaker 1: his mouth is moving, I just missed the days before
Speaker 1: social media. Remember those days like when when being a
Speaker 1: fishing celebrity just meant you had multiple pictures of yourself
Speaker 1: tacked up on the brag board at the local tackle shop.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean bragboard is the thing in the past.
Speaker 1: But you know what outside this man, remember I had
Speaker 1: the good old tackle shops would have like a bulletin board,
Speaker 1: like a communal bulletin board somewhere, and they would just
Speaker 1: be like classified like tacked up like free dog missing
Speaker 1: one leg, deer corn handmade crab nets, and they would
Speaker 1: just eat cut the bottom and they'd just be the
Speaker 1: little you'd rip off. No one cut it, you just
Speaker 1: ripped it. You just ripped it and then everybody you like,
Speaker 1: you stick those in your wallet and prank call those
Speaker 1: people later. And I missed that too. I community the
Speaker 1: community forum in thumbtack forms. I remember there were always
Speaker 1: those three by five note cards. They probably had like
Speaker 1: a like a jello mold recipe on the back of
Speaker 1: the or something, and you know, just said in like
Speaker 1: chicken scrawl, like ninety six London for sale, minor damage
Speaker 1: called Billy at five five five six two five seven,
Speaker 1: and then you have to waste half a Saturday and
Speaker 1: actually drive out to Billy's overgrown back loop figure out
Speaker 1: how minor the damage actually was. Well, nowadays you can
Speaker 1: just see the photos online, right, but they're usually very
Speaker 1: strategically taken, which is the other thing. So now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: minor damage, but the only thing you can see is
Speaker 1: like a tight close up of the Mako logo, so
Speaker 1: you at least know that it is a Mako boat
Speaker 1: and it does exist somewhere. But like that's all you see.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's still a gamble, you know.
Speaker 1: But the online junk shopping it's a trip, man, So
Speaker 1: let's let's take our trip. This week to the sale bin.
Speaker 1: Why did you put the hand to pay? You don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm going man, What you didn't have to
Speaker 1: be so hurtful with me so angry? All right? Man?
Speaker 1: So Miles, you are going to take the reins on
Speaker 1: this one because you've managed to pull yourself away from
Speaker 1: the casual encounter section on Craig's list long enough to
Speaker 1: look for some good Bozeman junk this week. You've got
Speaker 1: a ringer here. We gotta we gotta have some some
Speaker 1: regional diversity in these. Like you got the East lockdown,
Speaker 1: I'm looking out for the West. Absolutely. Uh. I was
Speaker 1: digging through the old Bozeman Craigslist, and not in the
Speaker 1: way that you guys are gonna accuse me of later,
Speaker 1: but I found this post for wedding special occasion fly
Speaker 1: fishing boot near with feathers only twenty five dollars. And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean the thing about these is I have actually
Speaker 1: had to wear fly fishing bootneers, and and and seem
Speaker 1: nicely tied beautiful flies that went for bootineers is kind
Speaker 1: of a thing out here. And and what I'm looking
Speaker 1: at our not those this looked like a chicken exploded,
Speaker 1: and and someone glued it to a hook. These are
Speaker 1: these are craft store feathers. Okay, for one thing, Like,
Speaker 1: these are not even nice fly shop feathers. These were
Speaker 1: purchased at a chain craft store. I know this because
Speaker 1: I buy this ship from my kid to tie her
Speaker 1: flies with, like she likes to do that, so like
Speaker 1: she's not using all daddy stuff. Um. And they are
Speaker 1: just the most hideous drab colors right, like they're not
Speaker 1: oh god, it's just shades of browns and grays. But dude,
Speaker 1: I've I've actually so I've I've I've been in a
Speaker 1: wedding with a fly boot near two and I was
Speaker 1: the guy tax with tying the theme colored deceivers for
Speaker 1: the boutineers. Okay, black and sharp truths from my buddy
Speaker 1: Eric Kerber, who will be and has been on this show. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because it's like dudes don't do weddings right,
Speaker 1: like we don't get as crazy as ladies about wedding things.
Speaker 1: But I was like spray painting patterns on the tail
Speaker 1: feathers and things, and I do want to be like,
Speaker 1: this is not perfect. This one is I just this
Speaker 1: one is not perfect. This is for a wedding. It's
Speaker 1: not perfect, dude. I had to tie seven of them
Speaker 1: and it took me like six months to make them
Speaker 1: to make them perfect. So knowing the pain that actually
Speaker 1: goes into crafting this for somebody's special day, these are horrendous.
Speaker 1: And I like the rite up uh it says in
Speaker 1: huge caps, never used dollars each or on for all
Speaker 1: five there's about three dollars worth of material and all
Speaker 1: of them and either the way I see it right bullshit,
Speaker 1: they were never used. You're just trying to make a
Speaker 1: quick buck off something you have laying around from your
Speaker 1: old wedding. Or dude, what what if what if dude
Speaker 1: got stood up? Like what if he's were ready for
Speaker 1: the big day and he just you know, fly fish
Speaker 1: too long, one too many times and this whole thing,
Speaker 1: wake up put. I think the third option that I
Speaker 1: came up with is that they ordered these because they
Speaker 1: say they ordered him from a Colorado artisan in the
Speaker 1: right up. I think the god them they realized how
Speaker 1: hideous they were, they claimed they I should also say
Speaker 1: this that says the last sense. Unfortunately, we forgot to
Speaker 1: pack them to our wedding location, so they have never
Speaker 1: been used. I'm calling bullshit. I think you intentionally forgot
Speaker 1: these because you bought them and you had the buyers
Speaker 1: or moors. You're like, I'm not wearing that ship on
Speaker 1: my wedding day. That's not coming with us, And now
Speaker 1: you're trying to recoup some of your your sunk money
Speaker 1: on that. Also, these awful feathers are just placed in
Speaker 1: like a little little black like super sharp pointy parking cones,
Speaker 1: and all I can think is that if you drilled through,
Speaker 1: you can make a line through, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: fly out of these and like you get something to
Speaker 1: eat it. Or I can make a sweet daisy chain
Speaker 1: control for tuna as is, although I could make these
Speaker 1: for a fraction of a hundred bucks, so um, they
Speaker 1: can have them. But maybe where the jerk stude, maybe
Speaker 1: somebody out there but their special day. This is exactly
Speaker 1: what they want. Hideous draft store is craft store. Definitely
Speaker 1: the jerks. But if if you want to help us
Speaker 1: continue being in net jerks and making fun of things
Speaker 1: that people are selling that have something vaguely to do
Speaker 1: with fishing, please let us know we need your input
Speaker 1: to continue making this segment amazing. Send us an email
Speaker 1: at bent at the meat eater dot com and let
Speaker 1: us know what kind of weird crap you found on
Speaker 1: the internet for sale. You know, man, I'll pass on
Speaker 1: the bootineers. But one thing, one thing I I do
Speaker 1: buy on occasion online via eBay or Craigslist. I do
Speaker 1: buy old lures, especially like hard to find stuff, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, you do you do? Do
Speaker 1: you not do that? Do you not root around like
Speaker 1: and and and buy things you just can't grab in
Speaker 1: the shop anymore. I I always threatened to, like I
Speaker 1: do look through the things for sale and regularly go, oh,
Speaker 1: I would love to get that, but I never I
Speaker 1: never follow through. I'm just I'm I think I'm just
Speaker 1: weird about buying used ship off the internet from people
Speaker 1: that I don't know, because I feel like those transactions
Speaker 1: are always so awkward. Oh they are. They are, And
Speaker 1: it's weird because people put stuff up for sale and
Speaker 1: it's like they're excited about selling their things until you
Speaker 1: actually start inquiring, and then they get all like, well,
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? And it's like, well, dude,
Speaker 1: you put this up for sale, man, And then it
Speaker 1: gets all weird, like no one trust each other because
Speaker 1: there's so many scams out there, a real person text
Speaker 1: me when you get to this seven eleven and I'll
Speaker 1: send you a pass code. I'm like Jesus, all right, whatever,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, I'll particularly buy discontinued stuff that I
Speaker 1: can't find. And uh, this is great because we're coming
Speaker 1: to the end of the line. We're just about out
Speaker 1: of time. And in our end of the line segment today,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about a a very old lore,
Speaker 1: been around a long time, and it is not discontinued,
Speaker 1: though it is not popular in all regions of this country. However,
Speaker 1: let me tell you, if you want to up your
Speaker 1: big brown trout game, pay attention to this one. Well
Speaker 1: it's not loud enough. Today I am paying of you
Speaker 1: to the Smithwick Ratlin rogue stick bait. Now, the Smithwick
Speaker 1: has been around man. What started as a hobby for
Speaker 1: Jack K. Smithwick in nineteen seven blossomed into a monster
Speaker 1: Laura business based in Shreveport, Louisiana. And I kind of
Speaker 1: find that interesting because hard stick baits are so much
Speaker 1: more associated with northern fisheries like Walleye and pike and
Speaker 1: small amounts. Right, and if you've ever been to the
Speaker 1: Louisiana low country dude. There are so many stumps and
Speaker 1: so much vegetation in that water. I feel like the
Speaker 1: three troubles on a rogue would not stay unstuck for
Speaker 1: two shakes of a rod tip. Right. Uh. It almost
Speaker 1: would feel more appropriate for the arbor gast hoola popper
Speaker 1: or a jitterbug to have been the hometown lawer of Shreveport.
Speaker 1: But ironically those baits were all made further north in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Weird right Anyway, Smithwick's southern roots might explain why the
Speaker 1: rogue became the number one go to big trout slayer
Speaker 1: in Arkansas, Louisiana's neighbor to the north. Now as the
Speaker 1: now world renowned trophy brown trout fisheries developed in Ozark
Speaker 1: rivers like the White and the Little Red, them good
Speaker 1: old boys wasn't out there trying to get a dainty
Speaker 1: sip on a comparer done, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They wasn't flicking up panther Martin around on two pound test.
Speaker 1: Those guys fish just like they did for everything else,
Speaker 1: simply yet aggressively in a manner that would produce the meat.
Speaker 1: So if you think back to the earliest days of
Speaker 1: those fisheries, options were limited. There were no uh Raplea
Speaker 1: slash baits or Kai Tech swing impacts on the shelf
Speaker 1: at the general store in Arkansas, but there were ratlin rogues.
Speaker 1: So despite a wide variety of lower options today, tell
Speaker 1: you the truth, you will still have a hell of
Speaker 1: a hard time finding a shop in ozark trout country
Speaker 1: that doesn't have rogues, if for no other reason than
Speaker 1: to cater to the older crowd that just will not
Speaker 1: waver from their utter devotion to that bait. And I'm
Speaker 1: a believer in the power of the rogue thanks to
Speaker 1: Pete the jig man Cob, who happens to be one
Speaker 1: of those old stages on the White River. You know,
Speaker 1: Pete had been guiding the White for many, many years,
Speaker 1: and I think he was pretty used to catering to
Speaker 1: clients that Jess wanted to catch lots and lots of
Speaker 1: trout right, And when I was fishing with them all
Speaker 1: those years ago, I think at outset, he assumed that
Speaker 1: I was one of those people. And we had caught
Speaker 1: so many smaller fish on tiny jigs Day one, I
Speaker 1: lost count and by the end of it I kind
Speaker 1: of lost interest too, and so had he, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna say that. I didn't know that until I
Speaker 1: suggested that tomorrow we throw no thing but big stick
Speaker 1: baits all day, regardless of outcome, and Pete lit up. Man.
Speaker 1: He was happier than a pig and ship here in that.
Speaker 1: It turned out that Pete was all about swinging for
Speaker 1: the fences. And that next day I learned that fishing
Speaker 1: a rogue properly was just as taxing on the arms
Speaker 1: as stripping giant streamers for hours and hours on a
Speaker 1: fly rod. And the sharp angle and width of that
Speaker 1: lure's lip it's pretty unique, and it creates a lot
Speaker 1: more water resistance, I think, than similar baits, and it
Speaker 1: makes it necessary to whip that rod extra hard to
Speaker 1: get a rogue to depth fast, and you know, no joke,
Speaker 1: when you're doing it right, it burns, man. But that
Speaker 1: steep lip is also what makes a rogue kick to
Speaker 1: the side more violently, flash more radically than a lot
Speaker 1: of other stick baits. And of course nowadays Smithwick makes
Speaker 1: suspending models, but even the original old school floaters rise
Speaker 1: very slowly, so when you pause they suspend beautifully, and
Speaker 1: that's often when the fatal blow is delivered. Now, I
Speaker 1: can't say that Pete and I destroyed that day, but
Speaker 1: the shoulder workout was worth it because we did not
Speaker 1: catch a brown under twenty and a couple of the
Speaker 1: fish we did catch could be measured in pounds right,
Speaker 1: And you know, thinking back, honestly, the rogue was not
Speaker 1: exactly a staple um in shops where I grew up
Speaker 1: in the Northeast. Nobody used them or even talked about
Speaker 1: them that I recall. But because of what I learned
Speaker 1: from Pete and fishing them in the Ozarks, the rogue
Speaker 1: is a staple for me now. In fact, the biggest
Speaker 1: brown trout I've caught to date on the Lehigh River
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, which is pretty close to where I live,
Speaker 1: fell to a ratling rogue. And I've mowed down some
Speaker 1: big local small amounts and pickerel on them too. So
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you that despite the constant
Speaker 1: push to rope anglers with new technology, there's a reason
Speaker 1: why classic ship doesn't change or go away. So that's
Speaker 1: it for this week. We hope you learned, laughed, felt
Speaker 1: slightly uncomfortable, and then came to the realization that laughter
Speaker 1: is always the best medicine. We also seriously hope you
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Speaker 1: us what you're catching, absolutely, tell us a crazy ass story,
Speaker 1: send us an awkward photo. We might use it, just
Speaker 1: so you know. And drunk emailing is always welcomed and appreciated,
Speaker 1: unless you used to date either of us, in which
Speaker 1: case I don't know. I'm sorry about everything. I really
Speaker 1: hope that doesn't happen until next week. Remember to wet
Speaker 1: those knots with your own saliva, not someone else's, so
Speaker 1: you don't get COVID. And remember, fishing isn't about catching,
Speaker 1: It's about creating Instagram stories that are longer than the
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