WEBVTT - Ep. 8: Quit Gaping at my Gar 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.320 The lake brace was being used as a different kind 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.600 of brace, right, so, and they were like waiters down 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.680 around ankles and that sort of thing going on. It's 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.160 like getting insulted by Mr Rogers. Just because God didn't 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.000 give you a brain doesn't mean you're not special and unique. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.599 I made some poor footwear choices, but you shouldn't bring 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.480 snake boots, so you will now be able to scream, rolls, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.920 UFC fights, reruns of Dog the Bounding Hunter, and porn 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:35.680 Hump from anywhere on the property. Good morning, degenerate anglers. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.120 Welcome to Bent the Fishing podcast. A recent study found 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.720 is best consumed while sitting in a lawn chair. I'm 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.159 Joe Surmelie Miles Nulty, and before we get to the 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.400 actual show, I just want to say that I freaking 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.560 love fishing in October. Yeah, rock October so good. But 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.760 unlike you, I especially loved camping and fishing in October 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.120 because like everybody's gone, it's quiet. There's just like a 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.240 little frost on everything. In the morning, the fishing is 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.440 usually good, but even if it isn't, there's still enough 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.920 like chill to the air that you can justify pulling 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.200 out a flask because you're not day drinking. No, no, no, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.880 you're just staying warm. You're being responsible, right. And I 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:24.000 also I also recently discovered coffee bags from Black Rifle Coffee, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.120 which I had never known about before. It's like a 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.160 tea bag, except you don't have to be British or 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.040 over the age of seventy to enjoy one. And they're 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.880 perfect for making a hot cup of coffee, you know, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.960 when you're waiting at camp for the sundrise or the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.880 fish to bite, or or you just need like a 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.960 quick warm up and a recharge. They're awesome, man, I 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.160 had never known about them, coffee bags. They're sweet, British 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.000 or over the age of seventy. Yeah, uh yeah. So 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.160 in case you guys missed it, the Bend podcast is 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.280 fueled by Black Rifle Coffee and uh. As Miles suggested, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.360 camping is not really my jam, though, those will come 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.960 in handy the next time I'm staying in a motel 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.760 with rooms that can be rented by the hour of 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.960 the week, would I'll take that over a tent. So 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.200 that's usually where I end up when I'm on the road, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.320 and I'd rather not. I try to avoid the expired 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.680 coffee packets sitting next to the tiny lime crusted coffee 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.519 pot by the hair dry I'm talking about, so I 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.639 know them well. So if you like good coffee like 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.639 we do, head over to Black Rifle Coffee dot com 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.480 backslash meat Eater and sign up for their monthly coffee 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.640 delivery service. So if you ever oversleep and rush to 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.720 that next Zoom meeting, you can always just pop a 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:39.160 bag in your mouth and brew internally bitter while you're there. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.919 Over at Black Rifle Coffee, enter the discount code meat 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.280 Eater at checkout and they will take off your first order, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.960 which is a pretty good deal. And you know we're 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.280 on the subject coffee here, Joe, I got a little 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.920 fun fact for you. Shoot, you know that Canada drinks 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.240 more coffee per capita than almost any other country in 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:03.799 the world. Okay, true, Canadians average more than a hundred 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.960 and fifty two leaders per person per year, which the 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.160 Internet told me works out to about forty gallons, which 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.799 you know, seems like a lot. And that puts them 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.680 third in the world behind the Netherlands. In Finland, for 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.520 all the big coffee chains and ubiquitous hipster cafes that 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.640 feed our addictions to legal uppers and free WiFi. We 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.799 Americans barely crack the top ten. We only come in 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.320 at number nine. Canadians got his beat. Yeah, this doesn't 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.240 surprise me at all because there's a Tim Horton's every 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.160 thirty five meters from Canada. This is not shocking. And 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.920 guess what, Canada, Tim Hortons is overrated. You ever? Do 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.040 you every knew it? Tim Horton's I have I have 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.080 is a little disappointed. They think because you get your 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.720 Canadian bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on a real ceramic dish, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.840 it's like classier than dunkin Donuts. It's not. I prefer 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.280 I prefer my saucer sandwich served without a smile. And 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.400 more importantly, I like to drink my coffee when it's 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.920 handed to me because Tim Horton's holding temperature. I swear 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.160 to god man it's like four thousand degrees celsius. So 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.240 if I'm in Canada, I get one in the morning 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.760 and hope I'm ready for a pick me up at 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:19.719 lunch because that's when it's drinkable, you know. But they're 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.600 not gonna get sued over the hot coffee thing like 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.440 they want over here. Yeah, that's yeah, they yeah, they 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.120 they're not so soue happy. That is a plus. Uh, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.880 But look, we like to josh arown and have a 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.039 little fun with our neighbors to the north. But you know, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.040 you have to admit, in all seriousness, all of our 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.880 guide friends and lodge owner buddies up there, they're having 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.000 a really rough go of it this year, you know, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.479 and and may well continue to have a rough go 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.560 as as ice fishing season approaches, because, as we all know, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.240 the border between the US and Canada is still closed 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.400 due to the COVID's so we can't visit, which is 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.200 a bummer because I love fishing in Canada, and it 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.400 also means, uh, you know, these guys are experiencing some 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.839 financial hardship, you know, because we can't go. So for 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.599 this week's regional fishing report, we thought we'd you know, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.080 check in with our buddy and lodge owner Mitch McFly 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.760 all the way out on Spooner's Lake in Alberta, just 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.520 this sort of seeing, you know, how he's been holding 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:25.800 up through this whole thing either, folks. Mitch McFly here 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.920 with your weekly fishing report from Pickerel Point lodge on 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.840 Alberta's pristine Spooner's Lake. Before I get into the fishing, though, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.120 we sure to hope you and your family are staying 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.440 healthy and happy in these hectic times. Particularly our valued 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.400 guests from the States. We've missed your friendly faces this season. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.040 It just hasn't been the same around here without seeing 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.320 fifteen dirty and mostly broken down cooler stacked outside the 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.920 doors of our acquaint cottages, or getting those morning calls 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.760 in the office asking for someone to please bring over 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.720 a plunger. Anyways, quick bit of housekeeping. Some of our 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.600 repeat guests may remember, Old Gusts are a long time 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.960 boat mechanic. We've unfortunately had to lay Old Gusts off 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.880 for the season because, wouldn't you know it, we didn't 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.960 have a single lodge boat blower right past the shallow 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.600 water marker boys and run up on the rocks at 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.520 Thompson's Cove. Without the constant inflow of props to refurbish 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.760 and lower units to restore, we just couldn't keep Gus busy, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.880 so we sent him home. He has a good sport 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.320 about it, though, and happy to spend a little bit 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.239 more time on his true passion carving small wooden bears 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.720 and moose. Hope to have a pyleum for sale in 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.760 the gift shop next season. Okay, then, I am happy 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.240 to announce that the Walleye byte has been better than 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.120 I have seen it in probably twenty years. Some folks 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.560 around here say it's due to the lack of fishing pressure, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.640 but I think it's because the local anglers go a 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.159 little slower. We tend to favor a more methodical approach 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.960 instead of that fast, ratic, circular trolling pattern I know 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.599 most of you boys from the States rely on. It's 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.040 like I always tell you, fellows, the hours of eleven 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.680 am to four thirty PM are not not exactly what 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.240 i'd call prime time, but you can still find at 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.559 least a few polite fish to bite in the middle 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.240 of the day. You know they are a Canadian he Surprisingly, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.760 I've caught quite a few forty pike right off the 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.080 docks this year. I've had a little more time to 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.200 do some fishing in the evenings because there aren't the 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.920 thirty to forty crushed bud light can strewn about the 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.640 property that need rounding up for proper disposal in one 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.520 of the many many conveniently placed recycling bins. We have 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.800 on site. A five A diamond spoon has been producing 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.680 really well for me, and I found it quite relaxing 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.000 and therapeutic to just cast in reel while I listened 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.000 to the call of the loons, which aren't completely drowned 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.760 out by kid rock and that chicken fried song blasting 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.600 from the picnic tables over at the boat house. I'd 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.080 also like to mention that, on the bright side, we've 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.760 been able to spend time improving our operation and beautiful facilities. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.160 Based on your feedback, We've loaded up on Mrs butter 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.920 Worse and will only serve what you folks refer to 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:00.200 as that maple sap shit upon request, all of our 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.000 bag lunches will now include three packets of mayonnaise instead 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.120 of the usual one. And most importantly, we've upgraded our 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.800 WiFi so you will now be able to stream those 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.200 UFC fights, reruns of Dog the Bounty Hunter, and porn 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.400 Hub from anywhere on the property. Anything we can do 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.680 to make your stay here more comfortable, we just uh 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.680 can't wait to have you folks back. We pray that 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.640 you can return to the serene beauty of Alberta by 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.120 three or at the very latest, thanks and God bless 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:37.040 Canadians are so good at polite insults. It's like an 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.720 art form up there, man. You know, the Japanese have kabuki, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.520 the French have impressionistic painting, Americans have monster truck rallies, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.640 and the Canadians can tell you you're an a hole 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.120 without you even knowing. Now, you're right, You're right, man, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.560 It's like getting insulted by Mr Rogers. Just because God 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.040 didn't give you a brain doesn't mean you're not special 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.400 and unique. And look, no, I cannot tell the story 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.600 on this show. Remind me to tell you later about 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.600 an epic anti Canadian rant I heard delivered on a 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.840 boat by a Floridian. Of course, of course didn't know 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.000 the guy he was ranting too was from Canada, right, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.800 and dude, it was nasty and and the poor guys 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.839 follow up in in polite Canadian fashion, was simply, I'm 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.200 actually Canadian and he just lefted it that and both 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.719 dudes walked away stunned, and and the rest of the 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.199 lake trout fishing was really freaking awkward. Um, anyway, I mean, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.120 did you know where I'm from? We come out of 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.240 the womb insulting the doctor out here. Yeah, and which 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.960 is It's interesting Like when I was the time that 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.640 I've spent out East, I've always amazed at how much 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.240 the insults can jack up and jack up and jack up, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.079 and like nothing comes of it. Because where I grew 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.960 up in Hawaii, like we we rarely get to the 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.760 insult stage before people are already getting punched in the face. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.800 We're all like Hawaii, it's like, oh, hey, what's up, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.240 what's up? And you're already getting punched Like it's just over. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.920 I gotta say, I think I think Canadians have the 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.480 right idea and that we could we all learn a 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.520 little something from them. But uh, you know, since we're 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.480 on the subject of insults and insulting people, I feel 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.560 like it's time for for us to switch over to 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.800 this week's smooth moves. Indeed it is, and this is 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.840 a special one for me personally. I actually recorded this 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.840 a couple of months back when I was on my 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.439 annual Upper Delaware River mousing trip with some of my 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.160 favorite fishing buds up there, and I've I've been going 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.240 up there every year just to fish at night for 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.920 about six years now. And when I'm there I always 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.640 meet up with my good friend and the owner of 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.120 White Tail Country fly Shop, Joe Demo Daris, and Joe 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.360 has a hot, sticky, steamy story for us this week, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:56.800 why why, oh my god, this week on Smooth Moves, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.920 I'm very happy to be sitting here with my my, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.160 my old friend, my dear friend, Joe Dimldaris, who I 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.559 would consider the grand pubab the Upper Delaware. Would you 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.679 agree with that? Oh no, okay, well I'm saying you're 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.040 the godfather of this, Teff. We're actually sitting in Joe's 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.600 guide shack up here on the river, so it's nice 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.400 to do an on location with you. This is one 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.719 of my favorite places. Um, and remind us all how 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:25.319 many years guiding you have, uh like three decades? Three decades? 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:27.840 And then you told me before we started this that 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.160 you actually blocked out a lot of things that would 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:35.600 have probably made good smooth moves. Uh yeah, I mean yeah, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.599 I mean there's there's a slew. I'm not gonna on 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.920 for hours if I start really like lett him come 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.480 back to my brain. But um, you know some of 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.000 the things you just never want to like, make sure 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.440 you don't remember him. Okay, but you do have one 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.880 on the tip of the brain for for today. Yes, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.439 well I'll give you the Yeah, I'll give you the 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.400 like the most bizarre one. Okay, okay, okay, So, um 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.600 end the night's pitch black coming out at this like 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.240 kind of remote ish makeshift boat launch. Um, we gotta 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:05.959 kind of walk a few hundred yards to go get 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.040 your vehicle, so, you know, let the anchor out. Got 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.680 a newly wet couple, kind of kind of like a 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.760 senior citizen, newly wete couple. You know. They weren't like 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.120 young kids. They were like sixty. She was like maybe forty, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.719 but he was. He was in the sixties, retired guy. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.080 And um, he was in the back. She's in the front. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.480 Get the spot and I'm gonna pull out, put the 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.360 anchor down. I said, just hank tight. I'm gonna be 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.760 a little while and gonna walk up, come back, and 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.600 just don't get out of the boat because just stay there. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.000 So um, I go get my truck. I come driving 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.160 back down through the woods and my boat's gone. And 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.480 I left the light for him too, because it's really dark. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.320 And I had a little like thinky like this take 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.559 out with your exactly no light and it's a good 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.040 hike up to get where your trucks. So come back 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.120 with my truck. It's like no boat. And I looked 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:00.160 down river and just on the last bend as are 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.080 down as I could see the little lights starting to 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.280 vanish going down the river. I'm like, oh crap, So 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.040 this was a long time ago. So I run down 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.040 the bank. I grab a flashlight ahead of my truck. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.640 I run down the bank, got this light going, and 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.680 I catch up to the boat. They're totally oblivious. I'm yelling. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.040 They don't even hear me, right, and they're totally oblivious 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.120 because he had gotten out of the back of the 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.120 boat went up to the bow, so it shifted the 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.120 weight and then shifted the weight and lifted the anchor. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.040 I didn't have like a lot of scope out because 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.320 I mean, that wasn't supposed to happen, right, Like, stay 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.520 at the boat and if it starts floating away, you 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.720 think you notice. But there was a big preoccupation that 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.120 was happening that they didn't notice. They were floating away 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.600 the whole time. And that's because it's like the leg 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.600 brace was being used as a different kind of brace, right, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.040 So and they were like waiters down around ankles and 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.280 that sort of thing going on, and they were totally oblivious. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.840 She was absolutely mortified. He he actually didn't even like 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.560 it was a big deal. Okay, wait, all right, so 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.679 they're banging. I'll just say that's what they're doing. Exactly 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.760 what they're doing. How far out in the like, were 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.520 they still close to the bank or did they like 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.880 the way out in the middle. Well, it's not like 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.559 really the river's wide, but it's not really deep. Maybe uh, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.160 I don't know, maybe fifty yards out, forty yards out, okay, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.240 you know, And so I go sloshing out and this happened, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.520 like I was probably my late thirties early forties when 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.160 this happened. I mean today I would have just laid, well, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.240 there goes the boat. I'll just go get my truck 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.440 and meet him at the next take out. But but 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.200 you know, so I grabbed the boat and I dragged 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.040 it all the way back up river. You know that. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.440 The guy's like, well, I'll get out and help you. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.520 I'm like, now, just stay there, don't move. But when 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.280 you waited out and walked up on the boat where 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.600 they still like like mid mid koitis, No, because when 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.320 I hit him with this big like flashlight I had 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:56.040 in a truck and that got that got her attention, right, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.720 and she was like, you know and like kind of 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:04.000 cut everything off. So, um, did you guys talk about it? Uh, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.240 kind of sort of not really. I don't remember telling 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.760 you the truth because now I had to hump the 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.680 boat back up carminum it. You know, it's like this 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.320 really stinks, um, And and I really kind of felt 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.320 sorry for her. She was mortified. She really was really 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.600 really embarrassed, and he wasn't, you know, which was kind 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.760 of like really odd. So I could tell that was 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.760 making her more embarrassed, you know, and I kind of 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.320 felt bad for her. But um, yeah, it was kind 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.200 of kind of odd. And uh, I never did see 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.160 them again, So I don't know if they stayed married 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.760 or not or whatever. I don't really worry about it. Well, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.800 God bless him. What a story for later though, that 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.160 dude still telling that story. Um yeah, I don't know. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.080 Probably I think I told my wife the story too, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.640 and tried to get her up in the front of 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:53.200 the boat one night jump she wasn't manage. Well that's 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.680 a new one, I mean, man, Like I've heard of 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.800 clients sneaking off for a little alone time. I've had that, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.680 and I've I've heard of anchors slipping and guides losing 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.280 their boats. I've seen that, But I have never heard 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.480 of clients copulating so hard that they actually pull the anchor. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.280 That's a new one for me. When you're in the mood, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.400 you're in the mood. Momos, momos. That's a word we 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.520 like to use around here for people that execute those 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.360 kinds of screwups. Moms. Yeah, we don't, we don't use 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.440 that one out here. I know we have learned that 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.480 all of you out there listen to podcasts, at least 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.360 a lot of you, are big fans of shall we 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.680 call them derogatory words for you, guys love insults, And 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.520 that's why we love you, because you're all just about 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.600 insulting people. So we're we're bringing it up. We're bringing 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.760 up that that theme back at least for one more week. Uh. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.320 And here in the Mountain West, we have our own 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.320 derogatory word for people from elsewhere, and I'm going to 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.080 define that for you in this week's weekly word. Webster's 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:03.840 Dictionary defines fish as this week's word is gaper. A 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.360 while back, Joe gave you the definition from up here, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.400 which is what people in northwest Pennsylvania call city folk 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.480 from Philly who come up here for the weekend to fish. Well. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.359 The East doesn't have a lock on derogatory terms for tourists. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.120 One Mountain West sler for flint Landers is gaper, as 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.320 in someone so dumb struck by the scale of topography 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.600 and beauty they're seeing they just stand there with their 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.800 mouth agape, usually stopping traffic, holding up a lift line, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.880 or blocking a boat ramp. This term comes from ski 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.720 culture but has been thoroughly adopted into the fishing scene. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.600 When I first moved out to Montana nearly twenty years ago, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.840 now I was a complete gaper. I was so constantly 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.840 in awe of everything around me that I spent a 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.440 good thirty percent of my time in a mouth breathing trance. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.320 I was such a gaper that I had no idea 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.560 what that word meant, so when people called me a gaper, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.960 I didn't know enough to lies they were making fun 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:06.520 of me. He doesn't even know. I was officially christened 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.439 with the nickname Gaper on a backcountry fishing trip with 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.879 my good friend Matt Dally We had spent most of 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.480 the day hiking deep into a box canyon, and when 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.520 we finally got to our riverside campsite, the pool in 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.159 front of us was boiling with rising trout, some of 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.600 the biggest I had ever seen at that point in 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.920 my life. While Daly said about doing what a seasoned 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.879 fisherman would do, you know, calmly assembling his rod, building 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.080 his leader, and tying on the appropriate fly, I just 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:40.119 stood there, dumbfounded, staring at this horde of trout, sipping 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.480 mayflies off the surface. Once Dally had finished rigging, slipped 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.320 into his waiters and laced up his boots, he passed 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:52.040 behind me and half yelled Cape Cape, Cape Cape on 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.480 his way to the pool that broke my reverie. And 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.639 when he immediately hooked a fish, I started scrambling to 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.439 put together my own gear to solidify my status as 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.320 a gaper. I hurried through the rigging and tied a 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.240 few let's call him questionable knots. When I finally did 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.240 start fishing, I somehow hooked the biggest fish in the pool, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.679 which broke me off on the first run. When my 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:19.080 blood not failed, the nickname followed me even after I 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.760 stopped gaping my way through every Montana season, and I 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.119 eventually just had to embrace it to this day. Every 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.040 once in a while, when I'm floating a local river 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.600 or riding on a local ski hill, I'll hear someone 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.480 yell out. I'll stop and look around trying to figure 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.800 out if an acquaintance from the distant past has just 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.920 recognized me, or there's some random coop in the near 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:48.720 vicinity eliciting wrath from a local. So we don't have 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.640 those kinds of gapers out here in the Northeast though. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.840 On the radio like FM Old School, during traffic reports, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.480 if there's an accident on the highway, sometimes they will 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.760 note that there's a gaper delay. They actually call it that. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.720 It's called a gaper delay. Gaper delay on that Academy road. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.000 So it's gaping. Yeah, So we just gave it other 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.720 people's misery and bloodshed because they're just there are no mountains, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.639 you know. But regardless, you realize that the tens of 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.160 people listening to this podcast are now going to resurrect 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.680 that nickname for you. Right, you efficiently sealed your fate 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.639 to forever be known as gaper. That's all right, I'm sorry, Gaper, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.520 I can handle. It's better than being a loser, which 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.800 is what one of us is going to be. At 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.879 the end of this next segment, it's time for fish news. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:44.480 Fish news that escalated quickly. Before we get into the 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.880 meat of fish news, I want to let you guys 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.280 know about the fishing community actually doing some good in 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.399 the world. For once, my buddy Josh Mills harnesses the 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.920 evil of Instagram and leverages it away from the dark side. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.960 Josh is running an online auction to help out commit 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.720 unities that have been devastated by all the big fires 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.280 out west, called Flies for Fire Relief. It's a it's 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.400 a really unique fundraiser. It's completely social media based. All 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:12.600 the money goes to go fund me pages set up 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.959 to help individuals and communities who have been hammered by 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.800 the fires. And I can personally vouch for this as legit. 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.880 This isn't one of those I r S voicemail scams 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.639 that I keep getting threatening me with jail time if 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.000 I don't call them back and give them my social 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.679 Security number. Yeah, what a great concept to use social 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.040 media for something that's actually useful. But they're auctioning off 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.000 rods reels, waiters, boots, guided fishing trips. There's even a 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.280 first light, kemo pattern lamps and fly reel up for auction. 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:42.920 And I mean, I work at meat Eat and I 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.240