WEBVTT - Ep. 485: This Country Life - Bank Poles, Flatheads, and Bradley Smith

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to This Country Life.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining

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<v Speaker 2>and just in general country living.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to stay a while.

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<v Speaker 2>As I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country

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<v Speaker 2>Life is presented by Case Knives from the Store More

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<v Speaker 2>Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best

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<v Speaker 2>outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends,

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<v Speaker 2>grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I've got some

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<v Speaker 2>stories to share, bank poles, flatheads, and Bradley Smith. This

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<v Speaker 2>week I'm headed to Louisiana with my friend Bradley Smith,

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<v Speaker 2>a generational outdoorsman who's keeping the old ways alive. Poop nets,

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<v Speaker 2>bank poles, and the kind of hard earned knowledge it

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<v Speaker 2>only comes from time spent on the water. This episode,

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<v Speaker 2>it was about friendship. It's about tradition and learning the

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<v Speaker 2>details of where and why.

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<v Speaker 1>I joined me at the fire. Let's get started.

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<v Speaker 2>It was an email link from my brother Tim. He

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<v Speaker 2>called me before I had a chance to look at

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<v Speaker 2>it and said, did you see that email I sent you? No, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>look at it and call me back. Good day, and

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<v Speaker 2>he hung up. I don't remember what I was in

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<v Speaker 2>the middle of, but before I could finish whatever it was,

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<v Speaker 2>He called me back. You watch it yet, Tim, I'm busy,

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<v Speaker 2>watch it asap. Good day, He hung up again. The

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<v Speaker 2>love of humanity, What could this video be? I figured

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't some average link to someone's moronic, self induced buffoonery,

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<v Speaker 2>the kind we normally send back and forth. So whatever

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<v Speaker 2>I was working on, I stopped and I checked my email.

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<v Speaker 2>Well three minutes into the footage from the link he

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<v Speaker 2>sent me, I could see this was about to cost

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<v Speaker 2>me some money. I didn't know how much, but I

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't wait to get it unstove. Bradley Smith started filming

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<v Speaker 2>his outdoor pursuits for YouTube around twenty twenty at the

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<v Speaker 2>encouragement of family and friends. He'd been at it and

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<v Speaker 2>posting them for the world to witness for four years.

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<v Speaker 2>When Tim ran across the content, he sent me, Reeve

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<v Speaker 2>was going to provide you with a link in the

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<v Speaker 2>show description to take you right to his channel. But

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley was fishing in North Louisiana using a type of

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<v Speaker 2>net that.

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<v Speaker 1>Neither of us were familiar with. The hoopnet.

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<v Speaker 2>Fishing where we grew up wasn't uncommon by any means.

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<v Speaker 2>While the numbers have declined over the years. I couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>name all the folks who were doing it when I

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<v Speaker 2>graduated from high school in nineteen eighty four, and that

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<v Speaker 2>was from a town of barely.

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<v Speaker 1>Seven thousand people.

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<v Speaker 2>That year in Arkansas, there were over thirty eight hundred

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<v Speaker 2>commercial licenses sold. There are only one hundred and two

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<v Speaker 2>commercial licenses that are active now in the natural state

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<v Speaker 2>as of the latest data. It is a disappearing way

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<v Speaker 2>of life in a lot of places, places where catfish

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<v Speaker 2>and buffalo markets rule supreme. And that way of life

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<v Speaker 2>was as common in the Delta and Gulf Coastal Plain

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<v Speaker 2>where I'm from as farming or work in construction. For some,

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<v Speaker 2>it was a way of life. For others, it was

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<v Speaker 2>a way to supplement their income. For me and Tim,

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<v Speaker 2>it is just another way to experience the outdoors the

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<v Speaker 2>way our family did. As my daughter Bailey calls it

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<v Speaker 2>back then. Coincidentally, she also refers to the time period

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<v Speaker 2>of my birth in the same style, but adds an

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<v Speaker 2>emphasis to the word way before the back then and

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<v Speaker 2>her poorly failed at verbial phrase modifying when I was

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<v Speaker 2>born while throwing shade on me. You see, I can

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<v Speaker 2>talk cool anyway I have my great grandfather's net needle.

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<v Speaker 2>It's hand carved from a single piece of hickory, a

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<v Speaker 2>tool used to tie knots and twine and fashion it

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<v Speaker 2>into a net. I am a show enough rookie at it,

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<v Speaker 2>but I bet he wasn't. And I know my good

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<v Speaker 2>friend Bradley ain't. I've watched him tie them on his

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<v Speaker 2>channel more than once. As a matter of fact, I

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<v Speaker 2>learned to tie that net knot by watching him. My

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<v Speaker 2>great grandfather passed away before I was born, and had

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<v Speaker 2>it not been for Tim stumbling upon Bradley's YouTube channel,

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<v Speaker 2>that skill could have been lost on our generation. I

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<v Speaker 2>reached out to Bradley the way folks do these days,

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<v Speaker 2>through his Facebook page, and I carpet bombed his inbox

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<v Speaker 2>with question after question, all of which he dutifully answered.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a goal of mine to build and tie

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<v Speaker 2>my own net with my grandpa's needle. But that's a

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<v Speaker 2>project for another day. But I needed to know where

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<v Speaker 2>to get those nets that he was using. I needed

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<v Speaker 2>to know quick fast, and in a hurry. Bradley gave

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<v Speaker 2>me the info and in a matter of a few weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>mister Stan Smith down near farm of a Louisiana had

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<v Speaker 2>made Tim and I three wire nets. It was June

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<v Speaker 2>of twenty twenty four when we rolled into mister Stan's yard,

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<v Speaker 2>just a couple of boys from Arkansas.

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<v Speaker 1>So when we left we were a commercial.

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<v Speaker 2>Fisher, not really, but we had the nets and the licenses.

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<v Speaker 1>The only thing we needed to add.

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<v Speaker 2>Was fish to the nets, and we did literally on

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<v Speaker 2>the first set we ever made. A few days later,

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<v Speaker 2>we set our nets out in the areas where we

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<v Speaker 2>knew catfish to feed small eddies of current that naturally

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<v Speaker 2>gathered food, and all the good is that catfish liked

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<v Speaker 2>gnaw on. Then we left and we left him to

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<v Speaker 2>sit on the bottom of the Arkansas River. After a

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<v Speaker 2>few sleepless nights, we returned to check our nets and

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<v Speaker 2>were astonished at how many fish we'd caught on our

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<v Speaker 2>very first attempt. All three nets were heavy with channel catfish,

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<v Speaker 2>which is the most abundant and widespread catfish in the

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<v Speaker 2>Arkansas River. Our first attempt had us hooked pun intended.

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<v Speaker 2>I sent Bradley pictures in a couple of videos of

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<v Speaker 2>our hall as soon as we got back home, and

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<v Speaker 2>he invited us to come and go fishing with him,

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<v Speaker 2>and we vowed to set up a time. It only

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<v Speaker 2>took two years for it all to come together. It

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<v Speaker 2>was early June of this year when we got serious

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<v Speaker 2>about planning the trip. We'd kept up communicating through texts

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<v Speaker 2>and social media since I first started harassing him back.

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<v Speaker 1>In late May of twenty twenty four.

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<v Speaker 2>I was also watching Bradley's weekly Sunday morning drops on

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<v Speaker 2>his and his wife Daniel's God's Country Hunting and Fishing

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<v Speaker 2>YouTube channel. Danielle is the real star of that show,

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<v Speaker 2>and Bradley will be the first to tell you, but

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<v Speaker 2>don't take my word for it by itself.

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<v Speaker 1>Go watch it.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a video on there now mineing Bradley's trip, a

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<v Speaker 2>kind of behind the scenes look into my trip with

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<v Speaker 2>him showing Danielle and my friend and cameraman David McDaniels,

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<v Speaker 2>who was filming some bonus content for this country Life.

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley had some regular hoop nets already soaking in the

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<v Speaker 2>tepid waters of the Washington River, where he lives and

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<v Speaker 2>grew up fishing in Louisiana. Isn't that far from where

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<v Speaker 2>I did On on Axe, I ran a line from

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<v Speaker 2>my dad's boat ramp on the Selectane river to the

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<v Speaker 2>one we'd be using that Bradley frequency near his home,

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<v Speaker 2>and that it was less than sixty eight miles as

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<v Speaker 2>the crow flies from my spot to his. To draw

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<v Speaker 2>the similarities even closer. The Saline and Washington Rivers converge

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<v Speaker 2>in Arkansas north.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the state line.

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<v Speaker 2>We were more or less growing up on the same water,

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<v Speaker 2>albeit the decades in which we were first introduced to

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<v Speaker 2>it were a little different. I made the drive down

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<v Speaker 2>on the first afternoon and met Bradley at his new

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<v Speaker 2>river camp location. This would be our headquarters for the

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<v Speaker 2>next two nights of fishing. We were targeting flathead catfish,

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<v Speaker 2>but not with nets. Our plan was to catch them

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<v Speaker 2>using bank poles. Now I've talked about them before on here,

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<v Speaker 2>but if you're I'm not familiar with them, the easiest

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<v Speaker 2>way to describe it is is taking a fishing pole

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<v Speaker 2>that you just job one end of it in the

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<v Speaker 2>bank and tie a hook to the other end, bait

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<v Speaker 2>it and drop it into water. And there's obviously more

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<v Speaker 2>to it than that, but that will put a picture

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<v Speaker 2>in your mind of what we were doing. Targeting flatheads

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<v Speaker 2>is way more involved than just chunking bait out in

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<v Speaker 2>the water.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I've talked about catching them before, so I'm not going

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<v Speaker 2>to go into a lot of detail this time, but

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<v Speaker 2>I will say they prefer live bait. Bluegill brim is

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<v Speaker 2>a favorite of theirs. Blue gill brim is a favorite

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<v Speaker 2>of mine. It is the favorite of mine, Following behind

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<v Speaker 2>us everything else that swims, walks, or flies, everything, every

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<v Speaker 2>reading thing. So why would I bait a hook with

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<v Speaker 2>something that tastes great to catch something that tastes good?

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<v Speaker 2>That is a question I kept asking myself and stating

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<v Speaker 2>out loud to Bradley and anyone with an earshot as

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<v Speaker 2>he ran a ten out mustad circle hook through the

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<v Speaker 2>tenderloins of Lapomas macrocyris. That's the scientific name for what

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<v Speaker 2>I can only imagine would be what an angel tasted like,

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<v Speaker 2>should I ever have the opportunity to take a bite

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<v Speaker 2>out of one as it flew by. But after he

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<v Speaker 2>hooked a baitfish just below the dorsal fen and turned

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<v Speaker 2>it loose to swim near the bottom of the river,

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<v Speaker 2>my excitement level started to build as I thought about

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<v Speaker 2>the possibilities of what we could catch. I've watched several

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<v Speaker 2>videos with Bradley on his channel and using these bank poles.

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<v Speaker 2>One of them is with a longtime friend of mine

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<v Speaker 2>and his son from back home. Jeff Chester and his

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<v Speaker 2>son Dusty are no strangers to catching fish or catching

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<v Speaker 2>big fish. When I heard they'd started Opolus's bank Poles,

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't surprise. Also just talked to Dusty and he

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<v Speaker 2>reported that they just sold out of all the inventory

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<v Speaker 2>they had and they're looking to be back in stock

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<v Speaker 2>this winter, which is in plenty of time to get

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<v Speaker 2>ready for primetime bank pole fishing next spring.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff is a national champion boat fisherman and.

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<v Speaker 2>A highly decorated veteran of gathering his vittals from the

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<v Speaker 2>Good Lord's Grocery Store makes it easy to see how

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<v Speaker 2>his son Dusty got so good at Anyway, they have

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<v Speaker 2>a website where you can order the same poles we

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<v Speaker 2>were using, and Bradley's are just like the ones I

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<v Speaker 2>got it from them a couple of years ago. Reeve

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<v Speaker 2>was going to put a link in the show description

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<v Speaker 2>for that too, so be sure to save.

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<v Speaker 1>It and check it out later this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, Bradley had fish for about an hour and had

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<v Speaker 2>an ice chest full of big old grim when we

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<v Speaker 2>got there Bradley's an industrial electrician by trade. The folks

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<v Speaker 2>like him are hard to put in a single category.

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<v Speaker 1>He's smart, really smart.

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley first saw the light of day in nineteen seventy eight,

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<v Speaker 2>when the average gallon of gas would cost you sixty

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<v Speaker 2>five cents. A case many trapper would set you back

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen dollars, and the number one song for the whole

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<v Speaker 2>year was Mama's Don't let your babies grow up to

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<v Speaker 2>be cowboys by whaling and Willie I could go for

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<v Speaker 2>another dose of all of that right about now, But

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<v Speaker 2>that in Farm of the Louisiana, the Smith's welcomed baby

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley into the fold, a self described family of folks

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<v Speaker 2>living on the edge of the law, just doing what

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<v Speaker 2>they needed to do to survive, just like everyone else.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley is a stickler for abiden by game laws and

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<v Speaker 2>watched me like a hawk. Not not that I'm prone

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<v Speaker 2>to intentionally messing up by any means, but being a

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<v Speaker 2>non resident makes it easier if you're not paying attention

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<v Speaker 2>to any any differences there may be between state game laws,

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<v Speaker 2>regardless of how similar the activity may be. The first

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<v Speaker 2>evening we badeed up sixteen bank poles from a live

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<v Speaker 2>well Bradley had built, leaving us twenty four brim to

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<v Speaker 2>rebait through the night should we happen to catch any fish.

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley's live well consisted of an oxygen bottle, a regulator

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<v Speaker 2>holes in a stone bubbler that works way better than

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<v Speaker 2>anything I've purchased ready made to do the same thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Bait is the critical component of the operation, and as

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<v Speaker 2>water temperatures start to rise later in the summer, it

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<v Speaker 2>gets more difficult to keep them alive. That's why Bradley

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<v Speaker 2>had a three hundred dollars bottle of oxygen fixed up

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<v Speaker 2>to pump air into the roto molded ice chest he

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<v Speaker 2>converted into a live well. Ideally, catching brim from the

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<v Speaker 2>same water you're chasing flatheads is is what you want

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<v Speaker 2>to do. But everyone I've talked to has had a

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<v Speaker 2>slower year than normal trying to find the brown beds

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<v Speaker 2>in the river back home, and Bradley said they've had

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with this as well on the washitall so

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<v Speaker 2>he and his son Dalan fish for less than an

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<v Speaker 2>hour to both the forty that we were about to

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<v Speaker 2>use from over on Lake Darbone. Less than twenty miles away.

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<v Speaker 2>For all you folks that just sat back and gaps

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<v Speaker 2>that I'd used the name of the lake where Bradley

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<v Speaker 2>was fishing, get your drawers out of a knot and

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<v Speaker 2>realize he's showing video and naming that lake in his

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<v Speaker 2>content that has literally millions of views. Also, I specifically

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<v Speaker 2>asked him how much he wanted me to share. That

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<v Speaker 2>lake is fifteen miles long and three miles wide at

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<v Speaker 2>its widest point, So look for something else to be

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<v Speaker 2>mad about. Anyway, Keeping those bait fish alive is priority

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<v Speaker 2>numero uno, and we couldn't have done that without the

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<v Speaker 2>investment of equipment and trial and error experience. Bradley's been

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<v Speaker 2>collecting data on all his life. Being the son of

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<v Speaker 2>a commercial fisherman teaches you more than how to catch fish.

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<v Speaker 2>You learn the best ways to utilize the resource with

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<v Speaker 2>as little waste as possible. If you're wasting the resource,

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<v Speaker 2>you're losing money, which defeats the reason you're out there

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<v Speaker 2>to begin with.

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<v Speaker 1>But not only that.

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<v Speaker 2>When you're raised to protect and cherish the things that

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<v Speaker 2>the Good Lord has given you to provide for your family,

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<v Speaker 2>it takes on a whole other level of importance. Wasting

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<v Speaker 2>any of it is not an option. The poles were

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<v Speaker 2>all baited an hour after dark, and we pulled up

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<v Speaker 2>on a sandbar and it turned out the lights and

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<v Speaker 2>visited for a while. The dichotomy between the river I've

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<v Speaker 2>been on a couple of weeks before in northern Saskatchewan

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<v Speaker 2>in the Washita River in northern Louisiana was a sharp contrast,

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<v Speaker 2>mostly in insects, and for whatever reason, the mosquitoes were

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<v Speaker 2>way worse in Canada than they were in Louisiana, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'd have lost money on that bed regardless. After thirty

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<v Speaker 2>minutes or so, we decided to go back down the

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<v Speaker 2>river two miles where we placed the first pole before

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<v Speaker 2>we worked our way up.

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<v Speaker 1>River checking the rest.

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<v Speaker 2>The excitement of seeing that first pole start to bob

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<v Speaker 2>up and down as the fish on the other end

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<v Speaker 2>of the line reacted to the sound of the motor

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<v Speaker 2>was beyond a measurable The first one was a big

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<v Speaker 2>flathead and we would repeat that scenario nine more times

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<v Speaker 2>until we called it a night and climbed into our

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<v Speaker 2>bucks in Bradley's camping around two am. After rebating the

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<v Speaker 2>lines and icing down one hundred and twenty five quarter

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<v Speaker 2>ice chest full of fish and three big blue cats

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<v Speaker 2>had been hooked along with the flatheads, but they were

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<v Speaker 2>all released back into the river. We were up early

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<v Speaker 2>and paused only long enough to get some coffee made

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<v Speaker 2>before we went back to the river to check the lines.

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<v Speaker 2>Four more flatheads and some blue cats retaliate. All the

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<v Speaker 2>blues were released except for one that had swallowed the hook.

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<v Speaker 1>He got it right back to Arkansas.

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<v Speaker 2>Later that day, after cleaning fish, we ran both hoop

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<v Speaker 2>nets Bradley had set before I got there. A few

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<v Speaker 2>catfish were caught and released, but the star of that

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<v Speaker 2>show for me was the buffalo. I dearly loved buffalo ribs.

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<v Speaker 2>I've talked about them before, but I haven't conquered the

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<v Speaker 2>challenge of catching them consistently. Actually, Tim and I have

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<v Speaker 2>only had one catch a buffalo the on the only

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<v Speaker 2>time we put our hoop nets out in the river,

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<v Speaker 2>and we only caught three or four when we did.

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<v Speaker 2>After that, we concentrated on the smaller wire nets and

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<v Speaker 2>having fished the hoop net since, but I bought some

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<v Speaker 2>new tags, renewed my commercial fishing license, and we're looking

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<v Speaker 2>forward to making another run at them. When this fire

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<v Speaker 2>in brimstone weather breaks. Later summer, I learned quite a

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<v Speaker 2>bit about net fishing and flatheads while watching and talking

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<v Speaker 2>to Bradley. Little things I should be paying closer attention to,

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<v Speaker 2>like the subtle changes and the current around the smallest

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<v Speaker 2>of points along the bank, things that I've always overlooked

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<v Speaker 2>trying to find a bigger one. I thought the difference

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't big enough to matter on such a small scale.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I saw one hook that was placed perfectly in

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<v Speaker 2>a spot catch multiple fish, while one rot beside it

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<v Speaker 2>less than a yard away just beyond that zone.

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<v Speaker 1>Didn't get a bite.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the attention to details that comes from an analytical

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<v Speaker 2>way of thinking. I watched Bradley set those hooks, but

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't see how he caught those fish until he

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<v Speaker 2>explained to me why he was setting them where he was.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's how you learned the details of where and

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<v Speaker 2>why are what matter. Until that day, I was looking

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<v Speaker 2>for a likely spot. By paying attention, I started looking

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<v Speaker 2>for a specific spot. I can think of a million

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<v Speaker 2>places right now that I'm going to start setting those

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<v Speaker 2>bank polls as soon as that it gets below a

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<v Speaker 2>thousand degrees outside. Something else I learned by watching to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to Bradley and his wife Danielle.

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<v Speaker 1>The older ways are in good hands.

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<v Speaker 2>There are more of us who rely on the tried

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<v Speaker 2>and trusted ways of doing things out there than I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>People enjoying are hunger for the kind of content that

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<v Speaker 2>they produced, simple, close to the land, wholesome content that

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<v Speaker 2>demonstrates a hard work and big reward ethic. Providing the

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<v Speaker 2>majority of.

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<v Speaker 1>The food for your family from nature isn't easy.

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<v Speaker 2>I can testify to that because most of the meat

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<v Speaker 2>and all the fish consumed in my home doesn't come

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<v Speaker 2>from the grocery store. Preparing and packaging food to be

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<v Speaker 2>put away properly is as big a part of the

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<v Speaker 2>process as the hunting and fishing trips are, maybe even

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<v Speaker 2>more so. What the Smiths are doing is not just

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<v Speaker 2>entertainment to be enjoyed. They should be commended their efforts

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<v Speaker 2>in allowing the rest of us to watch and learn

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<v Speaker 2>from the lifestyle that they live. The older ways may

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<v Speaker 2>be getting harder to find, but folks like Bradley and

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<v Speaker 2>Danielle Smith are keeping those traditions alive, and they're far

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<v Speaker 2>far from gone. If you enjoy simple, close to the land,

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<v Speaker 2>honest to goodness, good content. Check out God's Country Hunting

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<v Speaker 2>and Fishing on their YouTube channel.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you'll enjoy it.

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<v Speaker 2>And be sure to wait and watch for some bonus

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<v Speaker 2>content that'll drop on from my trip down there. I

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<v Speaker 2>think you'll enjoy it. Thank y'all so much for listening

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<v Speaker 2>until next week. This is Brent Reeves signing off.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all be careful, I think don