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Speaker 1: How's it going? But doing great? Brother? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: This week, we're talking about American shed. Don't confuse American

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Speaker 1: An offshore sports book has decided to post odds on

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Speaker 1: My bookie dot com is offering a variety of odds.

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Speaker 1: The sports book will utilize the tracking technology used by

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Speaker 1: wagers will be able to be placed on if it

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Speaker 1: will resurface by a certain date, and what countries waters

425
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Speaker 1: the shark will be in when it resurfaces. Statistics will

426
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Speaker 1: be updated in real time, allowing users to closely monitor

427
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Speaker 1: their bets. Oh my god, I thought NASCAR was boring.

428
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, right dude. I read this and

429
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, this is my calling. I

430
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: was I was born for this, because there's no way

431
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: that my bookie realizes how easily this can be rigged.

432
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: So I'm shouting out now to any of you tony

433
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: soprano types out there. I got this. I've got this alright.

434
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: I already ran the numbers on O Search Okay, you

435
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: just look at Cabin nine three pound mails looking good

436
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: this year. Payed off Long Island June fourth place your

437
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: bets July thirteenth, quarter mile south of Block Island. Jimmy

438
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: and the boys be out there on the stucts with

439
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: a couple of sides of beef, about four hundred buckets

440
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: of golds blood cement mixed of worth the bunkle oil,

441
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: and a couple of people we need to get rid

442
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: of anyway, Cab, it's gonna surface right there, easy money.

443
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: Oh my god. You know, they just legalized sports betting

444
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: in Montana, like it literally right before COVID hit they

445
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: passed that bill and all the bookies where everybody was

446
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: so excited, and then the first season of legal betting

447
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: in Montana just as soon as it started, it was over.

448
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: And I wonder if I could get this going. He might.

449
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: We might actually have to cut this out of the podcast.

450
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: You may not actually hear this, because I think we

451
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: need to talk on the side on the arm. We'll, we'll,

452
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: we'll have a side conversation on this one. Oh dude,

453
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: that was good. That was good. I don't know if

454
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Speaker 1: it's better than he did not scoot me, did not

455
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: scoot me. I thought you were going to Lucky bastard

456
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: is going to get the chance to fulfill what I'm

457
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: calling a childhood fantasy, oh boy, and go fishing with

458
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Speaker 1: Bill Dance. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is holding a

459
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Speaker 1: raffle right now, and one of the grand prizes that

460
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: they got is a day on the water with the

461
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: man himself rocking the blue blockers. The Orange Bill volunteers

462
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Speaker 1: cap the whole deal. So from from now until August six,

463
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Speaker 1: Raffle tickets are on sale at the t w r

464
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: A website. You can purchase as many as you want.

465
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: You do not need to be a Tennessee resident to win,

466
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: and all the money that they raise is gonna fund

467
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: habitat restoration, so that that's good. But even better, the

468
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: winner gets six hours on the water with Bill, either

469
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: fisher fishing for croppy or catfish on the Mississippi River

470
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: or at what they're calling an undisclosed Tennessee lake for

471
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: large mouth, which I can only hope is the same

472
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: lake we've all seen him fall into countless times over

473
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Speaker 1: the years. I was gonna say, otherwise known as the

474
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Speaker 1: lake where he films all of his shows exactly. I

475
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Speaker 1: saw this not to cut in, but you left out

476
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Speaker 1: the part where they were like based on Bill's schedule,

477
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: so like whenever he can fit you in whatever is

478
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: happening around then is when you get to go. But

479
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: you get to go, it doesn't better. I would, I

480
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: would open up my calendar for a day with Bill Dance. Well,

481
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: I would do that. Listen, I I've I've interviewed all

482
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: these guys at some point in my career. Hank Hank

483
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: Parker flip palette. You know Bill Dance, and he is

484
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: the sweetest, kindest, most gracious man in the entire world.

485
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: That it's it's it almost like hurts my heart to

486
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: take like a little shot at Bill. But I'm but

487
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that right. As sweet as he is,

488
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: you get six hours on the water with Bill Dance,

489
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: which is gonna be six hours of him not being

490
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: able to hear you, and every time you say something,

491
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: I'm just going, huh, huh, huh, what's that. I met

492
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: met Bill once and he was he was very very

493
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: very very very nice, way nicer than most people who

494
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: are famous in the fishing industry. I would, I would

495
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: totally even even as like someone who works in the industry,

496
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: I would still totally do this. I'm I'm not gonna lie.

497
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna be in this raffle. It's the last

498
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Speaker 1: time I spoke with him, and he doesn't know me

499
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: from Adam, right, he you know. But he ended the

500
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: call with like, hey, buddy, you know, next time you

501
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: come down here, let us know, we'll go have a

502
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: steak and now go out fishing. And I was recording

503
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: the call for a piece, so I took just that

504
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: chunk out and ran it on social media. It was

505
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: titled like Bill Dance invites me fishing, And the first

506
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: comment from another fishing industry person was, like, dude, he

507
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: says that to everybody he hangs up with, dumbass, Like

508
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go fishing with you, fish with you?

509
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: You want to fish with him? Win the raffle. Oh

510
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: my god, that's funny. I'm glad. I'm glad that one

511
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: made the fold. I'm glad you got that because I

512
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: eyeballed it for a hot second. Um, you know. And

513
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Bill Dances certainly old school, one of the oldest school

514
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: sort of fishing uh icons around and and my next

515
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: piece here ties into that although we've been laughing a lot,

516
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: and this one, you know, it's a it's a little

517
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: bit more bummery, but important nonetheless. So at this point,

518
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: it's no secret that the COVID pandemic has taken its

519
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: toll on the outdoor industry. And while guides and captains

520
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: and tackle shops in much of the tree are at

521
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: this point operational and trying to get back on their feet,

522
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: unfortunately too many businesses just weren't able to recover, and

523
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: mom and pop tackle shops were hit particularly hard. Now

524
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: we all know that those old school shops that had

525
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: everything you needed to fish local and nothing you didn't,

526
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: we're kind of already on their way out prior to

527
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: COVID anyway, but the closing of Ranky Brothers Tackle in

528
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: Milwaukee due to the pandemic takes more than just another

529
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: mom and pop operation out of the game. Ranky Brothers

530
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: wasn't a traditional tackle shop. They actually specialized in lore

531
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: and fly components for all the garage tinkerers that wanted

532
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: to make everything from musky bucktails to walleye rigs to

533
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: custom jakeheads and pipe flies to their exact specifications, and

534
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: behind the counter were dozens of trees chocked full of minutia,

535
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: you know, like for the guy who just wanted two

536
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: specific treble hooks or just a few loose inline spinner

537
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: post and Ranky Brothers was a staple in South Milwaukee

538
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: for seventy years, and while owner Bob he tried online

539
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: sales awhile back it was just too hard to compete

540
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: with the major online component and material websites. And of course,

541
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: now with foot traffic down and hours cut back due

542
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: to COVID, this neighborhood's shop simply can't operate profitably, forcing

543
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: Bob to retire early this fall. Now this saddens me

544
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: personally because while it will be hard enough for our

545
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: kids to experience a true old timeing mom and pop

546
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: tackle shop, stories like Ranky Brothers that existed solely for

547
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: the angler that gets more satisfaction out of catching a

548
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: fish on something he made with his own two hands,

549
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: may flat out no longer exist. Have you ever been

550
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: in a shop like that? Man? Oh, yes I have,

551
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: and and I'll say right now that long before I

552
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: ever got into the fly fishing thing and building my

553
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: own flies, as I was totally the kid who was

554
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: building my own inline spinners and spinner bad, some weird

555
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: posts and and and my dad was even way more

556
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: into it than me. His whole goal was to make

557
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: the strangest lure that he could possibly a man and

558
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: see if something would bite it. It It was. It was

559
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: really one of his favorite things to do in the world. Um,

560
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: so yeah, we hung out in those shops all the time.

561
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: I was like one of our things that we did together.

562
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: The closest that I had here was Brielle Baiton Tackle

563
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: at the Jersey Shore, which does still exist. And while

564
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of lower making stuff, they

565
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: had this huge rod building section. And I mean, I've

566
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: made a few rods. They were all terrible, But every

567
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: time I was in there, it was just so inspiring.

568
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, like you're not really thinking about building a rod,

569
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: you don't need one, and then you just happened to

570
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: be in there for something else and you start walking

571
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: around looking at all the decals and threads and blanks,

572
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: and it just like gets this creativity welled up in you.

573
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: And I remember when the first Cabela's ever opened out here,

574
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: and I went out there. Of course, like the first

575
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: time you walk into a Cabela's it's like, holy sh it,

576
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: this is great. So I wanted to buy like fifty

577
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: panther Martin's and I had them in my cart, and

578
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: then I ended up in the lower component s aisle

579
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: and saw the bag of blades and the bag of posts,

580
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: and instantly it was like, I'm not buying any of

581
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: the Now. I make my own inline spinners, and I

582
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: still have some of those spinners here today. But that

583
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: I've never had a store like that that just basically

584
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: sold the pieces. And I found that really sad. I

585
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: never we never had one that just did that. It was,

586
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: but we had one that had a really good section that.

587
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: It was Grizzly Bills Bait and Tackle that later became

588
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: Grizzly Bob's Bait and Tackle UH in the middle of

589
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: nowhere in northern Wisconsin, and and they had everything from

590
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: Camos suspenders to lure building bits and pieces to UH

591
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: to anything else in between. I mean, it was. It

592
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: was a fantastic shop. It probably closed down, yeah, twenty

593
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: five years ago, but I loved that place well. To me,

594
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: it's it's similar to like hardware stories. I still have

595
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: a few around here where you can walk in and

596
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: talk to old gusts and he'll get two screws out

597
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: of the plastic tray for you. You know, but they're

598
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: getting harder to find. You know. You get a home

599
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: and quota, but you have to buy a dozen, and

600
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: you have to involve walkie talkies and five people before

601
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: someone can even tell you which I all the screws

602
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: are in. You know what, And what's terrible about this

603
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: story that you just told me is that, from what

604
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm about to report on, if if they could have

605
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: held on for just a couple of months longer, they

606
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: might have been all right. Because nationwide, tackle shops are

607
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: reporting a fishing gear shortage. Really, tackle shops all over

608
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: the country right now are barren of fishing gear, completely

609
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: sold out. And most of these are are the big

610
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: box stores, the ones that are still holding on and popular.

611
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: But the same things happen in some of the smaller stores. Uh.

612
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: In fact, just yesterday, Sam Longer and the fishing editor

613
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: that we work with, texted me a photo from Sportsman's

614
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: Warehouse and it was like eerily similar to looking at

615
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: grocery store shelves a couple of months ago, bearing picked clean.

616
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking not a single rattle trap or vibrats anywhere

617
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: to be seen. I don't think it's weird, man Like.

618
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: I've known that this has been happening throughout the country

619
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: from talking to people, but I only stepped into a

620
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: big box tackle shop for the first time since before

621
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: the pandemic, like a week ago, and lures plenty of them,

622
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: I mean totally stocked on lures out here, softbait's, hard baits,

623
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: whatever you needed. Hooks were hit fairly hard, but the

624
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: noticeable one was line. I mean they were They were

625
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: literally three spools of line in the entire aisle and

626
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: all that was left. The only options I had were

627
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: sixty five pound braid high Viz Orange, fifty pound braid

628
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: high his Yellow, or thirty pound lead core trolling line,

629
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, none of these will suit my

630
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: small mouth needs. You know, I have heard from a

631
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: lot of people that smaller mom and pop shops are

632
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: faring much much better through this, and I think that's

633
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: probably because they order smaller quantities. You know, they need

634
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: twenty rattle traps, not two, um. But unfortunately, I just

635
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: don't have any good mom and pops left around here

636
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: to go to, or that's what I would do, So

637
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: and and out here. The only mom and pops we

638
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: have are like purely fly shops. If you want to

639
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: get me conventional tackle, you have to go to the

640
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: big box stores, and they are it's the opposite. They're

641
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: they're out of fishing gear here. The lures are gone,

642
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: the hooks are gone, but they still have line. So

643
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Like I've heard it's

644
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: a supply chain issue, but apparently that doesn't make any sense.

645
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: But I'm sort of torn on this, Like I'm of

646
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: two minds because if there's one minor bright spot that

647
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: I can point to in in this whole pandemic fiasco,

648
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: everybody's out of work and they don't know what they're

649
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: gonna do with their time. Thing, it seems like a

650
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 1: lot more people are fishing, and I mean across the country.

651
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: It seems like the numbers of fishing fishing participation are up.

652
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: And I know, I know our rivers, like my local

653
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: rivers are so packed with people right now, like doesn't

654
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: matter the day of the week, doesn't matter the time.

655
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: They are slammed with people way more than I've ever

656
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: seen before. You know, it's mellowed out for me here, Uh,

657
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: it's it's normal summer summer crowds on the local rivers

658
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: right here now. But during the height of all this

659
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: in in April and early May, when people were even

660
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: more out of work and more locked down, oh my god,

661
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: it was a zoo. It was an absolute zoo. Yeah.

662
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: And and again this just speaks the different types of

663
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: places we live, because you know, everybody by you who

664
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: was fishing there in the spring lived there and wasn't working.

665
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: And now we are just inundated with tourists who are

666
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: trying to get away from their their own private COVID hells,

667
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 1: and they're coming here and and and they're all fishing,

668
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: which is again I'm torn because I really don't like

669
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: seeing my local spots that crowded and getting hit that hard.

670
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: It bums me out a little bit, But I am

671
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: really happy to see more people fishing, like that's one

672
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: of the things that we we really pride ourselves on

673
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: and what we do. We try and get more and

674
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: more people to get outside, go fishing, go hun and

675
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: get out in the woods. So I'm you know, on

676
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: a selfish level, it annoys me, but on a broader level,

677
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: like if I can get out of my not in

678
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: my backyard protectionist mentality. I'm happy about it. Um. And

679
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: you know what, since we're we're kind of on the

680
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: subject of more people fishing in my home state, there's

681
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: this guy who just recently moved out here to Montana,

682
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: like a year ago. Uh, some of you guys may

683
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: have heard of him. His name is like a Janus

684
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: or Janice Janice Poodles. I don't know, it's some weird

685
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: Latvian thing. I don't know. He's gonna tell us about

686
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: a certain living fossil or I guess, in this case,

687
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: swimming fossil and his first time going fishing or technically

688
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: snagging for paddlefish. In this week's Yanni's Desk, Hey folks,

689
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: welcome to Yanni's Desk. Today the sheriff you about how

690
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: the new world record spoon bill was snagged down in

691
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: Oklahoma at a Keystone Lake. This fish is snagged by

692
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: a fello by the name of James Lukarton. It is massive.

693
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: To see pictures of it, go to the meat eater

694
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: dot com read Spencer new Harst article about it. You

695
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: gotta know a little bit about spoon bill to appreciate this.

696
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: It's a prehistoric fish. It's been on the planet in

697
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: its same form for roughly twenty million years, so they

698
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. They know how to survive. It's

699
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: a filter feeder, so this fish doesn't chase other fish

700
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: down and eat them. They don't eat nightcrawlers. They eat

701
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: zo plankton microscopic beings. To find these suckers, they use

702
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: that paddle that's coming off top of their head and

703
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: kind of almost looks like a swordfish. Earlier, they thought

704
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: that they would dig around in the muck with that thing,

705
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: kind of like a storefish does, and then eat whatever

706
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: came out of there. But actually it's got electoral receptors

707
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: all over it. There are so fine tuned they can

708
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: not only detect the zoo plankton, but they can detect

709
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: the movement of a zoo plankton's appendages. So not just

710
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: as zoe plank and swimming around, but it's little legs

711
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: and arms kicking around or whatever they call him on

712
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: his zoa plankton, and that's how it finds its food.

713
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: And he comes up in the water calm, and just

714
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: like a whale, he opens his mouth or she does.

715
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: The water goes through there. They filters the zoa plankton

716
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: out and the water goes out of the gills. Really

717
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: cool fish. I recently got to do some spoon bill snagging,

718
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: or be a part of it. My brother in law

719
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: drew a harvest tag on the Upper Missouri River here

720
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: in Montana. So we went up there right at the

721
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: end of the season around mid June. Gave it our

722
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: best shot. Didn't really know what we were doing, but

723
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: between talking to some folks we got it done. He

724
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: ended up catching right around a twenty pounder. Now, since

725
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: they're not eating bait, you can't catch him like you

726
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: normally would. Can't throw a woolly bugger adham. He doesn't

727
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: care about a leach. You can't throw a rappele at him.

728
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: He doesn't care about a little baby perch. So you

729
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: gotta snag him. And how you do that is he

730
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: used a pretty uh stout rod um that can cast

731
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: far and that has a lot of backbones. If you

732
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: do hook into these fish, which you know, going from

733
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 1: to as you'll see later, almost a hundred and fifty pounds,

734
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: you gotta use heavy line. I think we were using

735
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: eighty pound braid. We were using bait cast again, I

736
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: say we my brother in law was I didn't have

737
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: the tag. But you have a weight actually at the

738
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: bottom of your line, and then you have a size

739
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: seven or eight odd treble hook anywhere from eight inches

740
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: to three ft above that weight, and again there's no

741
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: bait on it. You cast it out there. The weight

742
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: brings you down to the bottom and you yank, pull

743
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: up your slack and yank, and basically as you're pulling

744
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: the hook through the water column, eventually your line will

745
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: come across the back of a spoon bill and uh,

746
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: when you yank, you'll pull that trouble hook into the fish.

747
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds a little barbaric, but that's the

748
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna catch them. Research shows that snagging

749
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: them and releasing them doesn't hurt them. You know, they

750
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: have little flesh wound as we'd like to say, and uh,

751
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: they go about their business. That's how you catch them.

752
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: So back to Oklahoma, this guy, James and his wife

753
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: were out on their first day ever spoon bill fish

754
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: and they took a guided trip. They just wanted to

755
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: go snag a couple sub fifty pounders for eating. That's

756
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: what they were looking for. They got a lot more

757
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: than they were looking for. His wife starts off with

758
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: an eighty eight pounder, which is also a giant spoonbill,

759
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: and releases it, and then James is up. He snags

760
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: into one. He's reeling it in. They see how long

761
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: it is. They think it's about the same length as

762
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: a wife's it is, and then when it gets close

763
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: to the boat, it rolls sideways and they see the

764
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: girth on it. This is my favorite part in the

765
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: little video that his wife was taken. When that fish

766
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: roll sideways, he says, God damn, and she says, what's

767
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: your language? I thought that was great in the heat

768
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: of the moment, she's she's keeping him proper. Takes him

769
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: another minute or so to get that thing and get

770
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: a loop of rope around the fishes tail, and they

771
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: land it. They take some quick measurement and they think

772
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be near the world record, and so they

773
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: take it back in to meet a Oklahoma Fisheries official

774
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: and uh. The guy weighs it and it turns out

775
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: to be a hundred and forty six pounds eleven ounces.

776
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: It is a giant fish. It is almost as wide

777
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: as it is long. It was just a little bit wider.

778
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: It would be a circle of a fish. Incredible. It's

779
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: a good job, James. I recommend you hang up your

780
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: spoonbill snagging hat, move on to something else, go break

781
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: another record. I think you're done here. Good work. Thank you,

782
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: Janice for the extreme paddling. But hey, moving from one

783
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: flyover state to another, let's take a trip to Iowa,

784
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: and not for the fishing this time, but for the drinking.

785
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: We're tapping the keg for the first ever installment of

786
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: what might be our favorite segment and hopefully yours. This

787
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: is that's my bar, best god damn bartender from tim

788
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: buck to to Portland, Maine, the Portland argument, for that matter.

789
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 1: So what's the goal of that's my bar? Easy? Slowly

790
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: but surely compile a list of the best damn watering

791
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: holes for fishermen, not just in this country, okay, but

792
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: across the entire globe. That's that's the end goal. Okay.

793
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: And uh, Miles and I certainly have our favorites. What's

794
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: your what's your favorite? Man? That's like, that's a really

795
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: hard question. It's like asking me to pick a favorite child. Well,

796
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: favorite child's easy. Uh, favorite species might as well as

797
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: me to pick a favorite fish species. But uh, you know,

798
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: for me, the one I'm gonna call out is the

799
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: Sip and Dip in Great Falls, Montana. That is Montana's

800
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: absolute best tiki bar. It's got to be the only

801
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: tiki but that's definitely the only bar. But it's actually

802
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: it's it's such a fantastic bar, man, you gotta go there. Uh.

803
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: It's above this old hotel. It's really grimy. It's got

804
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: like the the coconut weave mats on the wall, and

805
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: that is where the famous piano Pat has been belting

806
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: out her beautiful raspy tunes under her hair helmet for

807
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: literally fifty six years. She's been there forever. She's amazing.

808
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: Anybody who like seriously she you can look her up online.

809
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: Piano Pat, Sipp and Dip, Gray Falls. You won't be sorry.

810
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: And then behind Piano Pat, behind the bar, there these

811
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: windows into the pool and they hire men and women

812
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 1: to put on merman and mermaid costumes and swim around

813
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: behind the bar. It's I don't know if i'd call

814
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,959
Speaker 1: it actually a fishing bar, but it is pretty close

815
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: to the Missouri River and I have been there after fishing.

816
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: So I'm calling out the Sip and dip. Well, shit,

817
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: I can't top that, but I know my new life goal.

818
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: We have to record from there at some point and

819
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: have piano pat on. But I bet she do it.

820
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: You just like you stole my thunder Mind's Lame mcbree's

821
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: Crosstown Tavern and Starlight p A like Big, I can

822
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: walk in there with my waiters on Big. You just

823
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: crushed me. They got good fried mushrooms though. Anyway, Look,

824
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: here's the thing, right, we need you guys to step

825
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: up clearly based on just our two examples. We need

826
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,240
Speaker 1: your help because Miles and I don't know all these bars.

827
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: So this is your chance to wrap your local dive

828
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: or your favorite cantina when you travel, or maybe just

829
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: the most memorable fishing bar that you've ever been to.

830
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: These are the places where it's okay to walk in

831
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: in a T shirt covered in tune of blood. White

832
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: deck boots are welcome. You will still get served the

833
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: cheese cards when you walk in sweating and leaking, snot

834
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: after a day on the ice. So for our first installment,

835
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: we're taking a jaunt to the Midwest today to the

836
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: Driftless region of Iowa, which is an awesome place to fish,

837
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: and it's very it's very near and dear to my

838
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: heart in fact, and today is nomination comes from j Aldrich,

839
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: who writes The Naughty Pine Tavern in Dorchester, Iowa, is

840
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: only fifty yards or so from Waterloo Creek in the

841
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: beautiful driftless area. It's a small bar with tons of

842
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: old pin ups and you will often find the regular

843
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: old timers having a few beers and telling stories from

844
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: their glory days. We always try to stop there for

845
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: a beer whenever we're in town. When I was younger,

846
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: my old man was waiting there for my buddy and

847
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: I to get done fishing. He was only there for

848
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: about an hour or so, and the locals showed him

849
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: such a good time that my buddy and I had

850
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: to guide my dad back to the car so he

851
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: didn't fall in parentheses again. And then and then we

852
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: had to drive him back to the hotel. I have

853
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: actually fished Waterloo Creek, and I am I am just

854
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: very disappointed that my my people's out there did not

855
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: take me here, because I already know I would love

856
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: the Naughty Pine Tavern. You know why, because I looked

857
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: it up. I was trying to do a little research Um,

858
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: there's no social media page for the Naughty Pine, there

859
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: are no year reviews, there's no menu online. Okay. All

860
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: I could find was a phone number which tells me

861
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: this is exactly this is the joint you go to

862
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: when you're asked. Doesn't want to be found for a

863
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: little while, you know what I mean? Just picturing like

864
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: a beige rotary phone mounted on the wall next to

865
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: the bar that never rings. It's dusty, you can, I

866
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: can just it's caked in dust. But yeah, like that's

867
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm going there. I'm and I'll bet you the food

868
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: is delicious. Just I just have a hunch, you know,

869
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: Yell previews aside, I do wish there was one Yell

870
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: preview though. I wish there was just like one Yell

871
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: preview that just said four stars had to be carried

872
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: out like that. That's a bar I would definitely frequent

873
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: if I were in Iowa. So help us out. Keep

874
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: sending these to us. We need more of these. The

875
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: next time I am any place, I hope to have

876
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: a whole list of great bars that I might be

877
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: able to go to. Yeah, Killer Killer, first nomination from

878
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,959
Speaker 1: j These low key joints are exactly what we want,

879
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: and you can email your nominations to us at bent

880
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: at the meat eater dot com to nominate your favorite

881
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: corner dive bar full of dusty skin mounts and perhaps

882
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: featuring an old bathtub like trough in the men's room

883
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: instead of urinals, which and that is a that is

884
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: a mark of a truly great fishing bar. Oh Man,

885
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: I have a new life, gold Joe. I hope to

886
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 1: one day be in a band called Dusty skin Mounts.

887
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: We are just about out of time this week, which

888
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: brings us to the end of the line are aptly

889
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: name closing segment about what bates lords or flies you

890
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: need to be throwing basically on any criteria that we want.

891
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: Could be something me and Miles have been slaying on

892
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: eate lea. Could be a hot new lore that intrigues us.

893
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: Might be some ancient ship we found in the garage

894
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: and totally forgot about. So while Miles is out hunting

895
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: down band members for his new gig and Dusty skin

896
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: Mounts strong chance many of those Dusty skin mounts you

897
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: see in bars, lodges, and fish camps were caught on

898
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: one of his favorite vintage retrobates, the bass arena. Well,

899
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: that's not loud enough. Bur Is it a crank bait,

900
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: a service plug, a jerk bait, a glide bait. I

901
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: don't know, and I don't really care, because as far

902
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, the bass arena occupies a category all

903
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 1: by itself. The original bass arena was patented in nineteen

904
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: fifteen by James Olds. Olds immediately sold that patent to

905
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: the South Bend Debate and Tackle Company, who went on

906
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: to manufacture bass arenas for almost seventy years. The bait

907
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: was so popular and so effective it spawned a whole

908
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: genre of plugs, from tiny little trout ay nos the

909
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,720
Speaker 1: signed to be cast with fly rods, to midsize surfery

910
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: nos for inshore fishing, to stout muskerinos for muskie and

911
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: big pipe. None of these offshoots have ever really caught on,

912
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: and you know what, they didn't really have to the

913
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: design of the original was so brilliant it worked on

914
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: just about every shallow water predator. With any bait fish invitation,

915
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: it's all about the wobble, and the bass arena wobble

916
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 1: is like nothing else. It's not even really a wobble.

917
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: It's more like a high speed dart and glide with

918
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: a few random hip thrusts here and there. Anglers like

919
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: to compare a lure action to dancing, and if modern

920
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 1: cranks are Miley Cyrus, the bass arena is James Brown.

921
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: You never really know which direction it's gonna go when

922
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: it gets up and does its thing. The bass arena

923
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: was part of the first wave of industrial lure innovation

924
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: in the United States. It was patented the same year

925
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: as the first lip crank bait, the creek chip, But

926
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: the arena has no lamp. It's a cylindrical, solid wood

927
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: lure with a sharp taper to the tail and a

928
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: scooped out face that scoop sits right below the surfaces

929
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: of water when the baits arrest, so that when you

930
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: start retrieving it, it digs down into the water and

931
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: forces the bait under. The sharp rear taper creates the

932
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: erratic darting, wiggling, and gliding that seduced irritable and hungry

933
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: fish for more than a century. I'm not giving you

934
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: some nostalgic bs about vintage tackle. I am not now,

935
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: nor have I ever been, one of those guys who

936
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: collects old lures in their original packaging to arrange its

937
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: soft angles and curio cabinets. Lures are meant to be fished,

938
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: and if I'm gonna tie one on, it better get bit.

939
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: My uncles have been fishing the lakes of northern Wisconsin

940
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: together for more years than I can count to this day.

941
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: Every single time they go out together, one or both

942
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: of them is guaranteed to tie on a bass raino.

943
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: Why a couple of reasons. First, at this point in

944
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: their lives, neither one of my uncles has any time

945
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: or patients for finesse fishing. They want a fan cast

946
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: around for a couple of hours, get that hit of

947
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: adrenaline from a hard bite on a quick retrieve, and

948
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: then head home in time to catch the first pitch

949
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: of the Cubs game with a Miller high life. The

950
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: solid cedar body and aerodynamic shape lets them cast bass

951
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: arena's long distances with little effort and burn them back

952
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:13,919
Speaker 1: searching large areas for aggressive fish. Second, my uncles are generalists.

953
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,959
Speaker 1: They're not so much interested in specific fish. They're after

954
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 1: willing fish, bass pike, walle muskie. Men don't care as

955
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: long as you get bit once in a while. The

956
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: bass arenos generic bait, fish look and timeless strike triggers

957
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: means that just about anything hungry enough or angry enough

958
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: will take a whack at it, and the three troubles

959
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: dangling off the belly give them a good chance of

960
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: putting at least one fish in the net, even if

961
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: they're not really paying attention. Third, they have confidence. These

962
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: guys have been consistently hooking up on these lures since

963
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: Carter was in office, maybe earlier, I don't actually know.

964
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: One time, my uncle Jim was fishing a favorite areno,

965
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,959
Speaker 1: the frog color, and he hooked a hammer handle pike.

966
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: When he went to grab that fish from the net,

967
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: it's surged and my uncle wound up with two barbs

968
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: in the meat of his hand. At the er later

969
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: that day, the doc asked if he could keep the

970
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: plug and add it to their collection of lures removed

971
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: from fisherman. My uncle said, hell, no, that's a damn

972
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 1: good lure. I'm not giving that away. The following season

973
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 1: he caught his personal best muskie on that exact bait.

974
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: He still has the scar in his hand, the musky

975
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: on his wall, and the bass serina in his tackle box. Sadly,

976
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: no one makes this bait anymore. Lur Jensen acquired the

977
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: patent two but discontinued them a few years ago. The

978
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: good news is that you can still find plenty of

979
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: used ones online for cheap. Don't be afraid to buy

980
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: one that looks like it's been chewed up for time

981
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 1: or two. Those scars, they're just proof a good mojo.

982
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for this inaugural episode of Meat Eaters,

983
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:54,959
Speaker 1: first dedicated fishing podcast. Let's have a drink. Miles, we got,

984
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 1: we got, we got through it man. Please, Oh Joe,

985
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: pour me an extra finger for three. Uh well, Joe

986
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 1: and I get drunk. Please let us know what you liked,

987
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: what you hated, what we messed up, and just generally,

988
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: how you doing. Send an email to bent that b

989
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: e n T at the meat eater dot com. Also,

990
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: why are you there? Give us some stars, leave us

991
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: a review, and best of all, if you like this show,

992
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: tell two friends about it, then they'll tell two friends

993
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: and so on. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

994
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: Remember that I never got that I never got, So

995
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: I gotta say, we need a closer for this, Joe,

996
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: and it just pisces me off. It's like a pet

997
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: peeve in the fishing industry, of the fishing community when

998
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: people end conversations or emails or anything with tight lines.

999
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: Tight lines. So I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm

1000
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: never gonna spin off any of these shows with tight

1001
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: lines because it just irks me. Instead, i'm gonna say,

1002
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: simply just go fishing, and uh, I'll keep the rods

1003
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: band while I'm doing it.