WEBVTT - Ep. 54: This One Time, At Dolphin Camp. . . 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.200 The first ten minutes were tiring. I was ready to 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.520 give up, but my mom was yelling, don't give up. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.560 Keep railing it in. Can you imagine how big it 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.920 would be if it wasn't in all that cold cold water. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.680 It looks like the climax to a horror film with 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.960 fishing gear at it in, come out in the pulpit 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.680 with a popping rod, and it's like it's dolphins. God 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:31.400 damn it. Anyway, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Good morning, degenerate anglers, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.360 and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that overdoes it 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.560 at Taco Bell and then calls DIBs on top punk. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:42.360 I'm Joe Surmelli a Miles Nulty, and I'm I'm relatively 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.879 certain that I have not eaten at a Taco Bell 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.120 since I passed the legal drinking age. Get out of here, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.200 almost positive that that's the case. I don't. I don't 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.440 know that there's like a legitimate correlation there, or if 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.040 they have anything to do with each other, but I 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.840 think that's that's how long it's been. I'm also struggling. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.560 I'm I'm like killing time right now. Dude, I have 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.160 I have, I don't know that I have a whole 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.240 lot to add to that setup. If I'm being honest, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.720 I'm just gonna guess that your theme is farting or 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.360 black sheep. I don't know. It could be the nacho 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.080 cheese chloopa, which I still enjoy now. It's neither of 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.000 those things, though it could have been either one. Either 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.080 one could have worked. The theme I'm going with this 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.680 week is is fish camp. And to clarify, I'm not 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.360 talking about swank lodges right, Like you and I have 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.560 both been blessed with the opportunity to stay at some 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.560 pretty choice lodges over the years. But I'm talking about 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.959 those trips with a handful of your boys, like all 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.080 packed into a shitty motel room or a rental cabin 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.760 or a house. Right, nobody's cooking for you. You're not 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.759 there to be pampered. You're there to fish and live 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.160 in your own filth for a few days. Yeah, I 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.120 think the difference in our experiences most of mine have 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.560 involved tents, not permanent structures like everything. When I think 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.480 of fish camp, it's always either just sleeping out in 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.280 the dirt or in a tent. But I'm with you, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.760 I do love fish camp. Yeah, me too. I don't 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.320 love camping camping, so that that's why that varies. But anyway, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.320 I got this idea because I recently had one of 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.800 those trips, and sadly it had been a while. Right, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.960 like for many of us listening, those trips are getting 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.720 harder and harder to pull off, right because, like the 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.440 one friend you could rely on to vomit in the 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.000 family room and make you forfeiture, security deposit is now 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.880 like running the children to ballet practice. Hold on, hold on, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.400 I'm gonna say that's another benefit to camping. There is 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.280 no security deposit. You don't have to worry about that. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.600 Just I'm just gonna put that out. You got me there. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.919 But there's also not a shower, which is important to me. Um. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.679 But you know that guy, he just doesn't have time 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.320 to be the guy that doesn't end up fishing on 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.239 day one anymore. You know, he's too hungovers. So such 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.200 as life. But before I tell you about my recent 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.040 crashpad adventure, what was your favorite fish campaign? I know 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.840 you've been on many. That's a hard one, man, I 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.760 there are lots like I kind of want to wax 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.240 poetic on on the oh the days when I was 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.640 running Spike Camps as a guide. But I'm not gonna 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.920 do that. I think I'm gonna focus on There was 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.320 this this golden run in my late twenties that happen 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.120 every year. I would quit my winner job whatever it 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.160 was like six weeks before guide season would start, and 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.800 I just I just packed the truck, I grabbed the dog, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.360 and I'd go. And there was this crew of three 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.480 good fishing buddies who would join for at least part 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.520 sometimes all of that trip. And I don't know. We 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.040 did that for like I want to say, five straight years, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.240 just just exploring all over the Mountain West. We'd like 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.400 find new places we'd never fished every year, but we'd 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.160 also go back to favorite places. And it was it 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.960 was fantastic. It was it was like, uh, as I said, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.320 a golden time, right, and and you'd have these I 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.560 know you have this right. We'd we'd run into what 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.920 I like to call single serving friends. When you're on 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.720 the road, right and there are people you have no 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.880 desire to stay in touch with, but they make those 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.240 stories of those nights or days or however long he's 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.480 been with them, and and you and your crew can 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.080 can always talk about remember that dude we ran into 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.680 in that parking lot and he gave us to that one. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.680 He's like, yeah, try this bait, and then we wound 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.920 up drinking the hoops that he made in his bath 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.600 and you get to hold onto those even though you're 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.200 never gonna see those people again. And so we had 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.560 a lot of those, and we caught a lot of 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.160 big fish. So those that's my favorite fish camp memory, smattering, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.799 I I think my best ever, which yours is better. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.279 But it was in Louisiana, and for transparency, it was 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.800 actually an industry gig with Sims and Coasta. It just 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.600 happened that all the people they invited were like really 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.880 good friends of mine that I fished with. That's nice separately, right, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.320 It just turned out that way, um. And they rented 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.479 a house sight unseen in the Lower ninth Ward, not 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.799 too far from the French Quarter. And it was weird 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.440 because the place was immaculate and totally renovated, but like 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.200 the house next door was partially burned down. Like it 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.360 was a very that's very New Orleans. It's a very 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.880 odd thing, um. And we would just get lit up. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.600 We caught a bunch of tuna, huge redfish, grilled food. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.440 Someone in the neighborhood like died of an overdose out front. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:59.760 It was just good hangs, just wild times in that house, Uh, Philip, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.000 it coming on. You know what else I hear is 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:08.000 a wild time, Joe, tell me catching fish on the 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.760 thirteen fishing truro, which I just did yesterday. Actually it 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.760 is a wild time and thanks for bringing that up. Yes, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.440 so you know right the truro is thirteens version of 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.880 like the very popular paddle tail swim bait right now, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.760 It's what everybody has one um and thus far I've 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.279 only thrown them for Smalley's, but I appreciate the design 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.400 very much right there, not uh straight copycat baits like 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.560 other companies have pumped out. The body has three joints 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.680 that allow it like flutters on the paws, and I've 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.159 seen it. I know it does this. And they have 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.880 um like a pretty snazzy keel design that keeps them horizontal. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.240 They do they do uh croppy and panfish like to 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.320 grab the tail and shake it, but they can't. They 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.280 don't get the hook. Just in case you're wondering that 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.039 only the bass in the northerns do that. Let's not 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.280 forget though that the part of the reason that all 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.880 these fish want to consume them is that they're slathered 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.560 in donkey sauce. Donkey sauce, which we like to slather 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.800 all over this show as much as possible because we 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.480 love thirteen and they sponsor us. Anyway, you were all 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.280 of this, I think along your theme is because you 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.160 recently spent some time in a modern day fish camp, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.359 a modern day version of fish camp, right and and 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.719 I know all about this, I know where it was, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.040 I know you were with, But why don't you tell 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.680 all of all the people out there? Give him the story? Yeah, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.320 so this was in Ohio and I was there to 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.560 film the final episode of doss Boat season three, right 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.800 and now we were chasing some walleyes doing a little 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.080 cat fishing. But we rented this monster of a house 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.120 with a pool game room. They had freaking asteroids, pool table, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.920 the works. Right now. Granted it was old, like the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.760 whole place looked like it had been pieced together in 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.919 the early nineties. But for like five straight days I 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.719 got to hang with some really fishy people. My old 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.359 buddy and uh, a friend of me will say of 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.120 the show, Ross Robertson was one of them, Um, but 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.040 I was. I was hanging with with dudes I consider legends. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.720 Photographer Brian Gregson, he's our boy. Filmmaker are a body 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.800 who is a good friend of yours. Both of those 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.279 guys I consider good friends, and I'm lucky to have 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.039 known them for as long as you have. And uh, look, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.880 I'm happy for you, all right. I want to say 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.440 that I am very happy. I know you guys had 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.320 a great time. I know that good, good things happened. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.760 But I am pretty jealous. I know it's also true. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.160 I'm not. I'm not. I'm not jealous of the walleye. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.960 You guys couldn't have. Fine, you and you and Ross 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.200 can go have your walleye, but the hanging out and 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.360 fish can't have the bullshit and the good people the 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.040 cat fishing. I'm jealous all that. I am confident, however, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.920 that good things are going to come out of that trip, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.600 even though I wasn't there. Yes, and like I said, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.760 you were missed. We we poured one or five out 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.920 for you. Um. And then in your honor, I set 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.280 up the mics and decided to channel some of that 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.000 storytelling gold into segments for the show, right, so let's move. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.640 Let's let's move into smooth moves where you guys know, 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.400 we let guides, captains, anybody really in the fishing industry 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.760 these days bitch about dumb or weird things their clients 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.240 have done right. And this will be the first installment 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.680 you'll hear from what I'm calling the dost Boat Ohio Sessions. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.400 And since he's the director of DOS Boat, we'll kick 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:24.120 it off with the aforementioned are a bat Why so 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.480 sitting with me here in Ohio, UM while filming DOS 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.560 Boats Season three filmmaker extraordinary are a BIATI? You said 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.120 you just woke up from a nap. You were napping downstairs? 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.520 Was not napping? Because we're working so well, I trying 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.160 to cover. We're between things happening, so you don't get 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.599 in trouble in this um. It's kind of like a flophouse. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.480 I'd call it that we're in. Yeah, we're in this 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.080 really bizarre little beach house and we well we I mean, look, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.199 we've been on the road now for two weeks, UM, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.320 and you've been seeing what we're doing. We go super early. Yeah, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.319 we got a bed weight and so one of our 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.319 models is, uh, you know, you sleep when you can, Yeah, exactly, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.360 And so I was just, yeah, catching up on a 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.120 little little and to wake yourself up. You've got yourself 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.480 a cold bush light, just a little bush light for 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.200 the farmers. So I'm looking at the notes about the guest. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.120 My producer gave me it. Since here, you pretty much 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:23.080 invented fly fishing videos, Is that accurate? Yeah? Yeah, man, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.280 just just invented I think videos in general. Right, yeah, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.880 moving pictures, was like, we should make these pictures move 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.040 But no, seriously, man, like you you have done so 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.960 much on the video side, I mean, like pioneering things. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.480 You also a fishing guide for a while, right, I 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.160 was a fishing guide growing up, um through high school 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.760 and college. But you know, we were kind of in 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.480 the right place at the right time, which is a 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.840 lot of which is a lot of luck, right, um, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:57.520 in terms of you know, really surfing, skateboard, skiing, snowboarding, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.960 like had gone through these media like explosions and media growth, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.960 and so fly fishing you know, took place in a 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.160 lot of places where those activities happened. Therefore a lot 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.120 of people were inspired by that content. And just so 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.400 you don't just shoot fly fit, you shoot all kinds 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.120 of things. You're not just like the fly dude, right, Yeah, No, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.040 I mean we that's kind of where we cut our teeth. Yeah. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.840 When I say we, you know I have to. I 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.800 can't just say I because I always worked with so 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.640 many really great people. Um, but you know, you had 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.040 a bunch of young fishing guides who grew up skiing 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.559 and skateboarding and you know that stuff and watching this media, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.880 and it was like, why don't we have that right? 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.480 Why don't why why don't we have content that's more 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.720 like lifestyle based in fun and exciting, um, you know, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.960 because you gotta remember fly fishing back then was like 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.880 there was a lot of tweet right yeah, and like 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.800 a river runs through and I just come out and 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.679 people are like, oh my god, this is amazing. And 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.800 it started to show this like other side and it's 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.680 like so yeah. So there was actually an explosion right 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.080 when we started making content. Um, it was pretty cool. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.880 You have like probably six to ten different people with 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.120 the same vision and they all started making content within 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.320 like a year or two. Yeah, and then that blew 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.640 up into like tom By the Drake magazine. You know, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.000 there were so many people making content almost overnight. Well 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.360 so many it was like ten people. But that they're like, oh, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.400 let's have this event and let's let's make the five 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.280 minutes of fly fishing video. What Tom had come from 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.040 Powder magazine, right, So it's it's basically we just mimicked 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.120 what what you're seeing in the other sports. Yeah yeah, 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.480 well dude, seriously, mean, I've been watching your stuff for many, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.160 many years, and it's it's very cool that like you 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.079 like you spend today pointing a camera at me, and 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.920 I'm like, here's the thing I never thought would happen 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.439 with man, But this has been this has been a 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.079 very fun week. Um. But I mean, so we're doing 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.640 smooth moves here, you know what that's all about? You 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.840 could you could throw a smooth move from something you've 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.240 seen while while film while guiding. You could go a 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.560 lot of different directions. So I'm very I'm curious because 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.000 I don't know. I don't know, like what's going to 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.080 happen here. But the floor is yours. Man, make us laugh, 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.440 make us WinCE, make us vomit. I don't know, so 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.400 lots of stories. I think the one that I have 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:19.319 not told before that like exclusive I'm thinking through how 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.120 I can tell it and be very sensitive to different 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.360 people involved. But basically, when I was a young fishing 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.760 guide in the Roaring Fork Valley, um, like I said, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.960 we're just coming out of like a river runs through it. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.520 And so fly fishing had ballooned almost overnight into this 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:39.320 activity that like everybody had to do when they're on vacation. Yeah, 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.040 and so you've got you know, everyone's like, wow, we're 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.360 gonna be We're gonna be in the mountains. So we 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.320 have to go rafting, and we have to go horseback riding, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.960 and we have to go fly fishing and like these 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.000 old boxes and so we did a lot of a 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.720 lot of that, and so a byproduct is you just 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.640 got a ton of characters all the time from all 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.800 over the country, over the world, just tons of transient 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.400 people trying fly fishing. So one morning we had some 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.760 folks from the South and they showed up, you know, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.160 heavy accents, and they wanted to try out fly fishing. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.319 And so I had a gentleman who owned probably one 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.040 of the biggest NASCAR race courses or like race facilities. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.280 I'm not going to name the exact one, but it 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.040 was in the South, and there's you know there's been 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.520 some funny movies made about that course the track, but 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.880 uh so, anyway, we had this. We had this gentleman 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.120 and uh he called me boy. You know, He's like, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.400 hey boy, because I mean I was twenty yeah. Nice 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.320 and he's he was an older gentleman. He's like, hey boys, like, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:38.840 why don't you come over here and not help me? 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.440 How do I set up this flywer thing over here? 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.360 And like super nice guy but uh, you know, very 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.839 very southern um And so I had these had him. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.280 I think I had his like his brother m a 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.120 or somebody. We're fishing get him set up, and I'm 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.240 downstream helping his brother and he's he's hooting and hollering 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.920 at me and yell and he's like he's very excited 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.360 all of a sudden, and he's motioning and he's like 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.960 he's like, hey boy, you gotta a dot. I can't 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.840 really hear him and through like the moment, like like 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.280 the rumble of the river, and I'm like, and so 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.680 I'm kind of I'm like, what do you like? What's 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.360 going on? What? I'm like, what's up? But he's like, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.280 what do you need? He's like, boy, He's like okay, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.280 I get your net ready, it's coming down. He's like, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.600 grab your neck, get ready, and I'm like, I have 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.440 no idea what's happening. And he's kicking and he's shuffling 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.400 and he's moving around. He's like, Okay, here it comes. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.640 It's coming down, and he's really animated. I'm really excited 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.760 about this, and I have no idea what's happening. And 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.400 this there's all this mud and you know, bugs and 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.560 all this stuff flowing down the stream towards us, and 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.160 we're like fifty maybe down below him, and I start 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.720 to see like something, there's like a bunch of color 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.680 coming through the water, and um, this big pink shape 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.800 starts to kind of emerge, and I thought, maybe, oh, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.200 maybe he's dropped something. Maybe he drops his water bottle, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.680 like I don't know. So anyway, I have my net 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.200 ready and this big pink object flows through and I 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.880 dip my net and grabbing come up and it's just 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:05.320 a big vanny mustard. I mean, like just a baby 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:10.680 arm of a of a dildo, and I mean the 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.520 kind of takes like four D batteries, Like oh wow, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.360 he's got and stuff like this is a big one 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.440 that's like three oh one level. You don't buy that 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.960 when your first time, and was super bummed when they 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.440 lost it right there, like it wasn't cheap and so 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.360 and so I'm standing there. Wait before you go on, though, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.600 did he legitimately think you think he had a fish? 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.720 Like he he? No? I think he was Okay, So 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.560 it was stuck in some rocks by his feet, and 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.040 he knew like he could see it, and he was 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.560 really excited about what he had found. And then he 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.680 wasn't on his rod. He wasn't. No, that would have 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:51.160 been amazing, got it. I imagine I was imagining it 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.160 until we clare Yeah, no, I'm sorry. I should have Yeah, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.640 I should have died. I should have just lied and 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.880 said he actually hooked it. No, he no, he was 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.280 really excited about this and he didn't want it. He 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.080 wanted to get it and wanted me to net it 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.520 and like didn't want it to escape. Right. So anyway, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.920 I he's still really excited. He's like, oh boy, oh boy, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.680 let's see that thing. And you know, I like walk 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:13.840 up to him and I showed it to him and 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.800 it's sitting in the net and he's looking at it 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.640 and he's like, oh, boy, could you imagine how big 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.400 it would be if it wasn't in all that cold, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:28.320 cold water. So then uh so, anyway, so he had 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.200 his prize and he was shaking it around and stuff. Yeah, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.840 and so what he did is, you know, he'd shove 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.440 in the top of his waiters and he was walking around. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.920 And so throughout the course of the day, we're walking 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.520 along this river trail and there's a ton of people 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.480 from Aspen, you know, like look like little yoga people 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.600 running around, bikers and like all the beautiful people are 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.000 like out recreating and being healthy. Everyone's super nice, right, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.760 and so as you're walking, as they're coming by, they're like, oh, hey, boys, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.400 how's everything going. He catching new fish today? And every 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.960 single one he would be like, yeah, well got this, 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.720 and he'd reach in and tuck it and pull it 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.000 out and and shake this big pig dog around and 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.199 uh and I was like, I was like, dude, we're 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:16.959 gonna they're gonna call the cops. So anyway, that's probably 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.000 my Did you get a good tip that day for 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.200 that net jab? Just the tip, just the tip boom, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:28.439 We're out a segment done right there. You know, this 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.359 is true at the fish camp I mentioned earlier we 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.040 like to fish as one stretch of river that paralleled 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.760 a pretty busy trucking highway. You couldn't see the river 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.199 for most of it, but it was right there. You 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.200 could hear while you're fishing, could hear the trucks going by, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.560 and uh. On more than one occasion, I found sex 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.359 toys circling in an eddy like right beside brown trout 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.960 sipping delicate mayflies. It was. I haven't used that anywhere, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.840 but the metaphor always struck me as potent. It's gonna 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.119 end up in something I write one day, I know, yeah, yeah, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.960 And I gotta say I'm a little I'm a little 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.760 surprised that took us this long to run into a 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.480 dildo related story and smooth moves like that was that 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.680 was inevitable. But well, that one was a ringer. Yeah, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.399 but that's just it, right. It's not like we haven't 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.159 heard others. It's not like nobody else has has thrown 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.960 one out there, but it's mostly just been you know, 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.680 like I found one, well, like you know, of course 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.040 you found one who hasn't, or you get the dudes 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.000 who are like my buddy rigged one and caught a 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.200 fish with it, which, in my opinion, that's a cry 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.720 for attention, like you're trying too hard when you do that. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.200 I have I've already given my opinion on penis shape 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.159 lures solidly opposed. We don't need to revisit that was 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.800 ironically though, we're going too later, whether you know it 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:50.560 or not, but just ironically great, well, we all have 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.840 that to look forward to on our a story. Of 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.680 the reason I like that there the image that six 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.800 of me is the guy parading around holding onto that 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:04.080 thing in an as spin. That's that's what I appreciate 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.760 about that story, is that the backdrop and the way 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.840 that he treated it. Hopefully I'll be able to parade 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:15.080 another victory trophy around Bozeman this week when I beat 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.760 your ass in that weekly competition we call fish news 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:27.720 fish news. That escalated quickly quick bit of sad kind 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.560 of bummery news before we get started here, So we 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.680 just don't you're horning in on my territory, Smellie, sad news. 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.600 Is I own the sad news in fish news, not you. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:43.120 That's my that's my world. Sorry, how dare how dare? 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:49.280 I said, without running it by first anyway, So we 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.960 just covered ho Jack's Bar and grill, and that's my bar, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.440 remember dirty Wing Joint in New York, in New York's 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.159 mud Shark territory. So several people hit me up to 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.560 alert me that according to Google, it's closed permanently. Oh no, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.879 another another COVID casualty I that I could not figure 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.320 out why it was closed. Um, but so I really 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.480 wanted to go there, right And their website is still active, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.280 but it appears not to have been updated since very 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.639 late last winter. So um. You know. We also had 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.360 a guy right in and say that was a disservice 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.119 because like those wings will like clear you out, you 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:28.520 know what I mean, Like you eat too many of 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.400 those particular wings. So I don't know what the real 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.439