WEBVTT - Ep. 1: Welcome to Bent, Degenerate Angler 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.360 Rocking, the blue blockers, the Orange bill volunteers cap the 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.400 whole deal a fishing gear shortage. Not a single rattle 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.800 trap or fibrats anywhere to be seen. The coronavirus is 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.720 hands down the best thing that ever happened to stripe 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.960 a surf fishing ever. I mean, I ain't smiled this 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.280 much since Deep Throw was in Theontis. White deck boots 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.720 are welcome. You will still get served the cheese cards 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.080 when you walk in, sweating and leaking snot after a 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:38.600 day on the ice. Good morning, degenerate angler is welcome 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.840 to Bent, where we invite fishermen from all walks of life, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.320 all skill levels, and all factions to unite. I'm Joe 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.320 Surmelie and I'm Miles Nulty. And the way I described 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.400 this for those of you lucky enough to remember such 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.720 an awesome thing, this is like an like an eighth 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:58.960 grade mix tape about fishing, uh, fishing and whatever the 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.320 hell else we feel like talking about. But Joe, I 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.040 really don't think that anyone makes mix tapes anymore. I 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.319 think I think the kids call them playlists. Now, No 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:07.840 they don't. That's a shame. I don't even know if 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.520 you can buy blank tapes anymore, though, I do remember 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.959 that my last mix tape had White Rabbit by Jefferson 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.560 Airplane followed by a bunch of no effects tracks. You 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.319 have to I know you're a music guy. What was 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.119 on your last mix tape? Dude? I don't, if I'm 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.039 being honest, I don't remember the music that was on it. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.920 It was probably no effects or something around there. But 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.480 what I do remember is I had this tape called 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.119 Forbidden Spanish. That was how I learned bad words in Spanish, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.679 and I would include little snippets of that in between 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.000 the songs that I recorded onto the mix tapes that 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.839 I would then give the girls, hoping they would laugh 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.120 and that that, you know, them being amused would make 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:49.760 them like me. Did it work? Not really? No, Okay, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.720 I feel that pain. I did the similar thing with 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.880 Jerky Boys clips. Anyway, enough about that. Look, to be 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.880 upfront with you guys, our plan was definitely not to 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.000 launch this podcast in the middle of a global pandemic. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.200 Yet here we are, and so you understand exactly where 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.440 we are. Miles is actually in Montana, and I'm on 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.639 the other side of the country, east side, right outside 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.560 of Philadelphia, and man, it's it's been a roller coaster 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.360 with the covids for a while. There. I was in 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.760 COVID hell and and and Miles had clean living, and 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.079 now there's there was the COVID's there, and now we're 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.440 supposedly doing good and now I don't know, everybody just 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.160 has the COVID. So we'll we'll just we'll just go 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.359 with it. But you know what, um, despite pandemics, we're 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.280 pressing on and we're we're giving this thing a go. Yeah, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.680 and you know what, forever, everyone out there, I think 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.919 you're probably gonna agree with me when when everything feels 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.160 so shitty as it does right now, the the real 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.040 only responses just to go fishing. So that's what we're 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.079 trying to do. I never really stopped fishing, though. It 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.000 just was weird there for a few months, with like 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.919 who you're allowed to fish with and who you can't. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.400 Can you leave the house? Can you not? But we 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.880 we do have a regional fishing report for you guys 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.639 this week. That's that's something we're gonna be doing weekly. Uh. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.840 It's weird though, because we're gonna play a report for 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.800 you guys that's actually a few months old and I 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.960 do understand that an old fishing report isn't really that useful, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.359 but you guys have to hear this. And this came 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.280 in over the Bent phone, which is just similar to 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.880 the bat phone, and our answering machine actually does use 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.639 a tape because we don't have the budget for for digital. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.200 But this one's coming in from Stryper's surf fishing legend, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.680 Bob the garbage Man Britan and on a new Ski, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.239 who has been a fixture in the Jersey surf scene 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.920 since long before I was born. Okay, he he's an 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.720 absolute legend. He only uses chunks of man haden, which 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.600 we call bunker, and vehemently opposes the use of artificial 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.000 lures in the surf. And I'll just say, this is 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.080 going to take you back to when quarantine was like 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.160 really bad. But sometimes you have to examine where you've 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.200 been to understand where you are. I think that's I 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.000 think that's an inspirational meme that I saw my inspirational 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.040 meme app anyway, kicking it back a few months to 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:10.160 the height of quarantine with Bob g who will inspire you. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.240 Hello out there and Radio Wind. This is strip a 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.800 chunkin egs. But Bob the cobbage Man Britana Nona Newski. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.560 As per usual, I'm calling him my weekly East Coast 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.960 strip of fishing report from the pay phone on the 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.880 corner of Baltic and MLK here in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.080 That don't worry. I poured hot coffee over the receiver 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.240 to disinfect it before dialing out. You gotta be smarting 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.360 times like these, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, are 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.120 gonna be real honest with you. As far as I'm concerned, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.760 the coronavirus is hands down the best thing that ever 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.400 happened to stripe a surf fishing ever. I mean, I 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.240 ain't smiled this much since Deep Throw was in theaters. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.800 For the first time in my life. I could tell 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.920 somebody to get the away from me and then add 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.240 quote by order of law soul. But let me tell 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.640 you I've been chumping spots. I ain't fished since eight 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.880 seven eight eight because I don't have to worry about it. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.719 Momo snagging my line with this pencil. Daughter. You know 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.440 what I'm saying. It's a mook free environment right now. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.640 There's nobody out asking me stupid questions like hey, Bob. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:26.080 Ain't you worried about the coronavirus because you smoke so much? Anyways, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.919 listen kidding the side. For your safety, you need to 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.440 stay at home, be smart, and if it's any consolation, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.719 you ain't missing much. Okay, but I absolutely did not 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.880 mow down three plus pound bass and only a two 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.000 hours soaked on the beach right in front of the 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.279 old Trump Plaza the other day. For those of you 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.359 desperate to get back on the bulkhead over there clam Creek. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.040 Don't rush. I only call one stud and about twenty 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.480 five low forties and a five hour soaked there the 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.839 other night. It's slow. Stay home, you know the coroner's 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.839 water is going to get rid. For the rest of 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.640 the stripe of coast, it's pretty much the same story. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.120 My old friend Jimmy the Gooch on the south shore 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.680 of Long Island has been quarantine a fire island with 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.040 for two weeks and his advising friends and family to 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.800 please worry about secure and bread, eggs and milk, before 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.559 being concerned about where to get fresh bunk of the chunk, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.400 though he has informed me he has plenty and he's 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.479 selling one bunk of for thirteen dollars and two for 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:38.839 twenty six, not that you needed. He ain't catching nothing, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.040 oh sh keeping a straight face. He's murdering them fifty 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.240 sliding through the suns like they're on a goddamn convey about. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.559 He's grugged. So that's it for this week. Once again, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.440 I can't stress enough that the overriding messages stay of 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.360 come for a year maybe two better safe. That's sorry, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:06.240 you're dumb. This that was. That was pretty weird, man. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.000 I've definitely never heard Bob that optimistic. That was. Hearing 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.520 Bob that happy is creepier than walking into my local 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.520 grocery store and having everybody's faces covered up in cloth 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.920 like that is just straight up creepy. He was. He 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.160 was a beacon of light in dark times, man, I mean, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.320 true legend. That dude is someone I mean, I've been 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.240 I've spent my whole life trying to emulate his his 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.320 feet in the striper surf, I mean weird, weird as 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.960 it is, and and having talked to Bob in the past, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.200 that was weird. It is. It makes a strange kind 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.920 of sense because everything felt so turned upside down for 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.160 so long, and when when the ship flips upside down 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.480 and we go into the twilight zone. You know, the 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.480 garbage man becomes the optimist, I guess, but you do 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.800 have to keep in mind, though, that reports a few 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.120 weeks old, right, So as things are seemingly getting better 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.640 around here, I'm sure Bob's miserable as shit again, which 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.360 which sort of puts the world right, because that's how 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.040 how how we've all always known old Bob about here 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.960 as uh, a miserable dude. And it does feel good 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.920 to have this optimistic vibe in the air among the people, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.600 if you will. At the same time, man, you read 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.480 the paper and read read the news online, and it's 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.880 hard to know if you should be optimistic. I don't 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.480 really know if we're quite out of the woods yet. Um. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.160 And thinking along those lines, I think that takes us 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:31.120 very nicely into the weekly word. Webster's Dictionary defines fish 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.440 as well. Bob is warding off the coronavirus by pouring 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.240 gas station coffee on everything he touches. I just don't 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.680 think Dr Fouch you would endorse that, as you know, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.000 like a valid preventative measure. I think we're all just 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.440 gonna have to wait for the vaccine. But what about 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.320 the next major outbreak. Well, here at BENT, we consider 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:55.160 ourselves public servants. We give you essential information kind of 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.439 like you know, the CDC, only with even less funding. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.920 And since knowledge is power, or you need to understand 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.120 the word zooosis, zoo knows this is a disease that 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.640 can jump from animals to humans. And you guessed it, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.480 good old novel Coronavirus is zoonotic. See what I did there, Joe, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.600 I converted the noun form zoosis into the adjective form zoonotic. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:24.400 You're a real smart feller. We English speakers stole this 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.720 term from ancient Greek, in which the prefix zoo means 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:33.040 animal and the suffix nosos means disease. Since supposedly they 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.520 tell us this is a phishing podcast, supposedly supposedly, the 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.960 obvious question we should answer here is do fish carries 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.600 zoonotic diseases? And the short answer for that is no, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.240 but but also kind of yes. Hang on, let me 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:51.520 explain Evolutionarily, we as humans are a long way from fish, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.880 so the viruses that affect them are they're not likely 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.520 to jump over and make the make the cross into humanity. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.880 The machinery is just different. The next coronavirus is not 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.120 going to rise out of the local fishing hole, even 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.560 some of the nasty backwaters in Jersey where you pull 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:13.719 over and fish show cold blooded. But having said all that, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:19.000 fish can carry bacteria, not diseases, but bacteria that will 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.400 jump all over humans, nasty stuff like Streptococcus in a, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.360 which can be present in both fresh and marine fish 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.319 species and cause all kinds of unpleasantness if if it 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.559 gets in an open wound. That's where you get all 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.839 those stories about fishermen contracting fleshing bacteria from fish or 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:42.640 hooks or wherever. But really, from what I can tell anyway, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.640 the instances of that are pretty rare, and they usually 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.280 only seem to happen in Florida, like all the other 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.560 crazy stuff. So bottom line, fishing will very likely not 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.920 be the cause of the next global pandemic. And now 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:01.160 you all know what zooses means, so you're welcome. Actually, though, man, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.200 I have some friends out here on the East Coast 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.640 that have gotten some pretty weird infections and shipped from 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.960 getting poked with fish bines and also from from uh 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:16.320 injuries suffered from from cuts while clamming clambing injuries clambing 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.360 injuries if you can believe that, that's a real thing, man. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.360 But if you think about it, Jersey is just basically 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.560 Florida with the correct climate to make Christmas Day feel 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.880 festive and accurate. So it makes sense of the same 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.120 weird ship they have we kind of have. And dude, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.679 I've said that to so many Floridians like, oh, man, sucks, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.000 you don't have Christmas and uh, put my foot right 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.120 in my mouth. So anyway, speaking of putting foots in mouths, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:48.760 let's do smooth moves. Why. This is the part of 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.080 the show where we call up fishing guides or charter 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.480 boat captains or outfitters, somebody who makes their living taking 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.840 other people fishing, and we asked them to tell us 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:02.400 about the most obnoxious, annoying, or ridiculous things that they have. Clients, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.520 do we know that some of you out there fish 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.920 with guides at least from time to time, and if 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.040 you pay attention to our Smooth Moves segment, then you 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.080 will absolutely know the best way to get under every 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:18.720 guide's skin. Today, we're talking with our good buddy Mike 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.160 Schultz from Michigan, who is a longtime fishing guide extraordinary done, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.640 all kinds of different species, just about everything you can 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:30.120 catch in Michigan. He's guided for, including Great Lakes Steelhead. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:31.840 He's gonna tell us a little bit about that, Mike. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.440 How's it going? But doing great? Brother? Thanks for having me. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.600 Always a pleasure. So uh so what do you got 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.280 for us today for for the smooth move? Well, you 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.200 know when I was getting steel Head was you know, 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.360 early two thousands through two thousand eight is around there, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.400 and you know it was like before everyone's rocking sling 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.040 packs and these tight packs and things were well thought out. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.440 So a lot of people, you know, would have those 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.960 vests that they bought in the eighties and nineties and 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.480 they just load these things was up. You'd have every 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:06.640 size shot, every swivel, three way, extras, reels in the back, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.360 you know, just in singing vest like like you could 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.160 you could just rock them and and lose weight instantly. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.319 And uh you know, you get these guys and they 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.120 booked their one Steelhead trip with a guy to year 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.319 and they they climb in the boat with all their 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.200 gear and they have the vast time with the nippers 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.480 and then not tools and the floating and the scent 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.720 and everything that those guys draw, and then they'd immediately 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.720 take it off and just throw it on the seat, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.320 on the back of their seat. So then all day 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.480 they're just hanging on it. You know, it's like, dude, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.680 come on, man. So back then when I was working 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.839 on the PM, I had, uh, you know, I was 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.719 a young bucklo man on the totem Pol. But I 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.440 got the little sign made by the local guy that 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.079 said no vest, little plastic sign and I'd stick that, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.160 stuck that on my boat. When they get in the boat, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.600 they'd see that and you know instantly, what's what's boat. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:03.360 It's like, dude, that thing get eggs with you know 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.240 that you bought at the craft store and glued down 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:12.559 to the hoop bro. I love Schultzy man. He's a 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.240 he's the best. And listen, you guys are gonna hear 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.559 a lot more from him down the line, because every 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.320 time we talked to Mike, he tells another story after 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.480 the story that we were trying to get and we're like, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.120 stop telling the story because we have to push records 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.960 so that we can record this story too too. So 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.320 get ready for more Mike. We've compiled a bunch of 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.520 Mike Uh. Anyway, these days, I'll tell you what, man, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.440 if I'm being completely honest, whenever I fish with a guide, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.080 my attitude is now like, oh great, I don't I 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.320 don't actually have to bring shit. It's a luxury like this. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.560 This dude is a guide for a reason. He'll have 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.600 what I need. So while I used to kind of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.320 be that guy that felt like I had to be 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.480 impressive by bringing my whole garage worth of tackle, now 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.120 I'm like, oh, terrific guide, don't have to think about tackle. Yeah, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.320 And if the guy doesn't have all the ship you need, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.360 that's a shitty guide exactly. And fish with that person again. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.040 And having been a guide yourself, you must have dealt 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:16.280 with overpackers, oh yeah, all the time. And you knew 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.280 it was gonna be a bad day when the guys 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.160 showed up and he's got sixteen different dry bags full 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.880 of crap, and he's like fourteen rods, and you know 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.800 you're all you're gonna do is break rods, and they're 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.680 gonna be your rods again, broken, not not his. And 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.840 your boat is gonna be so heavy that you're plowing 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.680 down the river all day and you can never get 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.800 like even or up on step. It's the moral here 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.920 is seriously, don't bring all the stuff if you're going fishing, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.560 use the guide stuff. Yeah, because people don't realize, especially 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.720 on a drift boat. Right, anything you bring you're not 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.920 gonna use is just ship in the way. All this 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.640 any boat, Yeah, there's not that much room. So it's 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.800 just it's just stuff that is that is in the way. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.000 So um good good lesson told Cholza style, there as 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.040 only a public service announcement right there. Or if you 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.280 really just want to start off the day by pisting 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.040 off your guide, bring a ton of ship. Yeah, there 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.400 you go, there you go. Anyway, Look, now that we've 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.160 exposed you guys to the to the real truth that 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.160 everyone on the river is in fact making fun of 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.480 your forty pound LLL bean vest pockets, we may as well. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.520 We may as well just keep right on educating you, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.800 moving on to fin clips, where we tell you everything 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.280 you never thought you wanted to know about a fish 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.600 that you may or probably may not have heard of. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.360 This week, we're talking about American shed. Don't confuse American 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.240 shed with all the other shed in this country. We 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.640 got Alabama shead skip jack shed, hickory shed, ale wives, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.720 blue back herring, and while all those fish share the 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:50.080 same genus, American shed are actually more closely related to 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.040 species found in Europe than their cousins here in America. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.040 See American shed are in nadromus, meaning they spend their 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.360 adult lives in the ocean and then return to shwater 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.600 to spawn. Like salmon, they're also native all the way 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.480 up and down the Atlantic Coast. So, like our beloved Pilgrims, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.920 some shad ancestors bailed out of Europe a very very 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.160 long time ago across the Atlantic Ocean and started annual 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.520 spring parties in the rivers of the New World. Shad 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:22.119 have been called the fish that fed the nation's founders 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.879 because many of those aforementioned Pilgrims and the colonies that 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.240 followed them all survived on shad. Of course, the native 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.640 tribes who lived along the Atlantic coast were all over 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.600 the shad game long before the Europeans got here. Evidence 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.280 of ancient fish traps has been found from Newfoundland all 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.760 the way down to Florida. Historical records also indicate that 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.760 some tribes went to war over the best shad grounds. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.600 Adults had generally go three to eight pounds, and while 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.160 I've never tried one myself, I hear they're good eating. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.200 They can be boiled, broiled, fried, grilled, smoked, or pickled. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.240 I've also heard they've fallen out of favor in the 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.400 modern diet because they're bony, and we've all turned into 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.000 massive sissies when it comes eating around fishbones. The other 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.399 thing I heard is that shad row is a delicacy 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.840 for those who know what's up. Well, you don't know 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:19.680 what's up, and I'm offended. You're you're You're offended. I'm 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.720 offended because you how do you take the lead on 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.600 American shad man. That's first of all, I know your 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.120 ass has never caught one. And second, the greatest goddamn 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.560 American shad river in the country is my home water 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.600 right up the street. I live for shad and I 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.760 miss it talking. You're talking to Delaware right now. Yep, yep, yep. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.800 It's the last major undamned river on the East coast, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.080 giving what many here called Jersey tarpin. You didn't know 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.840 they were called Jersey tarpin. That that that didn't make 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.320 your little segment, that it gives them unobstructed access to 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.320 spawn man and I look, they are people who get 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.959 all like my river. Yeah, there's other good shad rivers too, 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.320 no doubt. But usually you only tie in real strong 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.399 like up to that first damn. That's usually how it goes. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.320 No man, I I have heard from you, but also 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.000 from lots of other people. I've heard they're they're a 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.160 lot of fun. Yeah, it's it's a it's a light 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.040 tackle game. It's a killer light tackle game, six pound tests, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.720 light rod. You know, you need the right tackle to 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.520 let them do their thing. But it's tons of fun. Um. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.000 And you've also missed the part about how without American chat, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:28.240 everyone listening to this might not be American. How's that 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:34.080 because because in the winter seventeen seventy eight, Washington's army 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.560 was starving to death at Camp and Valley Forge, which 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.880 is not far from where I am right now, And 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.520 there was a false spring that February, one of those 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.400 weird deals where it got too warm too soon, and 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.720 as I've read it, it tricked the fish into running 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.639 early that year. And um, they came right up to 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.320 Delaware and then hooked a hard left in the Scuoko 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.640 River at Philly and that took them right to Old 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.159 George's feet in camp, and that saved the army and 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:03.040 provided an enough salted fish to eat later. Um. And 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.840 without that, it's very possible the Revolutionary War could not 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.280 have continued on. So what I'm saying is, next time 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.040 you're getting a bucket of KFC, thank you, Shad, because 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.080 you could be eating tea and crumpets or bangers and 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.200 mash or some other British shit. Oh British cuisine. Don't 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:26.000 forget the spotted dick. Alicious, so delicious. All right, all right, 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:31.000 I'm I'm sufficiently shamed. You've shamed me, and uh, I know, man, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.160 I need to get over there and and actually catch 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.720 a shed talk about As with all things COVID, we'll 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.320 just push it off to spring. It's gonna be great 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.480 by then. Man. You know, come on out, you can 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.320 eat all the world, Shad, you want, all the road 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.560 you want to because that that part of your spirit 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.640 was bullshit too. By the way, nobody here in shad 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.800 Land covets the row except for five culinary weirdo food bloggers. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.679 It's not it's not the bones, it's the fact that 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.040 they taste like you're chugging a mug a bunk of oil. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.320 As Bob the garbage Man would say, I have tried it. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.960 To be fair, I've tried it, and yes, once was enough. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:11.159 It's just man, it's greasy. It's greasy anyway. Anyway, I 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:19.159 do believe it's time for fish news. That escalated quickly. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.960 All right, this is fish news, where we uh well 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.360 give you fishy news about fishy things. The fun of it, however, 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.159 is that Miles and I don't know what the other 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.560 one is bringing to the table. Okay, like we have 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.240 no we have no preconceived idea of what his news 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.960 stories will be and mine will be. Um. So there's 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:42.080 like some competition in our news segment here because you know, Dan, well, 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.399 at some point we're gonna find the same stuff. So 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.760 we're trying to It's it's a game. It's a game, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.960 is what it is. It's a game. And I brought 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.720 backups just in case you scoop me on one of 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.040 the stories I wanted to I wanted to have. I have. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.440 I have a backup, but I will be pissed if 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.880 you if you jump all over all my good wife, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.280 I only brought too so this might be uh. The 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.360 news segment according to Miles, who knows I'm lazier than 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.080 you are anyway, Uh, this first one here you have kids. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.320 This might be the greatest news story I've heard in 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:16.280 a very long time. It's it's just like, oh, it's 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:20.080 it's so me. And this is coming from Forbes Okay. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.679 An offshore sports book has decided to post odds on 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.640