Speaker 1: Rocking, the blue blockers, the Orange bill volunteers cap the
Speaker 1: whole deal a fishing gear shortage. Not a single rattle
Speaker 1: trap or fibrats anywhere to be seen. The coronavirus is
Speaker 1: hands down the best thing that ever happened to stripe
Speaker 1: a surf fishing ever. I mean, I ain't smiled this
Speaker 1: much since Deep Throw was in Theontis. White deck boots
Speaker 1: are welcome. You will still get served the cheese cards
Speaker 1: when you walk in, sweating and leaking snot after a
Speaker 1: day on the ice. Good morning, degenerate angler is welcome
Speaker 1: to Bent, where we invite fishermen from all walks of life,
Speaker 1: all skill levels, and all factions to unite. I'm Joe
Speaker 1: Surmelie and I'm Miles Nulty. And the way I described
Speaker 1: this for those of you lucky enough to remember such
Speaker 1: an awesome thing, this is like an like an eighth
Speaker 1: grade mix tape about fishing, uh, fishing and whatever the
Speaker 1: hell else we feel like talking about. But Joe, I
Speaker 1: really don't think that anyone makes mix tapes anymore. I
Speaker 1: think I think the kids call them playlists. Now, No
Speaker 1: they don't. That's a shame. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you can buy blank tapes anymore, though, I do remember
Speaker 1: that my last mix tape had White Rabbit by Jefferson
Speaker 1: Airplane followed by a bunch of no effects tracks. You
Speaker 1: have to I know you're a music guy. What was
Speaker 1: on your last mix tape? Dude? I don't, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, I don't remember the music that was on it.
Speaker 1: It was probably no effects or something around there. But
Speaker 1: what I do remember is I had this tape called
Speaker 1: Forbidden Spanish. That was how I learned bad words in Spanish,
Speaker 1: and I would include little snippets of that in between
Speaker 1: the songs that I recorded onto the mix tapes that
Speaker 1: I would then give the girls, hoping they would laugh
Speaker 1: and that that, you know, them being amused would make
Speaker 1: them like me. Did it work? Not really? No, Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel that pain. I did the similar thing with
Speaker 1: Jerky Boys clips. Anyway, enough about that. Look, to be
Speaker 1: upfront with you guys, our plan was definitely not to
Speaker 1: launch this podcast in the middle of a global pandemic.
Speaker 1: Yet here we are, and so you understand exactly where
Speaker 1: we are. Miles is actually in Montana, and I'm on
Speaker 1: the other side of the country, east side, right outside
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia, and man, it's it's been a roller coaster
Speaker 1: with the covids for a while. There. I was in
Speaker 1: COVID hell and and and Miles had clean living, and
Speaker 1: now there's there was the COVID's there, and now we're
Speaker 1: supposedly doing good and now I don't know, everybody just
Speaker 1: has the COVID. So we'll we'll just we'll just go
Speaker 1: with it. But you know what, um, despite pandemics, we're
Speaker 1: pressing on and we're we're giving this thing a go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, forever, everyone out there, I think
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna agree with me when when everything feels
Speaker 1: so shitty as it does right now, the the real
Speaker 1: only responses just to go fishing. So that's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do. I never really stopped fishing, though. It
Speaker 1: just was weird there for a few months, with like
Speaker 1: who you're allowed to fish with and who you can't.
Speaker 1: Can you leave the house? Can you not? But we
Speaker 1: we do have a regional fishing report for you guys
Speaker 1: this week. That's that's something we're gonna be doing weekly. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's weird though, because we're gonna play a report for
Speaker 1: you guys that's actually a few months old and I
Speaker 1: do understand that an old fishing report isn't really that useful,
Speaker 1: but you guys have to hear this. And this came
Speaker 1: in over the Bent phone, which is just similar to
Speaker 1: the bat phone, and our answering machine actually does use
Speaker 1: a tape because we don't have the budget for for digital.
Speaker 1: But this one's coming in from Stryper's surf fishing legend,
Speaker 1: Bob the garbage Man Britan and on a new Ski,
Speaker 1: who has been a fixture in the Jersey surf scene
Speaker 1: since long before I was born. Okay, he he's an
Speaker 1: absolute legend. He only uses chunks of man haden, which
Speaker 1: we call bunker, and vehemently opposes the use of artificial
Speaker 1: lures in the surf. And I'll just say, this is
Speaker 1: going to take you back to when quarantine was like
Speaker 1: really bad. But sometimes you have to examine where you've
Speaker 1: been to understand where you are. I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's an inspirational meme that I saw my inspirational
Speaker 1: meme app anyway, kicking it back a few months to
Speaker 1: the height of quarantine with Bob g who will inspire you.
Speaker 1: Hello out there and Radio Wind. This is strip a
Speaker 1: chunkin egs. But Bob the cobbage Man Britana Nona Newski.
Speaker 1: As per usual, I'm calling him my weekly East Coast
Speaker 1: strip of fishing report from the pay phone on the
Speaker 1: corner of Baltic and MLK here in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: That don't worry. I poured hot coffee over the receiver
Speaker 1: to disinfect it before dialing out. You gotta be smarting
Speaker 1: times like these, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, are
Speaker 1: gonna be real honest with you. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: the coronavirus is hands down the best thing that ever
Speaker 1: happened to stripe a surf fishing ever. I mean, I
Speaker 1: ain't smiled this much since Deep Throw was in theaters.
Speaker 1: For the first time in my life. I could tell
Speaker 1: somebody to get the away from me and then add
Speaker 1: quote by order of law soul. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you I've been chumping spots. I ain't fished since eight
Speaker 1: seven eight eight because I don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: Momo snagging my line with this pencil. Daughter. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's a mook free environment right now.
Speaker 1: There's nobody out asking me stupid questions like hey, Bob.
Speaker 1: Ain't you worried about the coronavirus because you smoke so much? Anyways,
Speaker 1: listen kidding the side. For your safety, you need to
Speaker 1: stay at home, be smart, and if it's any consolation,
Speaker 1: you ain't missing much. Okay, but I absolutely did not
Speaker 1: mow down three plus pound bass and only a two
Speaker 1: hours soaked on the beach right in front of the
Speaker 1: old Trump Plaza the other day. For those of you
Speaker 1: desperate to get back on the bulkhead over there clam Creek.
Speaker 1: Don't rush. I only call one stud and about twenty
Speaker 1: five low forties and a five hour soaked there the
Speaker 1: other night. It's slow. Stay home, you know the coroner's
Speaker 1: water is going to get rid. For the rest of
Speaker 1: the stripe of coast, it's pretty much the same story.
Speaker 1: My old friend Jimmy the Gooch on the south shore
Speaker 1: of Long Island has been quarantine a fire island with
Speaker 1: for two weeks and his advising friends and family to
Speaker 1: please worry about secure and bread, eggs and milk, before
Speaker 1: being concerned about where to get fresh bunk of the chunk,
Speaker 1: though he has informed me he has plenty and he's
Speaker 1: selling one bunk of for thirteen dollars and two for
Speaker 1: twenty six, not that you needed. He ain't catching nothing,
Speaker 1: oh sh keeping a straight face. He's murdering them fifty
Speaker 1: sliding through the suns like they're on a goddamn convey about.
Speaker 1: He's grugged. So that's it for this week. Once again,
Speaker 1: I can't stress enough that the overriding messages stay of
Speaker 1: come for a year maybe two better safe. That's sorry,
Speaker 1: you're dumb. This that was. That was pretty weird, man.
Speaker 1: I've definitely never heard Bob that optimistic. That was. Hearing
Speaker 1: Bob that happy is creepier than walking into my local
Speaker 1: grocery store and having everybody's faces covered up in cloth
Speaker 1: like that is just straight up creepy. He was. He
Speaker 1: was a beacon of light in dark times, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: true legend. That dude is someone I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: I've spent my whole life trying to emulate his his
Speaker 1: feet in the striper surf, I mean weird, weird as
Speaker 1: it is, and and having talked to Bob in the past,
Speaker 1: that was weird. It is. It makes a strange kind
Speaker 1: of sense because everything felt so turned upside down for
Speaker 1: so long, and when when the ship flips upside down
Speaker 1: and we go into the twilight zone. You know, the
Speaker 1: garbage man becomes the optimist, I guess, but you do
Speaker 1: have to keep in mind, though, that reports a few
Speaker 1: weeks old, right, So as things are seemingly getting better
Speaker 1: around here, I'm sure Bob's miserable as shit again, which
Speaker 1: which sort of puts the world right, because that's how
Speaker 1: how how we've all always known old Bob about here
Speaker 1: as uh, a miserable dude. And it does feel good
Speaker 1: to have this optimistic vibe in the air among the people,
Speaker 1: if you will. At the same time, man, you read
Speaker 1: the paper and read read the news online, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to know if you should be optimistic. I don't
Speaker 1: really know if we're quite out of the woods yet. Um.
Speaker 1: And thinking along those lines, I think that takes us
Speaker 1: very nicely into the weekly word. Webster's Dictionary defines fish
Speaker 1: as well. Bob is warding off the coronavirus by pouring
Speaker 1: gas station coffee on everything he touches. I just don't
Speaker 1: think Dr Fouch you would endorse that, as you know,
Speaker 1: like a valid preventative measure. I think we're all just
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait for the vaccine. But what about
Speaker 1: the next major outbreak. Well, here at BENT, we consider
Speaker 1: ourselves public servants. We give you essential information kind of
Speaker 1: like you know, the CDC, only with even less funding.
Speaker 1: And since knowledge is power, or you need to understand
Speaker 1: the word zooosis, zoo knows this is a disease that
Speaker 1: can jump from animals to humans. And you guessed it,
Speaker 1: good old novel Coronavirus is zoonotic. See what I did there, Joe,
Speaker 1: I converted the noun form zoosis into the adjective form zoonotic.
Speaker 1: You're a real smart feller. We English speakers stole this
Speaker 1: term from ancient Greek, in which the prefix zoo means
Speaker 1: animal and the suffix nosos means disease. Since supposedly they
Speaker 1: tell us this is a phishing podcast, supposedly supposedly, the
Speaker 1: obvious question we should answer here is do fish carries
Speaker 1: zoonotic diseases? And the short answer for that is no,
Speaker 1: but but also kind of yes. Hang on, let me
Speaker 1: explain Evolutionarily, we as humans are a long way from fish,
Speaker 1: so the viruses that affect them are they're not likely
Speaker 1: to jump over and make the make the cross into humanity.
Speaker 1: The machinery is just different. The next coronavirus is not
Speaker 1: going to rise out of the local fishing hole, even
Speaker 1: some of the nasty backwaters in Jersey where you pull
Speaker 1: over and fish show cold blooded. But having said all that,
Speaker 1: fish can carry bacteria, not diseases, but bacteria that will
Speaker 1: jump all over humans, nasty stuff like Streptococcus in a,
Speaker 1: which can be present in both fresh and marine fish
Speaker 1: species and cause all kinds of unpleasantness if if it
Speaker 1: gets in an open wound. That's where you get all
Speaker 1: those stories about fishermen contracting fleshing bacteria from fish or
Speaker 1: hooks or wherever. But really, from what I can tell anyway,
Speaker 1: the instances of that are pretty rare, and they usually
Speaker 1: only seem to happen in Florida, like all the other
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. So bottom line, fishing will very likely not
Speaker 1: be the cause of the next global pandemic. And now
Speaker 1: you all know what zooses means, so you're welcome. Actually, though, man,
Speaker 1: I have some friends out here on the East Coast
Speaker 1: that have gotten some pretty weird infections and shipped from
Speaker 1: getting poked with fish bines and also from from uh
Speaker 1: injuries suffered from from cuts while clamming clambing injuries clambing
Speaker 1: injuries if you can believe that, that's a real thing, man.
Speaker 1: But if you think about it, Jersey is just basically
Speaker 1: Florida with the correct climate to make Christmas Day feel
Speaker 1: festive and accurate. So it makes sense of the same
Speaker 1: weird ship they have we kind of have. And dude,
Speaker 1: I've said that to so many Floridians like, oh, man, sucks,
Speaker 1: you don't have Christmas and uh, put my foot right
Speaker 1: in my mouth. So anyway, speaking of putting foots in mouths,
Speaker 1: let's do smooth moves. Why. This is the part of
Speaker 1: the show where we call up fishing guides or charter
Speaker 1: boat captains or outfitters, somebody who makes their living taking
Speaker 1: other people fishing, and we asked them to tell us
Speaker 1: about the most obnoxious, annoying, or ridiculous things that they have. Clients,
Speaker 1: do we know that some of you out there fish
Speaker 1: with guides at least from time to time, and if
Speaker 1: you pay attention to our Smooth Moves segment, then you
Speaker 1: will absolutely know the best way to get under every
Speaker 1: guide's skin. Today, we're talking with our good buddy Mike
Speaker 1: Schultz from Michigan, who is a longtime fishing guide extraordinary done,
Speaker 1: all kinds of different species, just about everything you can
Speaker 1: catch in Michigan. He's guided for, including Great Lakes Steelhead.
Speaker 1: He's gonna tell us a little bit about that, Mike.
Speaker 1: How's it going? But doing great? Brother? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. So uh so what do you got
Speaker 1: for us today for for the smooth move? Well, you
Speaker 1: know when I was getting steel Head was you know,
Speaker 1: early two thousands through two thousand eight is around there,
Speaker 1: and you know it was like before everyone's rocking sling
Speaker 1: packs and these tight packs and things were well thought out.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people, you know, would have those
Speaker 1: vests that they bought in the eighties and nineties and
Speaker 1: they just load these things was up. You'd have every
Speaker 1: size shot, every swivel, three way, extras, reels in the back,
Speaker 1: you know, just in singing vest like like you could
Speaker 1: you could just rock them and and lose weight instantly.
Speaker 1: And uh you know, you get these guys and they
Speaker 1: booked their one Steelhead trip with a guy to year
Speaker 1: and they they climb in the boat with all their
Speaker 1: gear and they have the vast time with the nippers
Speaker 1: and then not tools and the floating and the scent
Speaker 1: and everything that those guys draw, and then they'd immediately
Speaker 1: take it off and just throw it on the seat,
Speaker 1: on the back of their seat. So then all day
Speaker 1: they're just hanging on it. You know, it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: come on, man. So back then when I was working
Speaker 1: on the PM, I had, uh, you know, I was
Speaker 1: a young bucklo man on the totem Pol. But I
Speaker 1: got the little sign made by the local guy that
Speaker 1: said no vest, little plastic sign and I'd stick that,
Speaker 1: stuck that on my boat. When they get in the boat,
Speaker 1: they'd see that and you know instantly, what's what's boat.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, that thing get eggs with you know
Speaker 1: that you bought at the craft store and glued down
Speaker 1: to the hoop bro. I love Schultzy man. He's a
Speaker 1: he's the best. And listen, you guys are gonna hear
Speaker 1: a lot more from him down the line, because every
Speaker 1: time we talked to Mike, he tells another story after
Speaker 1: the story that we were trying to get and we're like,
Speaker 1: stop telling the story because we have to push records
Speaker 1: so that we can record this story too too. So
Speaker 1: get ready for more Mike. We've compiled a bunch of
Speaker 1: Mike Uh. Anyway, these days, I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 1: if I'm being completely honest, whenever I fish with a guide,
Speaker 1: my attitude is now like, oh great, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't actually have to bring shit. It's a luxury like this.
Speaker 1: This dude is a guide for a reason. He'll have
Speaker 1: what I need. So while I used to kind of
Speaker 1: be that guy that felt like I had to be
Speaker 1: impressive by bringing my whole garage worth of tackle, now
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, terrific guide, don't have to think about tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if the guy doesn't have all the ship you need,
Speaker 1: that's a shitty guide exactly. And fish with that person again.
Speaker 1: And having been a guide yourself, you must have dealt
Speaker 1: with overpackers, oh yeah, all the time. And you knew
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a bad day when the guys
Speaker 1: showed up and he's got sixteen different dry bags full
Speaker 1: of crap, and he's like fourteen rods, and you know
Speaker 1: you're all you're gonna do is break rods, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be your rods again, broken, not not his. And
Speaker 1: your boat is gonna be so heavy that you're plowing
Speaker 1: down the river all day and you can never get
Speaker 1: like even or up on step. It's the moral here
Speaker 1: is seriously, don't bring all the stuff if you're going fishing,
Speaker 1: use the guide stuff. Yeah, because people don't realize, especially
Speaker 1: on a drift boat. Right, anything you bring you're not
Speaker 1: gonna use is just ship in the way. All this
Speaker 1: any boat, Yeah, there's not that much room. So it's
Speaker 1: just it's just stuff that is that is in the way.
Speaker 1: So um good good lesson told Cholza style, there as
Speaker 1: only a public service announcement right there. Or if you
Speaker 1: really just want to start off the day by pisting
Speaker 1: off your guide, bring a ton of ship. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Anyway, Look, now that we've
Speaker 1: exposed you guys to the to the real truth that
Speaker 1: everyone on the river is in fact making fun of
Speaker 1: your forty pound LLL bean vest pockets, we may as well.
Speaker 1: We may as well just keep right on educating you,
Speaker 1: moving on to fin clips, where we tell you everything
Speaker 1: you never thought you wanted to know about a fish
Speaker 1: that you may or probably may not have heard of.
Speaker 1: This week, we're talking about American shed. Don't confuse American
Speaker 1: shed with all the other shed in this country. We
Speaker 1: got Alabama shead skip jack shed, hickory shed, ale wives,
Speaker 1: blue back herring, and while all those fish share the
Speaker 1: same genus, American shed are actually more closely related to
Speaker 1: species found in Europe than their cousins here in America.
Speaker 1: See American shed are in nadromus, meaning they spend their
Speaker 1: adult lives in the ocean and then return to shwater
Speaker 1: to spawn. Like salmon, they're also native all the way
Speaker 1: up and down the Atlantic Coast. So, like our beloved Pilgrims,
Speaker 1: some shad ancestors bailed out of Europe a very very
Speaker 1: long time ago across the Atlantic Ocean and started annual
Speaker 1: spring parties in the rivers of the New World. Shad
Speaker 1: have been called the fish that fed the nation's founders
Speaker 1: because many of those aforementioned Pilgrims and the colonies that
Speaker 1: followed them all survived on shad. Of course, the native
Speaker 1: tribes who lived along the Atlantic coast were all over
Speaker 1: the shad game long before the Europeans got here. Evidence
Speaker 1: of ancient fish traps has been found from Newfoundland all
Speaker 1: the way down to Florida. Historical records also indicate that
Speaker 1: some tribes went to war over the best shad grounds.
Speaker 1: Adults had generally go three to eight pounds, and while
Speaker 1: I've never tried one myself, I hear they're good eating.
Speaker 1: They can be boiled, broiled, fried, grilled, smoked, or pickled.
Speaker 1: I've also heard they've fallen out of favor in the
Speaker 1: modern diet because they're bony, and we've all turned into
Speaker 1: massive sissies when it comes eating around fishbones. The other
Speaker 1: thing I heard is that shad row is a delicacy
Speaker 1: for those who know what's up. Well, you don't know
Speaker 1: what's up, and I'm offended. You're you're You're offended. I'm
Speaker 1: offended because you how do you take the lead on
Speaker 1: American shad man. That's first of all, I know your
Speaker 1: ass has never caught one. And second, the greatest goddamn
Speaker 1: American shad river in the country is my home water
Speaker 1: right up the street. I live for shad and I
Speaker 1: miss it talking. You're talking to Delaware right now. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: It's the last major undamned river on the East coast,
Speaker 1: giving what many here called Jersey tarpin. You didn't know
Speaker 1: they were called Jersey tarpin. That that that didn't make
Speaker 1: your little segment, that it gives them unobstructed access to
Speaker 1: spawn man and I look, they are people who get
Speaker 1: all like my river. Yeah, there's other good shad rivers too,
Speaker 1: no doubt. But usually you only tie in real strong
Speaker 1: like up to that first damn. That's usually how it goes.
Speaker 1: No man, I I have heard from you, but also
Speaker 1: from lots of other people. I've heard they're they're a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Yeah, it's it's a it's a light
Speaker 1: tackle game. It's a killer light tackle game, six pound tests,
Speaker 1: light rod. You know, you need the right tackle to
Speaker 1: let them do their thing. But it's tons of fun. Um.
Speaker 1: And you've also missed the part about how without American chat,
Speaker 1: everyone listening to this might not be American. How's that
Speaker 1: because because in the winter seventeen seventy eight, Washington's army
Speaker 1: was starving to death at Camp and Valley Forge, which
Speaker 1: is not far from where I am right now, And
Speaker 1: there was a false spring that February, one of those
Speaker 1: weird deals where it got too warm too soon, and
Speaker 1: as I've read it, it tricked the fish into running
Speaker 1: early that year. And um, they came right up to
Speaker 1: Delaware and then hooked a hard left in the Scuoko
Speaker 1: River at Philly and that took them right to Old
Speaker 1: George's feet in camp, and that saved the army and
Speaker 1: provided an enough salted fish to eat later. Um. And
Speaker 1: without that, it's very possible the Revolutionary War could not
Speaker 1: have continued on. So what I'm saying is, next time
Speaker 1: you're getting a bucket of KFC, thank you, Shad, because
Speaker 1: you could be eating tea and crumpets or bangers and
Speaker 1: mash or some other British shit. Oh British cuisine. Don't
Speaker 1: forget the spotted dick. Alicious, so delicious. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sufficiently shamed. You've shamed me, and uh, I know, man,
Speaker 1: I need to get over there and and actually catch
Speaker 1: a shed talk about As with all things COVID, we'll
Speaker 1: just push it off to spring. It's gonna be great
Speaker 1: by then. Man. You know, come on out, you can
Speaker 1: eat all the world, Shad, you want, all the road
Speaker 1: you want to because that that part of your spirit
Speaker 1: was bullshit too. By the way, nobody here in shad
Speaker 1: Land covets the row except for five culinary weirdo food bloggers.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not the bones, it's the fact that
Speaker 1: they taste like you're chugging a mug a bunk of oil.
Speaker 1: As Bob the garbage Man would say, I have tried it.
Speaker 1: To be fair, I've tried it, and yes, once was enough.
Speaker 1: It's just man, it's greasy. It's greasy anyway. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: do believe it's time for fish news. That escalated quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, this is fish news, where we uh well
Speaker 1: give you fishy news about fishy things. The fun of it, however,
Speaker 1: is that Miles and I don't know what the other
Speaker 1: one is bringing to the table. Okay, like we have
Speaker 1: no we have no preconceived idea of what his news
Speaker 1: stories will be and mine will be. Um. So there's
Speaker 1: like some competition in our news segment here because you know, Dan, well,
Speaker 1: at some point we're gonna find the same stuff. So
Speaker 1: we're trying to It's it's a game. It's a game,
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's a game. And I brought
Speaker 1: backups just in case you scoop me on one of
Speaker 1: the stories I wanted to I wanted to have. I have.
Speaker 1: I have a backup, but I will be pissed if
Speaker 1: you if you jump all over all my good wife,
Speaker 1: I only brought too so this might be uh. The
Speaker 1: news segment according to Miles, who knows I'm lazier than
Speaker 1: you are anyway, Uh, this first one here you have kids.
Speaker 1: This might be the greatest news story I've heard in
Speaker 1: a very long time. It's it's just like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: it's so me. And this is coming from Forbes Okay.
Speaker 1: An offshore sports book has decided to post odds on
Speaker 1: the migratory patterns of nine GEO tag great White sharks,
Speaker 1: providing a summer diversion for sports fan and wagering aficionados
Speaker 1: who may or may not have an affinity for sustainable fishing.
Speaker 1: My bookie dot com is offering a variety of odds.
Speaker 1: The sports book will utilize the tracking technology used by
Speaker 1: a Search, a nonprofit organization that has the most well
Speaker 1: known and widely used tracking tool available. It provides a
Speaker 1: detailed tracking history of individual sharks travel patterns that people
Speaker 1: can monitor in real time for free via an online app.
Speaker 1: Gamblers will be able to wage your on ament of
Speaker 1: odds and props pertaining to the specific migration patterns of
Speaker 1: individual Great white sharks. Is a great quote. Ready, I
Speaker 1: have no illusions of grandeur that we are going to
Speaker 1: make millions of dollars off of this. It's a fun
Speaker 1: thing and hopefully it catches on, said David Strauss of
Speaker 1: my Bookie, after being tagged with the trackers sharks ping
Speaker 1: on O Search when they come to the surface. Based
Speaker 1: on these pings, my bookie will offer gamblers a variety
Speaker 1: of ways to place bets, such as how far a
Speaker 1: shark will travel between pings, whether a shark will enter
Speaker 1: a certain body of water, and what date a shark
Speaker 1: will ping next. Now, for great whites that ping less frequently,
Speaker 1: wagers will be able to be placed on if it
Speaker 1: will resurface by a certain date, and what countries waters
Speaker 1: the shark will be in when it resurfaces. Statistics will
Speaker 1: be updated in real time, allowing users to closely monitor
Speaker 1: their bets. Oh my god, I thought NASCAR was boring.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, right dude. I read this and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, this is my calling. I
Speaker 1: was I was born for this, because there's no way
Speaker 1: that my bookie realizes how easily this can be rigged.
Speaker 1: So I'm shouting out now to any of you tony
Speaker 1: soprano types out there. I got this. I've got this alright.
Speaker 1: I already ran the numbers on O Search Okay, you
Speaker 1: just look at Cabin nine three pound mails looking good
Speaker 1: this year. Payed off Long Island June fourth place your
Speaker 1: bets July thirteenth, quarter mile south of Block Island. Jimmy
Speaker 1: and the boys be out there on the stucts with
Speaker 1: a couple of sides of beef, about four hundred buckets
Speaker 1: of golds blood cement mixed of worth the bunkle oil,
Speaker 1: and a couple of people we need to get rid
Speaker 1: of anyway, Cab, it's gonna surface right there, easy money.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. You know, they just legalized sports betting
Speaker 1: in Montana, like it literally right before COVID hit they
Speaker 1: passed that bill and all the bookies where everybody was
Speaker 1: so excited, and then the first season of legal betting
Speaker 1: in Montana just as soon as it started, it was over.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if I could get this going. He might.
Speaker 1: We might actually have to cut this out of the podcast.
Speaker 1: You may not actually hear this, because I think we
Speaker 1: need to talk on the side on the arm. We'll, we'll,
Speaker 1: we'll have a side conversation on this one. Oh dude,
Speaker 1: that was good. That was good. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's better than he did not scoot me, did not
Speaker 1: scoot me. I thought you were going to Lucky bastard
Speaker 1: is going to get the chance to fulfill what I'm
Speaker 1: calling a childhood fantasy, oh boy, and go fishing with
Speaker 1: Bill Dance. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is holding a
Speaker 1: raffle right now, and one of the grand prizes that
Speaker 1: they got is a day on the water with the
Speaker 1: man himself rocking the blue blockers. The Orange Bill volunteers
Speaker 1: cap the whole deal. So from from now until August six,
Speaker 1: Raffle tickets are on sale at the t w r
Speaker 1: A website. You can purchase as many as you want.
Speaker 1: You do not need to be a Tennessee resident to win,
Speaker 1: and all the money that they raise is gonna fund
Speaker 1: habitat restoration, so that that's good. But even better, the
Speaker 1: winner gets six hours on the water with Bill, either
Speaker 1: fisher fishing for croppy or catfish on the Mississippi River
Speaker 1: or at what they're calling an undisclosed Tennessee lake for
Speaker 1: large mouth, which I can only hope is the same
Speaker 1: lake we've all seen him fall into countless times over
Speaker 1: the years. I was gonna say, otherwise known as the
Speaker 1: lake where he films all of his shows exactly. I
Speaker 1: saw this not to cut in, but you left out
Speaker 1: the part where they were like based on Bill's schedule,
Speaker 1: so like whenever he can fit you in whatever is
Speaker 1: happening around then is when you get to go. But
Speaker 1: you get to go, it doesn't better. I would, I
Speaker 1: would open up my calendar for a day with Bill Dance. Well,
Speaker 1: I would do that. Listen, I I've I've interviewed all
Speaker 1: these guys at some point in my career. Hank Hank
Speaker 1: Parker flip palette. You know Bill Dance, and he is
Speaker 1: the sweetest, kindest, most gracious man in the entire world.
Speaker 1: That it's it's it almost like hurts my heart to
Speaker 1: take like a little shot at Bill. But I'm but
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that right. As sweet as he is,
Speaker 1: you get six hours on the water with Bill Dance,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be six hours of him not being
Speaker 1: able to hear you, and every time you say something,
Speaker 1: I'm just going, huh, huh, huh, what's that. I met
Speaker 1: met Bill once and he was he was very very
Speaker 1: very very very nice, way nicer than most people who
Speaker 1: are famous in the fishing industry. I would, I would
Speaker 1: totally even even as like someone who works in the industry,
Speaker 1: I would still totally do this. I'm I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna be in this raffle. It's the last
Speaker 1: time I spoke with him, and he doesn't know me
Speaker 1: from Adam, right, he you know. But he ended the
Speaker 1: call with like, hey, buddy, you know, next time you
Speaker 1: come down here, let us know, we'll go have a
Speaker 1: steak and now go out fishing. And I was recording
Speaker 1: the call for a piece, so I took just that
Speaker 1: chunk out and ran it on social media. It was
Speaker 1: titled like Bill Dance invites me fishing, And the first
Speaker 1: comment from another fishing industry person was, like, dude, he
Speaker 1: says that to everybody he hangs up with, dumbass, Like
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go fishing with you, fish with you?
Speaker 1: You want to fish with him? Win the raffle. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's funny. I'm glad. I'm glad that one
Speaker 1: made the fold. I'm glad you got that because I
Speaker 1: eyeballed it for a hot second. Um, you know. And
Speaker 1: Bill Dances certainly old school, one of the oldest school
Speaker 1: sort of fishing uh icons around and and my next
Speaker 1: piece here ties into that although we've been laughing a lot,
Speaker 1: and this one, you know, it's a it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more bummery, but important nonetheless. So at this point,
Speaker 1: it's no secret that the COVID pandemic has taken its
Speaker 1: toll on the outdoor industry. And while guides and captains
Speaker 1: and tackle shops in much of the tree are at
Speaker 1: this point operational and trying to get back on their feet,
Speaker 1: unfortunately too many businesses just weren't able to recover, and
Speaker 1: mom and pop tackle shops were hit particularly hard. Now
Speaker 1: we all know that those old school shops that had
Speaker 1: everything you needed to fish local and nothing you didn't,
Speaker 1: we're kind of already on their way out prior to
Speaker 1: COVID anyway, but the closing of Ranky Brothers Tackle in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee due to the pandemic takes more than just another
Speaker 1: mom and pop operation out of the game. Ranky Brothers
Speaker 1: wasn't a traditional tackle shop. They actually specialized in lore
Speaker 1: and fly components for all the garage tinkerers that wanted
Speaker 1: to make everything from musky bucktails to walleye rigs to
Speaker 1: custom jakeheads and pipe flies to their exact specifications, and
Speaker 1: behind the counter were dozens of trees chocked full of minutia,
Speaker 1: you know, like for the guy who just wanted two
Speaker 1: specific treble hooks or just a few loose inline spinner
Speaker 1: post and Ranky Brothers was a staple in South Milwaukee
Speaker 1: for seventy years, and while owner Bob he tried online
Speaker 1: sales awhile back it was just too hard to compete
Speaker 1: with the major online component and material websites. And of course,
Speaker 1: now with foot traffic down and hours cut back due
Speaker 1: to COVID, this neighborhood's shop simply can't operate profitably, forcing
Speaker 1: Bob to retire early this fall. Now this saddens me
Speaker 1: personally because while it will be hard enough for our
Speaker 1: kids to experience a true old timeing mom and pop
Speaker 1: tackle shop, stories like Ranky Brothers that existed solely for
Speaker 1: the angler that gets more satisfaction out of catching a
Speaker 1: fish on something he made with his own two hands,
Speaker 1: may flat out no longer exist. Have you ever been
Speaker 1: in a shop like that? Man? Oh, yes I have,
Speaker 1: and and I'll say right now that long before I
Speaker 1: ever got into the fly fishing thing and building my
Speaker 1: own flies, as I was totally the kid who was
Speaker 1: building my own inline spinners and spinner bad, some weird
Speaker 1: posts and and and my dad was even way more
Speaker 1: into it than me. His whole goal was to make
Speaker 1: the strangest lure that he could possibly a man and
Speaker 1: see if something would bite it. It It was. It was
Speaker 1: really one of his favorite things to do in the world. Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we hung out in those shops all the time.
Speaker 1: I was like one of our things that we did together.
Speaker 1: The closest that I had here was Brielle Baiton Tackle
Speaker 1: at the Jersey Shore, which does still exist. And while
Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of lower making stuff, they
Speaker 1: had this huge rod building section. And I mean, I've
Speaker 1: made a few rods. They were all terrible, But every
Speaker 1: time I was in there, it was just so inspiring.
Speaker 1: You know, like you're not really thinking about building a rod,
Speaker 1: you don't need one, and then you just happened to
Speaker 1: be in there for something else and you start walking
Speaker 1: around looking at all the decals and threads and blanks,
Speaker 1: and it just like gets this creativity welled up in you.
Speaker 1: And I remember when the first Cabela's ever opened out here,
Speaker 1: and I went out there. Of course, like the first
Speaker 1: time you walk into a Cabela's it's like, holy sh it,
Speaker 1: this is great. So I wanted to buy like fifty
Speaker 1: panther Martin's and I had them in my cart, and
Speaker 1: then I ended up in the lower component s aisle
Speaker 1: and saw the bag of blades and the bag of posts,
Speaker 1: and instantly it was like, I'm not buying any of
Speaker 1: the Now. I make my own inline spinners, and I
Speaker 1: still have some of those spinners here today. But that
Speaker 1: I've never had a store like that that just basically
Speaker 1: sold the pieces. And I found that really sad. I
Speaker 1: never we never had one that just did that. It was,
Speaker 1: but we had one that had a really good section that.
Speaker 1: It was Grizzly Bills Bait and Tackle that later became
Speaker 1: Grizzly Bob's Bait and Tackle UH in the middle of
Speaker 1: nowhere in northern Wisconsin, and and they had everything from
Speaker 1: Camos suspenders to lure building bits and pieces to UH
Speaker 1: to anything else in between. I mean, it was. It
Speaker 1: was a fantastic shop. It probably closed down, yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago, but I loved that place well. To me,
Speaker 1: it's it's similar to like hardware stories. I still have
Speaker 1: a few around here where you can walk in and
Speaker 1: talk to old gusts and he'll get two screws out
Speaker 1: of the plastic tray for you. You know, but they're
Speaker 1: getting harder to find. You know. You get a home
Speaker 1: and quota, but you have to buy a dozen, and
Speaker 1: you have to involve walkie talkies and five people before
Speaker 1: someone can even tell you which I all the screws
Speaker 1: are in. You know what, And what's terrible about this
Speaker 1: story that you just told me is that, from what
Speaker 1: I'm about to report on, if if they could have
Speaker 1: held on for just a couple of months longer, they
Speaker 1: might have been all right. Because nationwide, tackle shops are
Speaker 1: reporting a fishing gear shortage. Really, tackle shops all over
Speaker 1: the country right now are barren of fishing gear, completely
Speaker 1: sold out. And most of these are are the big
Speaker 1: box stores, the ones that are still holding on and popular.
Speaker 1: But the same things happen in some of the smaller stores. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, just yesterday, Sam Longer and the fishing editor
Speaker 1: that we work with, texted me a photo from Sportsman's
Speaker 1: Warehouse and it was like eerily similar to looking at
Speaker 1: grocery store shelves a couple of months ago, bearing picked clean.
Speaker 1: I'm talking not a single rattle trap or vibrats anywhere
Speaker 1: to be seen. I don't think it's weird, man Like.
Speaker 1: I've known that this has been happening throughout the country
Speaker 1: from talking to people, but I only stepped into a
Speaker 1: big box tackle shop for the first time since before
Speaker 1: the pandemic, like a week ago, and lures plenty of them,
Speaker 1: I mean totally stocked on lures out here, softbait's, hard baits,
Speaker 1: whatever you needed. Hooks were hit fairly hard, but the
Speaker 1: noticeable one was line. I mean they were They were
Speaker 1: literally three spools of line in the entire aisle and
Speaker 1: all that was left. The only options I had were
Speaker 1: sixty five pound braid high Viz Orange, fifty pound braid
Speaker 1: high his Yellow, or thirty pound lead core trolling line,
Speaker 1: and I was like, none of these will suit my
Speaker 1: small mouth needs. You know, I have heard from a
Speaker 1: lot of people that smaller mom and pop shops are
Speaker 1: faring much much better through this, and I think that's
Speaker 1: probably because they order smaller quantities. You know, they need
Speaker 1: twenty rattle traps, not two, um. But unfortunately, I just
Speaker 1: don't have any good mom and pops left around here
Speaker 1: to go to, or that's what I would do, So
Speaker 1: and and out here. The only mom and pops we
Speaker 1: have are like purely fly shops. If you want to
Speaker 1: get me conventional tackle, you have to go to the
Speaker 1: big box stores, and they are it's the opposite. They're
Speaker 1: they're out of fishing gear here. The lures are gone,
Speaker 1: the hooks are gone, but they still have line. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Like I've heard it's
Speaker 1: a supply chain issue, but apparently that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: But I'm sort of torn on this, Like I'm of
Speaker 1: two minds because if there's one minor bright spot that
Speaker 1: I can point to in in this whole pandemic fiasco,
Speaker 1: everybody's out of work and they don't know what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do with their time. Thing, it seems like a
Speaker 1: lot more people are fishing, and I mean across the country.
Speaker 1: It seems like the numbers of fishing fishing participation are up.
Speaker 1: And I know, I know our rivers, like my local
Speaker 1: rivers are so packed with people right now, like doesn't
Speaker 1: matter the day of the week, doesn't matter the time.
Speaker 1: They are slammed with people way more than I've ever
Speaker 1: seen before. You know, it's mellowed out for me here, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's normal summer summer crowds on the local rivers
Speaker 1: right here now. But during the height of all this
Speaker 1: in in April and early May, when people were even
Speaker 1: more out of work and more locked down, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was a zoo. It was an absolute zoo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and again this just speaks the different types of
Speaker 1: places we live, because you know, everybody by you who
Speaker 1: was fishing there in the spring lived there and wasn't working.
Speaker 1: And now we are just inundated with tourists who are
Speaker 1: trying to get away from their their own private COVID hells,
Speaker 1: and they're coming here and and and they're all fishing,
Speaker 1: which is again I'm torn because I really don't like
Speaker 1: seeing my local spots that crowded and getting hit that hard.
Speaker 1: It bums me out a little bit, But I am
Speaker 1: really happy to see more people fishing, like that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that we we really pride ourselves on
Speaker 1: and what we do. We try and get more and
Speaker 1: more people to get outside, go fishing, go hun and
Speaker 1: get out in the woods. So I'm you know, on
Speaker 1: a selfish level, it annoys me, but on a broader level,
Speaker 1: like if I can get out of my not in
Speaker 1: my backyard protectionist mentality. I'm happy about it. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know what, since we're we're kind of on the
Speaker 1: subject of more people fishing in my home state, there's
Speaker 1: this guy who just recently moved out here to Montana,
Speaker 1: like a year ago. Uh, some of you guys may
Speaker 1: have heard of him. His name is like a Janus
Speaker 1: or Janice Janice Poodles. I don't know, it's some weird
Speaker 1: Latvian thing. I don't know. He's gonna tell us about
Speaker 1: a certain living fossil or I guess, in this case,
Speaker 1: swimming fossil and his first time going fishing or technically
Speaker 1: snagging for paddlefish. In this week's Yanni's Desk, Hey folks,
Speaker 1: welcome to Yanni's Desk. Today the sheriff you about how
Speaker 1: the new world record spoon bill was snagged down in
Speaker 1: Oklahoma at a Keystone Lake. This fish is snagged by
Speaker 1: a fello by the name of James Lukarton. It is massive.
Speaker 1: To see pictures of it, go to the meat eater
Speaker 1: dot com read Spencer new Harst article about it. You
Speaker 1: gotta know a little bit about spoon bill to appreciate this.
Speaker 1: It's a prehistoric fish. It's been on the planet in
Speaker 1: its same form for roughly twenty million years, so they
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. They know how to survive. It's
Speaker 1: a filter feeder, so this fish doesn't chase other fish
Speaker 1: down and eat them. They don't eat nightcrawlers. They eat
Speaker 1: zo plankton microscopic beings. To find these suckers, they use
Speaker 1: that paddle that's coming off top of their head and
Speaker 1: kind of almost looks like a swordfish. Earlier, they thought
Speaker 1: that they would dig around in the muck with that thing,
Speaker 1: kind of like a storefish does, and then eat whatever
Speaker 1: came out of there. But actually it's got electoral receptors
Speaker 1: all over it. There are so fine tuned they can
Speaker 1: not only detect the zoo plankton, but they can detect
Speaker 1: the movement of a zoo plankton's appendages. So not just
Speaker 1: as zoe plank and swimming around, but it's little legs
Speaker 1: and arms kicking around or whatever they call him on
Speaker 1: his zoa plankton, and that's how it finds its food.
Speaker 1: And he comes up in the water calm, and just
Speaker 1: like a whale, he opens his mouth or she does.
Speaker 1: The water goes through there. They filters the zoa plankton
Speaker 1: out and the water goes out of the gills. Really
Speaker 1: cool fish. I recently got to do some spoon bill snagging,
Speaker 1: or be a part of it. My brother in law
Speaker 1: drew a harvest tag on the Upper Missouri River here
Speaker 1: in Montana. So we went up there right at the
Speaker 1: end of the season around mid June. Gave it our
Speaker 1: best shot. Didn't really know what we were doing, but
Speaker 1: between talking to some folks we got it done. He
Speaker 1: ended up catching right around a twenty pounder. Now, since
Speaker 1: they're not eating bait, you can't catch him like you
Speaker 1: normally would. Can't throw a woolly bugger adham. He doesn't
Speaker 1: care about a leach. You can't throw a rappele at him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care about a little baby perch. So you
Speaker 1: gotta snag him. And how you do that is he
Speaker 1: used a pretty uh stout rod um that can cast
Speaker 1: far and that has a lot of backbones. If you
Speaker 1: do hook into these fish, which you know, going from
Speaker 1: to as you'll see later, almost a hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 1: you gotta use heavy line. I think we were using
Speaker 1: eighty pound braid. We were using bait cast again, I
Speaker 1: say we my brother in law was I didn't have
Speaker 1: the tag. But you have a weight actually at the
Speaker 1: bottom of your line, and then you have a size
Speaker 1: seven or eight odd treble hook anywhere from eight inches
Speaker 1: to three ft above that weight, and again there's no
Speaker 1: bait on it. You cast it out there. The weight
Speaker 1: brings you down to the bottom and you yank, pull
Speaker 1: up your slack and yank, and basically as you're pulling
Speaker 1: the hook through the water column, eventually your line will
Speaker 1: come across the back of a spoon bill and uh,
Speaker 1: when you yank, you'll pull that trouble hook into the fish.
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds a little barbaric, but that's the
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna catch them. Research shows that snagging
Speaker 1: them and releasing them doesn't hurt them. You know, they
Speaker 1: have little flesh wound as we'd like to say, and uh,
Speaker 1: they go about their business. That's how you catch them.
Speaker 1: So back to Oklahoma, this guy, James and his wife
Speaker 1: were out on their first day ever spoon bill fish
Speaker 1: and they took a guided trip. They just wanted to
Speaker 1: go snag a couple sub fifty pounders for eating. That's
Speaker 1: what they were looking for. They got a lot more
Speaker 1: than they were looking for. His wife starts off with
Speaker 1: an eighty eight pounder, which is also a giant spoonbill,
Speaker 1: and releases it, and then James is up. He snags
Speaker 1: into one. He's reeling it in. They see how long
Speaker 1: it is. They think it's about the same length as
Speaker 1: a wife's it is, and then when it gets close
Speaker 1: to the boat, it rolls sideways and they see the
Speaker 1: girth on it. This is my favorite part in the
Speaker 1: little video that his wife was taken. When that fish
Speaker 1: roll sideways, he says, God damn, and she says, what's
Speaker 1: your language? I thought that was great in the heat
Speaker 1: of the moment, she's she's keeping him proper. Takes him
Speaker 1: another minute or so to get that thing and get
Speaker 1: a loop of rope around the fishes tail, and they
Speaker 1: land it. They take some quick measurement and they think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be near the world record, and so they
Speaker 1: take it back in to meet a Oklahoma Fisheries official
Speaker 1: and uh. The guy weighs it and it turns out
Speaker 1: to be a hundred and forty six pounds eleven ounces.
Speaker 1: It is a giant fish. It is almost as wide
Speaker 1: as it is long. It was just a little bit wider.
Speaker 1: It would be a circle of a fish. Incredible. It's
Speaker 1: a good job, James. I recommend you hang up your
Speaker 1: spoonbill snagging hat, move on to something else, go break
Speaker 1: another record. I think you're done here. Good work. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Janice for the extreme paddling. But hey, moving from one
Speaker 1: flyover state to another, let's take a trip to Iowa,
Speaker 1: and not for the fishing this time, but for the drinking.
Speaker 1: We're tapping the keg for the first ever installment of
Speaker 1: what might be our favorite segment and hopefully yours. This
Speaker 1: is that's my bar, best god damn bartender from tim
Speaker 1: buck to to Portland, Maine, the Portland argument, for that matter.
Speaker 1: So what's the goal of that's my bar? Easy? Slowly
Speaker 1: but surely compile a list of the best damn watering
Speaker 1: holes for fishermen, not just in this country, okay, but
Speaker 1: across the entire globe. That's that's the end goal. Okay.
Speaker 1: And uh, Miles and I certainly have our favorites. What's
Speaker 1: your what's your favorite? Man? That's like, that's a really
Speaker 1: hard question. It's like asking me to pick a favorite child. Well,
Speaker 1: favorite child's easy. Uh, favorite species might as well as
Speaker 1: me to pick a favorite fish species. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for me, the one I'm gonna call out is the
Speaker 1: Sip and Dip in Great Falls, Montana. That is Montana's
Speaker 1: absolute best tiki bar. It's got to be the only
Speaker 1: tiki but that's definitely the only bar. But it's actually
Speaker 1: it's it's such a fantastic bar, man, you gotta go there. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's above this old hotel. It's really grimy. It's got
Speaker 1: like the the coconut weave mats on the wall, and
Speaker 1: that is where the famous piano Pat has been belting
Speaker 1: out her beautiful raspy tunes under her hair helmet for
Speaker 1: literally fifty six years. She's been there forever. She's amazing.
Speaker 1: Anybody who like seriously she you can look her up online.
Speaker 1: Piano Pat, Sipp and Dip, Gray Falls. You won't be sorry.
Speaker 1: And then behind Piano Pat, behind the bar, there these
Speaker 1: windows into the pool and they hire men and women
Speaker 1: to put on merman and mermaid costumes and swim around
Speaker 1: behind the bar. It's I don't know if i'd call
Speaker 1: it actually a fishing bar, but it is pretty close
Speaker 1: to the Missouri River and I have been there after fishing.
Speaker 1: So I'm calling out the Sip and dip. Well, shit,
Speaker 1: I can't top that, but I know my new life goal.
Speaker 1: We have to record from there at some point and
Speaker 1: have piano pat on. But I bet she do it.
Speaker 1: You just like you stole my thunder Mind's Lame mcbree's
Speaker 1: Crosstown Tavern and Starlight p A like Big, I can
Speaker 1: walk in there with my waiters on Big. You just
Speaker 1: crushed me. They got good fried mushrooms though. Anyway, Look,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, right, we need you guys to step
Speaker 1: up clearly based on just our two examples. We need
Speaker 1: your help because Miles and I don't know all these bars.
Speaker 1: So this is your chance to wrap your local dive
Speaker 1: or your favorite cantina when you travel, or maybe just
Speaker 1: the most memorable fishing bar that you've ever been to.
Speaker 1: These are the places where it's okay to walk in
Speaker 1: in a T shirt covered in tune of blood. White
Speaker 1: deck boots are welcome. You will still get served the
Speaker 1: cheese cards when you walk in sweating and leaking, snot
Speaker 1: after a day on the ice. So for our first installment,
Speaker 1: we're taking a jaunt to the Midwest today to the
Speaker 1: Driftless region of Iowa, which is an awesome place to fish,
Speaker 1: and it's very it's very near and dear to my
Speaker 1: heart in fact, and today is nomination comes from j Aldrich,
Speaker 1: who writes The Naughty Pine Tavern in Dorchester, Iowa, is
Speaker 1: only fifty yards or so from Waterloo Creek in the
Speaker 1: beautiful driftless area. It's a small bar with tons of
Speaker 1: old pin ups and you will often find the regular
Speaker 1: old timers having a few beers and telling stories from
Speaker 1: their glory days. We always try to stop there for
Speaker 1: a beer whenever we're in town. When I was younger,
Speaker 1: my old man was waiting there for my buddy and
Speaker 1: I to get done fishing. He was only there for
Speaker 1: about an hour or so, and the locals showed him
Speaker 1: such a good time that my buddy and I had
Speaker 1: to guide my dad back to the car so he
Speaker 1: didn't fall in parentheses again. And then and then we
Speaker 1: had to drive him back to the hotel. I have
Speaker 1: actually fished Waterloo Creek, and I am I am just
Speaker 1: very disappointed that my my people's out there did not
Speaker 1: take me here, because I already know I would love
Speaker 1: the Naughty Pine Tavern. You know why, because I looked
Speaker 1: it up. I was trying to do a little research Um,
Speaker 1: there's no social media page for the Naughty Pine, there
Speaker 1: are no year reviews, there's no menu online. Okay. All
Speaker 1: I could find was a phone number which tells me
Speaker 1: this is exactly this is the joint you go to
Speaker 1: when you're asked. Doesn't want to be found for a
Speaker 1: little while, you know what I mean? Just picturing like
Speaker 1: a beige rotary phone mounted on the wall next to
Speaker 1: the bar that never rings. It's dusty, you can, I
Speaker 1: can just it's caked in dust. But yeah, like that's
Speaker 1: I'm going there. I'm and I'll bet you the food
Speaker 1: is delicious. Just I just have a hunch, you know,
Speaker 1: Yell previews aside, I do wish there was one Yell
Speaker 1: preview though. I wish there was just like one Yell
Speaker 1: preview that just said four stars had to be carried
Speaker 1: out like that. That's a bar I would definitely frequent
Speaker 1: if I were in Iowa. So help us out. Keep
Speaker 1: sending these to us. We need more of these. The
Speaker 1: next time I am any place, I hope to have
Speaker 1: a whole list of great bars that I might be
Speaker 1: able to go to. Yeah, Killer Killer, first nomination from
Speaker 1: j These low key joints are exactly what we want,
Speaker 1: and you can email your nominations to us at bent
Speaker 1: at the meat eater dot com to nominate your favorite
Speaker 1: corner dive bar full of dusty skin mounts and perhaps
Speaker 1: featuring an old bathtub like trough in the men's room
Speaker 1: instead of urinals, which and that is a that is
Speaker 1: a mark of a truly great fishing bar. Oh Man,
Speaker 1: I have a new life, gold Joe. I hope to
Speaker 1: one day be in a band called Dusty skin Mounts.
Speaker 1: We are just about out of time this week, which
Speaker 1: brings us to the end of the line are aptly
Speaker 1: name closing segment about what bates lords or flies you
Speaker 1: need to be throwing basically on any criteria that we want.
Speaker 1: Could be something me and Miles have been slaying on
Speaker 1: eate lea. Could be a hot new lore that intrigues us.
Speaker 1: Might be some ancient ship we found in the garage
Speaker 1: and totally forgot about. So while Miles is out hunting
Speaker 1: down band members for his new gig and Dusty skin
Speaker 1: Mounts strong chance many of those Dusty skin mounts you
Speaker 1: see in bars, lodges, and fish camps were caught on
Speaker 1: one of his favorite vintage retrobates, the bass arena. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not loud enough. Bur Is it a crank bait,
Speaker 1: a service plug, a jerk bait, a glide bait. I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I don't really care, because as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, the bass arena occupies a category all
Speaker 1: by itself. The original bass arena was patented in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifteen by James Olds. Olds immediately sold that patent to
Speaker 1: the South Bend Debate and Tackle Company, who went on
Speaker 1: to manufacture bass arenas for almost seventy years. The bait
Speaker 1: was so popular and so effective it spawned a whole
Speaker 1: genre of plugs, from tiny little trout ay nos the
Speaker 1: signed to be cast with fly rods, to midsize surfery
Speaker 1: nos for inshore fishing, to stout muskerinos for muskie and
Speaker 1: big pipe. None of these offshoots have ever really caught on,
Speaker 1: and you know what, they didn't really have to the
Speaker 1: design of the original was so brilliant it worked on
Speaker 1: just about every shallow water predator. With any bait fish invitation,
Speaker 1: it's all about the wobble, and the bass arena wobble
Speaker 1: is like nothing else. It's not even really a wobble.
Speaker 1: It's more like a high speed dart and glide with
Speaker 1: a few random hip thrusts here and there. Anglers like
Speaker 1: to compare a lure action to dancing, and if modern
Speaker 1: cranks are Miley Cyrus, the bass arena is James Brown.
Speaker 1: You never really know which direction it's gonna go when
Speaker 1: it gets up and does its thing. The bass arena
Speaker 1: was part of the first wave of industrial lure innovation
Speaker 1: in the United States. It was patented the same year
Speaker 1: as the first lip crank bait, the creek chip, But
Speaker 1: the arena has no lamp. It's a cylindrical, solid wood
Speaker 1: lure with a sharp taper to the tail and a
Speaker 1: scooped out face that scoop sits right below the surfaces
Speaker 1: of water when the baits arrest, so that when you
Speaker 1: start retrieving it, it digs down into the water and
Speaker 1: forces the bait under. The sharp rear taper creates the
Speaker 1: erratic darting, wiggling, and gliding that seduced irritable and hungry
Speaker 1: fish for more than a century. I'm not giving you
Speaker 1: some nostalgic bs about vintage tackle. I am not now,
Speaker 1: nor have I ever been, one of those guys who
Speaker 1: collects old lures in their original packaging to arrange its
Speaker 1: soft angles and curio cabinets. Lures are meant to be fished,
Speaker 1: and if I'm gonna tie one on, it better get bit.
Speaker 1: My uncles have been fishing the lakes of northern Wisconsin
Speaker 1: together for more years than I can count to this day.
Speaker 1: Every single time they go out together, one or both
Speaker 1: of them is guaranteed to tie on a bass raino.
Speaker 1: Why a couple of reasons. First, at this point in
Speaker 1: their lives, neither one of my uncles has any time
Speaker 1: or patients for finesse fishing. They want a fan cast
Speaker 1: around for a couple of hours, get that hit of
Speaker 1: adrenaline from a hard bite on a quick retrieve, and
Speaker 1: then head home in time to catch the first pitch
Speaker 1: of the Cubs game with a Miller high life. The
Speaker 1: solid cedar body and aerodynamic shape lets them cast bass
Speaker 1: arena's long distances with little effort and burn them back
Speaker 1: searching large areas for aggressive fish. Second, my uncles are generalists.
Speaker 1: They're not so much interested in specific fish. They're after
Speaker 1: willing fish, bass pike, walle muskie. Men don't care as
Speaker 1: long as you get bit once in a while. The
Speaker 1: bass arenos generic bait, fish look and timeless strike triggers
Speaker 1: means that just about anything hungry enough or angry enough
Speaker 1: will take a whack at it, and the three troubles
Speaker 1: dangling off the belly give them a good chance of
Speaker 1: putting at least one fish in the net, even if
Speaker 1: they're not really paying attention. Third, they have confidence. These
Speaker 1: guys have been consistently hooking up on these lures since
Speaker 1: Carter was in office, maybe earlier, I don't actually know.
Speaker 1: One time, my uncle Jim was fishing a favorite areno,
Speaker 1: the frog color, and he hooked a hammer handle pike.
Speaker 1: When he went to grab that fish from the net,
Speaker 1: it's surged and my uncle wound up with two barbs
Speaker 1: in the meat of his hand. At the er later
Speaker 1: that day, the doc asked if he could keep the
Speaker 1: plug and add it to their collection of lures removed
Speaker 1: from fisherman. My uncle said, hell, no, that's a damn
Speaker 1: good lure. I'm not giving that away. The following season
Speaker 1: he caught his personal best muskie on that exact bait.
Speaker 1: He still has the scar in his hand, the musky
Speaker 1: on his wall, and the bass serina in his tackle box. Sadly,
Speaker 1: no one makes this bait anymore. Lur Jensen acquired the
Speaker 1: patent two but discontinued them a few years ago. The
Speaker 1: good news is that you can still find plenty of
Speaker 1: used ones online for cheap. Don't be afraid to buy
Speaker 1: one that looks like it's been chewed up for time
Speaker 1: or two. Those scars, they're just proof a good mojo.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for this inaugural episode of Meat Eaters,
Speaker 1: first dedicated fishing podcast. Let's have a drink. Miles, we got,
Speaker 1: we got, we got through it man. Please, Oh Joe,
Speaker 1: pour me an extra finger for three. Uh well, Joe
Speaker 1: and I get drunk. Please let us know what you liked,
Speaker 1: what you hated, what we messed up, and just generally,
Speaker 1: how you doing. Send an email to bent that b
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Speaker 1: Remember that I never got that I never got, So
Speaker 1: I gotta say, we need a closer for this, Joe,
Speaker 1: and it just pisces me off. It's like a pet
Speaker 1: peeve in the fishing industry, of the fishing community when
Speaker 1: people end conversations or emails or anything with tight lines.
Speaker 1: Tight lines. So I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna spin off any of these shows with tight
Speaker 1: lines because it just irks me. Instead, i'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: simply just go fishing, and uh, I'll keep the rods
Speaker 1: band while I'm doing it.