WEBVTT - Ep. 74: Gloves Off, Jet Boat Cowboy 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.080 Who are you when you get on this jet boat? 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:10.440 You know, it's like you get on it and you 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.360 just like become Stebo all of a sudden, John, I 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:19.920 had toilet paper, just for toilet paper, point blank. Our 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.720 beloved Phil responded with, if I take a shot every 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.840 time someone says yeah, man, will I die? If you're 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.880 scared to go to church, if you're broke, don't message 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:36.000 me O b O Trades. Welcome, good morning to Generate Anglers, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.839 and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that promised itself 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.360 it would be more financially responsible in the new year, 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.519 but already bought two tack to bite fish calls on 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.279 Impulse from the as scene on TV and cap at 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.280 Walgreen's I'm Joe Surmeli and I'm Hayden Sam Mac and 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.760 Happy New Year, de Generate. It's into you two man, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:57.440 Happy new year. Here we are in sixty five new opportunities, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.240 Am I right? You know what I mean? And we 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.800 certainly we hope you guys had a wonderful holiday and 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.720 created beautiful memories with your friends and family. The uh 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.759 you know, like the vaccinated and boosted ones. I guess anyway, um, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.119 and and this week week. This week, we've got we've 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.160 got a bunch of of new stuff for the new 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.240 year coming at you. We've got a new segment, we've 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.040 got new guests, new co host. You know what I'm saying. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.080 Come on, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.240 You're still you're stuck with Hayden. Um. But really, we 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.319 we are very excited for the new year and the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.880 new season. I guess is this a new season? Is 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.600 this a new year making new season? Is that right? 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.440 I don't even know. That's what they tell me. I 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.560 don't know it is officia. I should really check with 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.720 somebody about that, but I don't know what freaking difference 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.800 it makes. We'll go with that, we'll say it, we'll 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.120 say this new season of Bent. But before we get 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.160 to all that, UM, you know, we we've been on 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.600 a little bit of a break at meeting over the holiday. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.040 They give us a nice break, Hayden and I and 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.160 um as all you guys know. I think by now, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.760 while Hayden lives in Montana, he's a Pennsylvania boy, and 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.239 despite our best efforts, we had every intention of linking 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.079 up while you were back here on the East Coast 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.640 for the holidays, and that did not happen. Um, you 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.720 want to explain, why should we tell the good people 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.640 what what what went down? Well, let's start at the beginning, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.280 all right, we'll go from there. That could take a 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.160 little while, but go ahead, go from the beginning. Yeah. So, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.760 uh so we had planned to go fishing, like basically 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.680 as soon as I got home, but my flights got 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.880 all messed up and that never happened. So I came 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.240 in like a day later. Um, You, however, did go 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.920 out that day and you had a wonderful day on 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.080 the water. Yeah. So the day that you were stuck 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.280 in Houston, I was floating a local river and just 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.760 crushed some monster wild browns, including my personal best. So yes, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.280 that was that was strike one for you, and I 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.120 thank you Airlines. That hurt. Um, so, yeah, I missed that. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.320 Then we had a plan to do a little tagging, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.200 which I was really you know, you and I have 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.840 talked about this multiple times. I was very excited about that. Um. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.639 But despite the forecast looking lovely just a few days prior, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.840 ship got super nasty and we wisely scrabbed, you know, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.639 we scrapped the trip However, we did make plans to 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.360 hit the TOG grounds when I got back from a 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.800 little Steelhead trip. I was going to take the following week. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.080 So I was very hopeful for that happening. Yeah. So yeah, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.000 so we we we pushed TOG by a week. We 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.240 rescheduled because that's just December. Three days out it looks great, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.880 and the night before it's like shit. So yeah, a 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:48.040 little rescheduled there and then and then what happens. Uh yeah, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.240 you know, I'm trying to stop saying yeah man. I 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.280 don't know if you I don't know if you've seen 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.160 the comments, but folks are picking up us. Yeah, starting 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.080 half of our thoughts with yeah man. In fact, when 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.920 I put out the call to uh, you know, for listeners, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.880 for to get questions on our i G the other day, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.080 our beloved Phil responded with, if I take a shot 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.680 every time someone says yeah, man, will I die? Yeah? Man, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.080 I think you would, yeah man. Uh yeah. So anyhow, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.839 after that, let's see, Uh, I had my thirtieth birthday, rats, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:31.240 thank you, a wonderful Christmas, and then I caught COVID completely. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:36.080 Just everything else up, including uh, the Steelhead trip and 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.479 the tag rain date so I ended up just kind 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.080 of like isolating in a cabin for the remainder of 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.360 my visit until I tested negative. So it was I mean, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.920 it was fine but not great. Yeah, I hope, I 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.720 hope yours was better. Uh what did you get up to, Joe? Well, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.440 I did a little brown trout fishing. I also did 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.000 some dogging. Um no, I'm I'm I'm I'm kidding of course. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.080 So yeah, we're supposed to go to the Wednesday after Christmas, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.400 and I got the call on Monday that it was like, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.839 hey man, so here's the thing I have COVID. And 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.680 I was like, holy ship. And here's why I said 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.120 holy sh it, because you were like the nine hundred 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.640 person that said that to me over the holidays. So 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.520 we we had a nice holiday with kids in the family. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.600 But I mean, it's in the back of your mind, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.320 like all right, whereas my COVID it's coming and and 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.240 so far here we are like me and my family 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:30.119 have have skated. But um, you know, funny, funny thing. Um, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.200 we ended up going on that talg trip, the one 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.800 you missed, and I was the I think I was 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.600 the only guy on the boat that had not already 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.080 had COVID and gotten over it, and we're like, was 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.560 was negative and I was actually jealous. I'm like, damn it, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.279 I want my COVID. Like, let's just get it over 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.800 with already. You know what I'm saying. But it was 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.480 a good break. It was nice time, good holiday. Well 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.479 that's great man. You know, I'm glad to hear you 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.120 and your family had such a happy holiday. Dude, I'm 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.159 glad you at least, you know, got to have yourself 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.320 a merry little Christmas. I I imagine you're excited to 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.120 head back to Montana. Yeah. All my flights back home 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:15.040 just keep getting serially canceled. Um, so the joy continues. Um. Oh, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.719 I think it's fair to point out, since you just 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.280 mentioned that you're not there yet, you're heading back, this 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:21.760 is after the new year, and you are still in 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.880 Pennsylvania because your flight flights have been canceled so many times. 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.440 I'm still stuck here. But you know, if there's one 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.640 thing that is cheering me up a little bit, uh, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.880 it's all my friends. They've been posting ice fishing pictures. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.560 All the lakes of Montana are basically frozen up, and 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.600 that means that pretty soon I'm going to be out 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.760 on the ice, and I'm particularly excited about that. And 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.359 I think you know why, well I do. I know. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.920 I know. One reason is because you were hoping to 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.760 maybe ice fish while you were home, and I kept 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.839 telling you, bro, it's sixty five degrees here. There is 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.680 no ice between here and Buffalo, I promise. Um. But 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.400 I also imagine you're itching to use some of that 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.080 sweet gear you got from thirteen fishing? Is that the reason? 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.600 Very much? So? I've been just like patiently waiting since 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.159 the day I got it to break it out, and 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.840 it seems like the time is finally here. Um. I 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.640 know I've said it at least twice on here, but 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.480 those finesse bates they sent over are just like the 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.680 fishiest things I've ever seen. Oh yeah, dude, And how 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.160 cool were those flash bangs? Right? That's exactly and that 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.320 is exactly what I was thinking of. Those are like, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.360 by far my favorites. I just think that they're they're 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.880 like well made, you know, uh, Like you get one 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.160 in your hand and you're just like yep, yep. I'll 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.960 just jump in real quick and say that even the 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.800 small soft plastics made for ice fishing, dude, I was 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.640 using a few open water for crop ease over holiday break, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.920 like the Yeah. And they also don't cost like a 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.720 ship toney either, you know, I think I think the 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.480 flashbangs or eight bucks. It seems like you go to 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.880 like a tackle shop those still exists. You go to 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.040 a tackle shop and you buy like a buck tail 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.480 or whatever, and they're all like hands spun with unicorn 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.160 maine and like made with lead from Mars, and they 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.360 all caused like a hundred bucks. You know, these babies 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:09.040 are the working man's jigging spoon, right the discerning working 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:14.040 man's jigging spoon right there. Yes, exactly, Well, yes, super 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.040 super good deal, um, And I'm sorry you had kind 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.440 of a shitty trip out here, and I'm glad you're 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.600 healthy and getting after it sooner on the hard water. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.520 But i'll tell you what, as shitty as your trip 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.360 may have been, it wasn't anywhere near as shitty in 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.200 the literal sense as the trip that our colleague, former 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.120 guiding good friend Michael come on, that's actually his last name, like, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:47.040 come on, man um in this week's Snooth Moves. Why 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.800 all right, So we're here with my buddy Michael Common, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.400 who is our partnerships coordinator over here meat eater, but 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.760 was also for many years a fish And I just 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.040 gonna jump in and say, I just learned this, Like 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.120 I work with Mike, although like digitally because I'm not 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.560 in Montana, I'm like the East Coast Milton with my 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.800 stapler out here. So I had no idea that Mike 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.480 was a fishing guy. Like we email frequently about all 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.920 sorts of things fishing and work related, and I'm like, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.120 he was a guide. What all the time we've emailed 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.000 back and forth, Joe, It's nice to finally put a 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.080 face with the name. He was just telling me he 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.320 went he bought a Chuck Norris lore which was on 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.640 end of the line, and at my recommendation, it took 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.320 it to Costa Rica and banged a bunch of mahi 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.440 on it. Oh ship, sure did Joe's on it with 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:42.839 the Chuck Norris Chuck. Anyway, this is cool. It was 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.679 surprising and cool, and I'm like, I'm I'm pumped that 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.560 we're doing this. Where were you guiding? Man? Well, I 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.360 was a bad country guide for many years, so I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.080 guided in Wyoming and in Montana here mostly in the 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.000 Bob Marshall Wilderness and then also wrote a boat for 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.480 quite a few years here in the Bozeman area. So 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.240 on the Yellowstone River and the Madison River, and fish 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.280 a lot on the Galton Nice, So right in the 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.360 thick of it, right like right in like like the 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.800 most overcrowded rivers in the state. That yeah, where we 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.400 have lots of competition. And you know, you have a 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.840 better odds of finding a fishing guide than you do 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.920 have probably anything else here in Montana. You know, as 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.439 you started asking around people, you know, it's, uh, it's 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.359 a pretty pretty thick crowd here in town. Yep. So, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.960 so Joe, Mike was telling me this story when we 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.439 were we were actually elkhin when you told me this story, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.040 and I immediately knew Joe has to hear this because 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.400 this is just perfect. I have no idea what's coming, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.400 but I'm I can't wait. I trust you, man, I 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.720 trust you. I can't wait to hear this. That's right 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.920 up your alley. Shoot lay it, honest, dude. So as 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.760 we all know, you know, as a as a guide, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.760 we we try and do as much as we can 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:59.200 for our clients all the time, and sometimes we do 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:04.600 that unbeknowing what actually might happen. So on this particular day, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.599 we had a couple of clients. We were doing a 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.160 walk away trip, so you know, just on our own 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.520 two feet, kind of walking up and down the river, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.240 and uh tend to spend more time with one client 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.920 for maybe thirty minutes or an hour, and then you 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.520 kind of bounce back to the other client. So I 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.360 was fishing with two guys this one day. They were 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.040 friends from out of town and um earlier in the day, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.760 one of the guys that asked me if I had 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.600 a had a pair of gloves that he could borrow. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.880 He said, sure, of course, you know, I'm you're not 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.320 gonna let a guy go with cold hands. And so 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.840 I had an extra pair of gloves today that I 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.439 let him borrow. And uh, you know, I thought year 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.880 was this, Mike? Was it like gloves weather? Obviously glove weather. Yeah, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.600 it was. It was in Uh, it was in the fall, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.920 I think. Gosh, I think it was about mid October 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.400 or something like that. So out here in Montana getting 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.840 to that cold time, especially guys out of town, right, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.400 I I completely forgot that, like only mid July isn't 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:02.440 glove weather, so it was it was not July, so 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:08.520 we were wearing glass So so it wasn't out of 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.440 the realm of possibility that he was going to need 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.160 a pair of gloves for the day to to warm 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.360 up his his hands and h especially with cold water 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.520 that we have out here. And uh, so I let 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.959 him borrow with gloves and um, while I was up 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.920 spending time with the other client. Uh, you know, I 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.719 didn't think anything of it, and went back to to 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.920 see how this one gentleman was doing a little bit 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.200 later on, and uh, he proceeds to hand me one 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:39.960 glove back. I like the Michael Jackson thing. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:46.520 without the dance moves though, and uh and I asked him, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.000 I said, well where, John, where did the other glove go? 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.880 And he said, oh, well I had to take a ship. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:13:00.439 I said, okay, well where'd the other glove go? Said? Well, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.240 I needed to wipe my ass with something. Oh I 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.840 would just call that point blank rude. It's just rude, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.920 So I h yeah, So I just pretty much handed 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.600 him the one glove back and said, you know what, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.080 you can keep it. It's my tip to you. And 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:23.120 uh yeah, So I also said John, I had toilet paper. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.640 You could have just asked me for toilet paper, point blank. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.960 You didn't have to go with the glove route. And 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.160 uh so I have quickly learned that if somebody asks 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.760 you to borrow a pair of gloves, ask them what 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.240 they're going to do with it. This is this is 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.000 almost as close as it comes to literally wiping your 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.440 client's ass. Yeah, pretty much. And we haven't had a 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.160 good ship story in a while, so this is very refreshing. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.000 We were kind of overdue for excrement, you know what 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:57.080 I mean. But that's that's extremely that's extremely rude, and 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.600 like that is why buffs were invented. The only reason 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.040 to ever have a buff on and I don't give 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.160 a ship pardon the pun. If it's a Sims buff 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.520 or a buff buff for whoever everybody make, you can 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.280 buy them at Walgreens. Like that's why you spend that 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.320 money to wear that around your neck, Like that's what 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:19.800 that's for his toilet paper? Right? Yeah, And like to me, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.720 it's like that guy. Nobody told that guy if you 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.800 fly fish, you have to wear a buff you know. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.040 So you're kind of at fault there too. You should 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.560 have been like, where's your buff well once Orvius I 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.760 guess starts making them. Maybe they'll see on the fly 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.960 fishing team. You know, I think I have an us 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.360 buff or had one. The other thing I'll say too, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.920 is um as gross as that is and as rude 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.200 as that is. Maybe you guys have the same thing. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.840 Like I'm weird about fishing with gloves on. I hate it. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.040 I hate fishing with gloves on, and we'll avoid it 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.840 at all costs. And I have one pair to forget. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.280 They're kena or what they are, but they weren't anything 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.560 fancy and they're fingerless gloves, and they're the only gloves 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.240 that I am really comfortable fishing in, whether it's saltwater 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.400 fly fishing or whatever. And like they are so precious. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.160 Because of that, I've basically done everything with them but 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.480 wipe my ass. And like, even if I had to 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.720 wipe my ass with them, I'd have to bag them 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.880 bring them home because like a good pair of fishing gloves, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.240 it's very hard to find. I would recommend if you 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.880 are going to use a pair of gloves, don't use 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.840 fingerless gloves to wipe your ass. Joe, Well, yeah, if 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 it's all in your hand. Wait a minute, now, you 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.280 just you just open up a whole other can of worms. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.120 Do you do you figure that he used your glove 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.600 like like a single piece of charmante? Or did he 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.120 put his hand in the glove and then wipe his 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.480 ass with the hand in the glove, which would be 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.560 more pressure and probably clear off more ship. I guess 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.040 in my mind, I've just envisioned the hand in the 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.640 glove using it like a glove. This is a horrible, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.440 horrible conversation. Now it's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful, and I 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:58.720 appreciate it very much. Dude, what the hell is wrong 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.640 with man? That crazy? I asked myself that question at 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.560 least ten times every time I go out in public. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.360 You know what I mean. It's mind blowing to meet 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.760 lose a soccer or something, bro use some leaves, something 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.480 anything else. Like I said, this is why buffs were invented, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.640 you know what I mean, That's what they're great for. Anyway, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.280 let's move off of this. Let's move off of this topic. Okay, agreed, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.440 And speaking of wiping, I'm about to wipe the floor 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.640 with you, Joe Sassy. That's right, boys and girls, it's 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.360 time for that weekly competition we call fish news. Fish news. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:44.880 That escalated quickly. Alrighty, then first news of how fresh 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.640 and exciting is that? Yeah, a little Ventura bumbaway Juna. Um. Good. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.160 You don't catch Christmas vacation, but you get Asha Ventura. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.360 You've heard about the Christmas vacation thing. I know you've 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.120 heard it from several people, but it's impossible for you 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:02.560 to have not seen that. Um. Before we get started, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.879 I just wanted to drop a little plug, if I may, um, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.680 for a piece that I published on the Meat Eater 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.679 website this week, which is is rare. And I know this. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.879 I am a right yeah, well it is. I am 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.359 a writer, um that seems to have little time to 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.679 write anymore because I'm busy doing other things. UM, But 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.800 I am trying to get back into that groove a 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.760 little bit this year. Um. And earlier in this this 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.800 very show, you had mentioned the brown trout fishing that 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.119 you missed. Well, the story I posted this week is 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.800 tied to that trip, um. And I'm making the case 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:38.920 right that if you want to become a better fly 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.639 fisherman with streamers in particular, put down the fly rod 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.200 and throw Laura's in bait. So how's that? What is 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.280 the guy who insists that there's there's no better way 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.919 to catch a trout than with a fly rod have 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:56.919 to say about that? I'm curious? Well, um, I you know, honestly, guy, man, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.239 I'll tell you what if you uh, if you go 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.920 back in that an email inbox that we so religiously check, 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.040 you will see a email that I replied to and 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.280 didn't that email A listener was asking me what he 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.800 could do too, you know, kind of up his odds 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.240 of being successful in fly fishing as he you know, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.479 got more into it. And one of the things that 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:24.879 I suggested is to go find a pond scouted out 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.000 using bait and Bobber's find the fish and then like 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.520 learn how to fish for him. So I do think 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.879 that that being a bait fisherman will in fact make 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.440 you better fly fisherman. I don't know, man, I agree 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.680 with that wholeheartedly. Is that the same guy that you 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.440 told to watch a whole bunch of Joan Wolf videos 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.679 on VHS or something? Yeah? Yeah I did. And you 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.720 know what else? If that pisses you off, you anybody 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.480 who was like I'm talking to everybody right now, I'm 0:18:55.520 --> 0:19:01.879 ready to fight, bro, you know, I'm just go Hayden 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.800 will reply to a band email and I'll see the 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.639 reply later. And there was one I was like, Joan 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:11.920 Wolf on Beta Max, what are you telling this poor guy? Anyway, Anyway, anyway, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.560 I hope some of you guys check it out on 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.719 the meter dot com. It was enjoyable to get back 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.959 to my roots a bit and write something other than 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.600 a podcast segment for a change. Uh So let's uh, 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.120 let's get into news. It's a new year. Will there 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.360 be a new Phil tailor to Judges? Has he reinvented 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.639 himself for two? Uh? We will find out because remember 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.520 this is a competition. Hayden and I do not know 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.440 which news weapons the other guy is bringing to this fight. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.320 And uh, it's your leadoff, I believe this week, which 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.600 is an advantage for you. So what do you got, bro? 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.040 What do you got? Okay? This one's for Joe Wolf. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.199 Uh Okay, Joe. So this week I kind of have 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.840 like a quick hit from for you from the from 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.680 the State of Texas. The stars at night are big 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.959 and bright, deep in the heart of Texas. If I 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.080 hadn't used that clip from Pee Wee Herman so many 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.200 times already. I would I would have Phil Subbitt in 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.600 here again, but we'll skip it. Did I tell you 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.640 what happened when that episode played. I was in the car. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:10.399 I was in the car with my buddy, the one 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.280 that you used that for previously. I was in the 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.400 car with my buddy who's from Oklahoma, and Dude, that 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.840 clip played and it was like he remembered he was 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.000 in a cult. Immediately he just started like and he 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:33.960 clapped at one point. Yeah. There, absolutely, it was super weird, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.320 like it like just flipped a switch in his lizard 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.200 brain man, and he was straight. You know, we might 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.560 not teach you shit about fishing, but if we can 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.600 take you back to pee Wee's big adventure for just 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.400 one second, you know we're doing God's work anyway. Sorry, Yeah, 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.200 go on with the news, please. So, according to the 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.280 Dallas Morning News, residents of tex Orkna witnessed what is 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.639 known as an animal rain. And what is that, you 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.760 may have It is not a period of time in 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:06.080 which animals ruled with an iron fist, but rather but 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.240 rather the actual raining of animals, as like like they 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.920 fell from the heavens. M I'm glad to clarify that 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.000 it'd be it would be spelled differently if it was raining, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:25.199 like like raining blood U slayer, But okay, just raining. Okay, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.280 So animals are falling from the skuy go on. Yeah, 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:33.480 I didn't want to get folks confused anyway, The residents 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.800 found the ground like littered with fish after thunderstorms rolled 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.639 through the Texarcana area last Wednesday. Over a dozen people 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.960 called in to report it. Now here's the weird thing though, 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.280 I mean, like, animals falling from the sky is pretty weird. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.640 But like, here's the other weird thing. An animal rain 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.119 is typically like very like explicable. Uh. Storm rolls in, 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.440 generates water spout over nearby body of water. The water 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.760