Speaker 1: Let me tell you, ryding New Jersey transit with a
Speaker 1: ten ft chunk and stick is a real pain in
Speaker 1: the ask. And this guy could not have possibly made
Speaker 1: me want to eat fish less? Have you ever knowingly
Speaker 1: sabotaged someone else's rig all the time? You know, you
Speaker 1: got the Mickey Finn and the bread ghost and the
Speaker 1: half bass wooly Bugger and the head wraps would started
Speaker 1: raveling within fifteen minutes of fishing them. Good morning, degenerate anglers,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that calls on
Speaker 1: Friday looking to book a Saturday charter during peak season
Speaker 1: and does not understand why you are not available. I'm
Speaker 1: Joe Surmellie. I'm Miles Nolton. What the hell, man, are
Speaker 1: you in business or what I'm I'm telling you don't
Speaker 1: want to. I want to hire you to take me fishing,
Speaker 1: and you're telling me you're too busy to take my money. Huh.
Speaker 1: So you heard this one a few times back in
Speaker 1: the day, Moms, maybe once, maybe twice. I might have
Speaker 1: been yelled at like that. One of the many things
Speaker 1: that fuels the fire of professional fishing guides. Anyway, Listen,
Speaker 1: we certainly hope that there was no family ire at
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving table yesterday, assuming you had a real live
Speaker 1: loved ones around that table, not ten iPads with zoom
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Speaker 1: So much stocking mm hmm yeah first, yeah, and we're
Speaker 1: stock to come. We're getting in the stocking season. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on to the fishing stuff from what I understand,
Speaker 1: which is limited, but I know people and I talked
Speaker 1: to you. I hear that Thanksgiving weekend is like kind
Speaker 1: of a big deal for for the striper crowd. Like
Speaker 1: that's not your way to really really get on that
Speaker 1: sure is, man, if you're a coastal angler in in
Speaker 1: New York, any Jersey stripers kind of go with Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: like football goes with Thanksgiving. And it was it was
Speaker 1: traditional for me for many years of my life to
Speaker 1: chase them either on the beach or from my old
Speaker 1: boat every Thanksgiving morning, and my buddies and I look
Speaker 1: forward to that greatly. Um the tradeoff though, right because
Speaker 1: then I'd be falling asleep with the table, and like
Speaker 1: my mom wasn't happy about that. And then that just
Speaker 1: kind of transferred over to my wife. And I've been
Speaker 1: scolded a Thanksgiving or two for basically being completely unengaged
Speaker 1: at dinner, you know what I mean, Just not interested
Speaker 1: in family chatter or even being in the same room sometimes. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It was a fun morning though, but you know, and
Speaker 1: then we had a couple of kids and I stopped
Speaker 1: fishing on Thanksgiving morning and the children just drained both
Speaker 1: of us. Um, though I do I do have some
Speaker 1: striper time set aside for this weekend, so we'll see good.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that, man, And that is something
Speaker 1: I can totally like, I can connect with that, not
Speaker 1: the striper part, but the changing of the Thanksgiving like
Speaker 1: I've had. I've had a few different Thanksgiving traditions. For
Speaker 1: a while there, I was spending every single Thanksgiving over
Speaker 1: on the Big Horn, Like I would just skip the
Speaker 1: whole Thanksgiving things. I'd go to the Big Horn and
Speaker 1: just catch a ton of brown trout and shoot some
Speaker 1: pheasants or some geese or whatever. And and then there's
Speaker 1: a while there was no time where I was always
Speaker 1: I was floating rivers closer to home and deer hunting
Speaker 1: and also catching trout at the same time. And like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was great. It was great. But you know,
Speaker 1: priorities change, life changes. There's nothing wrong with that. Change
Speaker 1: is good. And unless, of course, you happen to be
Speaker 1: one of those people who chooses to don know, forego
Speaker 1: certain comforts in order to to dodge responsibility for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. And if there's one person, and
Speaker 1: we know who's a master of not having any responsibilities,
Speaker 1: it has to be legendary Striper Chunking expert Bob the
Speaker 1: garbage Man. You said it. He is a man beholden
Speaker 1: to no one but the tides and the stripers, and
Speaker 1: the lung darts, and the lung darts. Beholding to the
Speaker 1: lung darts. And if you've been with us from the
Speaker 1: beginning here this legend provided our first ever regional report.
Speaker 1: And and you might recall he was in pretty good
Speaker 1: spirits because he was talking about the spring and the
Speaker 1: height of COVID quarantine was keeping everybody off the water,
Speaker 1: so he was thrilled. So all these months later, I'm
Speaker 1: eager to see how he's fired. Calling as usual from
Speaker 1: the pay phone at the corner of Baltic and mL
Speaker 1: K in Atlantic City, New Jersey, here's the soothing voice
Speaker 1: of Bob g. Hello out Dan Radio Land. This is
Speaker 1: Striper Chunk and expert Bob the garbage Man, Briton and
Speaker 1: Nana now Ski calling in your weak the East Coast
Speaker 1: Stripeer Report. Just to cut to the chase. It's been
Speaker 1: a real shifty week. Frankly, it's been a shifty few
Speaker 1: months of I'm being honest, Ever since this whole COVID
Speaker 1: bullshit blew over every place I try to fish, looks
Speaker 1: like the t Jetty mook Fest Bulitz oh One. The
Speaker 1: fall run of Momos is in full swing. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you what I mean, Jesus, I walked out to
Speaker 1: the drain pipe behind Port Authority the other night. It's
Speaker 1: thirty eight degrees blown thirty out of the north and
Speaker 1: there's three guys in track suits from South Philly thrown
Speaker 1: rubber trout on catfish tackle. Like before this year, me
Speaker 1: and Crazy Terry from the Pond Shop was the only
Speaker 1: two people that fished out there. I'm losing my mind
Speaker 1: just to scratch out five to six low fifties. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the train up to Nork to hit some high
Speaker 1: level sleep of ship in the meadow lands. And let
Speaker 1: me tell you, riding New Jersey Transit with a ten
Speaker 1: foot chunk and stick is a real pain in the ass. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I ain't got any more uplifting news from the rest
Speaker 1: of the coast. My old buddy Joey the Gut and
Speaker 1: Montalk says the place is over run with kids from
Speaker 1: Parks Slope dressed like Benetton ads casting fly rods had
Speaker 1: taken sunset pictures at Chaguan, Tony, Bologna and Zuini up
Speaker 1: in nauset Beach says, these firsty dipshits up there throwing
Speaker 1: datas at Blitz and hobby seals because they can't tell
Speaker 1: the difference between a large, hairy mamo and a stripe bass.
Speaker 1: Dear God, please return this country to full lockdown. I
Speaker 1: can't take this ship anymore. That's what I got for
Speaker 1: you is this week goodbye. Okay. First of all, First
Speaker 1: of all, based on on this whole uptick in in
Speaker 1: angler participation that we keep talking about so much on
Speaker 1: the podcast and that we we support generally, uh nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing at all about just heard surprises me. I think
Speaker 1: I think anybody and everybody we we we saw that coming, right.
Speaker 1: It was inevitable. It was inevitable. And second, I have
Speaker 1: this weird inkling now that you might be you might
Speaker 1: be hopping on a bus and going over to Newark
Speaker 1: this weekend. I yeah, I might be, man because that
Speaker 1: wasn't completely uplifting news about the bite. And he's the
Speaker 1: man on the ground. So I kind of I cap
Speaker 1: off my travel time to catching my low fifty pounders
Speaker 1: minutes any longer, any long we ever drive in that,
Speaker 1: I'll just settle for the thirty and forty pounders that night.
Speaker 1: You know rough life, You got a rough life, not Bob. Bob.
Speaker 1: He covers the ground and he knows that to cover water,
Speaker 1: and so do we. Matter of fact, we are loading
Speaker 1: a new segment into the chamber this week, one that's
Speaker 1: designed to help you learn as much personal and maybe
Speaker 1: not so personal information about notable, respected people in the
Speaker 1: angling community in record time. Because you're busy, you don't
Speaker 1: have time to sit through a whole interview, we condensed
Speaker 1: it for you. We've got a new and I would
Speaker 1: say special treat for you today where we are debuting
Speaker 1: a fully unique segment we're calling Covering Water because we're
Speaker 1: gonna be all over the place with this one, and fittingly,
Speaker 1: I think to to be be with us for the
Speaker 1: inaugural guest is our really good friend Oliver and I
Speaker 1: what's up man, Oliver? What's up? Man? It's up? Boys?
Speaker 1: Are you guys? Shure them the right choice of this?
Speaker 1: I don't get out very much positive, no question at
Speaker 1: all of our minds. Anybody, anybody who has UH checked
Speaker 1: in with the Toss Boat series knows Oliver well and
Speaker 1: UH and and knows the kind of fire and heat
Speaker 1: he is going to bring and and besides, like he's
Speaker 1: willing to put up with our our our crazy stupid
Speaker 1: ideas like this, So he's the perfect guy really to
Speaker 1: start this off. In my opinion, Yes, you're willing to
Speaker 1: be a guinea pig, and we appreciate that. Absolutely. He
Speaker 1: has no fear. So the way this is gonna work,
Speaker 1: we are gonna put two minutes on the clock and
Speaker 1: Joe and I are going to rapid fire pepper you
Speaker 1: with questions. Your job is not to think too much,
Speaker 1: just just react, and we're gonna get through as many
Speaker 1: questions as we can in two minutes. When the buzzer
Speaker 1: strikes at the end of those two minutes, then we
Speaker 1: will give you a full minute to elaborate on something
Speaker 1: you feel like we all should know better to understand
Speaker 1: what you were saying. One that needs you think needs clarifications.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be many, so you're gonna but you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pick one. Yep, yep, all right, man, did
Speaker 1: you ready play? Yeah? That sounds like a terrible game show.
Speaker 1: I'm down. That's exactly what it is. It is a
Speaker 1: terrible game show. All right, you boys? Ready clock starts? Now,
Speaker 1: who's the greatest angler? Of all time, Jordan Kobe or
Speaker 1: Lebron Have you ever knowingly sabotaged someone else's rig all
Speaker 1: the time? At least favorite fish to target bill fish,
Speaker 1: m spring bite or fall bite. Most revolutionary lore ever invented?
Speaker 1: Mega bass one tender. Okay, okay, nas are little nas x?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, nasty nas. Yes, most sensitive area you've
Speaker 1: ever been hooked in, Oh boy, back in my head? Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the species you've never caught that's highest on your list.
Speaker 1: The dumbest way you've ever broken a rod, letting my
Speaker 1: girlfriend take my rod, sock off my Mega bass hedgehog destroyer.
Speaker 1: That was pretty dumb. Rank the following fish from from
Speaker 1: worst to best. Rock bass crappy perch readier. Oh that's
Speaker 1: brutal rock bass perch by a readier. Did I miss one?
Speaker 1: All right? Okay? The Magne rebought catapultar Nike pumps. Oh Nikes,
Speaker 1: you gotta have the pumps. Man excellent choice. Cheetos or
Speaker 1: kale chips. Cheetos. One piece of tackle you cannot live
Speaker 1: without a hook. That's it, buzzer done. That hook could
Speaker 1: be like a family feud, like boom survey says, so okay, man,
Speaker 1: so of all those, there's gotta be one that you
Speaker 1: want to expand on a little bit. Do you have
Speaker 1: it locked in? Yeah, let's go with Alner. First question,
Speaker 1: your clocks running. You got a minute to explain yourself,
Speaker 1: all right. As a youngster from California, I watched this
Speaker 1: man from a whole another world, catching everything and doing
Speaker 1: it in a very scientifically minded approach, and you broke
Speaker 1: things down in a way that I could understand, even
Speaker 1: though half the time the fish that he was targeting
Speaker 1: we didn't even have in l A. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was a mindset and that approach that I could take
Speaker 1: from an adapt to my fishing styles. Because I was
Speaker 1: watching this man like doing it, his body of works
Speaker 1: spoke for itself in my mind, and that stuff is
Speaker 1: transcended generations. It's transcended the onset of this social media
Speaker 1: age where anybody and everybody has a platform and there's
Speaker 1: no filter for the content that's being put out there anymore.
Speaker 1: And Alan, there is still a G. He was on
Speaker 1: my boat last year writing these big swells on Relax
Speaker 1: like a gangster and like just smacking big walleye and
Speaker 1: small mouth. Alan, there's a G. So we've got a
Speaker 1: few more hot seaters lined up for covering water going forward.
Speaker 1: But listen, we want to hear about it from you guys.
Speaker 1: Did you like the segment? Did you hate it so
Speaker 1: once you've been turned off of fishing for life? Who
Speaker 1: would you love to see us grill on high heat?
Speaker 1: What questions would you ask him or her? Let us
Speaker 1: know by sending an email to bent at the meter
Speaker 1: dot com. We love giving you things to think about.
Speaker 1: We want to spark your creativity and your thoughts, like
Speaker 1: what is Hank Parker's favorite Beastie Boys song? Or is
Speaker 1: it possible for Larry Dhlberg to make a lure that
Speaker 1: doesn't catch a shipload of fish? I don't think so
Speaker 1: for the record, But now we're gonna give you lots
Speaker 1: more to think about, uh in the realm of current events,
Speaker 1: because it is time for fish news. Fish news that
Speaker 1: escalated quickly, So before we get all newsy on you guys,
Speaker 1: this is where we like to do a little housekeeping
Speaker 1: time to time, throw out some fans shoutouts, and I
Speaker 1: just have to throw one out very quickly to at
Speaker 1: Zach underscore salon life. I don't know Zack's full and
Speaker 1: the aim was not provided, but he sent us a
Speaker 1: joint message on the instagrams just to let us know that, um,
Speaker 1: he saw Pantera in a packed house in Atlanta many
Speaker 1: years ago and apparently are very brief. Pantera verse Slayer
Speaker 1: pit debate has resonated with a ton of y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like it really, it really hit a chord there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we should probably do a music podcast instead of fishing,
Speaker 1: because that's like, that's like the thing, all the fish stuff,
Speaker 1: not that you guys don't write in about that, but
Speaker 1: like the Pantera Slayer thing anyway, um Zach wrote, and
Speaker 1: I'm quoting here amash pit, the size of the venue erupts,
Speaker 1: and my skinny ass in parentheses at the time closed
Speaker 1: parentheses tries to get to the side of the pit
Speaker 1: and I get literally stabbed in the gut. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Pantera is wilder than Slayer, and I needed clarifications. So
Speaker 1: I just wrote back stabbed question mark like with a shiv,
Speaker 1: and he says, yep, shank with a four inch boot knife.
Speaker 1: Great show until the stabbing. I love that we we
Speaker 1: did the exact same thing because I essentially responded to
Speaker 1: him in precisely the same enter and said, like, you
Speaker 1: mean literally stabbed, like when you say stabbing, stabby stabbed right,
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh yeah, no, I got stabbed. So dude,
Speaker 1: you win. Craziest pit story I've ever heard. Um And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thanks for that. So that's
Speaker 1: my my shout out of the week right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta come in with a little correction.
Speaker 1: A couple weeks ago, I did an end of line
Speaker 1: segment on the SUK which I totally stand by, but
Speaker 1: apparently I butchered the name of the town where Frank
Speaker 1: Suek came from anonymous mistake, though I've done the same.
Speaker 1: So the town is spelled a N T I g
Speaker 1: O and I pronounced it antigo with a hard t.
Speaker 1: And and quite a few of you wrote to tell
Speaker 1: me how very wrong I was about that. Apparently the
Speaker 1: t is silent, which I've never heard of before. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's an ego, an ego, I don't know, something
Speaker 1: like that. But but no tea in there, even though
Speaker 1: it looks like there's so people throw us a bone
Speaker 1: on that one, like that's not fair. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, But I mean that's not an obvious like
Speaker 1: we should have known how to say that one is
Speaker 1: the t ever silent. But I do appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: keeping me honest and keeping us honest and letting us
Speaker 1: know I hold no ill will towards you. Please continue
Speaker 1: doing that, let us know when we screw something up,
Speaker 1: because we want to know, we want to learn. Yes,
Speaker 1: we do, we do, all right, So that concludes housekeeping. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to uh to the real news this week. Remember,
Speaker 1: Miles and I do not know which news stories the
Speaker 1: other is bringing to the table. And at the end
Speaker 1: of this our audio engineer Phil will weigh in and
Speaker 1: declare a news victor. And I'll just go ahead and say,
Speaker 1: right now, you're gonna win this week because both of
Speaker 1: my stories are dumb, and I aired on the side
Speaker 1: of humor more than hard news because you know what,
Speaker 1: my God, do we all need to laugh right now? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: You know I can't even this world and laughter cure
Speaker 1: is all. So I am airing. I am herring on
Speaker 1: the side of humorous this week. I just couldn't help myself.
Speaker 1: So here we go, thank you. So anyway, um it
Speaker 1: it is largely believed I would say that the coronavirus
Speaker 1: originated in bats over in China. Now some of you
Speaker 1: are going, no, hell it did, It's a conspiracy. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not going to go off on all the conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: all that noise for the sake of this new story.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna go with the narrative that because the
Speaker 1: Chinese kind of eat some weird ship, this whole problem
Speaker 1: started with an infected bat that someone picked up for brunch. Okay, uh.
Speaker 1: We also know that the virus went nutty around the
Speaker 1: wet markets in Wuhan where said bat was supposedly sold,
Speaker 1: and all these months later, what you don't see is
Speaker 1: a Chinese official on live TV pulling an Ozzy Osbourne
Speaker 1: and showing a bat to let the masses know that
Speaker 1: see the bats are okay now, in an attempt to
Speaker 1: reboost bat sales and help all the poor bat farmers
Speaker 1: or hunter gatherers or whoever these people are that that
Speaker 1: supplied the bats. But um, the people of Sri Lanka
Speaker 1: did see this exact thing happened recently, but with a fish.
Speaker 1: And this is from the New York Post. The headline
Speaker 1: here x Sri Lankan official chumps on a raw fish
Speaker 1: during news conference. Okay, now from the story, a former
Speaker 1: Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation
Speaker 1: have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. And here's a quote. I
Speaker 1: am making an appeal to the people of this country
Speaker 1: to eat fish. Don't be afraid you will not get
Speaker 1: infected by the coronavirus dilip what a Racchi Wadaracha said
Speaker 1: before biting into this fish. Last month, the Central Fish
Speaker 1: Market outside the nation's capital Colombo was the site of
Speaker 1: a major coronavirus outbreak that led to thousands of county
Speaker 1: wide infections. Since the and fish sales and consumption in
Speaker 1: Sri Lanka have plunged. Tens of thousands of tons of
Speaker 1: fish have gone unsold because of this. And the final
Speaker 1: quote here is are people who are in the fisheries
Speaker 1: industry cannot sell their fish. People of this country are
Speaker 1: not eating fish. What a Racchi said at the news conference. Um.
Speaker 1: And he also had this to say before eating the fish.
Speaker 1: And you could tell from this quote dudes upset and
Speaker 1: not messing around. Now we've both watched this and this
Speaker 1: guy could not have possibly made me want to eat
Speaker 1: fish less. Okay, He throws a plastic shopping bag on
Speaker 1: the table, pulls out what looked like to mackerel and
Speaker 1: and somewhat hesitantly holds one like corn on the cob
Speaker 1: and just takes a giant bite out of the fish's back,
Speaker 1: right behind the dorsal fin, and like you hear the
Speaker 1: spine crunch in his mouth, and you can like hear
Speaker 1: the f a squish, and blood runs out of the
Speaker 1: fish and drips on the paperwork in front of him.
Speaker 1: He then holds up the blood stained paperwork and shows
Speaker 1: everyone in the bite in the fish is back while
Speaker 1: his hot Mike is picking up the sound of him
Speaker 1: like chewing back whatever mackerel bits are left in his mouth.
Speaker 1: Now you saw the cut version. There's a longer version though,
Speaker 1: and I swear there's a point where he he gags
Speaker 1: a little. Okay, but if that was supposed to make
Speaker 1: me want to run to the fish market, like God
Speaker 1: help these people, and I mean it also goes without
Speaker 1: saying this whole thing is totally based on unfounded panic.
Speaker 1: Corona has never been linked to fish. I mean, hell, dude.
Speaker 1: One of the first segments you and I ever did
Speaker 1: on this podcast was about how you will not get
Speaker 1: any sort of Corona type virus from a fish. But
Speaker 1: obviously the people are blaming this outbreak in a crowded
Speaker 1: market on the fish being sold. They're not the whole
Speaker 1: shipload of people at the crowded mark, not the crowds
Speaker 1: of people like snooze and breathing on Chela. Know, it
Speaker 1: must be the face. It must be the mackerel. So
Speaker 1: I just could This video is so worth a watch. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, good, good effort to that guy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you didn't help the seafood market with that one.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're missing some context because I have
Speaker 1: no idea what he's saying, right, Like, I want to
Speaker 1: know what what point he's making when he holds up
Speaker 1: the bloody paper and he's like, I want to know
Speaker 1: if he's like, see see held right here, dude. We
Speaker 1: should We should have it overdub for our social pages.
Speaker 1: We can have bad lip reading. It would be so
Speaker 1: much fun. Oh god, it would be good. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: how fresh the blood drips down the affidavit or whatever
Speaker 1: he's holding. There was nothing. You didn't look, there's nothing
Speaker 1: on the paper it makes me think he's like he's
Speaker 1: got those fake notes that they bring out a press conferences,
Speaker 1: like you know, you shuffle the papers like I have
Speaker 1: important things to say, but there's nothing on the paper.
Speaker 1: He has no notes. He didn't he didn't want to
Speaker 1: bite the mackerel. The poor guy. He didn't want to
Speaker 1: do that. It was It's just it's just awful. So,
Speaker 1: oh well, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with eating parts
Speaker 1: of the fish that that maybe we don't usually bite into.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know about you, but I don't
Speaker 1: go for the fish backs. It's like my top priority
Speaker 1: the way that that that particular person did. But I'll say,
Speaker 1: over the past a couple of years year at least,
Speaker 1: I've really been trying to figure out how to use
Speaker 1: more of the fish that I harvest instead of just
Speaker 1: like whacking off the filets and tossing the rest, because
Speaker 1: you know, depending on what kind of fish you're talking about, um,
Speaker 1: the flames might only make up a third of the
Speaker 1: entire body weight, and so that just it just feels
Speaker 1: it feels wasteful right now. Absolutely how we've always done it,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to get better at it. And I
Speaker 1: got started on this kick when I read a book
Speaker 1: called The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland, who's an
Speaker 1: Australian chef, and he's pioneered some some really interesting recipes
Speaker 1: that utilize parts of the fish that often get discarded.
Speaker 1: And while Nylon definitely inspired me some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that he does in his restaurant, it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: not feasible for a home cook, right, Like I have
Speaker 1: a full time job in a family. I am not
Speaker 1: going to spend an afternoon making fish eye chips. That's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen, nor nor do I usually have access
Speaker 1: to enough fish eyes that like I could pull that off.
Speaker 1: But like that said, I do try to be conscientious
Speaker 1: about using more of the fish that bring home. So
Speaker 1: like with smaller species, you know, pan fish or trout,
Speaker 1: I've been cooking them whole um. I've been doing the
Speaker 1: reverse butterfly technique that I learned from Texas chef Jesse Griffiths,
Speaker 1: which you guys can find a tutorial about on the
Speaker 1: media website if you're interested, hold on one set because
Speaker 1: in case you don't go back to the fish eyes.
Speaker 1: What is a fish eye chip? Do you just fry
Speaker 1: a fish eyeball until it's like such a long complicated process. Man.
Speaker 1: It like involves extruding the eyes and then like mixing
Speaker 1: them with batter and frying them into chips. Like it's
Speaker 1: a whole thing I can see doing at a five
Speaker 1: star restaurant. But I'm not doing that at home. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Good got But like I said, I
Speaker 1: like the reverse better fly technique. And I was saying,
Speaker 1: if you guys are interested in seeing how I do that,
Speaker 1: you can find a tutorial on the on the website
Speaker 1: right now. With bigger species, I always take the cheeks
Speaker 1: and the collars and the bellies because that's really good
Speaker 1: meat that often gets wasted, and it's there's no reason
Speaker 1: to I try to make stocks or stews out of
Speaker 1: skeletons and other leftovers. Admittedly, sometimes I get lazy, and
Speaker 1: I'll always do it. I fail there too, man, I
Speaker 1: always have that intention, and it's just like you're tired
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. You got a freezer,
Speaker 1: you got it, you got a vaccineal what you already
Speaker 1: have to deal with, and it's like, God, I do
Speaker 1: I fail there miserably? I'd say I'm batting about, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to get better there, and I'm not much
Speaker 1: like in general, I'm not an innards guy, and I
Speaker 1: don't have a yard really, so like I can't just
Speaker 1: bury the fish guts for fertilizer. I do. Like next
Speaker 1: summer I'm gonna try and work on some raised beds
Speaker 1: and see if I can figure out how to use
Speaker 1: guts fish guts in that as fertilizer if I don't
Speaker 1: know how to do it, though, if anybody out there
Speaker 1: has pointers, please let me know. I've done it with
Speaker 1: American shad, like brought some shad home, cut it up,
Speaker 1: and like as my wife was putting in tomato plants,
Speaker 1: just put a chunk of it under dude. We had
Speaker 1: hell of it. It worked. It does work. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I I did it right. I just did
Speaker 1: it half fast, but it worked. The point of all
Speaker 1: this is that I'm trying to get better about maximizing
Speaker 1: the fish I keep. And and this week I found
Speaker 1: a really cool story about this organization in New Zealand
Speaker 1: who's figured out a way to utilize the discarded part
Speaker 1: of fish, feed hungry people and generate self sustaining revenue.
Speaker 1: The organization is called Kaika, which I think translates to
Speaker 1: roughly using aquatic animals or something like that. I don't
Speaker 1: my Mauori is not that great anyway. They take the
Speaker 1: discarded fish parts and they distribute them through a Maori
Speaker 1: community hall in South Auckland. And now Polynesian cultures like Maudi,
Speaker 1: they know how to prepare fish heads and skeletons, right,
Speaker 1: like maximizing the use of whole fish is just part
Speaker 1: of their cultural heritage. And that's true for a lot
Speaker 1: of Polynesians. I remember that there's this Hawaiian dude I
Speaker 1: used to fish with growing up, and he would always
Speaker 1: just straight eat the eyeballs out of the fish we caught,
Speaker 1: like no cooking, just pop them and and and he
Speaker 1: loved them. And he would tell me and I think
Speaker 1: he was just like messing with the white kid, but
Speaker 1: he would mess he'd tell me like even the fish
Speaker 1: I has helped me, see, Mike like the fish and
Speaker 1: I catch more fish. And maybe he was just messing
Speaker 1: with me. But the dude was legit and he always
Speaker 1: caught more fish than me, and maybe that was the
Speaker 1: reason why. I don't know. But getting back to New Zealand,
Speaker 1: the folks getting these heads and skeletons. They're not viewing
Speaker 1: them as refuse right, Like fish heads were often reserved
Speaker 1: for people of like super high status and Polynesian cultures.
Speaker 1: They're they're a delicacy. So the fish are going to
Speaker 1: people who genuinely want them and who know what to
Speaker 1: do with them. Also, we're talking about families who could
Speaker 1: use some help right now. We're talking about families who
Speaker 1: are struggling to to make ends meet and and to
Speaker 1: feed themselves and feed their kids. So Kayika this organization
Speaker 1: started in two thousand and sixteen when a boating club
Speaker 1: in Auckland wanted to figure out a solution to a problem.
Speaker 1: Their members would come in from fishing, they'd clean their
Speaker 1: fish and then dump pounds and pounds of fish craps
Speaker 1: that would pretty quickly start to rot and stink, and
Speaker 1: not only was it messy, but there are sold club members.
Speaker 1: He thought it was it was wasteful, and they wanted
Speaker 1: to come up with a better system. So they reached
Speaker 1: out to the manager of this Mauori community center who
Speaker 1: said that they would yeah, they'd love to have those
Speaker 1: fish scraps and that we're currently being wasted. So they
Speaker 1: got together and they opened a fish cleaning station at
Speaker 1: the boating club where they charged two dollars to cut
Speaker 1: up the fish. Right, so the anglers would bring a fish,
Speaker 1: they give them two bucks, they give them the fish,
Speaker 1: they get the flat's back, and then everything else got
Speaker 1: brought to these families and need huh. But then the
Speaker 1: coronavirus lockdown hit and when that happened, at the time
Speaker 1: that the lockdown happened, this this fish station was distributing
Speaker 1: five dred and fifty pounds of fish two people who
Speaker 1: needed it every week. But then the lockdown completely put
Speaker 1: a hall to recreational fishing and it cut off access
Speaker 1: to food. You know, particularly time when when these vulnerable
Speaker 1: communities were they were like they were experiencing even more
Speaker 1: need sure less. So Kaika, I gotta give these guys credit.
Speaker 1: They quickly pivoted and they started working with commercial fishing
Speaker 1: companies in the area. And then after they started doing that,
Speaker 1: they're bringing a nearly two thousand pounds of fish per week.
Speaker 1: But without the cleaning station, they didn't have any income
Speaker 1: to support the program, so so they were relying on
Speaker 1: donations and things. So fast forward to now right and
Speaker 1: new Zealand, unlike here, has COVID under control. So they're
Speaker 1: heading into their summer and their fishing season like full bore,
Speaker 1: and they've reopened this fish cleaning station, so they're getting
Speaker 1: all the fish from that, plus their partnerships with the
Speaker 1: commercial fishermen, which means they're bringing a ton of food.
Speaker 1: And they're also hoping that the revenue from that fish
Speaker 1: cleaning station will will be enough to make this program
Speaker 1: self sustaining and even employee several community members full time.
Speaker 1: I don't actually have a way to like adopt this
Speaker 1: model elsewhere, Like I haven't figured that out because I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of uniquely suited in New Zealand. But
Speaker 1: I have to say that I find this to be
Speaker 1: such an elegant solution to multiple problems right there. Their
Speaker 1: maximum using the yield of fish, they're feeding hungry people there,
Speaker 1: rejuvenating cultural traditions, they're creating a self sustaining nonprofit that
Speaker 1: does not rely on grants or donations, and they're even
Speaker 1: managing to employ a few people who need jobs. I
Speaker 1: just love everything about what's going on here. I think
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. It is, but it'd be a very hard
Speaker 1: thing to replicate here, because where do you do it? Like,
Speaker 1: where where is there a fishery plus enough people that
Speaker 1: could utilize that and need that, you know, without shipping.
Speaker 1: You know, though, I will say what comes to mind,
Speaker 1: and it's a much lesser scale, um, you know, by
Speaker 1: a long shot, but it deserves a nod. Throughout the
Speaker 1: early part of the pandemic, I had had several buddies
Speaker 1: um in Key West, including my old buddy Captain Mike
Speaker 1: Weinhoferre down there, that they publicly on social media they'd
Speaker 1: go out and fish their charters or even just go
Speaker 1: fish for fun, burn their own gas, you know, catch
Speaker 1: king Max whatever whatever they were catching, and just publicly
Speaker 1: put on there like if you need fish, like you
Speaker 1: come to the dock, like I'll cut this up, like
Speaker 1: if anybody's having a hard time getting food or wants
Speaker 1: fresh fish like And there was a little piece of
Speaker 1: that sort of rally behind that. But this is an
Speaker 1: amazing idea. It's just where where do you do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The other wrinkle there is like for for the folks
Speaker 1: that are getting this, it's it's not like they're getting
Speaker 1: trash right there there. For them, it's it's genuinely like,
Speaker 1: oh sweet, this is the part of the fish. We like.
Speaker 1: If we were to try to do that in American culture,
Speaker 1: it would be insulting because we'd be giving people ship
Speaker 1: that they didn't want. And that's not that's not a solution. Um.
Speaker 1: So I don't have like a way of bringing this here.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think the model necessarily is replicable.
Speaker 1: But things like this where you can solve multiple problems
Speaker 1: at once and create something that is not reliant on philanthropy, right,
Speaker 1: where it's self sustaining and generates revenue, like these are
Speaker 1: the things that I love. Yes, dude, it's an awesome idea,
Speaker 1: but you're absolutely right. It's like the first step would
Speaker 1: be getting people to appreciate a giant fish head. And
Speaker 1: we just we just we just don't hear. We just
Speaker 1: don't here. This is a weird transition, but you know,
Speaker 1: so here here's something that that works in another country
Speaker 1: that does not work here, similar to how football works
Speaker 1: here but not in other countries. So that's that's that's
Speaker 1: my transition for this story. Um, and again this is
Speaker 1: um much less touchy feely. Are you a football fan?
Speaker 1: You are a football fan to some degree, right, I
Speaker 1: like football. Yeah yeah, I'm not anti at all. I
Speaker 1: have at different points in my life followed football. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. Like I kind of was when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. But now, to be honest, man, like, I
Speaker 1: give not two ships about any professional sports. And if
Speaker 1: I just lost friends over that or something, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Like I do enjoy a good Super Bowl party, but
Speaker 1: if I'm not invited to one, I probably won't even
Speaker 1: watch the Super Bowl, you know. And I was happy,
Speaker 1: happy when the Eagles won the Super Bowl, but then
Speaker 1: quickly I had to throw of the family in the
Speaker 1: basement because like it was armageddon outside. The windows rattled
Speaker 1: from the explosives for hours. Anyway, why does this matter, Well,
Speaker 1: because this little ditty from Mississippi's Clareon Ledger is about
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders and I used to collect his sports cards
Speaker 1: back in the day. But this is about Dion getting
Speaker 1: arrested while fishing, and he he talked about this recently
Speaker 1: in an interview on the Pro Football Show. So there's
Speaker 1: a video of this out there, and it happened years ago,
Speaker 1: but he's just telling the story now. And as it goes,
Speaker 1: after Dion went pro, he says he did what what
Speaker 1: all pro sports people do, I guess, and build himself
Speaker 1: a million dollar home in a beautiful gated community in Florida.
Speaker 1: And this house was close to the airport, he says,
Speaker 1: though I'm not sure which airport, but regardless, one day
Speaker 1: he noticed the lake near the airport that he says
Speaker 1: could not have been seen from the road, which makes
Speaker 1: me wonder if he saw it from the air. And
Speaker 1: I get that because, let me tell you, there's some
Speaker 1: incredibly juicy water, like at the Orlando Airport and the
Speaker 1: Philly airport. And every time I flat a Philly I'm
Speaker 1: like that swampy ship right there's got to be loaded
Speaker 1: with snakeheads and both fins. Whenever I'm on the monorail
Speaker 1: in Orlando, I'm like, there are ten pound hall Larry's
Speaker 1: out you. We've both been there. Dude, you're on the
Speaker 1: You're like looking at that like nobody's casted anything in
Speaker 1: there ever, even though that's probably not true. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'd never have the guts to fish any of these
Speaker 1: places because I don't want to end up like Dion Sanders.
Speaker 1: So Dion just just drove on over to this lake
Speaker 1: right just down some dirt road with with a small
Speaker 1: boat in the back of his pickup, dropped it in
Speaker 1: and set off a fishing and in the interview, he
Speaker 1: says he was so pumped because there was no one
Speaker 1: else there. Well, duh, like I know why there was
Speaker 1: no one else there, and he starts hammering large mouth
Speaker 1: left and right when the police rolled in and they
Speaker 1: wave him over, and I could read you Dion's reaction,
Speaker 1: but let's have filter it up and let Dion explain
Speaker 1: how he reacted to the authorities. Police come up, what's up?
Speaker 1: You need to come in? But what no trespass Ain't
Speaker 1: nobody cares? Hey, nobody cares. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: So when the police insisted that they would in fact
Speaker 1: be taking him to jail for trespassing. After that exchange,
Speaker 1: Dion decided and I quote, I may as well enjoy myself,
Speaker 1: and he stayed out for another hour and caught a
Speaker 1: bunch of bass before coming in and going to jail. Now,
Speaker 1: the funny twists on this story is that Dion was
Speaker 1: in his hometown at the time of the arrest, and
Speaker 1: he was there to play a charity basketball game with
Speaker 1: his celebrity friends against the local media and police department,
Speaker 1: and also, and this is my favorite part. Right, once
Speaker 1: word of his arrest got out for this matter, Dion
Speaker 1: says he got millions of offers to fish private water
Speaker 1: all over the country, in every state. And this that's
Speaker 1: the part of this. While it's a funny story, they
Speaker 1: grinds my gears because I'm betting that quite a few
Speaker 1: people listening to this, and perhaps maybe even the guy's
Speaker 1: hosting it, I don't know, at some point may have
Speaker 1: trespassed a bit to fish younger days we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: But what drives me nuts is like now that we're
Speaker 1: like quote fishing industry professionals, if you or I got
Speaker 1: nailed for trespassing the fish, like, we'd be done. We'd
Speaker 1: may be ruined. Nobody's gonna call us and say, hey,
Speaker 1: sorry that happened. Come fish my private strategy, this Atlantic
Speaker 1: salmon stream in Quebec. Like, that's not the way that's
Speaker 1: gonna go down. But Dion Sanders gets pinched at the
Speaker 1: airports and he's the man, and that's so unfair. I
Speaker 1: think it is. And and I actually so this resonates
Speaker 1: with me in a lot of ways. And you know,
Speaker 1: except for the fact that I'm not deon Sanders, nor
Speaker 1: do I have anything like his life. But there are
Speaker 1: some really good bone fish flats not far from the
Speaker 1: airport on the island where I grew up. What is
Speaker 1: it with airports, dude? There's like a good fishing around
Speaker 1: the airport there always is, right, and most of them
Speaker 1: are totally legit. It's no problem. But there's this one
Speaker 1: flat that borders on one of the runways and it
Speaker 1: is not legal to fish that flat. But first, it's
Speaker 1: not that all the other ones get all this pressure
Speaker 1: and that one doesn't. So we call that flat helen
Speaker 1: Keller flat because like it's not appropriate, but the you
Speaker 1: get the joke there, and uh, I have been chased
Speaker 1: off of that by the airport police boat more than
Speaker 1: once because like it's just so juicy and you're getting
Speaker 1: your teeth kicked in by these fish, and you're like,
Speaker 1: all I gotta do is go fifty yards over there.
Speaker 1: I know I can catch one, And then you end
Speaker 1: up going there, and you end up doing it. Most
Speaker 1: of the time it's fine, but then ten percent of
Speaker 1: the time the cops get called and they come chasing
Speaker 1: in their police boat. You gotta yeah, it's it's this
Speaker 1: is dude, This is a huge thing here. I mean
Speaker 1: one of the biggest places where that this is a
Speaker 1: constant infraction um Jamaica Bay in Long Island. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jamaica Bay is an incredib able striper fishery. It's not
Speaker 1: that big and for a million different reasons, giant schools
Speaker 1: of blue fish and stripers every year pile into Jamaica Bay.
Speaker 1: And literally the end of the runway at JFK is
Speaker 1: like right there, and there's buoy's all over the place
Speaker 1: saying you can't get any closer than this, And every
Speaker 1: f and time on there there's like the blitz of
Speaker 1: the century going off right on the other side of
Speaker 1: the buoys, and and dudes, dudes risk it all the time,
Speaker 1: the kayakers at night. It's a big thing here. But
Speaker 1: true story, man, Like if it's near runway, it's good. Yeah, inevitably,
Speaker 1: inevitably true. And like we're telling these stories about flats
Speaker 1: fishing and Florida fishing and all this warm stuff. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close out news with the opposite kind of fishing,
Speaker 1: right because we're moving into ice season, at least for
Speaker 1: for those of us who live in places that have
Speaker 1: ice fishing seasons, and and we're right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the fur Head Ice Tour, which is the Mediator
Speaker 1: ice fishing series that we produced earlier this year. And
Speaker 1: and if you haven't already, should definitely check that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to be watching that. It's it's worth it.
Speaker 1: So I felt like it would be appropriate to bring
Speaker 1: an ice fishing story to kick off ice season. And
Speaker 1: they're there are quite a few folks for good reason,
Speaker 1: who feel like, I don't know, they feel like there's
Speaker 1: an impact of technology on ice fishing is a sport
Speaker 1: that that that they don't really like. Like that's some
Speaker 1: one of the digs I hear about ice fishing, Right,
Speaker 1: Some people think, Yeah, I mean you got the new
Speaker 1: flashers and the cameras and the battery powered augers and
Speaker 1: the track side by sides and like super pimped out
Speaker 1: ice palaces with couches and big screen trevs and full kitchens, right,
Speaker 1: And and some people think that ice fishing has lost
Speaker 1: some of its soul. I gotta say, that's an argument
Speaker 1: that I hope we get to have on this show
Speaker 1: at some point, But that's not where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1: This is a story where technology played a very different
Speaker 1: role for a particular ice angler. Last January, Jordan's tun
Speaker 1: Tarski was fishing the Black River near Watertown, New York.
Speaker 1: Is it Watertown or Waterton? Watertown? Watertown? Okay, So he's
Speaker 1: fishing the Black over near Watertown when he caught just
Speaker 1: this absolute pig of a sunfish and uh, and he
Speaker 1: brought it up and he figured, man, this thing is
Speaker 1: the biggest one I've ever caught. He figured you should
Speaker 1: probably enter it into the New York State Winter Classic
Speaker 1: Fishing Tournament, see if he could see if he gets
Speaker 1: some money. You know, are you are you familiar with
Speaker 1: this tournament. I'm not familiar with the tournament, but I
Speaker 1: have heard whispers of this, of this story. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I'm glad that we're doing this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it just seems like a fun kind of
Speaker 1: community fishing tournament. Folks come together and sponsored it. It
Speaker 1: seems like the kind of thing that I would enjoy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Jordan took the fish to a local hardware store where
Speaker 1: they had an official scale, and it weighed in at
Speaker 1: one pound nine ounces, which is the biggest sunfish ever
Speaker 1: recorded in the Winter Classic tournament, which is great for
Speaker 1: Jordan's it's a pumpkin. Let let me finish the story. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but that's where this gets interesting, because the fish had
Speaker 1: the physical characteristics of both pumpkin seed and a bluegill. Ah. Now,
Speaker 1: if it were to be classified as a bluegill, it
Speaker 1: would be a hell of a fish. But that's all.
Speaker 1: If it were classified as a pumpkin seed, it would
Speaker 1: tie the New York state record, So I can't tell
Speaker 1: which one it is. Jordan then brought the fish to
Speaker 1: the regional office of the Department of Environmental Conservation to
Speaker 1: give it to some biologists, figured they'd be able to tell. Nope.
Speaker 1: The biologist they take a look like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a blue girl. Maybe it's pump because he
Speaker 1: might be a hybrid. We can't tell. And I think
Speaker 1: this is where I'd be like, all right, I don't
Speaker 1: care enough cool, I'll enter it in the tournament. I'll
Speaker 1: get some money. I'm done. But not Jordan's no, no, no.
Speaker 1: He was not going to be deterred from from like
Speaker 1: getting to some game his name in the record books.
Speaker 1: He was not going to be stopped. So he then
Speaker 1: drove to Albany to get Albany excuse me, then drove
Speaker 1: to Albany to the New York State Museum where they
Speaker 1: would help him do like get get hooked up with
Speaker 1: a DNA analysis of the fish. Nine months later, just
Speaker 1: last week, the results came in. The fish turned out
Speaker 1: to be pure pumpkin seed. Jordan officially tied the state
Speaker 1: record that was set back in Good for him sticking
Speaker 1: to his guns on that one. Just wouldn't let it
Speaker 1: go just just I have to agree. I have to agree.
Speaker 1: Good on him. But you know, like I can't think
Speaker 1: of very like other than I don't know, striped bass. Maybe,
Speaker 1: like it was just such an important record that so
Speaker 1: many people cared about. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: have gone through all that either, Nope, no, that's not
Speaker 1: that's this is I'm not throwing shade Jordan's I love
Speaker 1: this story. I'm glad you did it, but I definitely
Speaker 1: would have stopped. Like I probably would have gone to
Speaker 1: the like to check it with a biology be like,
Speaker 1: hey man, do you know what this is? And they'd
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know. I'm like all right, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go eat it. Then that would have been
Speaker 1: the end of it for me. I'm gonna get I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a big golf thanks. Well, there you go,
Speaker 1: New York. You've got uh well, I mean you don't
Speaker 1: really have a new record to beat. You have an
Speaker 1: old record to beat because this one just tied it.
Speaker 1: It's like that's a little that's a little disappointing, like
Speaker 1: after all that like dude couldn't get it by an
Speaker 1: extra little stag and tide like the world record large mouth.
Speaker 1: Oh man, after all that time. Anyway, Okay, so Phil,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot to work with, some some real
Speaker 1: interesting science based news stories here from from Miles and
Speaker 1: just my total bullshit. So um, have fun picking. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't make it awkward. We're gonna make it awkward when
Speaker 1: Phil is done though with awkward moments and angling presenting
Speaker 1: our first fan photo like Babe Ruth pointing to the
Speaker 1: outfield stands Joe Surmellie calling his own mediocrity. Miles Nulta,
Speaker 1: you're the winner this week, Joe. I think you'll be
Speaker 1: all right. Just to make yourself a boiler maker, channel
Speaker 1: your inner Smeegel and take a bite out of a
Speaker 1: big COVID free raw fish, just just right out of
Speaker 1: the middle. So juicy sweet, what did you take a
Speaker 1: picture A life back? Well, the time has finally come.
Speaker 1: Many of you have sent in awful, awkward and just
Speaker 1: generally hilarious fishing photos and uh, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say, Joe that this segment idea is already a
Speaker 1: success if you ask me, because I have been thoroughly entertained.
Speaker 1: I it is just kind of I've I've actually shirked
Speaker 1: more important work because I get lost looking at these
Speaker 1: photos and just a few things I just want to
Speaker 1: throw out there, like zoo Baz. Okay, got a lot
Speaker 1: of zoo Baz, but I currently own the zoo Baz scene,
Speaker 1: right like I like, I'm not ready to give up
Speaker 1: the zoo Baz crown yet. Um so we might bank
Speaker 1: those for later. But we do appreciate all the zoo bas,
Speaker 1: but we've also gotten some great ones that we just
Speaker 1: don't seem to know how to spin outside like a
Speaker 1: personal attack. Like we love to you guys, and we're
Speaker 1: not trying to be mean, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But but when all we've got is like you know,
Speaker 1: your hair cutting and look of hopeless depression, Like where
Speaker 1: do we go with that? So we're being very picky
Speaker 1: and shoes. He trying to find the right ones. But God,
Speaker 1: are we having a good time looking at all of them? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: just please keep flooding them in because it is the
Speaker 1: highlight of my day a lot of time. And and
Speaker 1: now we're gonna share some of this joy and weirdness
Speaker 1: with all of you, our first fans. Submission for awkward
Speaker 1: Moments and fishing comes from Zach Kantos. I hope I'm
Speaker 1: pronouncing that right, Zack. And in this photo we see
Speaker 1: young Zach sitting in a boat anchored in the middle
Speaker 1: of a placid river. Behind him, the fall colors are
Speaker 1: just starting to paint the tips of the deciduous backdrop
Speaker 1: in yellow orange, a bit of umber perhaps, And in
Speaker 1: the center of this picture has seen Zack is holding
Speaker 1: his very first king salmon. Well he's he's attempting to
Speaker 1: hold it anyway. All we can really see is the
Speaker 1: salmon's bell as it's in the middle of a valiant
Speaker 1: attempt to escape his grasp and return to the river
Speaker 1: so that it can complete its mission of egg fertilization
Speaker 1: before it's biological shot clock expires. And judging by the
Speaker 1: putrid green to Alabama mud black of this fish's body color.
Speaker 1: There's not much time left and the thing is for
Speaker 1: for his part, Zack doesn't look like a man who's
Speaker 1: in the process of dropping a half rotted mud shark,
Speaker 1: as I call him, onto the deck of a john boat. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, like if one word of photos shop out
Speaker 1: the fish and replace it with like a red telecaster.
Speaker 1: He looked like a guy in a dive bar, you know,
Speaker 1: like like covering the stones, like living his Keith Richard's
Speaker 1: pipe dream like. And it looks like Zach's trying to
Speaker 1: whale out the solo from Sympathy for the Devil on
Speaker 1: that fish and not hold it up for a hero shot.
Speaker 1: And you know, an observation. Even even his fingers are
Speaker 1: splayed as they would be on a fretboard, as if
Speaker 1: you were trying to hit a really hard chord. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's so perfect. But the look on his face
Speaker 1: fits the image too, right, So picture your your favorite guitarists,
Speaker 1: perhaps Vay Malmstein. I know there's a bunch of Invay
Speaker 1: fans listening right now, like hitting the peak of their
Speaker 1: most iconic riff on stage completely in the moment, borderline
Speaker 1: like just sheer bliss, possibly edging towards orgasmic and and
Speaker 1: that seems appropriate when when you consider the stream of
Speaker 1: white liquid spewing from the King's vent onto Zack's like
Speaker 1: really expensive, high dollar hunting vest, and it seems just
Speaker 1: both of them were in the midst of an o face. Man. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's so true. And the photo the photo would be
Speaker 1: good enough on its own, but by actually, my favorite
Speaker 1: part about this one, uh, was the messages that Zack
Speaker 1: and I exchange listening because this is gonna make it.
Speaker 1: This is what's gonna make it. So. So here's the
Speaker 1: here's the message exchange between Zach and me. Zack. Here's
Speaker 1: an embarrassing photo for the news segment. This fish smacked
Speaker 1: me before we got a good picture. Me. Thanks, Zack.
Speaker 1: Looks like that fish did more than smack you. I
Speaker 1: hope you whed that vest, Zack. It took my hat
Speaker 1: clean off and I left the Lake Ontario slim on
Speaker 1: it for a few extra days to savor the experience. Me.
Speaker 1: I was actually referring to the stream of milt at
Speaker 1: spewing into your lap, Zack. The real embarrassment is that
Speaker 1: I've never noticed that in two years so glad we
Speaker 1: could educate you about your own awkward photo. Like the
Speaker 1: best part of that was that he had no idea
Speaker 1: that that was in the photo when he sent it in,
Speaker 1: Like we we found that gem for him. So zach I,
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed those extra few days of savoring
Speaker 1: the experience, as you say, and uh man, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for sending in your awkward fishing photo and letting
Speaker 1: us have some fun with it. We got a little
Speaker 1: gift coming your way in the near future. We do,
Speaker 1: and you deserve it because now everybody can see your
Speaker 1: lap full of salmon's blooge. Uh. Don't forget we post
Speaker 1: these on our Instagram accounts. That's Joe dot Sormelli won
Speaker 1: three eight and water miles on the Graham. If you
Speaker 1: have an awkward fishing photo you'd like us to heckle
Speaker 1: on this podcast, send it to Bent at the meat
Speaker 1: Eator dot com. We appreciate all the submissions we've gotten
Speaker 1: so far. Keep them coming. So this week, seeing that
Speaker 1: it is in fact Black Friday, the day we all
Speaker 1: know is set aside to remember the thirteen people that
Speaker 1: perish during the Tikomiamo trampling at the Bentonville, Arkansas Walmart
Speaker 1: hashtag never forget. We've decided it's only appropriate to push
Speaker 1: our end of the line segment off this week in
Speaker 1: favor of the sale bin. Yes, yes, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: the respectful thing to do. And you know what, you're
Speaker 1: probably not fishing this weekend anyway. You're shopping at least
Speaker 1: on your computer because you don't have the proper PPU
Speaker 1: to visit target. You don't know what's going on in there.
Speaker 1: You have been to a Target in the last six months.
Speaker 1: I don't recommend it. But long before Target, there was
Speaker 1: Kmart and this sale beIN harkens back to the days
Speaker 1: of the blue Light special. Why did you put the
Speaker 1: hand to pay? You don't know what I'm getting, man,
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be so hurtful with me, so angry.
Speaker 1: So this week we've got a real gem from the
Speaker 1: Facebook group p A fly Fishing Classified And this was
Speaker 1: sent to me by Chris Raz. Chris, you demand and
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Okay, up for grabs? Was note I
Speaker 1: said was a hand Tide streamer assortment nine streamers total
Speaker 1: in the original packaging with the original Kmart price tag
Speaker 1: four dollars and cents. And I will date this item
Speaker 1: from the mid nineties. Ish maybe I don't know, uh,
Speaker 1: but here's the description Kmart Fish America Foundation members box
Speaker 1: rare collector's item. Uh. And he originally started out with
Speaker 1: these for two hundred dollars and then slash that price
Speaker 1: down to fifty dollars. What a steal. If there were
Speaker 1: comments on the post, we can say, just I feel
Speaker 1: like this is one of those cases where the original
Speaker 1: packaging is not helping you, particularly that kmart price the
Speaker 1: xticker of four dollars and cents. Just I don't think
Speaker 1: that keeping it the original intact is actually helping to
Speaker 1: boost your argument for why this is valuable. Just just
Speaker 1: my my take the rare where that just you just
Speaker 1: shouldn't have gone there. But there were comments on this post, right,
Speaker 1: the first of which read, you are kidding, right, And
Speaker 1: another guy says, another guy says, I'll give you one
Speaker 1: dollar and fifteen cents, and then another dude jumps in
Speaker 1: and goes, would you take four dred so stupid prices aside? Right,
Speaker 1: this is not a bass bug tied by Lefty Kranek
Speaker 1: Kmart flies. But I just got to kick out of
Speaker 1: it because these these were like my first flies, man,
Speaker 1: These little starter packs from Kmart. You know, you got
Speaker 1: the Mickey Finn and the Garay Ghost and the halfass
Speaker 1: Wooly Bugger and the head wraps would started raveling within
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of fishing them. But I got my first
Speaker 1: fly outfit for Christmas when I was ten or so,
Speaker 1: and these were the flies that came with it. And
Speaker 1: we grew up in different places. So maybe like your
Speaker 1: first flies were not the bubble pack honestly, man, Like
Speaker 1: my first flies, I actually think were the the fifty
Speaker 1: cent foam spiders that you used to catch bluegill with,
Speaker 1: and not that we catching bluegill in Hawaii, but I
Speaker 1: did use them to catch talapia in Hawaii because they
Speaker 1: did anything. But um, yeah, that's what I started out with.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure I had one of these at
Speaker 1: one point. But I think my terrible casting because I
Speaker 1: didn't everybody to teach me, just broke them all immediately.
Speaker 1: I think they just came unraveled while I was trying
Speaker 1: to learn to cast. Well. There there were multiple sets, right,
Speaker 1: so you had the streamer set and then you had
Speaker 1: like like you were talking about, you had the hand
Speaker 1: fish popper set every kid had, even before you had
Speaker 1: a fly rod, you wanted a little panfish pod. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but they also had a dry
Speaker 1: fly assortment and there would always be one fly that
Speaker 1: just looked like a moth. Do you remember that? Just
Speaker 1: a big white mothy butterfly looking job or I don't
Speaker 1: know what you were supposed to do with that? I do,
Speaker 1: did anybody how big you talk? How big are we
Speaker 1: talking first? Before I answer my question? Like big enough
Speaker 1: that if it flew in through the screen door, and
Speaker 1: now you'd be like, oh, ship, it's a big gass moth,
Speaker 1: pure white, No, dude, just a big white wing like
Speaker 1: round wing feather moth. And I don't know anybody who
Speaker 1: used it. Did anyone ever catch anything with that? I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I remember having those as a kid,
Speaker 1: and there was always the moth in the set. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the set is now sold, though I have no idea
Speaker 1: how much uh it was was paid for the set.
Speaker 1: I want to know what this went for, So there
Speaker 1: is a lucky angler out there, either buying a shadow
Speaker 1: box for it right now, that's that's one possibility, or
Speaker 1: just swinging a poorly tied Mickey Finn over at the
Speaker 1: rock bass Hole, but it was there for the taking
Speaker 1: and we lost out on the rare Collectors kmart set
Speaker 1: in the America Foundation Members box. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means, but it sure sounds good. It's not
Speaker 1: even a real fly box, and they're like the little
Speaker 1: the only the only thing I can think of that
Speaker 1: has a similar boxes like you put baseball cards in there,
Speaker 1: like a small stack of baseball cards and the clear thing.
Speaker 1: But Chris, Chris, thank you for that one. We love
Speaker 1: that one. You guys have been sending a ton of
Speaker 1: Saleman items, keep those coming to bent at the meat
Speaker 1: eat or dot com and uh you just might hear
Speaker 1: yours red here. So that's all the time we have
Speaker 1: this week. If you're making lists of what to buy
Speaker 1: Joe and me for Christmas, we like clothes free of salmon, seamen,
Speaker 1: hand tied mufflies, and smart people willing to answer lots
Speaker 1: of stupid questions in very short time periods. Very well said, Listen,
Speaker 1: next week we're gonna throw down. That's a little Easter
Speaker 1: egg for some of you with the smooth moves. That's
Speaker 1: a bloody good time. And get back to our drinking
Speaker 1: days with a fresh installment of That's My Bar. Until then,
Speaker 1: keep all those sale bean fines, awkward photos, bar nominations,
Speaker 1: and general love hate and love hate mail coming to
Speaker 1: Bent at the mediator dot com. We love hearing from you,
Speaker 1: and you know what, take a few leftover turkey sandwiches
Speaker 1: out on the water with you. They're filling, they stick
Speaker 1: to your ribs. I personally like mine with mayo and
Speaker 1: cranberry sauce together. I will skip the cranberry sauce. But listen,
Speaker 1: no matter what you do, don't put the mayo and
Speaker 1: the jelly on the sandwiches the night before dumbassides. They'll
Speaker 1: be soggy as ship the next day.