Speaker 1: So fo sixty bucks for a more um. As Brian
Speaker 1: put it in a follow up text, that you gotta
Speaker 1: rub like a baseball glow. You gotta put that over
Speaker 1: the fish and you're gonna just keep palm on him. Untillas,
Speaker 1: including one big as red snapper on what, from what
Speaker 1: I could tell, looks to be a dropper loop rig
Speaker 1: baited with green glow in the dark, bushy figurines. Anybody
Speaker 1: can put stupid music to fly tying videos, and anybody
Speaker 1: can do that. Good morning, degenerate anglers, Welcome to Bent
Speaker 1: the Fishing Podcast, located closest to the food court entrance,
Speaker 1: right between Aero Pastel and the piercing pagoda. I'm Joe Surmeli,
Speaker 1: Miles Nulti, uh and uh. I think we're about to
Speaker 1: drop our second Kevin Smith movie reference in less than
Speaker 1: ten episodes, which which really tells you all you need
Speaker 1: to know about this show, you dumb bastard. It's not
Speaker 1: a schooner, it's a sailboat. Square stupid a man. I
Speaker 1: can almost smell the c K one wafting from the Macy's.
Speaker 1: You know, we look, we all grow up though, right
Speaker 1: and um you know nowadays it's not the smell of whippets.
Speaker 1: It gets me feeling alive. It's the waff of Black
Speaker 1: Rifle coffee brewing in a kitchen with a fridge on
Speaker 1: its last legs. That's now, you know my problem, not
Speaker 1: my parents problem anymore. That is such a sweet smell
Speaker 1: about that. I mean the coffee, not the burnout fan
Speaker 1: in Joe's fridge. And it's one that we get to
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Speaker 1: It's very dark and very bold. But listen, whatever you purchase,
Speaker 1: be sure to enter the promo code meat Eater to
Speaker 1: get off your entire order. You know, we kicked this
Speaker 1: off with a mall rats reference. Kudos to us, and
Speaker 1: you got me thinking about all the time that I
Speaker 1: wasted wandering around malls and trying to hit on girls
Speaker 1: and getting kicked out for skateboarding, and uh, it dawns
Speaker 1: on me that I've never seen a mall with a
Speaker 1: tackle shop in it. You're right, I just I'll just
Speaker 1: add you got kicked out for skateboarding. I got kicked
Speaker 1: out once for stealing giant Easter eggs from the Easter
Speaker 1: Bunny quadrant I was in through Easter, so I was like,
Speaker 1: nobody will care, but that's pretty good. I Oddly enough,
Speaker 1: I also got kicked out of several more than one
Speaker 1: mall for not wearing shoes. It's true story. Anyway, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's good. You're right though. You know, the
Speaker 1: mall was supposed to be the place to find everything
Speaker 1: you wanted in one convenient location, right, But thinking back
Speaker 1: on it, man, none the thirteen malls within a half
Speaker 1: hour of me growing up had one. But dude, I
Speaker 1: will tell you what though, oddly right, I once ended
Speaker 1: up in a mall in Brazil, in the city of Manaus,
Speaker 1: right in the heart of the Amazon, and it had
Speaker 1: one of the most badass tackle shops in them all. No, no,
Speaker 1: I've been there, like I know exactly I know the
Speaker 1: mall that you that was. I went to Manow's one
Speaker 1: time because I was also on lucky enough to get
Speaker 1: taken on a trip there, and I went to that mall.
Speaker 1: It was like, it's gotta be the same. It's the
Speaker 1: one with all the guys with machine guns out in
Speaker 1: front of every entrance, right, yeah, and there was that
Speaker 1: there was a tackle shop in there, and and I
Speaker 1: of course I went to it and they had like
Speaker 1: some of the weirdest lures, like I've never seen those
Speaker 1: lures anywhere else before or since. I dropped a few
Speaker 1: hundred bucks like it was nothing. And I actually I
Speaker 1: still have a bunch from today. I still fished them today.
Speaker 1: But were so cool that a few a few that
Speaker 1: are kind of like not I don't know, they're just
Speaker 1: like basically it's a spook, but because it has a
Speaker 1: different shape and I brought it in Brazil, it's cooler
Speaker 1: than all the other spooks I have. You know, it's
Speaker 1: probably that more productive. But I do throw them with
Speaker 1: caution because I just can't replace them. We're not neither
Speaker 1: one of us are going back to the mall in
Speaker 1: Manouse anytime soon. But dude, I gotta ask you. I
Speaker 1: had no idea you'd been there. Um, did you happen
Speaker 1: to stop by the store in that mall that sold
Speaker 1: nothing but Michael Jackson memorabili Uh it was a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I passed by it. I did not go
Speaker 1: in there. I remember seeing like the black light posters
Speaker 1: with Michael and like glitter or whatever. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think I think his monkey had a few posters. I
Speaker 1: remember seeing it, but I did not go in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did I ran in. I went in twice. I went
Speaker 1: in twice, and I ended up. I went with the
Speaker 1: Moonwalker pillow shams and the Bubbles, the chimp bath salts,
Speaker 1: you know, well bubbles Bubbles that was the name. I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember. Oh well, yeah, I'm sure that was money
Speaker 1: will Spend. It was, so, you know, getting to the
Speaker 1: actual things we're supposed to talk about here. We don't
Speaker 1: actually have a tackle shop report for you guys this week,
Speaker 1: but we do have a fly shop report that comes
Speaker 1: to us from Joe's home estate. That's right, And you
Speaker 1: know it's early October. Dry fly ashtion is winding down
Speaker 1: quickly around here as those temps start to drop. But
Speaker 1: for anyone in North Jersey, Eastern p A where the
Speaker 1: Cats Skills of New York. There are a few hatch
Speaker 1: options still kicking around, and we thought who better to
Speaker 1: fill you in than Sammy Jennardo from Gennardo and Son's
Speaker 1: fly Shop, a New Jersey staple right next door to
Speaker 1: Scachetti and Son's Plumbing and Demartali and Son's Florist up
Speaker 1: there in Franklin Lakes. Hey, everybody how is doing? This?
Speaker 1: Is Sammy Jennado from Jennado and Son's fly Shop and
Speaker 1: Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. I'm here with the fishing report.
Speaker 1: Latzi is apparently headed up to the cat Skills this weekend.
Speaker 1: The fish that day. That's a good move. Streams of
Speaker 1: New Jersey ain't doing ship Ken Lockwood, Gorge, fill it in.
Speaker 1: It's dead. So you've been asking me about the hatches
Speaker 1: up there, This is what I know. Right now, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see some blue wing olives. Now, my buddy Richie
Speaker 1: was over in the dream Catchers, Whichie from Newark. He
Speaker 1: was fishing the dream Catches and he said he saw
Speaker 1: a big twenty eating size b w woh, sipping it
Speaker 1: just under the surface. Now, the important thing he is
Speaker 1: to remember that if you're gonna be fishing to fish
Speaker 1: just under the surface, you're not gonna see to eat.
Speaker 1: You may see a little dimple on the water, but
Speaker 1: could be a fly, might not. So you got to
Speaker 1: use the JETI mind tricks to figure out if that
Speaker 1: fish just ate you fly, slowly lift the rod and
Speaker 1: see what happened. The other option is that yell eat
Speaker 1: that at the fish. Now, if yell eat that, the
Speaker 1: percentage that the fish eat your fly is gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit higher than if you don't. Ice and
Speaker 1: Nikki is you're gonna see a few of those in
Speaker 1: the riffs. Now you're just gonna blind cast the big
Speaker 1: ice saw. Now a fly for that is tied by
Speaker 1: my buddy Jerry Tombrowski from Weehawkins. It's called Jerry's rattler.
Speaker 1: Now it's got a big rapper hackle bro. I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing floats like a cork and you're gonna put
Speaker 1: that over the fish and you're gonna just keep pummel
Speaker 1: on him until he eats it. Other than that, you
Speaker 1: got flying ants. Now aways that here one day to
Speaker 1: gone the next. My only prediction for you is if
Speaker 1: you get a dab of rain, little bit of humidity
Speaker 1: in the air, just to touch a wind. You might
Speaker 1: see him on the water. You see him on the water,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be eighteens to twenty fours with fish ken
Speaker 1: in more on the four than the eighteens. I am small,
Speaker 1: just a rapid thread, little puff of white c DC
Speaker 1: like the trout hunter, your golden nymphant. You gotta get
Speaker 1: it deep, real deep. You want like ten split shot
Speaker 1: on that thing. Make sure you strike indicators rigged and
Speaker 1: rocked and ready, and that's when you see that thing drops.
Speaker 1: Give him the left, bro, give them the lead. All right,
Speaker 1: That's what I got for you. I hope you get
Speaker 1: into twenties. If you run into any cor trouble whatsoever,
Speaker 1: I want you to stop by. See my guy Troy
Speaker 1: West Main Auto in Hancock. Bang up, job, have a
Speaker 1: good weekend. Giving them the lead. Totally. I can totally
Speaker 1: relate to that. Man. I am. I'm the weirdo here
Speaker 1: out west who doesn't hate nymphing. I actually it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun. I'm good with it. I kind of do.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you grew up on the East
Speaker 1: Coast and you were a trout fisherman, you had to
Speaker 1: learn how to nymph right, like hatches and rising fish
Speaker 1: were a luxury, Like it's not Montana, you know, like
Speaker 1: where a stimmy just magically calls him up three Not true?
Speaker 1: None of that true. Yes, I think it is. And
Speaker 1: if you weren't catching trout here, you didn't change the fly, right,
Speaker 1: you just added more lead. That's how we did it
Speaker 1: and and continue to do so. Yeah, yeah, no, and
Speaker 1: I will you have bought into the hype that all
Speaker 1: the Montana outfitters and guides want you to believe that
Speaker 1: it's Drive Life three sixty five. It's not true. Don't
Speaker 1: believe them. But since we're on the subject of dredging something,
Speaker 1: I also am quite good at let's dig up some
Speaker 1: dirt and transition from that completely bogus fly shop to
Speaker 1: a very real one in Minnesota. I'm gonna check in
Speaker 1: with its very real proprietor and former guide who's got
Speaker 1: yet another story that will make you question how humanity
Speaker 1: has survived as long as we have. This is Smooth Moves.
Speaker 1: Why joining us today on Smooth Moves? I am very
Speaker 1: happy to have my dear friend, Mr Robert Hawkins. Robert,
Speaker 1: how are you good? Good? How are you guys? I'm
Speaker 1: pretty welcome, man, We're good. And uh, you own what
Speaker 1: might be my favorite fly shop on the planet, Bob
Speaker 1: Mitchell's fly Shop in St. Paul, Minnesota. And uh, in
Speaker 1: case anybody hears any weird background noise, you're doing this
Speaker 1: store an open store, our wars. So there are people
Speaker 1: shopping for leaders and tippets and things in the background,
Speaker 1: occasionally maybe some midges. That's that's what a high quality,
Speaker 1: classy program we are. We actually take people away from
Speaker 1: their real jobs so that they can help us out
Speaker 1: with ours. Yeah, they are just jamming their pockets full
Speaker 1: of midges while you're in the back office recording with
Speaker 1: us right now. So just write us a bill. We'll
Speaker 1: take care of it. But before the fly shop ownership
Speaker 1: thing happened for you, you spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: guiding in Montana and in Alaska. Did that for a
Speaker 1: lot of years. Um, so what what what is our
Speaker 1: smooth move from you today? Where did this happen? What's
Speaker 1: going down? Hit us with it? So we were getting
Speaker 1: out of the plane in the morning. We've got up
Speaker 1: popping the plane, flew to the river and one of
Speaker 1: our you know, our clients at our lodger always very
Speaker 1: extremely well off and always have the best gear. And
Speaker 1: this is in Alaska. I take it in Alaska. We
Speaker 1: just landed at the top of Gibraltar Lake and we're
Speaker 1: going to flow up the rafts and float down for
Speaker 1: the day and end up in Lake Gillyan. But so,
Speaker 1: you know, we park on the beach and the plane
Speaker 1: kind of sits there and hangs out and waits for
Speaker 1: everybody to get their rafts blown up. And the clients
Speaker 1: are kind of assembling their rods. And this one particular client,
Speaker 1: you know, he had he'd gotten all four flyer ups,
Speaker 1: you know, he and his wife's they each had to
Speaker 1: they you know, they brought backups, right, so they had
Speaker 1: two each just in case they broke one during the day.
Speaker 1: And uh the plane is backed into the beach, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not running or anything, and the client has all
Speaker 1: four rods in his hand and he he does this
Speaker 1: like I'm pretending to cast movement, like you know, he
Speaker 1: does like this back cast sort of movement, and all
Speaker 1: four rods clipped the tailing edge of the airplane wing
Speaker 1: and all all four rods just went and uh, so
Speaker 1: he broke all four of his rods in and one
Speaker 1: fell swoop. That's amazing. Yeah, I'll mean honestly, like I've
Speaker 1: seen two rods broken in the course of a day before,
Speaker 1: maybe three, but four in one false cast, yeah, and
Speaker 1: one just silly false cast. And he was one of
Speaker 1: those like kind of angry clients, you know, he just
Speaker 1: always erngye. And I actually ended up having them in
Speaker 1: my wrath that day, and he was It was also
Speaker 1: him and his wife and they're like the bickery back
Speaker 1: and forth couple and so all all it was like
Speaker 1: one of my worst days on the river with us
Speaker 1: two and he he also that day. He's the guy
Speaker 1: that will say, hey, Mr Guide, can you pour me
Speaker 1: a glass of wine? Please? You don't have a name, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just missed Mr Guide. You. It was just a
Speaker 1: brutal day, That's how it started. So what did he
Speaker 1: have to do use like the stuff that you guys
Speaker 1: had his backup or which we always we always bring
Speaker 1: a couple of routes to just in case. And but
Speaker 1: you know it that ruined his day instantly. No matter
Speaker 1: what we've you know, we could have caught two fish
Speaker 1: that day. His day was ruined instantly at the at
Speaker 1: the beginning, and I think we did have a great
Speaker 1: day that day, but he it was just all day,
Speaker 1: Well you did this, And isn't it fun to be
Speaker 1: right in the middle of a marital squabble like all
Speaker 1: day on the river. Just it just makes you feel
Speaker 1: good about humanity. It's tough guiding married couples sometimes. That
Speaker 1: right there, my friend, is why you always fill out
Speaker 1: the warranty card. I'd love to read some of the
Speaker 1: emails fly odd companies get trying to cover smooth moves
Speaker 1: like that. You know, I want to cast the CDC
Speaker 1: emerger in an open field and your rod broken five places,
Speaker 1: it must be incredible to read something. They don't read
Speaker 1: those emails like that's why they have the unconditional warranty,
Speaker 1: so they don't have to read the emails, right because
Speaker 1: they're like they know, they know, just like we do.
Speaker 1: That rods get broken in in car doors or when
Speaker 1: your dog steps on him, like that's how it happens. Yep.
Speaker 1: That I think is why the unconditioned and a warranty
Speaker 1: thing started, was just to cut down on paperwork, truly.
Speaker 1: But let's switch over from the river to the ocean
Speaker 1: for this week's installment of fin Clips, where we teach
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about a fish you
Speaker 1: probably never thought you wanted to know about in the
Speaker 1: first place. This week, Joe is going to clue us
Speaker 1: all into a species that makes European taste buds frolic
Speaker 1: with the light and American anglers pout in winey self pity.
Speaker 1: Squalis acantheus was once the most abundant shark species on
Speaker 1: planet Earth. And for those of you not fluent in
Speaker 1: Latin genuses, that's the spiny dogfish. Now, if you wet
Speaker 1: a line for any kind of bottom fish from oh
Speaker 1: Greenland to Miami, strong chance that you've encountered a spiny.
Speaker 1: And there's also a strong chance you're rolling your eyes
Speaker 1: right now wondering why I'm devoting any time to spur
Speaker 1: dogs when I could be using this time to give
Speaker 1: you tips for catching more fluke, flounder, snowy group or
Speaker 1: sea bass, porgies, or a shipload of other things you're
Speaker 1: usually trying to catch while you're catching spiney dog fish.
Speaker 1: Well as rage against the machine once said, no your enemy,
Speaker 1: because while you Boston boys and hatteras heivers might hate spiney's,
Speaker 1: they are gold elsewhere in the world. Aside from pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire Eastern seaboards, spineys ply inshore and offshore
Speaker 1: waters all across Northern Europe, the southern tips of Africa
Speaker 1: and South America, and even southern Australia. Though knowing my luck,
Speaker 1: even if I was on a dream trip to Fiji,
Speaker 1: I'd still managed to catch one right state side. The
Speaker 1: average doggy measures anywhere from twelve to thirty inches. Those
Speaker 1: specimens pushing sixty inches have been recorded In England, where
Speaker 1: spiney dog fish are arguably the most popular as a
Speaker 1: food fish, they're labeled as huss in fish and chip shops. Historically,
Speaker 1: the Brits sold them as rock salmon until Big Band
Speaker 1: or Parliament or whoever eventually came along and said no, stop,
Speaker 1: that it's just too misleading. The French, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: could care less and still sell them as small salmon.
Speaker 1: The Italian stallions call them con bianco, which, according to
Speaker 1: my translator Google just means white can, and the German
Speaker 1: seemed to think it sells better as zippolling or sea
Speaker 1: eel instead of the more appropriate sea shark. But here
Speaker 1: in the States, eating spiny dogfish just can't seem to
Speaker 1: catch on among the masses. Tons of spineys are hauled
Speaker 1: up by trawlers throughout the Atlantic every year in search
Speaker 1: of more popular species, and those doggies are generally discarded
Speaker 1: as bycatch, even though organizations like the Cape Cod Commercial
Speaker 1: Fisherman's Alliance has sponsored initiatives to get sustainably caught doggies
Speaker 1: in cape Cod restaurants and fish markets. Now, according to
Speaker 1: my inside source at Wikipedia, the UK based International Union
Speaker 1: for Conservation of Nature as well as Greenpeace have added
Speaker 1: the spiney dog fish to their seafood red lists and
Speaker 1: claim global stocks have decreased significantly, even as much as
Speaker 1: around Europe because euro McDonald's can't sell those McRock salmon
Speaker 1: and mix seel sandwich is fast enough. Funny thing is
Speaker 1: those in the know, me being one of them, will
Speaker 1: confirm that if I gave you a piece of dog
Speaker 1: fish disguised in a crispy panco breading, you'd guess it
Speaker 1: was any number of more popular firm white meat salty
Speaker 1: bottom fish. But to be fair, the times I've had it,
Speaker 1: someone else caught it and cooked it for me, and
Speaker 1: every single time I enjoyed it with a little tartar sauce,
Speaker 1: I said to myself, these are really good. I should
Speaker 1: start keeping some of these. That attitude changes quickly, though,
Speaker 1: when you're burning boat fuel with a brain locked on stripers,
Speaker 1: freezing your nuts off in the winter for cod or
Speaker 1: dreaming of doramat fluke, and every diamond, jade, clam strip
Speaker 1: and gulp teaser gets wolfed by a spiny the second
Speaker 1: you drop it down, and it almost makes it pretty
Speaker 1: hard to believe that the spiny dog fish are in
Speaker 1: any kind of trouble. And when you move ten times
Speaker 1: and can't get away from them, you just hate them
Speaker 1: so much that you can't lower yourself to filling that
Speaker 1: sexy yetti coffin box with the scourge of the sea,
Speaker 1: let alone post a picture of you holding one with
Speaker 1: a smile on Instagram, especially when you consider that spiny
Speaker 1: dog fish get their name for to incredibly hard thick
Speaker 1: needle points spines on their backs, both just forward of
Speaker 1: their two dorsal fins, and they're there for a reason,
Speaker 1: and that reason is to ruin your day. A dog
Speaker 1: fish will writhe and twist and swing its tail around
Speaker 1: and arch its back to make every effort to stick
Speaker 1: you good while you're trying to unhook one. Those spines
Speaker 1: are sharp enough to go through clothing gloves. I've even
Speaker 1: seen them go through PVC rain here. Bonus, those spines
Speaker 1: inject you with a mild venom that, while non toxic,
Speaker 1: j seems to make a wounded kin to getting stabbed
Speaker 1: with a splintering wooden kebab skiw wher hurt a lot more.
Speaker 1: When you are forced to unhook a doggie every thirty
Speaker 1: seconds all day, Suddenly you no longer want to eat
Speaker 1: one you just wanted off the goddamn boat. Well. I
Speaker 1: don't know about everyone else, but I just got hungry
Speaker 1: for spiny dog fish, tater tots, and ranch dressing, which
Speaker 1: here in Montana we call montanamandas or sometimes hockey sauce
Speaker 1: because you know the honkeys they love it, but fight
Speaker 1: that craving. Don't pause now to swing into the drive
Speaker 1: through at euro McDonald's, because we are about to pump
Speaker 1: your guts full of fish news. Fish news that escalated quickly.
Speaker 1: So this is fish news where we uh tell you
Speaker 1: all the fun, interesting fish and fish and related things
Speaker 1: you need to know happening recently out there in the world. Reminder,
Speaker 1: this is a competition, Miles, and I do not know
Speaker 1: what stories the other guys bringing to the table, and
Speaker 1: as always are mighty audio engineer Phil at the end
Speaker 1: will declare a victor, and I'm coming off a win,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy about that because I was losing confidence
Speaker 1: in myself there for a little while. Don't get too
Speaker 1: comfortable in that chair, That's all I'm saying. You better
Speaker 1: call fives on that if you're getting Not only did
Speaker 1: I win, he managed to work in a Celine Dion
Speaker 1: and Sarah McLaughlin reference in his announcement of that win.
Speaker 1: Because he's fantastic. He's the real talent here. But it
Speaker 1: always benefits to be the leadoff man that is me
Speaker 1: this week. And I'm excited, Okay, I'm very excited. I
Speaker 1: love both of my stories, largely because both of them
Speaker 1: are kind of gonna go off the rails a bit.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come from left field and it feels good.
Speaker 1: And we're allowed to do this because we make the rules. Okay.
Speaker 1: We decide not only what is news, but which news
Speaker 1: stories are the most important ist that you need to
Speaker 1: hear um And this first one, I'm just gonna get
Speaker 1: right to it. Just just warm my heart. I love it.
Speaker 1: So from the Cape Cod Times headline, obsessed Jaws fan
Speaker 1: replicates Chief Brodie's ride. I didn't even have to read
Speaker 1: anything more about the story to know that this man
Speaker 1: is my hero. Okay. So from the story, Gabe de
Speaker 1: Saverio calls himself a Jaw's nut. He's into anyone or
Speaker 1: anything that has any connection to the Killers Shark blockbuster
Speaker 1: movie Jaws. The obsession has infiltrated all facets of his life,
Speaker 1: just like it has mine. We are we are connected. Here,
Speaker 1: it says De s Varios vacations have been Jaws themed,
Speaker 1: his business and conservation efforts revolve around sharks, and his
Speaker 1: daughter's middle name is Ellen, after the Jaws character Police
Speaker 1: Chief Martin Brodie's wife. And he's quoted here saying, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I can scientifically prove that it's the greatest
Speaker 1: movie ever made. Gabe, I will help fund that research.
Speaker 1: I will chip in so we can finally settle what
Speaker 1: us Jaws freaks really know is already the truth. So
Speaker 1: a little background gave is the owner of the Spicy
Speaker 1: Shark Hot Sauce Company. Okay, And the story goes on
Speaker 1: and says part of His Jaws fandom includes a fifteen
Speaker 1: year search for a nineteen seventy five Chevy Blazer like
Speaker 1: the one Chief Brodie drove in the movie, and while
Speaker 1: business last during COVID nineteen, the Portsmouth residents scoured the
Speaker 1: internet saw one for auction, maybe in his price range.
Speaker 1: So he asked his wife Jill what she thought, and
Speaker 1: here's the quote from Gabe. She said, you work eight
Speaker 1: days a week, You've never bought yourself a toy, and
Speaker 1: you've been talking about this since our third date. She's
Speaker 1: she's a keeper, Gabe, my man, good on you. Um So,
Speaker 1: Gabe finally found his new blazer in North Carolina, and
Speaker 1: after we got at home, he enlisted to help us
Speaker 1: some friends to cut off the hard top, paint the
Speaker 1: roll bar black, repaint the truck to perfectly match Brodie's.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you it's spot on and I
Speaker 1: love this right. He ordered Vanity Amity license plates and
Speaker 1: had custom Amity Police Department stickers from the Hampton sticker
Speaker 1: cabana adhered to the side. And this is what Gabe says.
Speaker 1: There are two or three other replica Jaws blazers out there,
Speaker 1: but they don't have the right lettering. He said, you
Speaker 1: gotta have the exact font. Damn right, you gotta have
Speaker 1: the exact font I was. I was skeptical of this
Speaker 1: guy until right now. If he is like, if he
Speaker 1: is a funk geek, I can hang out with him.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait. The blazer is named Martin, of course,
Speaker 1: after Chief Martin Brody, but Gabe is quoted in the
Speaker 1: piece of saying you can call him Marty well good.
Speaker 1: He also considers the Jaws replica blazer a part of
Speaker 1: his family. He says, I have a daughter. This is
Speaker 1: my son, So listen. I reached out to Gabe and
Speaker 1: asked for more photos of Marty and you can see
Speaker 1: those on my Instagram page that's at Joe dot Smellie
Speaker 1: thirty eight. And the next time I'm on the Cape,
Speaker 1: you will see photos of me driving this blazer. Okay,
Speaker 1: assuming it's not a stick shift. So Gabe, bravo, bravo.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that that is the most Joe Surmeli fish
Speaker 1: news story that I had ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: And that's fine if it, if it, if it earns
Speaker 1: me a loss, I don't care, because that had I had,
Speaker 1: I couldn't not you. You couldn't leave that one on
Speaker 1: the table. You had to take that. I couldn't agree.
Speaker 1: It's so bad. It's so perfect. I mean, it is
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. The truck is amazing. I think you might
Speaker 1: have found like a long lost brother that your parents
Speaker 1: didn't tell you about. Like you guys were separated at birth,
Speaker 1: and and now you're going to come back together. That's
Speaker 1: just a heartwarming, heartwarming tail for anyone. Everyone loves a
Speaker 1: story of families reunited. I've I've done all the things
Speaker 1: I've done, the stupid Martha's Vineyard tour, like where all
Speaker 1: the things happened. I remember when Jaws the Revenge, which
Speaker 1: was terrible, came out. My parents took me to a
Speaker 1: Universal's like traveling museum thing where they had all these
Speaker 1: props and they had the shark from Jaws four, and
Speaker 1: I saw nothing else in the entire exhibit. We just
Speaker 1: stayed it with the shark. And so my dad was like,
Speaker 1: all right, come on, we gonna go at dinner. We
Speaker 1: want to look at the Indiana Jones stuff. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: just the shark. No, I'm here for the sharks. Well,
Speaker 1: it's always been somewhat ironic to me that the Jaws
Speaker 1: thing is is centered on the East coast of North
Speaker 1: America because a while there are white sharks there, that's
Speaker 1: not really the part of the world that's known for
Speaker 1: white sharks. I'll give you that you're in the California
Speaker 1: coast is known more for white sharks. But if you
Speaker 1: really want to talk about white sharks, you think about Australia.
Speaker 1: I mean like that that's where people really really think
Speaker 1: about them. And you know, it just so happens that
Speaker 1: this first story I'm coming with it comes from Australia,
Speaker 1: strangely enough, and we know for a fact, as of
Speaker 1: last week we have at least one listener in Australia,
Speaker 1: so we're basically talking to him. Hopefully he's listening now
Speaker 1: lost him. He hasn't been eaten by a great white
Speaker 1: all right, So quick question, Joe, as a father of
Speaker 1: young kids, have you ever heard of Bush's. I've heard
Speaker 1: of many things, but not that, or if I have
Speaker 1: heard of it, I just like blocked it out of
Speaker 1: my brain. I'm like, I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but I don't think
Speaker 1: so you've seen them. I hadn't heard of either, but
Speaker 1: you've seen them there, there's just kind of squished down
Speaker 1: little plastic figurines in the shape of popular cartoon characters,
Speaker 1: all right, and apparently they're like the new Beanie babies
Speaker 1: in that they are completely useless crap that people have
Speaker 1: been duped into collecting. And just like with other kids collectibles,
Speaker 1: you know, for example, say POGs, the common ones are
Speaker 1: totally worthless. The rare ones are crazy valuable. Someone supposedly
Speaker 1: paid fifteen grand for one of these lumps of molded
Speaker 1: plastic on eBay. Alright, so I believe it though. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's yeah, it's it's worth that right now
Speaker 1: this very minute. So good on you out there that
Speaker 1: are anymore. I may or may not know personally, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too far off here, but
Speaker 1: in researching this story, I found a headline that actually said,
Speaker 1: so she's the new bitcoin anyway, So she's are a
Speaker 1: point of contention in Australia, where the store chain Woolworths
Speaker 1: just ran a second annual promotion giving them away to
Speaker 1: any customer who spends thirty bucks. Last year, this giveaway
Speaker 1: lead to grown ass people rioting, fighting and threatening each
Speaker 1: other over lifeless children's toys so remember. Yeah. And while
Speaker 1: while some Australians clearly love the little buggers, others are pissed.
Speaker 1: One woman wrote on the Woolworths Facebook page, quote they're
Speaker 1: terrible for the environment. They often end up in landfill
Speaker 1: or is litter. Another customer wrote, quote very saddened and
Speaker 1: disappointed to hear that Walworts are bringing back the plastic
Speaker 1: pushes that cause so much destruction to our already struggling environment.
Speaker 1: And the issue, of course, is that these little plastic
Speaker 1: figurines may be beloved and valuable now, but they, like
Speaker 1: all their cute collectible predecessors, will soon be an afterthought,
Speaker 1: just fleeting cultural refuse, destined for landfills, where they will
Speaker 1: slowly break down and turn into more microplastic, choking rivers,
Speaker 1: lakes and oceans. They'll be right there with all the
Speaker 1: l O L dolls that my kid has, same thing,
Speaker 1: same premise thing. But there's a brain side here. One
Speaker 1: industrious angler down Under has actually found a viable use
Speaker 1: for these detestable wads of petroleum distillate. Mark Pace of
Speaker 1: Queensland is using USh. He's as snapper lures nice marks.
Speaker 1: That it's great, dude, You gotta check this out. Mark
Speaker 1: posted uh photos and video of himself on Facebook reefing
Speaker 1: in snapper of various types and sizes, including one big
Speaker 1: as red snapper on what, from what I could tell,
Speaker 1: looks to be a dropper loop rig baited with green
Speaker 1: glow in the dark bushy figurines. In the video on
Speaker 1: his post, we see Mark lifting a fish over the gunnal,
Speaker 1: turning to the camera and saying paces post just says, quote,
Speaker 1: anyone have any glow in the dark sheets? They don't want?
Speaker 1: Happy to pay a dollar each? And I'm guessing Mark
Speaker 1: didn't really think this through, like as a social media move,
Speaker 1: because if his goal was to get people to sell
Speaker 1: him their glow in the dark she's for cheap, then
Speaker 1: he probably shouldn't have led on that their dynamite snapper lures.
Speaker 1: I mean, good luck getting anyone to give them away
Speaker 1: to you, now, dude, Like that was not the way
Speaker 1: to go about it. You should have just been like, hey,
Speaker 1: anybody have any isshes just just wondering, so why why
Speaker 1: while you're talking? I just did a quick search because
Speaker 1: I didn't know what these were. But now I look
Speaker 1: at him, I'm like, oh, yes, they do. I stepped
Speaker 1: on five of them yesterday. Um, this is wonderful that
Speaker 1: he's turned this into the lure. But for people wondering, like, well,
Speaker 1: does it have some natural innate like fishy baity looking
Speaker 1: something to it? No, Like, it's just so hard. It's
Speaker 1: it's just a little molded piece of plastic in the
Speaker 1: shape of a figure. That's it, like more on the
Speaker 1: bushes than the other people on the Like, is there
Speaker 1: like is there a real secret here or is it
Speaker 1: pure gimmick or what? I don't know? Like what I've again,
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of information there. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like he's trying to blow it up. He just
Speaker 1: put up this post being like, hey, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: some oshes found a use for him. Anybody want to
Speaker 1: give me their glow in the dark gushes, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: working on the snapper. But for their part, Woolworths is
Speaker 1: not excited about their trashy toys being put to good use. Finally,
Speaker 1: UH spokesper and for the company told Yahoo News quote,
Speaker 1: while we don't encourage the use of bushies for fishing bait,
Speaker 1: they can be used in many other ways, from storytelling,
Speaker 1: taking care of them as special collector's items or popping
Speaker 1: them on the back of pencils, And right now I'm
Speaker 1: just calling bs on all of that ephemeral plastic toys,
Speaker 1: especially these fake collectible ones, are one of the foulest
Speaker 1: offshoots of consumer culture. So good on Mark for finding
Speaker 1: some kind of actual use for this disgusting flots um.
Speaker 1: But he probably should have kept it to himself. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say. Something I'm taking away from this
Speaker 1: and I'd have to do some research to find out
Speaker 1: the same thing. Um, I'm just blown away by this
Speaker 1: being Woolworths, which makes me wonder is that the same
Speaker 1: Woolworths that used to be all over the US and
Speaker 1: has now gone where they're still huge in Australia. Really? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, that's one thing. Um. Also I mean that, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get mad about this, like people if
Speaker 1: people over here got mad about people using ridiculous toys
Speaker 1: and ship to catch fish, that would be somebody ranting
Speaker 1: and raven every day of the week. McDonald's Disney. Like
Speaker 1: there was just something that popped up, some nemo toy
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Yeah, dude's catching peacock bass with that, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I think it's pretty frugal.
Speaker 1: You also mentioned POGs. I was like, since we started
Speaker 1: this podcast, I was like, who's going to be the
Speaker 1: first one to work in POGs? And it was you.
Speaker 1: That's so good on that, And now I'm thinking, like
Speaker 1: I still got on them slammers somewhere that. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, you could probably drill a nice hole through
Speaker 1: each end, right, throw a little split ring on there.
Speaker 1: Those would also make a great lore, because I think
Speaker 1: POGs are too old for the new YouTube generation to
Speaker 1: be making poglures because they don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: So I called it and uh, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make some pog lures. Uh Do my kids
Speaker 1: have the similar ushy things laying all over the place there,
Speaker 1: There's not been one yet that I'm like, Man, that
Speaker 1: would make a tremendous lure. So that's why I'm giving
Speaker 1: Mark credit. Like a lot of these things are obvious, right, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this swimming cool. Nothing about this looks fishy,
Speaker 1: but apparently he's doing well on it. So that's why
Speaker 1: I was impressed. I was like, this does not fit.
Speaker 1: I like this, here's what drives me crazy. And and
Speaker 1: you have you have a son who's younger, so you
Speaker 1: might never have to deal with this. But see, I
Speaker 1: have a daughter who is five. So for all the
Speaker 1: dads of daughters out there, like a lot of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if she's the same thing. The
Speaker 1: whole fun for the kids is like the um unwrapping,
Speaker 1: like l O l's come in a ball and like
Speaker 1: you don't know which one you're gonna get, and it's
Speaker 1: like a big surprise egg and like that is what
Speaker 1: you're paying for. And then she doesn't do ship with
Speaker 1: them after she opens them. They just lay around gambling
Speaker 1: for five year olds exactly. So I'm just gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to like start if I dude, I could
Speaker 1: take a two dozen of them and she wouldn't even know.
Speaker 1: We'll go from from repurposing toys and frugal lores um
Speaker 1: to to this story. Great segue here, and this one's
Speaker 1: was a little outside of the box. This is somewhere
Speaker 1: we haven't gone at least in terms of source yet.
Speaker 1: So I got this as a hot tip off from
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, Brian Schmidt. Do you happen to
Speaker 1: know Brian Schmidt. You know who he is, Schmidty. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. Maybe I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so Brian for years he was the guy in
Speaker 1: charge of fly development for Umpqua, and now he struck
Speaker 1: out on his own and he started Brian Schmidt Bates
Speaker 1: and you should check out his stuff. Yeah I knew,
Speaker 1: I know this dude. Yeah. He makes amazing baits. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Schmitter bug and all that stuff. That's
Speaker 1: all him, right, amazing dude. So um now now he's
Speaker 1: just Brian Schmidt Bates and he makes all kinds of
Speaker 1: cool swim baits and and rats and Jason Spinner baits
Speaker 1: awesome stuff. Anyway, Uh, just last week he sent me
Speaker 1: a text and it said, did you watch today's What's
Speaker 1: New at tackle Warehouse video? Apparently tackle Warehouse does a
Speaker 1: news video every week of like new products, and I
Speaker 1: know you Bass guys especially no tackle Warehouse huge online retailer.
Speaker 1: So he says did you see that video and then
Speaker 1: follows it with, um, wow. All I can say is
Speaker 1: it puts the lotion in the basket. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: al right, right, So I watched and one thing new
Speaker 1: last week was the Manifold De Naro swim bait. Now
Speaker 1: it's jointed right, and it's it's this is kind of
Speaker 1: like a new uh lower release news piece, but it's
Speaker 1: just it's just gonna go. Hey wire. Here thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half inches long and covered in leather. Now that
Speaker 1: leather has what I'd call sort of a snake skin texture,
Speaker 1: but all around the edge it's hand stitched right like
Speaker 1: the buffalo bill skin suit. Hence Brian's nod to lotion
Speaker 1: in the basket. Okay, so so here's some of the
Speaker 1: description of this new Manifold De Niro swim bait. Developed
Speaker 1: by the owner of Manifold Leather, who has over thirty
Speaker 1: four years of experience in the fine leather industry in Japan.
Speaker 1: The Manifold De Niro glide bait boasts superior craftsman ship
Speaker 1: and was created for targeting monster your size bass. It
Speaker 1: features a hand car of polyethylene body, which provides the
Speaker 1: foundation and allows the bait to swim with a perfectly balanced,
Speaker 1: wide S shaped gliding blah blah blah, because that's the
Speaker 1: description of every glide bait. Every glide bait is a
Speaker 1: wide S shape. Okay, nothing this is nothing new, okay,
Speaker 1: so you haven't hooked us there. On the outside, the
Speaker 1: Manifold Naro Glidebate is covered in hand stitched onent horse
Speaker 1: hide leather. That's horse leather, horse leather that does not
Speaker 1: get colder than traditional abs plastic, which ensures the bait
Speaker 1: has the same body temperature and texture as a living
Speaker 1: bait fish for a more natural presentation, and says as
Speaker 1: the leather progresses, the surface foil also becomes weathered and
Speaker 1: becomes more like a wounded or weak bait fish. And
Speaker 1: there are two disclaimers. Uh they're one is the Manifold
Speaker 1: Naro Glidebate moves properly once the leather has absorbed water,
Speaker 1: and be sure to read the instructions included in each
Speaker 1: box for proper operating and storing procedures. So this company, Manifold,
Speaker 1: as I understand it, is best known for fine leather goods,
Speaker 1: but also kind of dabbles in lures because the same
Speaker 1: video also showcased the herdbait from them with no leather work. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I'm super curious about these instructions
Speaker 1: and I can't find the specifics. But the dude in
Speaker 1: the video noted that you need to let it soak
Speaker 1: for a bit to let the leather absorb water, because
Speaker 1: if it doesn't absorb the right amount of water, it
Speaker 1: can affect the buoyancy and action. And they're like and like,
Speaker 1: who first? Who has time for that? That's why I
Speaker 1: cast lure. Who it's time to think that much? Okay,
Speaker 1: And then he says the instructions feature specific storage tips
Speaker 1: so you don't ruin the leather. Now here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and I sent you a photo of this. In my
Speaker 1: opinion right now, it's hideous. It's it's not at all
Speaker 1: part of the swim bait deal is like you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that looks like a real brown trap. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It's it's not at all aesthetically pleasing, and in fact,
Speaker 1: I find it very bizarre looking. And clearly you're buying
Speaker 1: the proposed benefits of the leather because to me, the
Speaker 1: like it's the action doesn't sound an different any other
Speaker 1: glide bait. Right. So here's the kicker, though, take a
Speaker 1: whack at the price. Go ahead, take a whack at
Speaker 1: the price. Got to be at least a lure four
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty dollars. What four sixty dollars, right, and
Speaker 1: that's just for the There's another model that has some
Speaker 1: weird fancy metal face attachment that's five and twelve dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's got like it's got like a lector mask. I
Speaker 1: actually think it's like to create. You can hang leeds
Speaker 1: off it and like different times. But it looks freaking
Speaker 1: elector mask. So four d and sixty bucks for a lure. Um,
Speaker 1: as Brian put it in a follow up text, that
Speaker 1: you gotta rub like a baseball glove. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: did I have the utmost respect for the dedicated swim
Speaker 1: bait colt? Right? I'm fascinated by the method I which
Speaker 1: I would. I wish I had more dedication to to
Speaker 1: fish that way. I love it. I love it. But
Speaker 1: like swim bait dudes, this is a joke, right, Like
Speaker 1: is who who is buying this? That's the buying this lure.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing those as you already pointed out,
Speaker 1: there there are those very very expensive swim baits and
Speaker 1: they look a certain way, they look photo realistic, they
Speaker 1: have that incredible movement to them. Blah blah blah. This
Speaker 1: thing kind of looks like a high school arts and
Speaker 1: crafts project that someone's selling on Etsy. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: you can see all the stitching. It's not poorly done,
Speaker 1: but it's it's not super impressive. Yeah, it's not poorly done,
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't know it's like fine leather work. By no,
Speaker 1: it's it's I I take it manifolds like Coach. So
Speaker 1: if like Coach made a lure and this was it, you,
Speaker 1: you certainly wouldn't pick up on that level of craftsmanship
Speaker 1: just by looking and with all lords. Dude, come on, man,
Speaker 1: we buy the ship with our eyes, you know, and
Speaker 1: I know, and how many lawyers are sold because of
Speaker 1: their shelf appeal. And if you put this next to
Speaker 1: a T Spro swim bait, guess which one I'm buying?
Speaker 1: Even if no question. So, I mean, here's the other
Speaker 1: thing that I thought of, here's the other piece that
Speaker 1: I thought. I was really surprised to hear you say
Speaker 1: it was leather because I haven't to know, just because
Speaker 1: I know weird ship like this that people tan fish skin.
Speaker 1: You can actually take fishkin when you can tan it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, absolutely so why wouldn't you use that on
Speaker 1: this product? Why wouldn't you use actual fishkin. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to this hand stitching, hand tanned level of craftsmanship,
Speaker 1: why not use fishkin. That's that's where I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit lost. And maybe maybe fishkin doesn't hold up as well,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't work. There are probably things I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that was the first thing that I thought of,
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's things I don't know because
Speaker 1: there's it's so new that even even tackle warehouse like
Speaker 1: there's not that much info about it. And I tried
Speaker 1: to just google up the lore, and I mean, you
Speaker 1: get linked to all these Japanese leather making sites. I
Speaker 1: couldn't find like a direct link. But I I even
Speaker 1: partially understand, you know, the desire for these hard to
Speaker 1: get Japanese swim baits and things. I see the same
Speaker 1: thing in the striper world. There's certain hand turned wooden
Speaker 1: lures that people just go nuts for. It doesn't really
Speaker 1: matter if they're fishing them or not. But I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point this just goes beyond fish ability, Like
Speaker 1: you're paying five bucks for a lure allure that requires
Speaker 1: as much care and attention as a fine leather couch,
Speaker 1: Like why would you do that? It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: thrown around in a lake, like in weeds and mud
Speaker 1: and ship you know, and I've seen some wacky stuff
Speaker 1: and swim baits. This is next level and what I
Speaker 1: would love to hear maybe we can get away in later,
Speaker 1: like from our friend Oliver and I like a big
Speaker 1: bass catching swim bait chucking Amigo to weigh in and
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I don't get it either, or dude,
Speaker 1: maybe we're idiot's and it's like, no, here's why. This
Speaker 1: is the next level. Yeah, And on that durability thing, man, Like,
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm currently interested in with swin babies
Speaker 1: is throwing them from muskie And I'm just imagining what
Speaker 1: happens when a muskie hits a leather lure, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's pretty, especially one that I spent four
Speaker 1: some odd dollars on. But I'm gonna I'm gonna stick
Speaker 1: with that and and move into our our final segment,
Speaker 1: which is a muskie story and you'll also detect. I'm
Speaker 1: a little proud of myself this week because I definitely
Speaker 1: stuck with a theme that you're going to detect, all right,
Speaker 1: and and I hope it comes through pretty clear. So
Speaker 1: Greg Leonard sounds like my kind of guy. He's a
Speaker 1: land conservation officer from Augusta, Wisconsin who also happens to
Speaker 1: be a hardcore musky addict. He calls the Chipwa Fluage
Speaker 1: his home waters, and I have fished that flowage and
Speaker 1: it's it's an incredible place, a special, special place. Despite
Speaker 1: the fact that Greg spends as much free time as
Speaker 1: possible musky fishing, and it has been doing so for decades,
Speaker 1: he seems to suffer a similar fate or perhaps curse
Speaker 1: that that you and I do Joe, when it comes
Speaker 1: to big muskie, because he just he can't seem to
Speaker 1: crack a really big fish. He's he's stuck at which,
Speaker 1: for the record, is a very big musky, but not
Speaker 1: the fish that musky junkies COVID. You know they all
Speaker 1: want the fifty. Right For the record, I will say,
Speaker 1: if I caught a forty five on fly, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: and I'm done, don't have to do. I'd be fine
Speaker 1: with that for me. But last August Greg did a
Speaker 1: good deed for the musky gods that I hope will
Speaker 1: pay dividends for him this fall. I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: what he did like pays his car before and he
Speaker 1: gets his fifty. Greg was fishing mid afternoon one day
Speaker 1: late August when he hooked a midsized muskie you know,
Speaker 1: nothing special, fought it to the boat, put it in
Speaker 1: the net. Hook pop free wants fish in the net,
Speaker 1: and he's he's just about to release it when he
Speaker 1: noticed something odd, a mud stained diving ring encircling the
Speaker 1: fishes midsection. Now, for those of you who don't know
Speaker 1: what a diving ring is, I don't know what that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm about to explain it. They're they're they're small hoops,
Speaker 1: like a few inches in diameter, usually used for swimming
Speaker 1: lessons and lifeguard training. So diving rings are specially weighted
Speaker 1: so that when you throw them in the water they sink,
Speaker 1: but then they sit upright on the bottom, got so
Speaker 1: that divers can swim down and easily grab them. Because
Speaker 1: they're because they're training tools. They're also made of like
Speaker 1: really heavy duty plastic so that they can withstand years
Speaker 1: of use and pools. Alright, so Greg catches this muskie
Speaker 1: and it has a diving ring stuck around its midsection.
Speaker 1: And the thing's been there a while because the fish
Speaker 1: has has like started to grow around the ring, and
Speaker 1: the ring is cutting pretty deep into the fish's body. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Greg tries to pull the ring off like you would,
Speaker 1: but like, I mean, it is really literally the fish
Speaker 1: is growing around it. It's it's not going anywhere. So
Speaker 1: here's where his story gets weird to me. Then he
Speaker 1: used a bolt cutter, and even the bolt cutter couldn't
Speaker 1: cut through the thing. But I mean, quick side note,
Speaker 1: man who carries a bolt cutter on their fishing boat,
Speaker 1: I do not every fisherman in New Jersey, but really
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. I'm just like, why why actually
Speaker 1: takes up a lot of room on your boat? You know,
Speaker 1: you know, I will say not to get off on that,
Speaker 1: but I do know people who carry bolt cutters. More so,
Speaker 1: ink is like they need to cut the lock on
Speaker 1: their spare tire, like their trailer tire pops or something,
Speaker 1: and they can't find the key, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And and maybe like maybe they were side cutters and
Speaker 1: the story got it wrong. I'm not sure, but I'm
Speaker 1: picturing like a full on bolt cutter, and and and
Speaker 1: maybe it was misreported, I'm not sure. But anyway, if
Speaker 1: it was a bowl cutter, whatever it was, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that Greg had one, because even though he couldn't cut
Speaker 1: completely through that ring, he did cut it enough that
Speaker 1: he could relieve the pressure on it and he was
Speaker 1: able to slide it off the fish and then set
Speaker 1: the fish free. Okay, And being a natural resource manager
Speaker 1: by trade, he showed the ring and the photos to
Speaker 1: one of his colleagues, a fisheries manager named Max Walter,
Speaker 1: and they came up with a theory about this. Their theory.
Speaker 1: Here's here's how their theory goes, someone lost the diving
Speaker 1: ring in the lake and it just set their upright
Speaker 1: sitting on the bottom for god knows how long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and that muskie is in the area chasing bait,
Speaker 1: and the bait tries to you, is that ring to
Speaker 1: like get away from predator? Trying to get that right?
Speaker 1: Get stuck? And they estimate that that fish carried that
Speaker 1: ring around for two years before Greg caught it and
Speaker 1: cut it loose. You know what. It is amazing, But
Speaker 1: there are similar stories out there. One that always sticks
Speaker 1: with me is I remember these these pictures floating around
Speaker 1: of a striper that had metal arms from an umbrella
Speaker 1: trolling rag coming out of its stomach, I mean poking
Speaker 1: through its stomach. So we tend to coddle fish as
Speaker 1: we should, I mean, be careful with releasing everything. But
Speaker 1: then every once in a while you see one of
Speaker 1: these stories and it kind of makes you go, you know,
Speaker 1: they're a lot more resilient than you think they are.
Speaker 1: They're tough. Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's an anecdote, right,
Speaker 1: this is it's a cool, feel good story. But I
Speaker 1: got a hand here because Greg had a final note, right,
Speaker 1: and and he was explaining why he's now publicly sharing
Speaker 1: this story. And he says, plastic toys have no place
Speaker 1: in our lakes, and I agree with them, but I'd
Speaker 1: take it a step further and say that they have
Speaker 1: no place in our bodies of water, unless, of course,
Speaker 1: you're using them as a fishing lure and you're bringing
Speaker 1: back out. I want to I want to qualify that,
Speaker 1: But I, like everyone else, I have tons of useless
Speaker 1: plastic crap at my house, so I'm not getting all
Speaker 1: high and mighty on this, but I do try and
Speaker 1: minimize the amount of plastic that I purchase. And it's
Speaker 1: really hard, especially when you know you have kids and
Speaker 1: they come home from every birthday party with a bag
Speaker 1: of useless plastic crap, but try to be mindful about
Speaker 1: what we buy. And moreover, I am definitely that guy
Speaker 1: who will pull the boat over to pick up trash,
Speaker 1: especially plastic, and I hope all of you out there
Speaker 1: listening will consider doing the same. I'm not saying like
Speaker 1: that's going to solve the microplastics problem or like I'm
Speaker 1: saving the world or you will either, but but it's
Speaker 1: something we can all do. And I think that this
Speaker 1: theme of if you're gonna throw plastics in the water,
Speaker 1: make sure it's tethered due a line to catch a fish.
Speaker 1: Otherwise just don't do it. That That's where I'm leaving
Speaker 1: for today with Fish News. I think that's a great place.
Speaker 1: That was a great message, That was a great end. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on all that. It gives Phil a
Speaker 1: lot to debate because we've had, Man, we've had quite
Speaker 1: a gamut of stories this week. So we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out from Phil who clenched this one um and then uh,
Speaker 1: talking about being mindful, being you know, being mindful of
Speaker 1: what you buy, We're gonna go right to sale bin
Speaker 1: right after we hear from Phil for a deal that boy.
Speaker 1: You just can't miss Joe, give yourself more credit. You
Speaker 1: let off strong with that Jaws story. But I'm giving
Speaker 1: the wind to Miles an Olte. Miles, I appreciated your
Speaker 1: theme of throwing useless, harmful plastic trash into the water,
Speaker 1: but I have got to go. I'm gonna go try
Speaker 1: to bring in some ducks with a Peter bankman. Funko, Pop.
Speaker 1: You know she's mate, No, she's indeed. Why did you
Speaker 1: put the hand to pay? You don't know what I'm getting? Man,
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be so hurtful with me so angry.
Speaker 1: We have been getting a steady stream of sail Bin
Speaker 1: submissions from you guys, and we appreciate that deeply. And
Speaker 1: I gotta say congratulations to listener Tony Cordero, because you,
Speaker 1: my friend, scored honors as our first ever sail Bin
Speaker 1: item from the fan base with an absolute gem posted
Speaker 1: on Facebook marketplace in Cowa Chan Valley, British Columbia. All right,
Speaker 1: so up for grabs this week is a sixteen foot
Speaker 1: win A Boto with horsepower, mercury two stroke and trailer now.
Speaker 1: The official description reads half trailer, half house boat, horsepower
Speaker 1: Merk two stroke. If you're looking for a project parentheses
Speaker 1: needs work and a good time and a good time,
Speaker 1: this is for you fIF dred dollars or best offer.
Speaker 1: And I can barely even describe this. It's so outlandish.
Speaker 1: Do my best here. So someone took like a nineties,
Speaker 1: sixties or seventies model Winnebago, and we're talking about the
Speaker 1: smaller kind you pull behind your truck. Not hold up,
Speaker 1: I think. I hate to cut you off here, but
Speaker 1: it's not actually a Winnebago. Okay, it's like a knockout.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of trailer it is. It's
Speaker 1: just a cheap seventies pulled behind trailer. But to call
Speaker 1: it stream, he's not. It's not an airstream. No, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. You can't even see
Speaker 1: what it is. He clearly makes it. The photos don't
Speaker 1: tell you the make or model. But this thing is not.
Speaker 1: This is some kind of knockoff brand. I can tell
Speaker 1: you that much, right now, fair enough, because there was
Speaker 1: no brand jumping out at me. So I I don't
Speaker 1: know trailers, so I just went with Winnebago. But not okay,
Speaker 1: but what what they did here? Uh? They added a
Speaker 1: back deck, and then I guess somehow sealed up the
Speaker 1: bottom and turned it into a homemade house boat. But
Speaker 1: here's here's the thing. It's still trailer able, right, So
Speaker 1: in other words, it's not like they chopped the bottom
Speaker 1: off the knockoff winnie and then glued that into a
Speaker 1: boat hole. Like the tires and wheel wells and attached
Speaker 1: trailer tongue are all still fully intact. All of it's there,
Speaker 1: So the exception of the back deck and the and
Speaker 1: the outboard, you'd never know it was a boat, right.
Speaker 1: And I suppose someone could could run with this concept
Speaker 1: and do this really really well if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: if that was their calling in life. But this does
Speaker 1: not appear to have been done really really well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I don't know, dude. I would not go out
Speaker 1: on the water on this vessel. I wouldn't go more
Speaker 1: than off shore on this vessel. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that right now. It's it's I think you have to like,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at this, if you were looking at
Speaker 1: it from the front end, you would have no idea
Speaker 1: that it was anything. Just a crappy old trailer. That's
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like, and then you flip it
Speaker 1: around to the back and there's the strange open deck
Speaker 1: on the back, which you know, Okay, that's a little
Speaker 1: weird on a trailer, but maybe like maybe like the
Speaker 1: party outside, that's cool. But then there's a Mercury outboard
Speaker 1: hanging off the trand like there's a transom that's been
Speaker 1: reinforced and the Mercury outboard. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: so close to brilliance, right I do, because someone's like, man,
Speaker 1: you know what, I would love to have my trailer
Speaker 1: that I could just put on the water, like I
Speaker 1: love dragging around, I love doing, but I want a
Speaker 1: boat to Why can't it be both? And my hat
Speaker 1: is off to the ingenuity there, but I am not
Speaker 1: sold on the engineering. That's that's where I'm not sold
Speaker 1: on this one, right right, and again it just looks
Speaker 1: like a box trailer, like there was no attempt at
Speaker 1: like a v hall or it would just be like
Speaker 1: a floating box on the water. But there are shots
Speaker 1: of it adrift, okay, with like a bunch of hippie
Speaker 1: kids on the roof. It looks like a spring brea, yeah,
Speaker 1: raising hard sighters in the air. Um. But as you
Speaker 1: pointed out a few observations I had in the photos
Speaker 1: that sucker is very very close to shore, Like they're
Speaker 1: not in the middle of Puget Sound in that some
Speaker 1: bitch like it's right near the ramp or or whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: But now if you if you look at the interior
Speaker 1: shots of the cabin, though, yeah, there's some water damage
Speaker 1: in there, right. Have you grown up in a house
Speaker 1: with a basement that floods? I know moldy buckling wood
Speaker 1: paneling when I see it, and there was water in
Speaker 1: that cabin. Having slept in old seventies trailers more than
Speaker 1: once that had leaky roofs, and like had had leaky
Speaker 1: roofs for a long time, that's what this looks like.
Speaker 1: Everything's peeling off the walls. There's definitely black mold hiding
Speaker 1: just under the surface of everything. And there's nothing that
Speaker 1: has changed about this interior since it came off of
Speaker 1: the assemb blue line in two Yeah, down to the
Speaker 1: floral print yep on the booth, and I see, I
Speaker 1: feel like we're thinking differently about this, Like I almost
Speaker 1: feel like this was a joke, like a gimmick. Somebody
Speaker 1: slapped us together and they dropped it on the water
Speaker 1: just to prove it floats and take a few funny photos.
Speaker 1: But you couldn't call it a serious sound craft. No,
Speaker 1: but Tony didn't make a good point in his email.
Speaker 1: He said, how could you possibly get a b u
Speaker 1: I if you're at home, it's a no. That is
Speaker 1: a sound although I think that this has probably been
Speaker 1: settled case law when it comes to house boats. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't dug into that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and fun follow up fact, Okay, I I recently re
Speaker 1: click the link and don't you know it's sold. Somebody
Speaker 1: slapped down THEO and is now the proud owner of
Speaker 1: the win a Boto. I would honestly buy that person
Speaker 1: a six pack for their inaugural maiden voyage. If that
Speaker 1: person is listening, please reach out to us because we'd
Speaker 1: love to know how progress is coming. We want to
Speaker 1: know anyway, Tony, thank you for sending the win a
Speaker 1: boato our way, and to the rest of you, please
Speaker 1: keep the sale bin submissions coming. Uh see some fishing
Speaker 1: related nonsense for sale online where you live. Fire those
Speaker 1: links to bent at the meat eater dot com. Sadly, though,
Speaker 1: it is creeping in on that time of year when
Speaker 1: we're all forced to win arize our winter botos. But
Speaker 1: if your glasses have full person it's it's not all bad.
Speaker 1: You know, win arizing the winter botos let's a pain
Speaker 1: in the guest. Uh. And this this episode, in a way,
Speaker 1: is kind of like a changing of the season. We
Speaker 1: started out with dry flies, and we know the hatches
Speaker 1: are dwindling. But if you're a streamer junkie, and lord
Speaker 1: knows there are too many of you out there these days,
Speaker 1: listen up because we've got a tackle hack from our
Speaker 1: buddy and streamer guru, Brian Wise of fly Fishing the
Speaker 1: Ozarks that we promise will up your game when you
Speaker 1: finally put the October catus away and break out the
Speaker 1: sex dungeons and uh. Side note those are actual fly names,
Speaker 1: so please don't flood me with hate mail. I didn't
Speaker 1: make that up. I'm getting hats coming from inside the
Speaker 1: city like the flood. Today, we've got a tackle hack
Speaker 1: from a extremely good friend of mine. Most of you
Speaker 1: probably know him, Brian Wise of fly Fishing the Ozarks,
Speaker 1: the streamer o g who. As as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: you've you've popularized streamer fishing in this country. Agree or
Speaker 1: disagree to totally disagree. No, Kelly, Kelly Gallup might have
Speaker 1: tied him first, but you made him cool. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: anybody can. Anybody can put stupid music to fly tying videos,
Speaker 1: and anybody can do that. So you don't actually like
Speaker 1: the scrill x music what you're saying, not at all. No,
Speaker 1: I kind of hated well. Aside from tying them beautifully,
Speaker 1: you are also a guide in uh Missouri. I've been
Speaker 1: doing that for a long time and uh kind of
Speaker 1: by default, whether you want to be or not, you
Speaker 1: are the streamer dude, which means that we need a
Speaker 1: juicy streamer fishing tip from you for all the meat
Speaker 1: chuckers out there, and god, they're almost too many of
Speaker 1: these days, aren't there. But I was gonna say, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, if you really are the guy the
Speaker 1: popularized streamer fishing, I kind of want to kick you
Speaker 1: in the nuts because ago ten years ago, like it
Speaker 1: was just me and a couple of the dudes doing it,
Speaker 1: and now it's every bro with a flat brim and
Speaker 1: a drift boat ahead of me being like, bro, you're
Speaker 1: ripping meat or what? So if if it was you,
Speaker 1: Bryan and I'm not saying it was Joe Is, but
Speaker 1: if it was you, we may not be friends. They
Speaker 1: got an eight weight in one hand in a Brian
Speaker 1: Wise video going in the other on their smart on
Speaker 1: their cell phone race. But you know, uh, as we've
Speaker 1: learned from you and many others, streamer fishing is certainly
Speaker 1: not mindless. There is craft and a lot of technique
Speaker 1: to it. So what do you got for us, man?
Speaker 1: What's something that you've learned is critical in the game? Right?
Speaker 1: So you know a lot of times when you when
Speaker 1: people think streamer fishing, and your mind immediately goes to
Speaker 1: big flies and sinking lines. I mean, that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the way it goes. So several years ago, sinking
Speaker 1: lines equaled like level leaders, you know, everybody was just
Speaker 1: everybody would just say, like, I need a three ft
Speaker 1: section of sixteen pound tests. And this is where I disagree.
Speaker 1: This is where this is where I kind of disagree.
Speaker 1: You do I do? I totally do? All right? All right,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to sell you, Miles. Do
Speaker 1: I have to sell you on this? I don't know
Speaker 1: about selling, but I'm very curious to hear your your
Speaker 1: rationale and explore again. I'm sure you're probably right. I
Speaker 1: just want to understand it better because I'm probably doubt it.
Speaker 1: Um So, what we see so many times is we'll
Speaker 1: have an eat within two or three seconds tops of
Speaker 1: the fly landing right on the bank. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: you can you can lay a fly on the bank
Speaker 1: and before you have a clue what's going on, you
Speaker 1: already see a brown in the water shaking its head
Speaker 1: and it's on. It's there. Um So, what we need
Speaker 1: is a fly to turnover all the way we need
Speaker 1: to fly to straighten out. We need everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: in a perfect world, man, you can make a hundred
Speaker 1: foot cast and that last four or five ft turns
Speaker 1: over beautifully. But it doesn't always do that with a
Speaker 1: big fly and level line. So when you put like
Speaker 1: a fifteen to twenty section of of thirty to forty
Speaker 1: five pounds, mono, I'm still kind of a bunno guy,
Speaker 1: but um mono, on the end of that sinking line,
Speaker 1: what you have is just a little bit of extra
Speaker 1: taper for lack of better word, to help turn over
Speaker 1: that fly. So so you don't run into those those
Speaker 1: those times where you have a little bit of pile
Speaker 1: that ended up happening right at the end of the
Speaker 1: cast um on a level line, and you're watching that
Speaker 1: brown's headshake and you can't come tight. So that's my thing.
Speaker 1: So it's an insurance policy really for those those ones.
Speaker 1: And it's just about basically staying a straight on that
Speaker 1: fly from the second it hits down exactly miles. How
Speaker 1: wrong do you feel right now? I mean, are we
Speaker 1: comparing it to like a normal everyday conversation with my
Speaker 1: wife wrong, or like I've really really screwed something up
Speaker 1: and in like all my life choice is wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it's more on the normal every day side.
Speaker 1: My takeaway on this is that there's very little margin
Speaker 1: for error when you're talking about like that one fish
Speaker 1: that you want to get, and when you're throwing big flies,
Speaker 1: you're really after that one fish. And so what I
Speaker 1: hear you saying, Brian is do everything you possibly can
Speaker 1: to maximize your ability to come tight to that and
Speaker 1: that this even it might it might only get you
Speaker 1: a couple of extra inches, but those inches might be
Speaker 1: the difference between being successful and not being successful. I
Speaker 1: think that's a valid point, and we can and we
Speaker 1: can all use a few extra inches at all times
Speaker 1: every chance I get yes, we are about at a
Speaker 1: time here on bent, which brings us to the end
Speaker 1: of the line. The segment that leaves you with a
Speaker 1: better sense of what to cast this weekend based on
Speaker 1: historical data and generally are worthless instincts. So this week
Speaker 1: Miles is going to bring it home with a nod
Speaker 1: to an o G metal with some bling and also
Speaker 1: managed to work in cocaine Lake trout Zell and something
Speaker 1: the entire province of Ontario should feel good about. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not allowed enough. Spoons are o G at least
Speaker 1: as far as fishing lures are concerned. For thousands of years,
Speaker 1: anglers have known that if you drag something curved and
Speaker 1: shining through water, good chance officiill bite it. Over time,
Speaker 1: though spoons have become pretty refined. You can find innumerable
Speaker 1: permutations suited to specific situations and species, but certain spoons
Speaker 1: have become iconic and modern tackle. And while I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll cover some of the big ones eventually in this segment,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with a slightly lesser known classic, the
Speaker 1: Red Eyed Wiggler. The defining characteristic of this spoon is
Speaker 1: right there in the name it has two ruby red eyes.
Speaker 1: These eyes aren't painted on, as would become fashionable later.
Speaker 1: The original red eye actually had large cut glass beads
Speaker 1: built into the body of the spoon, though the glass
Speaker 1: was later swapped for plastic. Of course, red eye wigglers
Speaker 1: were thought of as vintage even when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: but they're still manufactured today. I remember being pissed about
Speaker 1: my family going to an antique store when I was
Speaker 1: like ten, but then I discovered the vintage fishing tackle section.
Speaker 1: I stared at those old boxes and rusted hooks until
Speaker 1: my folks dragged me out of there carrying a slightly
Speaker 1: tarnished red eyed wiggler, certain that it held enough ancient
Speaker 1: mojo to mesmerize every fish that saw it. But I
Speaker 1: was wrong. I never actually caught a single thing on
Speaker 1: that lure, and it eventually moved from the tackle box
Speaker 1: to a shelf because even though I couldn't catch fish
Speaker 1: on it, something about it just stuck with me. It
Speaker 1: looked cool, but set aside my own inability to use
Speaker 1: this bait. Turns out, the red eyed Wiggler has a
Speaker 1: pretty impressive pedigree, so there's a reason I was drawn
Speaker 1: to it. The lure came out in manufact shared by
Speaker 1: the hof Schneider Corporation of Rochester, New York. The company's founder, Dr.
Speaker 1: Frederick J. Hof Schneider, was a local dentist with a
Speaker 1: penchant for invention and fishing. In ninety six, he patented
Speaker 1: the automatic Dental Lubricator, a device that revolutionized dentistry by
Speaker 1: reducing pain for patients getting their teeth thrilled. Remember this
Speaker 1: is the twenties. Novicaine wasn't widely used yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just got past giving people cocaine to do dentistry.
Speaker 1: At that point, dentists just strapped their victims down and
Speaker 1: dove in with foot pedal drills that got extremely hot
Speaker 1: as they bore through tooth and anvel. Dr Hoschneider's invention
Speaker 1: kept drill bits constantly wet, and that minimized heat from
Speaker 1: friction and pain and and all the other things that
Speaker 1: went along with that heat. That didn't make cavity filling painless,
Speaker 1: but it was a heck of a lot better than
Speaker 1: the hot knife method that had been doing. And now
Speaker 1: it seems like that's the invention hof Schneider should be
Speaker 1: remembered for the one that helped minimize pain suffer and
Speaker 1: collateral damage and dental patients. But no, it's not. He's
Speaker 1: remembered for a fishing lure. In fact, after a few years,
Speaker 1: demand for the lures grew so large that the haf
Speaker 1: Schneider Corporation stopped manufacturing dental equipment entirely. They went on
Speaker 1: to produce a whole line of Red Eyed lures, but
Speaker 1: the Wiggler remained their top seller and claim to fame.
Speaker 1: That fame was cemented in nineteen fifty two when Hubert
Speaker 1: Hammers caught a sixty two pound, two ounce lake trout
Speaker 1: from the Canadian side of Lake Superior on a wiggler.
Speaker 1: That fish stood as the hook and line world record
Speaker 1: laker for nearly twenty years and is still the Ontario
Speaker 1: provincial record. The hof Schneider Corporation sold manufacturing rates for
Speaker 1: the entire Red Eye line to Scotch game Calls in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, and then Eppinger, makers of the Daredevil Spoon,
Speaker 1: purchased Scotch game calls in so you can still buy
Speaker 1: brand new wigglers from Eppinger. And there's a whole cadre
Speaker 1: of Northern pike and lake trout fishermen who swear by them,
Speaker 1: saying that the oversized red eyes act as strike triggers,
Speaker 1: possibly imitating immature smallmouth bass. Me I'm still not convinced.
Speaker 1: I always found that these spoons had a tendency to
Speaker 1: roll instead of wiggle, so they had to be fished
Speaker 1: at just the right speed. But I think that's a
Speaker 1: met problem, not so much a wiggler problem. And really,
Speaker 1: who cares what I think about this lure. It's been
Speaker 1: in production for nearly a century and caught bigger fish
Speaker 1: than I've ever seen. It's the signature brainchild of an
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and inventor who, aside from his dental drills and
Speaker 1: fishing lures, also came up with new pinball machines and
Speaker 1: beer taps. The Wigglers more than just a fishing lure.
Speaker 1: It represents some of the greatest aspects of early twentieth
Speaker 1: century America. That's more worthy of celebration than any record fish.
Speaker 1: For the as view keeping track this semester, we've learned
Speaker 1: that Joe is one of the few men on the
Speaker 1: planet that actually knows what a pillow sham is. Why
Speaker 1: you don't hire a guide when what you really need
Speaker 1: as a marriage counselor and that I'm about to get
Speaker 1: bombarded with emails about filthy fly names and my inability
Speaker 1: to fish a simple spoon. Yeah, if you're digging the curriculum,
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