WEBVTT - Ep. 132: BEAR GREASE [RENDER] - Hillbilly Tarpon and Delta Life 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.239 My name is Clay Nukeleman. This is a production of 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.400 the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, where 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.760 we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.320 of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by FHF Gear, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.520 American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.320 to be as rugged as the place as we explore. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.159 So, Tim got in trouble last night. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.000 He did Tim the squirrel dog. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.599 He almost never does anything wrong. He's very smart. We 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.760 were gone for the weekend. He might have been neglected 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.720 a little bit by his caretakers. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.800 And by neglected meaning he wasn't like pamper pampered effort 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.600 and petted and table food like. Perhaps he had to 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.880 live like a normal dog for that day. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.640 He got in our trash last night, which is he's 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:14.840 never ever done before. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.560 And well it wasn't last night because he was up 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.880 last night, but he got into the trash. I walk 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.440 outside today and this morning and trash was all over 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.440 our porch. I had left some trash out. I angrily 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.399 pick up the trash and we tried to figure out 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.720 what it was. I mean, we don't really see stray dogs. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.840 We did have a stray pig out last night. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.400 Possible it was our straight pig. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.480 Yes, it was definitely our pig. Maybe it was a pig, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.560 maybe it wasn't. I let Tim out, and I already 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.120 picked up the trash, resacked it up, put it on 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.600 the porch, about to take it down to our trash can, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:53.600 which is a long way from. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.120 Our house, a tenth of a mile from our house. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.240 And I walk out and Tim has shredded the trash 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.480 and it's everywhere, which is so uncharacteristic. Tim is like 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.920 the perfect dog, like he he just does everything right 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.520 and then so you. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.160 Can and so so. Anyway, so he seemed like he 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.920 got chestised pretty hard. And it's because Tim has this 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.079 huge shame complex. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.080 He's like a He was chestised very hard. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.320 If Tim were an vineagram, he'd need an enneagram one. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.680 And so he perceives. He takes everything he really wants 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.360 to do right. He's trying to read the room at 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.400 all times, trying to be morally upright. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:25.840 Whatever. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.600 Anyway, clearly he did wrong, and he has been hiding 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:29.760 behind the table all day long. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.480 Yeah, I guess, so, I guess so, so Clay. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.200 And I are standing like how far distance wise feet wise, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.440 would you say and a half feet Oh, I think 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.040 it was longer than that. It was further than that 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.560 because we were and I said, what did you? I said, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.680 did you did you get Tim in big trouble because 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.280 he's been hiding all day? And Klay said, Tim, come here, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.279 and Clay's like trying to make up with him Tim. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.639 Tim hikes his butt up in the air. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.000 He does this weird the weirdest. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.079 Thing I've ever seen an animal do. He hikes his 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.760 butt up in the air, and he like SLINKs to Clay. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.680 It's like a sidewalk. He's like walking towards me with 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:06.079 his head. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.360 His legs are up really high every step he takes, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.840 and he's like coming over to Clay. He gets to 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.160 me first, and he comes and he like wraps his 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.120 legs and body around me and like slides over to Clay. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.520 This whole time he's looking at me because I have 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.560 I have shamed him. And you know, I think you 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.480 can tell a lot about a man by his dog 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.040 scolding voice. I know for sure, Spencer, Yeah, I could 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.520 scold that. I tremble thinking about about yours. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.200 It looks like a mange. When I'm done with. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.680 All I did was give Tim a a full throttle 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:50.920 scolding and I threw my hat at him. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.080 Threw my hat and you know, you went junior high 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:54.760 coach on him. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:04:00.640 Yeah. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.080 But he finally walked over to me and I I 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.840 just kind of rubbed him behind the ear a little 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.360 bit and he kind of warmed up to me and 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.160 he thinks everything's okay now ye. So yeah, that was 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.800 that was Tim the squirrel Dog. Welcome to the Beargary 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.400 shrender everybody, it's a man. Do we ever have? We 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:26.080 have a very interesting group of people here today. Two 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.320 new guests on the podcast. There's seven of us here. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.120 We only have six headphones. We've got one mystery guest 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.840 who will be revealed after I introduced regular guests. To 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.040 my left, I have my lovely wife, doctor Misty Nukeom Welcome. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.280 Thank you, happreat to see you. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.680 Thank Christy, you're becoming such a regular. I don't even 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.280 I want to give you a nickname. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:49.640 Okay, we'll think about that. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.839 Yes, so Christy Spillmaker, why. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.080 She's please don't code. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:56.240 Yeah. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:04.240 They so great to have you. Thank you, Josh Landbridge spilmmaker. Yes, hey, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.239 I found the book that you inspired me to buy 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.839 would you would you read this if I if I 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.760 lent it to you, Yes, Barringia, the last Giant of Beringia. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.600 I remember when I read this back in like two 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.560 thousand and four or whenever I remember. I just remember 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.000 reading it being like, is this sky real Scott Pictures. No, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.279 it's good, it's good. It's a great book. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:28.920 You've underlined some things in here. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.320 Always always wait till you got to see some of 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.479 my new books. That was back in the early days. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.400 To Josh has left, Tarrell across the Creek Farm thou 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:43.880 Wag Spencer. Great to have Terrell. I've never called you Teryl. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:44.159 Why did? 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.240 When I get on this I call you? Spence is 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:52.119 our local pastured poultry farmer. Foul wag, longtime dear friend 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.120 of ours and Spence, why don't you introduce our our 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:57.400 real guest. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:57.680 Of the day. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.320 Yeah, a former Yeah, drum roll, drum roll, former Cross 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:13.560 County Arkansas, Rice queen and much better half. And Carla Spencer. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.880 Carla, this is big. I've tried to get you on 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.160 here before and stuff just happened. She's a talented woman's 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:26.000 in demand. Man, Hey, Carla. Every time I see Carla, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.320 she's always I can tell I keep a beat on 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.919 people on how close they're paying attention to Bear Grease, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.960 you know, with friends, and a lot of them are 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.560 just kind of posers. I mean they're like, oh, man, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.279 that whole call your series, that was great, and I'm like, dude, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.160 that was six months ago, and you know, stuff like that, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:47.719 like I'm filing away. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.240 Sometimes I say it directly, other times I hold it 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.320 back and just file it away. It's like, okay, kind 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.200 of behind stuff like that. Carla stops me on the road, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.920 like the day of pod cast comes out and she's like, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.719 oh excited, Yeah, so you should have been here a 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:07.320 long time ago. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.800 Well yea, and not on your game now. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.280 Great to have your Carlo, and you were raising the Delta. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.800 We're going to talk about all this. I was the 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.000 real mister River Delta. Yeah, the real deal, the h 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:29.440 our mystery guest though first time appearance, actually not No. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.760 He's been on here for. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.679 You think this young man has been on this podcast before. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:34.880 Without a shadow of doubt. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.840 He's been on this podcast Montana. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.720 Yeah, shamed me on my own River Yeah. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.920 I mean, like just mystery guest is Bear John Newcom 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.960 Good to see brother, huge fan huge fan, Big fan 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.440 tell us about that bullet. First of all, how long 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.400 did it take you to grow that sucker? What do 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.679 you feed it? It's been about a three year cycle. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.560 It's down officially below the collar. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.760 I think he's going to have to give it a 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.840 little snip stick before. What I think is. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.200 Funny in our school about the Bear is going to 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.560 be a senior in high school and Josh is his principal. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.320 And that's not at all true. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.080 Art, but he just got a little more business up front. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.560 Now there's a pretty strict uniform policy. What I love 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.160 about about bears bullet is he just described it as 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.160 a cycle. One of my favorite Bears mullet stories is 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:35.080 that when Bear was you know, Bears, Bears had heis 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.600 and lows in his academic journey. And I'm not trying 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.360 to throw you out. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:48.480 Of the platform. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.439 But one time Bears g p a fell below what 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.240 Clay thought was appropriate. And Clay said, you can have 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:52.920 a mullet, but you can't be. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:09:01.040 The So you can have a mull it, don't act 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.840 like a person that has a mullet. I was like, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.840 it's okay if you have a mullet, But. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.840 Clay comes single handedly offending every mullet where. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.840 The author of that book, man, yeah, that's God bless him. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.480 He had to trim it up and he got a 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:17.360 g p A up. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.960 Then he never heard of that being a reward, like 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.439 if you get your GPS, you. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.040 Can have a mullet until then a three point mullet. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.160 Every point of g p A is like an extra jus, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:34.880 you get a four point zero sound. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.240 If you take some AP classes, you get some lines. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.559 Oh man, he had stripes for a while. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.400 So Missy, I thought you were going to tell the 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.040 story about him getting a technical. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.839 Oh yeah, him really good. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.480 So we had what was a technical mullet. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.080 Correlation was strong, Yeah, it was strong, and we had 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.000 you know, back during COVID, you there were all these 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.240 like rules governing games, and so it was a very 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.320 difficult time to keep up a basketball program because schools, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.000 you know, a whole team would get it and have 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.360 to cancel their game. And that December of twenty twenty, 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.760 I think that kept happening and for people who don't know, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.959 our state remained pretty open, but at certain points things 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.280 would start to kind of slow down. So anyway, Bear 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.960 had a mullet during that time. We had a lot 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.400 of cancelations. Bear John, we decided one night, hey, we're 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.079 just going to do like a spirit night. Our kids 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.920 have all been around each other, so we had refs 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.240 already hired, We had the gym and everything. So we 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.440 had a game and it was just like a blue 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.200 and gray game. So our team played each other and. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:42.200 It was a scrimmage. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.880 It was like a scrimmage basically, and our coach was 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.760 highly offended at Bear's mullet, like he just hated it. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.000 And he came over to the ref and he said, hey, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.720 in this next play, could you please, could you please call. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:54.160 That guy out? 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.000 And she was great, she was She totally played a 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.960 long and she blew the whistle and she looked at 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.560 Bear and she said technical foul. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.400 And Bear was like, what, he's in the. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:07.280 Middle of the game of the crowd scrimmage, but there's 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.520 like a real basketball game. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.280 Yeah, And she called technical found and then she did 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:17.600 this hand motion like sweet bag and she said technical foul. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.400 That's an offensive hair, dudelet. And all of. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.920 The moms, because all the moms were also offended that 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.640 we let Bear get this hair haircut, and all the 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.640 moms in the stand just lit up. It was the 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.000 most like they started cheering. They were like, yes, it 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.320 was kick them out out of the game. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:35.040 Cut your hair. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:40.240 Sorry you had to go through that, son. Well okay, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.760 so I brought you on for one story. This is 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.480 like a one shot wonder story. Tell me about the 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:51.400 saga of the Hillbilly Tarpin. Hillbilly Tarpin is a gar 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:58.080 on fly Okay, yes, well it wasn't quite on a fly. Well, okay, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.880 just tell you the whole cality sequence. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.600 It's a worthy technicality. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.040 Yeah, okay, Well for some backstory, I've been trying to 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.840 catch a gar on a fly rod for like almost 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.880 a year and a half now, and I've used like 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.120 the nylon rope that everybody says. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.040 That, like a thousands of people on Instagram have told 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.600 me thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I did that 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.000 like a lot last year. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.640 I had a few said it wouldn't work. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.800 I had a few like, hit it, but they immediately 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:30.360 spit it out. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.800 They're pretty like pressured gar Like I know a lot 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:37.439 of people who try and pressure it's like, yeah, it's like. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:38.960 I can't get caught by a guy at the bullet 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.600 a fly fisher with the mullet. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.600 Have you ever been swimming across and one grab your. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.800 Bullet tangled up in that? 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.960 That's a trick man. Yeah. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.960 And so I know like a lot of people who 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.079 try and catch gar at this particular spot, and I 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.000 think they've just kind of got it figured out, Like 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.640 Uncle Zach has caught one there before using the nylon. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.280 Oh really yeah, our Zach nukelem yep. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:03.440 Wow. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.679 And so I've tried it before. I've had him take it. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.400 I've had him go for it and swerve it, but 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.280 I've never had it really like get tangled up right. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.960 And so Uncle Josh actually made me like a really 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.880 nice one with like a dumbbell head on it, and 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.800 it was like a yellow nylon rope, nice and feathers 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.360 and it was like a real fly like it wasn't 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.400 like just like the rope, but it did have the 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.640 rope in it, and I had to take that. But 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.800 they just like took it so soft and spit it 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.520 out so quick. It didn't do anything. And so I 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.520 was out the other day and I had just like 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.280 what's called like a streamer on which basically is supposed 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:37.600 to just. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.320 Look like a little bit fish. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.000 Yeah, So I was there with the streamer, and I 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.719 was I was trying to catch bass because it's a 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.040 real where I'm at is like a real deep pocket 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.640 in this river. And for the most part, it's just shallow. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.240 There's a few kind of maybe like three footholes, but 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.560 then you get here and it's I mean, it's like 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:58.800 seven or eight feet. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.200 And it's really hot and I right now and so 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.840 like the river's really there's only a few habitable spots 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.640 and that's kind of a honey hole where he's at. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.360 Yeah, and it's it's a real it's probably the widest 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.280 point of the river for a long time, so there's 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.720 whitest and deepest. So there's there's like a few bluffs 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.760 and rocks on the side of this little hole. And 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.440 basically I was fishing next to these bluffs because there's 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.880 caves that go back in them where there's bass and 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.680 just you know, the gar will sometimes you go back. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.920 There, mermaid. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.280 Yeah, And so I was trying to catch them, and 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.520 I caught like a little of brim. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.600 I think it was like a long eared sunfish. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.080 The real colorful ones long eer ye and uh, and 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.640 it I kind of fought it and got it in 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.160 and I see a gar go right out in front 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.120 of me probably, and I'm standing on like this rock 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.720 that's about three feet above the water, and I just 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.120 kind of like put it out there in front of 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.800 that gar and it goes for it and takes it 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.960 and basically it pulls it off the hook. And so 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.480 I was like, huh, I wonder if I could catch 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.080 one this way. And so I tied on a midge, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.520 zebra midge, which is something that's no bigger than like 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.480 an apple seed maybe, and I put it out there, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.040 caught a little sunfish. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.560 That's an interest measures I like it. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.600 I was about to say, why we got to bring 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.960 zebras into this, This is North America. I always get 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.240 upset when I see zebras in North America. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.400 Carry I just got stripes. But and so I caught 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.480 one that was probably two inches long. And the midges 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.200 they don't have barbs on them, and I didn't really 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.160 think about that, and so I was kind of putting 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:50.480 it out there as I watched these gar rice, and uh, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.040 they would. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.200 I had a few spence use barbs on everything. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.800 I'm there to eat and get groceries. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.840 Well, and I had a few take again, but they 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.920 just pulled them off the hook. And so finally I 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.640 caught another one. I took a stick and I pushed 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.240 that midge like all the way down it like all 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.760 the way down its throat into probably stomach, and I 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.480 put that out there and it started swimming and I 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.880 just kind of guide it towards the middle. And what 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.320 they would do is they'd go out in the middle 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.000 and they'd get under like a rock or something to 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.440 try and hide from the bigger fish. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.400 And so I had bigar, know the brand brim yep. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.280 So I would kind of pull them out from under 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.280 these rocks and just make them fight because anytime like. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.400 It seemed to like them look wounded or something. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:35.600 Yeah. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.480 Yeah, because like I'd see, like the guar just swim 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.840 right next to a perfectly healthy, you know fish and 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.280 wouldn't even think about it. But as soon as that 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.040 fish started struggling, they'd go for it. And so one 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.480 hit it, and I just gave it a bunch of 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.400 line because I knew, you know, like their mouths are 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.520 real bony, so you can't really hook them. And I 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.960 didn't even have a hook that was exposed, and so. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:00.720 Wet pound test start using. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.920 I'm using line as a five x tippet, so it's 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:10.440 probably like five or six pound test and so I 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.280 just give it all the line at once, and I 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.800 just kind of let it chew on it because I 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.720 you know, there was no way to catch it unless 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:18.400 it swallowed. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:19.760 It was kind of what I was thinking. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.760 And then once it swallowed, I could reel it in, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.959 and so it I probably sat on this rock for 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.000 like twenty or thirty minutes, and my cousin was across 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.280 the river and she was fishing, and uh. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:35.480 So I started. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.760 I got to a point where I was like, I 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.520 think it's about to I think it's probably swallowed it. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.280 And so I waited for you knew it was still 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.200 on there, yeah, and I could see the line. It 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.440 moved the line, and I waited till it swam pretty 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.639 close to me. I didn't want to start reeling it 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.959 in when it was way out there, yep. And then 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.040 I started pulling them in, and I mean it was 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.560 a pretty nice one. It was probably two and a 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.879 half feet maybe, and I called my cousin, I was 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.160 like three inches. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.520 Better, yeah, yeah and a half. I'd say it's probably 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.520 one hundred and eighty apples, ye. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.760 And so so he didn't cut your line though, No, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.880 I was, and I was just happened last night, and 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.399 and and I hadn't I hadn't got the full stords. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:18.640 Well well and so. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.000 Yeah, and so she was swimming over with the net 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.880 and I was, you know, I was, I had the drive. Yeah, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:33.359 you have to swim across, swimming it. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.320 And so you just pulled them right in. Well not yet, well, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.560 I get it right on. The story just keeps going. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.920 She comes over and she doesn't have the net yet, 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:46.080 and that one breaks off. This isn't even the one. Wow, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.919 the story hasn't even started. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:51.040 Started. 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.520 Well, but then I realized that I could catch them, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.119 and so the next day I went back with kalo. Oh, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.800 this isn't even the same day. This reminds me of 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:01.840 the first time Bear came home and told a deer 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.639 story to his grandmother. We have a video of like 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.120 a fourteen minute story of a six year old Bear 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.439 telling every second of the story that happened on his 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.439 first dear in a monotone voice, staring at the camera. 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:20.600 The deer he came out. Dad was excited, and then 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.280 all of a sudden there were two. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.119 Except for Bear has a lot more infection in his 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.439 way because of the mullet. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.800 Okay, so you might speed us through. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.640 The next day with my friend Caleb, and we're both 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.440 I'm just gonna like pretty much do the same thing. 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.200 I swim across the river, get on the rock. I 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.560 probably go through like six or seven little you know, 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.760 brim before I finally get. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:49.960 One brims. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.119 And uh, finally one took it and it brought it 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.280 like under one of these caves, and it sighed under 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.600 there for a long time, and I figured by that 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.680 point it probably swallowed it if it was sitting there, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.439 but I let it swim around a little more and 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.320 then uh, let it get close. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:10.280 I started reeling it in. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.520 Caleb swims across and he grabs you, buddy, different day. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.480 Yeah, someday they'll learn to stay on the same side 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:17.920 of the bank. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.159 Yeah yeah, yeah, stay on the same side of the 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:21.600 banks as the fisherman. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.520