WEBVTT - Ep. 85: Pump Action Raccoon Streamers 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.080 Which may may have led to the officer informare a 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.680 listener that he himself was just listening to the Bent 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.120 podcast in his patrol car. She did a big hard 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.920 whip down with a rod and spun the hopper up, 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:19.840 and I turned around and he had it pinned like 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.240 a hitler must have in his upper lip. And then, um, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.080 we're gonna do a sale bin that. That brings to 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.080 mind one of my favorite hip hop songs, Pistol Grip Pump, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.640 which is on my lap at all times. Cops listen 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.879 to this good morning to generate anglers, and welcome to Bent, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.920 the fishing podcast that really hates golf but has a 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.360 hard time denying the similarities between it and angling. I'm Joe, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.960 Sir Melie, and I'm hating samac and I'm failing to 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.000 like see the connection beyond people like feeling the need 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.000 to wear various like logo wear in order to in 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.240 like flex on the folks around him. That's a You're 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.200 not wrong, that's that's correct. Uh yeah, but I'm you know, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.119 I'm leaning into the analogy a bit today because, um, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.640 of a few listener messages that I've gotten recently, one 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.959 of which we're actually gonna touch on in the bent 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.080 helpline later, but but the gist of them is this, Right, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.319 people often want to know what is the one rod 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.600 and reel you need to do everything? And my my 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.440 answer is always, um, you can have one rod and 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.520 reel that will do a lot, but not everything. And 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.920 that's sort of part of the golf tie in. Right. Conversely, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.400 whenever somebody looks in my garage at all my rods 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.240 and says, like, what the hell do you need that 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.360 many rods for, my answer is because you don't play 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.920 team holes of golf with with nothing but a driver, right, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.760 you could, but are you going to be as effective? No, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.280 you're not. Yeah, but you don't do them all in 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.040 one day. I get what you're saying, but I also 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.560 like sympathize with the mindset of a beginner because you 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.280 have to start somewhere, and like, if there's like one 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.080 thing that you ought not to do when you get 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:59.080 into a hobby is just like blow your entire budget 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.360 for like next four years on a bunch of stuff 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.920 that like you're gonna use one time or whatever. Like 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.160 I remember when I first started out, man, I bought 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.400 like a seven weight steel head rod, ended up using 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.040 it a lot, But like there was absolutely like a 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.120 scenario before I could drive and I had that rod 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.320 where it was like time to break out the steel 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.840 head rod that I could have just rented from the shop. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.680 You're right, you're right, right, and and and I think 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.960 that that is true, like everybody does have to start somewhere. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.119 But I think the broader thing I'm trying to say 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.359 here is is as you grow as a fisherman, it's 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.639 important to develop sort of like a sense of of 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.000 like the system and the weights and measures that that 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.240 that at play here to really be effective. And and 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.919 for like a lot of non devout anglers, like dabblers, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.440 I think there's a sense that I just need a 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.600 rod in reel some tenttown tests and I'm good, And 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.160 you are good if you're okay always staying in the 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.240 parameters that year right, Like you know, I look at 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.520 it like, you know, if you just want to stay 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.840 at the driving range that's where you're happiest, then cool, 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.519 it's all it's all good, you know what I mean. Yeah, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.960 So I I get that like fishing and pocket water 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.920 is like putting or like I don't know that you 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.200 need the right club to be effective there. Yeah. Another 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.480 I hate this metaphor so much it's funny because I 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.919 hate golf anyway. Um. But another analogy I can draw though, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.560 is the idea of like a golf bag. And I'm 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.440 not a crazy large amounth fisherman, but I have been 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.280 lucky enough to fish with a few large amounth pros 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.920 over the years. And those guys are straight up, man, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.400 they are golfing on the water right. They have all 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.040 their clubs laid out and they chip here and put 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.840 there and drive here. And I have adopted that method hardcore. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.360 It's like my one takeaway from fishing with some pro 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.920 bass guys. It is extremely rare for me to go 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.960 out fishing and only carry one rod. Three is more 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.720 like it, because I want to have a Senko or 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.200 whatever on one, and a poper on this one, a 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:00.960 jerk bait on on this one, and they might all 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.680 have different lines and leaders and actions, but for the 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.000 sake of efficiency in covering water, I don't want to 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.640 retie three times at one hole, you know what I mean? Like, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.760 I just want to cover it and move along. Yeah, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.159 I mean, like I get that out of a boat. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.360 But isn't that like a total pain in the ask 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.719 to carry three rods. I mean, well, I'm phrasing like 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.120 a question. What I mean is it's a total pain 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.200 in the ask to carry three rods. It can be, right, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.119 not usually, like you said, on a boat, no issue 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.680 at all, dude. Like i go out of my my 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.360 little drift boat and I've got like thirteen rods jammed 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.320 down the sides. Um And for most bank fishing, if 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.400 you're just working a bank, it's not that big a 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.039 deal either. But the only time I'll have one rod 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.320 usually is if I'm waiting and I know I'll be 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.640 in the water most of the time, like summer smally waiting, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.280 I put the bare essentials in one chest pack or 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.000 hip pack or whatever and wade with one rod because 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.560 I will be in the stream most of the time. Otherwise, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.320 I don't find it that that inconvenient. Yeah, I mean, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.719 like that's more my style. In fact, what I do 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.760 a lot when I'm like trout fishing is I'll have 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.000 one rod that's not exactly what I want for everything, right, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.840 But then I'll have like a couple of reels with 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.080 like different spools on them, right, So I'll go out 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.440 and I'll if I wanted to like trout fish, I'm 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.360 eurim thing right, I'll have my like euro set up, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.479 but in my in my bag, I'll have like a 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.720 wait forward floating all spooled up so that way, if 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.640 it's too windy I want to fish an indicator, I 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.280 can move over to that. Or if I see a 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.800 little dry fly action it's not perfect for it, but 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:36.080 it's like good enough. Um, but this all goes to, Uh, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.320 this is leading me to the point that not all 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.240 of us can afford an arsenal of rods Joe. Not 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.880 all of us are, at least of all you, I understand. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.120 I'm just look, look all I'm doing here. I'm just 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.680 passing along an approach, right, It's just something to think about, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.000 That's all. I do. Believe that efficiency and maximum time 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.840 with a line in the water catches the most fish, right, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.200 regardless of species, regardless of what you're doing. Um, I 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.160 think you know efficiency and keeping lines in like you, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.560 you should train yourself to maximize that also, regardless of 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.880 your budget. Our sponsor thirteen Fishing at least has a 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:24.280 lure anyone can afford for pretty much any species. Well. Um, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.880 but I'll also point out that as far as like 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.520 high quality, budget friendly like outfits like that's also something 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.560 that thirteen fishing is good for. So you bought up 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:39.560 wet waiting Smalley's that's something I want to do more of. What, um, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.880 what would your ideal outfit look like? For that ideal 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:51.039 outfit for that, that's what's in my pack. Well, okay, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.920 so I'm not gonna go through the entire pack, but 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.760 I do I will whittle that down. We're just talking, folks. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.760 That's that's where the general to my small fac right. Yeah, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.159 uh from thirteen the first and foremost for that, the 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.200 whipper snapper that is like the smallest jerk bait that 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.239 they make, um perfect for moving water, and the model 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.880 that dives three to five feet is might go to. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.640 This would also come in very handy for trout. Of course. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.840 It's one of those baits like you barely touch the line, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.800 like you just barely snap it and it darts all 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.400 over the place. And in terms of an outfit like 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.640 anything in that like six and a half to I 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.360 don't know, you know, maybe seven foot um light or 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.200 ultra light range for summertime waiting, you know, ten pound braid, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.200 something like that travel light, one little spool of eight 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.600 pound floral leader, and it looks like he's packing out 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.400 and elk with all the ship he has in his bag. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.480 Now it's you would think that, And there was a 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.720 time in my life when that was true. Miles and 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.400 I talked about that a long time ago. How like 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:54.200 you're seventeen and you have more you know what it's like? 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.000 Four fly two is poking out of your backpack and 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.400 like one spinning rod in your belt and one in 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.360 your hands. Now not anymore. I do like I do 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.880 like your small mouth set up recommendations, and I will 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.760 be uh. I I never sent out that email to 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.600 thirteen that I promised I was going to send out 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.320 last week, So oh man, I'll have to be uh. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.160 I'll have to be tacking that onto my order. Good 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.720 good anyway, So let's we'll do this. Well, let's switch 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.400 off conventional must haves for a minute, um and talk 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.040 about flying must have, particularly if you tie your own bugs. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.080 I've always got bucktail on hand. Rabbit strips, those are 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.840 a must, right, But if you ever tied with raccoon? Um? 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.440 Have I ever died with raccoon? Um? You know? No, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.280 the clothes I've ever gotten to tying with raccoon? Is 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.280 I used to tie with a dubbing from I think 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.040 like an Australian possum. Okay, I'm sure that they're they're similar. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.800 Probably both only come out at night. Anyway, if you 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.600 need some raccoon and guide. If you need some, perhaps 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.600 our friend and guide Bart Land where it can help 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.160 and he'll tell you where his supply came from in 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:11.200 this week's Smooth Move segment. Why Why So, I'm very 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.400 excited today for our Smooth Moves guests. Some of you 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.400 might remember Tim landword of of Tight Lines uh Fly 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:23.160 Fishing company out there in in Wisconsin. Um, he's not here, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.120 even though he's he's done several segments and and co 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.480 hosted the show. We have we have his cousin to 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.520 start by introducing. So we have his cousin Land Where. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.120 And I'm going to give you bart a few seconds 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.280 to explain why you are the better land where? Why 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.400 are you the better land where than Tim Land? Work? Well? 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.360 Smarter for sure, okay, obviously better looking. I can vouch 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:50.000 for that. You are a good looking man. Yeah. On 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.800 a fishy level, I might be a little bit fisher 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.240 than him. I'm not sure better keg stand you were 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:59.360 Tim land work. He's got a problem. Okay, all right, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.360 we won't we and dragging? Kidding? Of course I got 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.200 to hang out with bart um the same time I 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:05.960 hung out with him, and we were filming dost Boat 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.960 season two up on the man Nominee River. Um, and 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.600 you know we we I said, we had Tim on 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.079 and he's always been like, man, you gotta call bart 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.360 because if you need smooth moves like, he's got some 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.800 up stories. I think that's exactly how he put it. So, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.200 um yeah, man, Just so I know how long Tim 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.640 has been goting, how long you've been goting? How long 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.880 have you been in the game? Uh the year twenty one? 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.360 I think twenty one years? Okay, all right, So I'm 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.800 just gonna give you the floor man. And and I've 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.640 drank with both. I've drank with you in a garage, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.080 which was fun. It was like the one eight on 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.400 the video shoot. We drank too much and then couldn't 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.400 like we didn't. We were not as functional the next 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.000 day as we should have been. Um, but I'm gonna 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.600 give you the floor. Dude, hit it hit us with 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.800 a smooth move. The w t f moment from twenty 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.320 one years guiding that sticks out the most, All right, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.760 sticks out the most. I've got a lot of stories, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.680 but I'm trying to think of on that would be 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.760 a little different. Yeah, And the one I came up 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.400 with was a trip I took god Is, probably ten 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:11.880 years ago with a couple who were an older couple 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.880 from Chicago, very urban people love the idea of the outdoors, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.360 love the idea of nature, and they wanted to see 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.360 that just didn't really experience it much or know anything about. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.680 They didn't know as much about it as it really is. Right, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.640 So they come up for the day and they want 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.000 to see the most beautiful part of the river and 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.600 they want to see all this great stuff and catch fish. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.160 So I set it up. We have a perfect where 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.640 where is this Wisconsin? So I took him to a 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.120 spot on the river that is not developed at all. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.040 There's no cabins. It dials up, you guys. It's a 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.920 perfect like seventy eight degree day, no wind, perfect smallmouth weather, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.320 little humid. So we start off and everything is. They're 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.440 enjoying the hell out of it. We've got perfect weather, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.760 we've got happy fish. We see a deer early. You know, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:03.840 everything's great, We're having the best time, and I'm literally 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 looking for anything Flora fun and related I can show 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.960 them to give him a piece of the great Northern experience. Right, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.280 is that because you questioned whether they'd actually be able 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.880 to catch the fish? Yeah, you have that, And and 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.920 they weren't stellar, but they were hard workers and we 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.480 were having a great time and the super nice people 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.440 and everything was Remember Caddy Shack, Remember the old Caddy 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.240 shack that go golfing and everything is the greatest. And 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.600 that's a peach hun and the husband life. That's who 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.079 they reminded me of, right, because everything she did he 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.719 would compliment her, and vice versa and ad nauseam. Right, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.520 but we're still having a great time. It's a lot 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:50.160 nicer than the alter. So I'm enjoyed by samm Gladys. Right. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.160 So like midway through the morning, I'm a quarter of 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.680 the way into the float and there's no one around. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.720 It's perfect day. And I started hearing a dog barking. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.720 So there's some bends coming in the river, and I 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.960 figure we're gonna make a bend and we're gonna have 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.680 someone with a canoe and their dog, or they're on 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.200 the river hanging out. So we're talking, oh, somebody must 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.199 be up here. We make this bend and I'm here 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.440 in the barking intensifying, I can't see a dog, so 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.480 I'm kind of now they're fishing. I'm watching river right 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.559 and the river has come down. It's early August, mid 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.360 August maybe, and the root wads on the base of 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.440 the trees are kind of all exposed on the river bank, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.280 and all of a sudden, I see the back end 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.480 of a dog that's hung up in this root ball 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.880 and barking its head off. So you're trying to figure 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.640 out what the hell is going on right now. So 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.120 I'm thinking, all right, something's wrong with this dog. Is 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.600 he called as he hung up? Is he in distress? 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.040 They're asking me questions that I can't answer, So I'm like, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.280 all right, guys, check it out. We're gonna reel up 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.760 and we're gonna roll over and see what's going on. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.920 And they go cool. So they reel up their stuff, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.199 and I start kind of pushing rolling over to this 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.960 dog and as I'm approaching, he's just intensely barking under 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.360 this tree, and I'm starting to question whether or not 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.040 he's stuck. As we get over there, I'm close. Now 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.800 he's not stuck. He's underneath this blowdown, and another dog 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.679 appears on the bank. The second dog is a home 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.600 with a big whip antenna on his neck. Well in Wisconsin, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.520 late July and early August, the bear hunters, they run 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.960 their dogs. But what they found and we're interested in, 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.840 was about to happen right in front of us. At 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.680 about twenty I can't get away from it, and the 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.680 one dog and the other dog dive in and they 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:43.800 come out with a raccoon and proceed to eviscerated from us. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.960 So this is a two minute not even this is 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.400 probably forty seconds, but it feels like an hour and 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:57.600 a half. It's blood hair, snarling, squealing, screaming, and they stop. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.960 One of them looks over at me and starts where 0:14:59.920 --> 0:15:02.600 I can his tail kind of comes up, smells the boat. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.720 The other one's happy as a clam. Meanwhile, there's a 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.280 raccoon in its death throws rolling in the shallows, and 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.880 every time it comes up it's making noise and going 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.760 back up is dying. And at this moment, what what 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.720 if you had to imitate this noise. What would it be. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.480 I'm not doing that, come on, because think are a 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.400 really nasty, bad noise. So I'm just watching what's unfolding 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.240 in front of me, and I'm like, okay, dogs and 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.200 they bounce away, they're gone, and here's this raccoon dying 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 yet the water's got blood in it. And then I 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.400 realized I got people with me, and I look up 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:43.920 and they are pale, speechless. The wife's mouth is a gape, obviously, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.960 and I don't even what the hell do you say 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:51.240 to him? And I go, uh, for lunch, that's what 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.320 you know, you guys, ready for a sandwich. So I'm like, well, um, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.280 that's the reality of nature. Some ship you say, you 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.200 don't know what to say a right? So as I 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.880 started to bite my oars in to pull off the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.720 bank and leave the situation, the woman goes, is that 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.600 another one? And I look up on the bank. There 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.160 was like four little rulings that were with mom and 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.520 they must all been in there, and the dogs killed 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:21.440 them all. It was awful and I'm not messing around you, guys. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.720 It was like lunchtime right there. Lunch brots right here, guys, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.560 let's go out of sand much the reality of nature, folks, Well, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.520 it is the reality of nature, except that the dogs 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.360 weren't really like wild It wasn't like wild animal. Well 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.720 it was kind of manufactured, you know. So how so 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.000 did they eat their lunch or just have like one 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.400 bite or just sort of poke around the tuna sandwich 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.400 or it was the rest of the day it was quiet. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.760 People were have been concerned with what they'd experienced. And 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.680 I'll tell you I do have the backup end of 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.880 that stories. Right out of lunch, we came out and 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.600 we got going again, and the weather's nice, and that 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.560 raccoon is dead along behind us, and the fishing actually 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:06.399 got pretty damn good. Right, Yeah, things were hungry. So 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.600 we were fishing hopper patterns, first of all, mouth and 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.320 they were crushing, and the lady was in the front 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.399 of the boat and she could not hook fish. And 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.560 her husband, who was so flattering to her all day, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.600 it became an annoyance to her because he was, oh, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.680 you get him next time, and he kept hooking up. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.480 And at one point, and I don't know if it 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.959 was because the raccoon had a little miffed and upset 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.800 and everything, but she had a fish come up after 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.040 about the tenth miss fish, and she did a big 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.960 hard whip down with a rod and spun the hopper 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.399 up and I heard him squirrel behind me, and I 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.520 turned around and he had it pinned like a Hitler 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.679 mustache in his upper lip. So I just turned around 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.560 before he could do anything. He said, don't wait, and 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.880 I just put my hand in his face and took 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.680 it out right away. Wow, man, that was a two. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.520 That was a two fur right there. Yeah. Do you 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.600 know what he reminds me? A man? Like One of 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.440 the many times I've ever seen like dog led destruction 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:09.000 like that was it was like early spring, and uh, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.560 we were doing like some like yard work around my 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.119 house and my mother is in like this like front 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.919 garden that we have. There's like me, my dad. You know, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.920 we're like in bad because my brother and my mom 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.840 they were in front. Comes around all exide, you know, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.840 the dogs running around, and she comes out, come, look, come, look, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.480 there are baby rabbits. By the time we got there 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.919 in her absence, the dog went right over and just 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.760 destroyed the entire net. Had similar things happen, and also 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.199 like do you know, like if a baby rabbit is 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.280 sick or something I think like the mom will actually 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.639 eat it to get rid of it. I did not 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.840 know that. Like I've had baby rabbits in the yard, 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.639 and like there'd be like one all of a sudden 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.240 one day, like one's not there and it's just like 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:56.439 eaten in half, but like nibbles, tiny nibbles. It was 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:01.760 the rabbits. Rabbits. You might want to qualify that one 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:08.800 a little. This ship just got all really weird, ben listeners, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.640 do mother rabbits eat their babies if one of them 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.560 is sick? And like can't? I don't. I don't know anyway, 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.119 did those people come back? They happen back? Good? Do 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.720 they do? They? Are they on guard now for the nature? 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.439 Do they still love the nature as much as they 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.320 thought they did? I think they understand nature a little 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:32.880 bit more so. How do you like that one? Meat 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.879 eaters this role? That's what that was? Anyway? Huge thanks 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.200 to Bart for sharing that one. He's just out there 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.159 hammering small jaws and scaring old people for life. So well, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.879 in case you haven't had enough carnage, sit back and 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.200 listen to Joe and I tear each other to pieces 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.720 in the Virtual Raptor Paddock. We like to call fish 0:19:53.760 --> 0:20:02.879 news fish news. That escalated quickly. So here's a little 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.359 fun shout out caveat being. We're gonna exclude names and 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.399 states as a matter of protection, which and this is 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.280 the first on Ben, but it's all gonna make sense 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.480 because we need not call anyone out for fear of 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.520 judgment nor getting anyone in trouble. And I would like 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.920 to point out that I I whatever Joe was about 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.800 to like drop on y'all. I'm not proving to it now. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.280 This came through Instagram, but I got I got this 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.120 note from a listener on Instagram who told me he 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.400 may or may not have gotten pulled over recently on 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.200 his way home from a fishing trip, and he may 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.639 or may not have have recently partaken uh in the 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.000 consumption of we'll say CBD products if you catch what's 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.280 swirling around in my bond water. And since we're not 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.080 talking about the gummies here, there may or may not 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.560 have been a noticeable odor in his vehicle which the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.239 officer that pulled him over smelled. Anyway, the officer may 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.119 or may not have noticed the fishing gear in the car, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.679 which may or may not have quickly morphed the convo 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.600 from CBD products to local fishing, which may may have 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.439 led to the officer in form are a listener that 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.399 he himself was just listening to the Bent podcast in 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.960 his patrol car. Cops listen to this, maybe this could 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.680 be a hypothetical situation. All of this may have led 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.320 to our dear listener getting off the hook. So what 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.439 he asked me to do was shout out the officer 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.120 by name, which I will not. Like, No, that isn't 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.800