WEBVTT - Ep. 6: My Walleye Tastes Funny 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:05.200 Suffice to say, questionable choices ensued. And I've been a 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.520 little wary of drinking in the Mile High State ever since. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.319 You look at this boat, and you'll think this boat 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.800 has nothing to do with mastering bass. How much of 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.280 the deal's list you need smoke to get through a 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.120 day like that? And these are big, juicy, nasty, segmented 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.680 black Allien centipede looking suckers. And I'll be honest, they 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:30.360 scare the ship out of me. Good morning, degenerate anglers, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.239 and welcome to Bent the Fishing Podcast. Not afraid to 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.520 tell you that nobody takes you seriously when you show 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.120 up to fish wearing a T shirt or hat and 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.480 blazoned with the species of fish you're trying to catch. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.159 On it. I'm Joe SURMELI I'm Miles Nulty, and I 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.800 want to take a minute and let you know what 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.040 I'm currently drinking. No, not that it's a steaming mug 0:00:52.080 --> 0:01:05.680 of Freedom roast from Black Rifle Coffee Company. Correct sir, 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.440 The Bent podcast is entirely fueled by Black Rifle Coffee. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.160 Not only would Miles and I be utterly incapable of 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.480 forming a coherent thought or complete sentence without their solidly 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.959 caffeinated bruise. But this show would actually not exist without 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.680 their support. 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It's like 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.360 dark all the time, and ominous, dude, that smoke, that 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.360 smoke made it all the way to me. We got 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.040 smoked out here in Pennsylvania. I mean, it's that bad. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.040 It's terrible, man. And usually usually by mid September things 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.399 are looking up, like usually by this time, you're the 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.120 the fires are out, the tourists are gone, all the 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.160 bow hunters are up in the mountains chasing Olk and 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.000 I've like kind of got the rivers to myself. But 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.560 it's still warm enough that I don't have to wear 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.120 waiters or freaking love September most of the time, but 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.480 this year not so much. I kind of feel like 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.200 I kind of feel like September has turned her back 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.520 on me. September is my least favorite month out here, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.600 if I'm being honest, because it's like purgatory, Like September 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.360 is neither here nor there. You know, it's not cold 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.600 enough for solid salty stripers yet, but all the freshwater 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.120 patterns from summer start to change, so you have to 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.560 like think more, you know, put more effort in here. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.800 Ship think about it. I'm sure it's still good, but 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.000 the windows get fewer, gets all windy and hurricaney. You know, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.000 False Abbey's might start, or they might wait till October. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.080 Who knows. It's like a month that just needs to 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.600 be gotten through. It's like you're inching closer to steel 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.239 Head season, but it's still eighty five degrees out right now, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.520 you know, hold hold of up. Just to clarify, by 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:14.640 steel Head you actually mean Lake Run Rainbows, right, because 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.080 according to the metal heads out here in the West, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.000 if it doesn't touch salt water, it's not a real 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.959 steel head. Oh, I know. And hearing that for years, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.160 you guys are just bitter because you're steel head fisheries 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.359 are dying, but the Great Lakes are still pumping out 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.760 lots of fish, like literally on demand sort of, especially 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.680 on the famed Salmon River in New York. It's like 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.840 you're all ready for stammon and steel open end valves 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.400 boys call them in is y'all? Is y'all common a 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.480 turn of phrase that you guys us an upstate New York? 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.440 Is that is that part of the terminology. I don't know. Yeah, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.400 I don't know. I use it personally a lot of 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.480 I've heard some y'alls up there for it, some yalls 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.640 in Western p A, you know. But I think it 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.040 is when we're we're doing a damn release steelhead cattle drive, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.280 it just seems to fit. And I don't really give 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.200 a ship what you call them, right, But when I 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.720 go to the trips, I actually catch steel head instead 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.680 of standing around like an asshole casting for days with 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.720 some misguided sense of self importance. You know, I fished 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.679 that the shoots one time. My life wasn't impressed. Sorry, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.920 sorry it wasn't. I spent more time trying to stay 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.600 on my feet on that greasy ass flat rock they 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.760 got out there than like paying attention to my swing. No, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.760 that's legit, man, That that that is some sketchy, sketchy 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.560 lad rock on the the shoots. But to be brutal, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.560 it's clear I don't actually have a dog in this whole. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.280 Like steelhead, great legs, steelhead fight. I just like how 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.960 piste off people get about fish semantics like that's just fun. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.040 I want to poke that bear. And for those of 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.520 you out here have no idea what we're talking about, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.480 steelhead or migratory rainbow trout that people lose their minds 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.719 over because I mean, well really, because they're just a 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.000 lot of fun to catch. Their native to the West 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:01.440 Coast but stocked in the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, the western 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.320 populations have been declining big time for a while now, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.600 but the cult of anglers who live for them, they're 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.080 a rare breed. As you're about to learn in this 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.560 week's Regional Fishing Report. We got this coming to you 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.760 from a legend of that scene and a pioneer of 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.000 both the slap Tworld lean cast and the quarter turn 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.000 class skate three technique. Those are some fancy two handed 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.800 fly cast that we just made up. For those of 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:36.920 you who are looking confused, settle up, steelheaders, it's time 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:42.760 for the Western steelhead Report from your buddy Skadget Johnson. Well, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.400 it's late summer, so we're in the depths of the 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.520 Jones and man, if you don't have the shakes and 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.560 the sweats and you're not a real steelheater, those of 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.279 us who get it or zombie to our computer screens 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.919 all night staring at the seven day rolling fish count, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.040 try and interpret the data, hitt and refresh every fifteen minutes, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.599 and praying that those fish counts start to rise. Zee. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:15.480 For those of you don't know, fisheries biologists are interns. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.440 They're called fish texts. Now. Those dudes they count every 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.799 single fish that migrates passed the dams on the Columbia 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.520 River and they upload those fish numbers to the Federal 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:33.520 Fish Passage website in real time, man real time. For 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.200 the past ten years, those numbers have been lower than 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.520 the sperm count. Never since I got that shooting head 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.000 wrapped around the sack while we'd nippled deep during the 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.840 high flows on the d shoots. But for as bad 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.039 as us real steelheads have it, I feel like we've 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.160 got a kindred connection with those poor bastards who sit 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.440 in the bowels of the damns, hitting that clicker each 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.880 time a steel head Coho or chinook swims up the ladder. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:06.640 What a job, man, click click, clickity click, hours on end. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.320 How much of the devil's letust you need to smoke 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:16.119 to get through a day like that? I don't know. Yeah, wait, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.280 I think what was I saying? All right, right, we're 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.160 all in this together, man, those sad sack fish counters 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:25.840 and those of us sitting on the other end of 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.360 that WiFi signal praying the numbers will be higher than 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.640 the text doing the counting. I'm even considering to go 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.240 fund me to pay the fish counters to skew the data. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.880 At least we could get some hope. And that's really 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.880 what this is all about, man, hope. This is the 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.120 hopeful time, the time before we find out the truth 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:52.360 and all our dreams are crushed again. Fish might come back. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.480 Maybe it'll be like two thousand nine, That was a 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.200 good year. I was looking over my fishing spread eats 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.480 the other night, trying to remember exactly which head length 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.640 and grain weight works best. From my burke came across 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.880 my ratio. It's a fish caught to hours fished. In 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.080 two thousand nine it was one to eight. Can you 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.840 imagine catching a fish every eight hours? God, that would 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:23.000 be amazing. The truth is, man, the runs are probably 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.000 gonna suck this year, just like they did last year 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:31.760 and the year before that. Embrace the suck man. It's 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:37.880 another season weeding out the trustafarians. Chaff will sink in 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:44.920 the cream. It will rise, it will rise. Wait, I 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.600 think it might a mix my old time he metaphor? 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.800 Is there but any any anyway? Man? The point is 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:57.600 us bona fides will be out there fishing still despite 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.920 the terrible returns. And that's I find my ray of 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.280 sunshine in the dark moss covered rainforest cabin. That is 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.240 my life. Man. I can always rely on my own 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:14.479 sense of superiority. My teletherapist says I should be more positive, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.240 so I'm trying that out. That's that's it for this 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.520 week's Western steelhead Report. I'll check back in the fall. Man. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.080 By then, we should know if any fish at all 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.680 are getting past the Bonneville, damn, they're all getting trapped 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.160 in gillnets and eating by sea lions. God, I hate 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:41.520 goddamn sea lions. You know, man, Great Lakes steelheaders are 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.920 definitely a little less chill than your your buddy Johnson 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.480 over there chill. He's pretty laid back, but they're an 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.440 interesting crew into themselves. And look, stay tuned, east Side 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:57.440 people for a steelhead report from over this way very soon. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.360 It'll be more uplifting, I promise. But as much as 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.000 I as I enjoy the back and forth between east 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.160 Side west Side steel I am genuinely bummed because I 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.440 have never called a true salter like I feel like, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.480 if you're in the steelhead, you should at least catch 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.240 one of those at some point in your steel heading career. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.080 But then I listen to reports like this, and my 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.760 my mellow is fully harshed, as Johnson would say. And 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.240 I decided to use those frequent flyer miles to fish 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.840 in places that actually still have fish to catch. You know, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.679 I know, and I can't I can't actually blame you. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.199 The truth is I haven't fished for steel in in years, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.559 partially because I gotta go a long way to catch 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.199 him from here, and partially because it's tough for me 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.200 to justify messing with the few they're still around. Like 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.360 I do feel some level of guilt. That's not a 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.959 judgment on the people who want to do it. Those 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.800 fish need advocates, but for me, it just kind of 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.960 feels like, oh, I should probably let those ones. Yeah 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.000 I get that, well, Yeah, that he that that sucker 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.040 worked all, you know, for so long to get up 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.200 through all those damns, Like, just let him do his 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.080 thing now, Like I kind of get that, particularly you 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.880 in top of those Idaho fish man, they've come a 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.280 long way, and that's that's the to me, you know. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.480 But anyway, we will. We will keep all of you 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.960 up to date on the state of steelhead here at 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.840 bent as Uh as new ship comes to late Man. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.360 The truth, Joe is that I've actually never caught a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.920 Great Lake steel head. We could fix that. Well, we 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.640 probably should, you know. Not that long ago both of 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.760 us were actually over in the Midwest working on a 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.760 little project for for mediator fishing, and even though we 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.320 missed the steelhead season, we did we did catch some 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.080 other species. Yeah, hopefully some of you out there have 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.520 heard of doss Boat, where we take a beat up 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.360 old boat, make interesting people accustomed too much nicer boats, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.040 take it out in questionable circumstances, film the whole thing 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.760 and call it a fishing show. And one of those 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.600 interesting people as a guy, you might be familiar with 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.760 our boss, Steven Ranella. Steve's here today to talk a 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.520 little bit about the history of doss Boat too, also 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.120 known as dose Boat. In our first installment of who 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:12.640 was on the boat? Never get out of the boat? 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:21.120 Absolutely goddamn right. Okay, when you're watching doss Boat season two, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:28.720 dose Boat, you're gonna see old green vent three StarCraft 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.640 bass master. Now, first off, you look at this boat 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.080 and you'll think this boat has nothing to do with 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.400 mastering bass. It's not like a contemporary bass boat. The boat. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.640 Here's the story of the boat. When I grew up, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.400 my mom still lives in the house I grew up in. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.400 But as I was growing up, if I looked out 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.440 my bedroom window towards the lake that I grew up 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.640 fishing on, lookers right, A couple of houses down is 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.560 the house this old dude named John Gary. And John 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.920 Gary was our fishing mentor when we were kids, meaning 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.319 if my dad was gone. Pust John here is a 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.240 lot nicer than our dad. So maybe if our dad 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.400 was home and your fishing rod got tangled up, or 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.040 you needed a bomber or you had a you know, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.720 hooking your finger or whatever, you could run down the 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.240 beach to John Garry's and you'd be able to find 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.640 him anywhere. From like ten in the morning on. He'd 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.920 be fishing, and then he'd be home cleaning fish, drinking 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.440 vodka whatever. He's just always there and he had all 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.520 kinds of tackle, and he'd always get your stuff fixed 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.640 up and squared away. And he always had this boat. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.400 I was born in seventy four and he bought his 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.120 boat in seventy three. The boat still has all the 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.640 registration stickers on it going back to the beginning, just 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.760 s lined up in his long line and four year increments. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.040 And John Gary he also he kept his boat on 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.480 one of those haulouts, and his driveway was a boat 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.600 launch and he just fished his ass off for everything 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.760 on the planet. Sixteen foot boat. He's a troll for 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.120 salmon out in the Great Lakes with down riggers. He 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.880 did everything. He's mostly a panfish specialist. When he died, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.440 this boat came to live outside of my mom pull 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.280 barn and a lean to my mom's pull barn and 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.199 sat there full of garbage, you know, for a lot 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:13.800 of years now. So the story of this season is refurbishing, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.640 getting his boat back on the water, and getting to 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.160 back out fishing around a lot of John Gary's old 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.840 haunts in the Midwest. So it was pretty touching for 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.480 me because I loved John so much and have so 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.120 many fond memories of him and how fussy he was 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.040 about his boat, and growing up thinking how great his 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.520 boat was, and Everybody's like, John Gary's got such a 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.560 nice boat, and everybody wanted to fish on John's boat. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.520 And then now you look at John's boat and it's 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.240 like just looks like this little teeny old luminum boat. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.240 But my God, could catch a lot of fish out 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.440 of a boat like that. So that's what you're gonna 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.280 see when you tune in. You'll be uh elbow deep, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.880 armpit deep, neck deep, and nostalgia as we track around 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:06.600 the Midwest and John Gary's boat. Check out Steve, Janice, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:11.479 cal Joe, Me, and a whole cast of other miscreants 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.800 on the New season of Doss Boat available at the 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.560 Meat Eater dot com. And while you're there, catch up 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 on season one. It's good, it's worth your time. All right, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.360 that's probably enough self promotion for one episode. Let's talk 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.119 about a business we have absolutely no stake in whatsoever. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.280 It's time for that's my bar, where we read a 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.160 plug from one of you degenerates about your favorite fishing bar. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.880 You guys have been really we've been impressed. You've been 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.200 sending us tons of good stuff, so it's good. Please 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.800 keep your bar nominations coming. And this week's shout out 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.400 comes from our very good friend and regular guest angler, 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.640 not only on doss Boat, but also here on bann 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.800 Aretti Frank Smithhurst, best god damn bar tender from tim 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:58.240 buck to to Portland, Maine. The Portland argument. For that matter, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.040 Colorado is a great fishing state. Lots of people say 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 so because I live in Montana. I'd be kind of 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.480 an idiot to make a full day's drive to fish 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.320 for Rocky Mountain trout when I can do that in 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.600 my backyard. But I realized the state. John Denver serenaded 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.560 about his trout famous for a reason. Though I haven't 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.840 fished there much actually have done a pretty good bit 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.680 of drinking during my limited time in Colorado. On a 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.120 trip through Boulder when I was like twenty one, a 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.680 friend introduced me to the red bomb. For those of 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.520 you who are fortunate enough to have no idea what 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.360 I'm talking about, a red bomb is a shot of 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.200 yeager nestled into a four ounce pour of red bull. Nothing, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.880 and I mean nothing encourages mature and responsible behavior like 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.640 a group of barely legal drinkers combining hard alcohol with 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:45.240 lots of sugar and caffeine. Suffice to say, questionable choices ensued, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.120 and I've been a little wary of drinking in the 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.360 Mile High State ever since. My good friend Frank smith 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.640 Hurst has been trying to convince me to reconsider his 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.320 home states fishing and drinking opportunity for years. To that end, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.240 he recently wrote this recommendation for his favorite color Atto 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.760 fishing bar. Though it has been renamed the Riverside Bar 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.240 and Grill, everybody calls the place the Rainbow. Back in 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.720 the seventies, The Rainbow was founded in Basalt, Colorado. It's 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.520 right next to the fly Shop also known as Taylor Creek, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.520 and its outdoor deck hangs over the frying pan river. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.680 You can even feed the fish and they like fries 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.560 The places wall to wall, anglers, guides, clients, and colorful 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.520 folks fresh off a trip to the pan, likely warming 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.000 back up with the toddy and fish tacos even on 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.240 the snowiest day of winter. Thank you Frank for your submission. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.920 We will add The Rainbow to our list of top 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.320 tier fishing bars. My only question is have you tried 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.159 feeding fish tacos to the pet trout? Because I know 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.840 I would. Thanks to all of you who have written 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.399 to tell us about your favorite drinking establishments with a 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.280 fishing problem. We have many, many, many more to come. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.879 But if you have a bar that you think we 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.920 should shout out, let us know, absolutely send an email 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.199 to bent at the Meat Eat your dot com and 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.639 try to give us like a compelling paragraph that really 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.240 sells the place. Now if you were you know, if 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.880 it's been like I like, I like Mike's like, Okay, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.399 it sounds cool. Haven't gotten a few of those like 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:17.240 you go to bills bills is good. You gotta you 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.760 gotta kind of tell us why it's so good, you know, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.280 just just a little bit we don't, you know, I 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.840 don't need to write a novel, um, you know, and 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.360 we're not really sure what we're gonna do with all 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.439 these Maybe we'll make like an interactive heat map like 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.120 they do for the RNA outbreaks, you know what I mean, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.680 Like how much rona is in your county, how many 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.640 cool fishing bars are in your county? Swipe right, um. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.480 But we'll keep you up to date on all happenings 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.560 in the fishing bar scene here at bet Yes we will. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.240 That is one of our favorite scenes to uh stay 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.560 abreast up and you know, considering that part of our 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.959 job is keeping you up to date, it's time for 0:18:53.000 --> 0:19:01.800 fish news. Fish news. That escalated quick quick reminder. It's 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.960 a competition, Miles and I have no idea which news 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.800 stories the other dude is bringing to the table. That's 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.239 kind of how this game goes. And if you've been 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:14.959 following along, we now have our masterful engineer Phil at 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.679 the end of every news segment to weigh in on 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.440 who one news this week? And I have been doing 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.640 well and that is because I send Phil Radio Shack 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:28.880 gift cards. I was wondering what it was. I knew 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.639 there was some kind of deal you guys had going 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.560 to the back end. He's a podcast engineer. I figured 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.600 he must spend a lot of time in radio shack, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.760 so those will come in handy. I've gotta I've got 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.679 to I gotta figure out my bribery game. Man. My 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.080 bribery game apparently sucks. But but this could be your 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.080 week to shine. Uh. You get to lead off, and 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.880 that's always, that's always. I got to lead off. Spot 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.680 in case we both found the same thing, maybe I 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.080 can leave you high and dry. We'll see. Bring it on, man, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.320 All right, there we go. For those of you out 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.200 there who have been paying attention to fish News, not 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.080 just you know, sleeping through it like like you do class, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:09.520 you'll know that we love shark stories because I mean sharks. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.439 Remember the shark stories were also partial to phish science 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.960 and evolution and any chance that we can find to 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.760 make fun of shark week. Well, I have a story 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.480 that combines all three of those topics. I'm definitely pandering 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:31.080 here because last week research was published about the largest 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.439 shark ever to swim on this planet, at least as 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.080 far as we know, the Megalodon or meg as the 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.399 kids seem to be calling it and or as that 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.280 movie that nobody went to see was called. Oh don't worry, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.080 we'll get to that movie. We're gonna throw some meg 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:52.200 in there. Oh yes, be patient, alright, alright. Megalodon has 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.800 been the subject of significant attention and debate, both in 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:00.760 paleontology and pop culture. Researchers are pre de confident that 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.240 Megalodon lived from about twenty million years ago until about 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.160 three and a half million years ago, and that it 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:14.480 was the biggest, baddest marine predator around. Megalodon evolved alongside whales, 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:19.119 which were probably its primary food source. So picture a whale, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:24.280 like a humpback whale, and now think about now, think 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:28.439 about a shark that would hunt whales and potentially be 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:33.000 capable of biting one in half. And that's megalodon. All right, 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.800 that's a that's a great image. Oh I've I've personally 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.840 visited that famous Magleodon jaw set hanging in the Smithsonian. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.040 I believe it is it is. As a child, I 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:48.080 saw lots of pictures. Yeah, And even though researchers have 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.520 been able to figure out that much, they have not 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:55.000 been able to agree on how big Megalodon actually was 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.320 because the problem is that sharks, unlike dinosaurs or other 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.160 large extinct land animals, have cartilaginous skeletons. I mean, they're 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.000 not made of solid bones. They don't fossilize very well. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.800 The only evidence of Megalodon found intact have been a 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.520 few scattered vertebrae and more importantly, their teeth, which are 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.520 more than seven inches long. So scientists have been comparing 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.879 those teeth with other living sharks and trying to extrapolate 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.520 from there, but it's it's been kind of a problem. 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:31.200 Size estimates have ranged from twenty five to eight ft 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.000 and you know, that's a pretty big difference. Like they're 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:39.280 they're they're they're not even close. Yeah exactly. But just 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.360 this last week, new research from the University of Bristol 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.560 claims to have figured this problem out, and they came 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:49.360 up with an estimated length of about fifty feet, which 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.159 would make Megalodon more than double the size of a 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.320 great white shark with a dorsal fin more than five 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:01.719