WEBVTT - Ep. 471: Trout Grease - A Hostile Takeover 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.120 My name is Clay Nucomb and this is a production 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.560 of the bear Grease podcast called the Bear Grease Render 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.119 where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.760 scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast. Brought to you 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.440 by to Cove's Boots. I'm a cowboy boot man and 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.160 I've been wearing to Coves for years. They're the most 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.040 comfortable boot I've ever put on. Good boots for good times. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.800 Welcome to the trout Grease Podcast, and this time we 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:52.720 are not kidding. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:59.000 That's right. I'm bear nukemb I am Josh Lambridge Spielmaker. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.480 And we are out on the river day fly fishing. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.880 A little bit of a little bit of a change 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.040 of pace from the regular bear Grease podcast. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.920 My dad usually likes to make fun. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.600 Of fly fishermen, that's right, and we're tired of it, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.720 sick and tired of had enough. So today for the 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:21.000 extra job, we are out here on the river fly fishing. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.840 River's a littlemuddy today. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.800 So little muddy it's we've had a lot of rain, 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.160 and we had torrential rain last night, but we're going 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.160 to make the best of it. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.520 We washed a dude up by the boat ramp just 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.880 pull out a nice brown trout, so hopefully they're hitting. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.399 But Bear and I have done a hostile takeover. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.000 Hostile takeover. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.120 Yeah, for those of you who've been listening to the 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:50.880 Civil War series and you're a little inundated with history 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.200 and and all the details of the Civil War, this 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.080 is a little break. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.840 Yeah, Trout grease has been a long time coming. I 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.920 feel like I agree. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.320 I feel like my dad really started coming around whenever 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.200 we had Dwayne Haydo on the podcast. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.720 I agree. Although he's not out here with us. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.040 No, no, you catch him out here. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.880 But anyway, it's a midsummer fly fishing. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.680 What are they hitting? What are the trout hitting? 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:23.400 Well, typically we would be fishing some hoppers, you know, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.440 we'd be getting into hopper season right now, getting a 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:31.080 little dry fly action. But we've had a pretty i 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.560 would say, mild moderate June as far as rain goes, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.359 rain and temperature, it's not been quite as ope. It's 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.880 not been quite as cold or quite as hot as 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.280 it would typically be in June. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:45.400 True, so. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.440 The terrestrials are not quite popping out yet like they 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.000 would be this time of year. So right now we're 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.600 throwing a couple of streamers, waters are all murky, so 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.600 we're trying to well something out. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.760 There that might see we have I've had. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.880 Earlier in the month, I was doing a lot of creaking, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.639 small mouth creaking, and it all kind of slowed. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:10.359 Oh look. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:18.640 There's a baby fun right there, little little little tiny fawn. Wow, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:23.360 that's cool. That joker is probably not even a month old. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.959 Look at that little spotted fawn. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:29.880 Incredible. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.320 And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we like to 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:32.840 come out here. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.960 That is exactly why. But what I was saying was 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.480 earlier in the month, we had a day, well a 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:49.360 few days of heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy rain and the 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.000 river there's a river that I rafft a lot that 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.480 I go float a lot, right, and it got to 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.640 thirteen feet one day. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.880 It was higher a few days before that, but there 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:00.760 was one day or I got. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:05.160 To thirteen feet and I decided to go float it 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 because this is the time of year to do that. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.040 So I got the pack raft out and there was 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.560 a little Uh, it's called a low head dam. Are 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.679 you on one? There's that bottle? 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:17.400 I think I'm home. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.880 It's called a low head dam, which I later learned 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.640 is pretty not a good idea to float. Probably should 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.320 have done my research before. Actually dam Yeah, it's like 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:34.080 a okay, why it's well because basically, imagine like a 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.360 dam that sticks out above the water, maybe eight feet 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.680 and the waterfall there's a little waterfall coming off of it. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.080 Whenever it hits the water, the water's going straight down 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.760 and a lot of times it'll recirculate. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.280 Oh and so underneath. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.039 Yeah, so if you if you drop off that and 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.120 then the back of your raft gets caught in that circulation, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.680 then it can suck your raft under and then suck 0:04:58.720 --> 0:04:59.239 you under. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.320 And uh, sound good. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.520 The other dangerous part about it is that the water's 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:08.120 really errated and that makes you less buoyant, so you're 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.039 more likely to sink in your life. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.040 Check it isn't gonna do as much. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:16.480 But anyway, I floated it, jump jump flow head down, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.920 made it out. This is before I realized it was dangerous. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.119 But the water was really high and it was probably 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.479 a Class three, one of my bigger floats that I've done. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:32.240 And uh, I called my dad about halfway through the 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.640 river because my friend wasn't gonna pick me up. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.839 But I decided to do more river than I was expecting. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:42.920 Okay, And I called my dad and I trust like, hey, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.520 do you think you can pick me up in a 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.880 few hours at the at this bridge? 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.479 And he was like, no, but I could. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.000 I could go drop your truck off up there, and 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.040 so I was like, okay, perfect, that'll work and uh, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.960 I uh float the river a couple hour flows get 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.599 down to the bridge. I walk up and my truck 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.520 is not there, and I was like, well, we're on Earth. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.239 Could my truck possibly have gone? 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.119 What was your first thought? Did you think, well, somebody 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:13.799 took my truck? 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:14.240 No? 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.800 First thought was he forgot. And I called my dad, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.720 he didn't pick up. Called him, he didn't pick up. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:21.200 Called him. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.039 Finally he picked up and I was like, where's my 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.880 truck at? Did you park it out the wrong bridge? 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.359 That was my first thought? Was he part of the 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:29.000 wrong bridge? 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.320 And he was like, oh, I forgot. He's sure enough 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.320 forgot to drop the truck off. Listen. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.000 I feel like all the and we can say this 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.080 since we've done this hostile takeover. Yep, I feel like 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:49.560 you like number one on Clay's dishing out crap list. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:50.160 Huh. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.479 I would say you would be number one in my 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.560 hair and I would be number two and so I 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.560 just I just want everybody to know that this days 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.240 our day. This is like a we get to dish 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.920 it back out, but when he's not here. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.640 Yeah, well I ended up calling my neighbor and it 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.640 took him about an hour and then he goes out 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.680 to his car and realizes the tire is flat, and 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.360 so he's like, it's gonna be another hour, and I 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.440 was like, no, man, So I called my other daghbor 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:21.520 and he swung by and. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.400 Picked me up in like ten minutes. So well we 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:25.400 made it back. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.480 But now you know who your real friends are. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.800 Yeah, but that was for a That was for an 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.880 episode of the Bear Grease YouTube channels. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.640 So that that brings up an interesting thing to talk 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:43.840 about because the Bear, for anybody who doesn't know yet, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:51.680 the Bear Grease YouTube channel is wildly popular and wildly 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:56.119 exciting and if you're not watching the content, you should 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.400 be because you don't and you don't even have to 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.560 be an outdoor mean to enjoy it. Bear makes it 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.200 entertaining for everyone. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:09.080 So yeah, the my goal behind the YouTube channel is 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:14.680 kind of just to show show how diverse the outdoors 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:20.960 can be, because I think anybody in any given place, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.480 if they've got access to some sort of wild place 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.240 around them, I think there's something that you can be 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.120 doing all year round. I think there's never a there's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.880 never a time where the outdoors don't have something to offer. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.000 But a lot of times that means that you kind 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.760 of break outside the box of hunting and fishing. A 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.439 lot of times that means things like rafting or rock climbing, or. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.240 The thing about rock climbing is you can do it 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:47.760 just about anywhere. You can do that. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.360 You know, all you need is a root in the city, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:51.960 all you need is rocks. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:58.080 And uh so, yeah, we got pretty pretty diverse content. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.440 But what the way I view it is, I'm just 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:07.360 out there mosying around, mosying around, yep, And so yeah, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.800 there's a pretty diverse, diverse set of content. But the 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.959 other thing that I'm trying to show inside of it 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.720 is that the natural world is as relevant to us 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.680 today as it has ever been. And so on the channel, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.040 we are finding relevancy in the natural world, whether it's 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.319 through making a bow or eating the food that we catch. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.880 It's a that's kind of what we're what we're after 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.680 is the relevancy that the natural world has in a 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.720 modern society to modern people. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.199 Well, I think that's I think that's not just cool, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.800 but it's important. And I think, you know, I've known 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.800 you your whole life and I've watched you grow up 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.319 and just seeing the the things that you're interested in 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:03.600 versus what is popular today. What you're the stuff you're 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.720 doing is not necessarily popular, but I feel like it's 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.600 so valuable and people have missed out on the benefit 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.640 of what's available outdoors, and I love that you're kind 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.080 of putting that for everyone to be able to see 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.520 and to you know, I feel like you can watch 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.400 one of your videos and just learn a lot. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.679 Yeah, Yeah, that's a that's another big part of it. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.880 There's there's a lot to learn, and there's a lot 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.680 there's a lot that the natural world can teach you. Really, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.440 I mean, I've learned so much through just being in 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.720 the outdoors. I've learned a lot of very important life lessons. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.120 I've learned a lot about the actual systems themselves, and 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.200 it's kind of inspired a lot of what of what 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.680 I do in my craftsmanship or really just my life 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:58.000 in general. And so that's the that's the that's what 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.199 we're showing over at the Bear Grease YouTube, Chante. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:05.680 I like it. What's been some of your favorite videos 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:06.520 that you've done so far? 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:13.400 Probably I did a video where I tagged along with 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.160 one of my buddies who's a falconer, Aaron Kincaid, and 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.360 we went down to South Texas and trapped a wild 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.680 Harris hawk off a telephone pole with a little a 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.440 little cage with a mouse in it that had some 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.679 snares on it. Trapped the hawk, and then in six 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.800 weeks he trained it and we went and hunted with him. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.560 Just turned around like that. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.320 And that was pretty fascinating because I do a lot 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.400 of you know, I do some well, I wouldn't say 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:44.960 a lot. I do a little bit of mule training, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 a little bit of dog training, you know, trained some critters, 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:55.959 and the falcon was a super interesting experience because what 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.520 I what I learned is that it's all kind of 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.679 the same, like the same principles whenever you train any animal, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.280 but there's just different Like there's certain aspects of a 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.040 falcon that you need to like ramp up, whereas with 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.319 the mule you might ramp that aspect down. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.880 But it was pretty interesting doing that. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:19.160 Another another really fun video was I went out to 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.040 this cave, kind of an old hermit cave. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.280 I've heard it called. It looks like a moonshine cave. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.160 I don't actually know what they were doing whenever they 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.679 built it, but it's a cave with a rock Oh 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.200 do you miss one? 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:33.560 I just missed a good fish. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:34.559 Shucks. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.120 It's a cave with like a rock wall built around it, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.600 little chimney coming out of it. And I went camped 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.520 in there and turkey hunted off the mule and then 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.400 only ate the food that I could catch or kill 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:49.480 or find out there. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.560 You did you go home hungry or did you go 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:53.440 home satisfied? 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.079 No? I really my stomach did not growl once. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.240 I mean, like by the end of the trip, it 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.760 was like, you know, nice to have a good meal. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.480 But I was not that hungry because the fish were 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.360 just I mean, you could catch as many fish as 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.839 you wanted to eat. There's greenbrier tips and all sorts 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:17.640 of forging opportunities. But that was a fun video taking 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.040 slow trap out there camping in that cave and turkey hunting. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.600 But yeah, there's been a We've got one coming out 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:30.680 this week. I went to southeast Alaska, two weeks ago, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.040 just got back from that trip and we were on 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.679 a Meat Eater shoot. So we were filming for a 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.240 Meat Eater episode for next year. We were bear hunting, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.760 and I did a behind the scenes of a Meat 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.719 Eater shoot, so where I basically I interviewed the producer 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.720 of the show, interviewed the cameramen, and kind of showed 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.800 just some of the stuff you won't usually see. And 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.959 one thing that I tell people a lot is that 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.960 the cameraman are usually way cooler. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.480 Unsung heroes than the people in front of the camera. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.880 I interviewed a cameraman named Dirt Myth, who is one 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.240 of the coolest people that I know, has just done 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.400 all sorts of stuff film for some wild shows. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.720 And has some crazy stories. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.520 He told some of them on the video, but that 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.840 video will be coming out coming out this week. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:41.720 Cool man. I love being out on the river. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.920 Bear agreed. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.560 This is my happy place. Man. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.880 Yeah, a little morning fly fishing. It's hard to beat. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.440 It really is. One of these days. I'm gonna get 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.720 your father out here, and he's been out here. He's 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.120 been out here with me once. We had the uh. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:07.400 The previous director of Arkansas Game of fish game and fish, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.680 and I brought him fishing, and Clay tagged along. What 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.880 people don't know that your your dad doesn't want to 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:19.160 admit is he's actually he's got a pretty good cast. Yeah, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.560 he's done it a little bit, but he does. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:23.200 He does. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.680 Yeah, I've been doing some some small mouth creaking as 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.000 many mornings as I can. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:35.080 I recently, I've I've never done much small mouth fishing 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.520 with fly rod, or with the regular rod for that matter. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.000 And uh, a good buddy of mine, Oh man, I 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.080 just had another hit. Dang, where do you think I'm 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:51.880 black zoncre My buddy Chris Graves and I decided to 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.920 enter a small mouth fly fishing competition and we, uh 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:02.000 we fished and and neither one of us are big 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:09.000 small mouth guys. We typically fished trout and uh we 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.480 we didn't. We weren't. It was like really slow the 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.240 water again, the water was real murky, and we were 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:20.240 just fishing. There we go, there we go, nice got 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:26.760 a fish on there we were fishing, and we. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.080 Only caught I caught like a little small seven inch 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.320 small mouth. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.800 And I was putting. I put him on the bump 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:36.880 board to measure him. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.040 Uh huh and he flopped. Oh dad, gum it dang, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:41.680 just like that. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:43.920 No, I had him, I had him in my hand 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.880 and I set him on the bump board to measure him, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.040 and uh he flopped off into the water. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:50.240 And uh. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.240 We fished all day and we only caught about We 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:55.400 only caught two other fish. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:17:01.000 We caught a pretty decent small mouth, and then we 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.080 just thought we were doing terrible uhu. And we got 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.560 back there. Probably they had two classes. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.840 They had an all fly where you could just fly 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.159 fly fish whatever fly you wanted, and that's what we 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.200 were fishing. And then they had a one fly where 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.719 you and your partner could only use one fly of 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.800 one pattern each, so you had no you had to 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.720 you had to have the same pattern, but you could 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:24.400 both have one. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.280 So you had two flies to fish all day long. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.520 Oh dang. So you can't even lose them. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.640 Right, And there were probably fifteen teams in each class. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:32.480 Uh huh. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.919 And uh we got back and they oop sorryberry, they 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.520 started announcing. 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.920 The winner. They announced the winner. Uh, they announced third 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.840 place and that was my third place was like had 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.440 like twelve inches of fish. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.640 Uh huh total total. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:59.600 And then they they announced second place and they were 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.639 like land Bridge, and we're like what because we had 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.040 we had twenty one and a half inches of fish. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.320 And then they announced first place and first place had 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.359 twenty three and a half inches. So if I hadn't 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.080 lost that seven inch fish, we would have gotten first place. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:17.120 Oh wow. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.560 So anyway, I uh, I got a new appreciation for 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.800 the small mouth and small mouth fishing. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:24.639 It was a lot of fun. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:25.640 Yeah. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.639 The the other fun part about smallmouth fishing is you 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.879 catch all sorts of other fish. Catch a lot of 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.919 sunfish right now, those little long eared sunfish look like 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.440 something straight out of the Amazon. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.439 They do they do? They look tropical almost. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.040 Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty wild. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:50.600 Gorgeous fishing. You know, I heard somebody told me fishing 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:55.160 with a spin rod is like reading the gospel. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.760 Okay, fishing with a fly rod. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.960 Is like sitting in Jesus lap while he tells you 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:07.919 the stories himself. And so I I just love catching 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.920 everything I possibly can on a fly rod. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.840 Yeah, I've never heard it described like that. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.320 I would compare it to compound bow is like fishing 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.199 with a spin rod, I would agree with that. And 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.240 then flyer eye is kind of like switching to a 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.280 trad bow and I'll tell you what I one day 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.400 want to get into is going to the self bow 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.920 of fishing, which would be making your own bamboo fly rod. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:39.040 You know, I've I've thought about that myself. It's it's 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:44.120 such a it is such a craft. I mean it is. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:45.560 It's it's an art. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.639 Yeah, it's just not as simple as just like getting 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.160 a couple of river cane switches and taking it exactly 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.480 like you gotta like split on and. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.760 It's made for pieces six different pieces of bamboo that 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:03.359 are like precision planed. Yeah, and you got to use 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.040 a jig that that makes the taper and so it's yeah, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:08.560 it's definitely quite an art. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.320 Yeah, one day I would like to make a fly 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.840 rod and then maybe maybe I'll get hooked. Who knows, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:27.200 no pun intended, none taken. Yeah, well, I'm glad we're 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.800 able to to Uh. I'll tell you what I just 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:35.200 I'm standing here watching bar newcom fish and that man 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:41.840 has a very nice cast, very pretty. I'm glad we 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.879 could bring people along. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.480 It's about time. I mean, Bear Grease is great, don't 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.520 get me wrong. You know, I'm the producer of Bear Grease, 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.119 so I'm all in on Bear grease, but to be 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.600 able to go out in the field, be in the 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.560 s s land Bridge here fishing and giving it to 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.360 them straight and giving it to him straight. That's right. 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.720 This is pretty pretty great. So bear on the Bear 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:11.439 Grease channel, like, what kind of stuff is coming up? 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.000 Can you give us a sneak peek of anything cool 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:14.520 that you got? 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:21.680 Yeah, So I'm gonna be showing the full video about 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:26.000 how I trained Slow Trap my mule, okay, and then 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.679 I'm gonna show part of a trip we did in 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.159 New Mexico with him last year, which was kind of 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.520 like a rite of passage trip for him. And then 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.639 I'm gonna take him on a bigger ride here in 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:44.399 the Ozarks and do kind of a mule camping, maybe 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:49.439 some squirrel hunting. And so that's that's coming up, the 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.720 full full video on how I trained Slow Trap. I'm 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:58.719 also doing another kind of survival video you could call it. 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.440 But I'm taking my dog oce Age, yeah, and taking 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.800 my Danger Ranger with the rooftop ten and we're gonna 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.080 go overland for three days and we're gonna eat only 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:12.640 what we catch and kill. 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:13.920 Okay, We're gonna. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:21.199 Squirrel hunt, fish forage and I'm gonna be kind of 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:26.400 progressing towards a destination that is a waterfall way down 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.560 in this valley, thick as can be to get in there, 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:35.159 and you can float it. It's a little creek and 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:37.960 you can float it. Whenever it's just pouring down rain, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:44.080 that's the only time, and I'm gonna be I'm gonna 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:49.640 be floating it trying to jump the waterfall. Yeah, it's 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.040 probably a ten foot waterfall. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:57.440 Any bowfishing stuff coming up, I don't think so. Man, 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.720 I love the bowfishing. Do you I like watching fishing stuff. 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:02.640 I'm kind of I'm kind of always on the bowfish. 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:08.200 But the thing about bowfishing and YouTube videos is nighttime. 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.439 Content is just really a part of a film. 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:14.320