1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves, 2 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: my stories and the country skills that will help you 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: beat the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: think I got a thing or two. The teacher catching 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: catfish with trot lines. You're in for a tree Today. 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: We're talking about catching catfish with troat lines. We're going 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: to talk about what a trot line is, how to 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: make one, what to use for bait, and word a 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: fish them. Now, if you'll just tie it knut and 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: hang on with me till the end, I'll share the 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: Reeves family recipe for frying up a mess of falaise 17 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: that will knock you out so hard you'll be hollering 18 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: who flung the chunk? But first, I'm going to tell 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: you a story. I graduated high school in nineteen eighty four. 20 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: Graduation night, about twenty of us were packed and ready 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: to roll to Florida for a week of doing what 22 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: younguns did back then went away from adult supervision, which 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: probably pales in comparison to what some do now. But 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: as the time of our departure grew nearer, my interest 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: in leaving for the week grew weaker and weaker, especially 26 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: after I overheard a couple of acquaintances discussing the drugs 27 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: they'd acquired and were taking with them. Now, I had 28 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: no interest in that or being around it, which was 29 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: the same view my friends had. They were just folks 30 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: that were kind of hitching a ride and going along. 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: It was also kind of ironic that a few short 32 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: years later I'd be up to my eyeballs and the 33 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: drug culture and making a living pretending to love it. 34 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: But I wasn't there yet, and at the last minute 35 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: I decided not to go. I surprised my family by 36 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: showing back up at the house, explaining my decision and 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: calling my older brother Tim and asking him if he'd 38 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: liked to go camping for a few days down on 39 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: the Slain River. You know that Selin river, the one 40 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: that Dree'es family owns. Anyway, he said, of course, So 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: we grabbed up all the camping and the fishing gear 42 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: we could lay our hands on, loaded them and his 43 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: old flat bottomed boat in the back of my truck, 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: and took off for the river. The next morning, at daylight, 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: we put in the river at the boat ramp that 46 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: would eventually be named in honor of my daddy. We 47 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: set off for the adventure of living off the land, 48 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: vowing not to return to the truck until we'd spent 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: our week in the bottoms getting fat and slick off 50 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: all the fish we were going to catch to go 51 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: along with all the side items we'd brung with us. 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: It was going to be a week long on fish fry. 53 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: We were prepared, Jack, this is the kind of stuff 54 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: we do, and others only wished they could. I hadn't 55 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: regretted my decision. There was nothing in Florida that I 56 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: didn't have Right here. I had sand, water, sun, plus 57 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: my brother, two tubes of crickets, and an ice chest 58 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: full of eggs and bacon, a grub box full of necessities, 59 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: and an advanced degree in snatching brim out of the 60 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: river from my suffer. The river was low and just 61 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: right for fishing. We had a little nine point nine 62 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: Johnson outboard motors that would push Thams fourteen foot long, 63 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: thirty six inch wide aluminum deercraft boat downstream, slightly faster 64 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: than a sugared up toddler on a tricc. Coming back 65 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: up stream was a different story, but it beat paddling 66 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: like a rended mute. We'd already made up where we 67 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: was going to camp. It was going to be just 68 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: below the swimming hole at the head of the Stretch, 69 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: just about our favorite place to fish. The Stretch, which 70 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: was a section of the river that was deeper than 71 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: most and had a gradual turn back to the west 72 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: before sharply turning back east at a spot we call 73 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: Bug Island. From there it continued on down its crooked 74 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: path towards the confluence with the Washtaw River, some fifty 75 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: miles further south. As the crow flies at the Stretch, 76 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: you could easily float down either side of the river, 77 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: fish in the shade, trading back and forth as you 78 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: went to the best spots. Because we knew where every 79 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: tree top and structure that was under that muddy water 80 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: that always held the most fish. Bug Island had a 81 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: gravel shoal and a good cool, shady spot to clean, fish, 82 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: swim and cook. I'd be scared to guess how many 83 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: meals we'd met there over the years, much less how 84 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: many fish we'd cleaned. In hindsight, it would have been 85 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: a whole lot better place to camp. And while we 86 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: didn't think about that before setting our tent up below 87 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 1: the swimming hole, I do not know it also wouldn't 88 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: be the only thing we failed to think about that week. 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,119 Speaker 1: After emptying the boat of supplies and getting the camp 90 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: made that morning, we hit the river fishing for our dinner. Now, 91 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: once again, for everybody keeping score at home, dinner where 92 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,679 Speaker 1: I grew up is aut at noon, and supper comes 93 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: after that. Breakfast, dinner, supper. Don't make me pull this 94 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: boat over. We'd had a good breakfast that morning before 95 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: leaving Tham's house, so when we started fishing, the noon 96 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: meal was our target. It didn't take long to get 97 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: a good mess to eat for dinner and a big 98 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: head start on supper. The fish were biting and we 99 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: weren't culing nothing. If it was big enough to bite, 100 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,559 Speaker 1: it was big enough to eat. Some folks might think 101 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: we get tired of eating fish all week, but they'd 102 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: be wrong. We eat a lot of fish all year long. 103 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: Back then. In the summertime, it wasn't unusual to eat 104 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: it several times a week, whether we was camped or not. 105 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: Brim fresh caught was our favorite is and then everything 106 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: else after that. So we decided we had plenty to 107 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: eat and headed back up to the stretch to our 108 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: camping spot. We done got hungry, and the only thing 109 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: standing between us and the best groceries on the planet 110 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: was getting some taters peeled, the fish cleaned, and a 111 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: pot full of grease hoop. Tim said he'd start cleaning 112 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: fish as soon as we got there. I'd get the 113 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: fire started in a coal bucket, put some oil in 114 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: the Dutch oven, and start peeling the taters. So as 115 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: soon as we hit the bank by the tent, we 116 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: both bailed out of that boat and went to work. 117 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: I started the fire and opened up the grub box 118 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: for the Dutch oven. All corn meal, taters, onion, salt, 119 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: and pepper, the basics for any fish fry in a 120 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: civilized country. Staring back at me from that old wooden 121 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: box was a box of salt, a can of pepper, 122 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: a gallon of cooking oil, and a loaf of light bread. 123 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: Oh lord, we didn't bring a tater one, and it 124 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered if we'd had a wagon full. We 125 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: didn't have nothing to cook them in. We had a problem, 126 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: especially with the oath we took about not going back 127 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: home for anything we didn't have with us. I walked 128 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: down to help Tim and give him the bad news 129 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: about not bringing the Dutch oven. We cleaned the fish 130 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: and walked up to where I had the fire gone 131 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: in the coal bucket, and that's when I saw our 132 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: savior poking up out of the sand a five pound 133 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: metal coffee can. That joker was covered in rust, but 134 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: not rusted through, and Tim took it down to the 135 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: river and scrubbed it out with sand and river water. 136 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: To clean it up. We boiled around the water in it, 137 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: poured it out by grabbing the top lip with a 138 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: pair of flyers, refilled it with oil, and started prepping 139 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: the fish to fry. We felt confident that when the 140 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: grease got around three hundred and fifty degrees, anything that 141 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: was still living in that coffee can that the hot 142 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: grease didn't kill was probably going to get us anyway. 143 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: Then I told Tim we'd forgot the taters and onions too. 144 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: Didn't a word He didn't look up, he didn't make 145 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: a sound, He just sat there, looking sad. His shoulder 146 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: seemed to wilt a few inches downward, like I just 147 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: let the air out of him. I thought he might cry, 148 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: and back then men didn't cry, especially in front of 149 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: another one, not and live and tell about it. So 150 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: while he sadly stared at that rust colored oil that 151 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: was starting to bubble in our maxwell house fish friar, 152 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: I looked back way towards the river to let him 153 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: have his moment, and so he wouldn't see me if 154 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: I started squalling. And that's when I saw mister Jones. 155 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: Mister Jones wasn't a local, a fact that would come 156 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: into play very soon. He lived an hour or so away, 157 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: but he was retired and had a nice camp back 158 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: up river, and had had it for years, so we 159 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: all knew who he was. He come down by hisself 160 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: and stay for a few weeks at a time at 161 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: his camp, and I knew immediately where our tators was 162 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: fixing to come from, because everyone where I'm from looks 163 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: out for one another. I hollered at him as he 164 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: fished by our boat that was pulled up on the bank. 165 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: Mister Jones. I'm Buddy Reeves's boy. Me and my brother 166 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: Tim's down here cavin for a few days, and we 167 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: forgot our taters. Reckon, you got some back ap of 168 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: your camp. You could let us borrow or let us buy. 169 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: Who are you? He said? I told him again, we're 170 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: Buddy Reeves boys. Oh yeah, how's buddy? I say he's good. 171 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: He'd be better off knowing we had some taters deep 172 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: with all these fish we caught today and the ones 173 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: we're going to catch the rest of the week. Well, 174 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: he started laughing, and so did Tim. Tim was back 175 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: from that dark, taterless place he'd gone to only a 176 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: few moments ago. I think he, like me, could see 177 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: that mister Jones was fixing to hook us up. You 178 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: boys got some onions now. When he said that, I 179 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: knew we were home free. He's fixing to give us 180 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: some taters and onions. Good night, nurse. We fixing a 181 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: hit a lick with me, Jones. And that's when we 182 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: were betrayed by our raisin. We were raised to be 183 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: thankful for what we had and not be a burden 184 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: to others. If you didn't have something, you just had 185 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: to work harder to get it or do without it, 186 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: but you never asked anybody for it. So when mister 187 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: Jones asked if we had any onions, Tim's brain went 188 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: on autopilot of not wanting to be troublesome, and he said, oh, yes, sir, 189 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: we got plenty of onions. I thought to myself, you 190 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: need to shut up. He's offering onions too, we'll take them. Huh. 191 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: Mister Jones didn't hear Tim, so I repeated the lie, yes, sir, 192 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: we got onions. Well, if you boys got onions, that'll 193 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: be plenty. Y'all don't need any taters. And mister Jones 194 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: floated on by like we weren't even there and like 195 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: that conversation had never take place. We stared at him 196 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: in silence as he floated and fished plumb out of sight. 197 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: We talked about him a lot that week, mostly about 198 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: how to we'd like to drive by him sitting on 199 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: the side of the highway with a flat while we 200 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: did donuts in front of him on the highway, eating 201 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: fried tatters and chunk and onions at it. I learned 202 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: a lot on that trip. Besides double checking the grub 203 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: box for all your supplies, you can survive quite efficiently. 204 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: I might add on nothing but light bread and fried fish. Also, 205 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: a baled up slice of light bread dropped in the 206 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: hot greases no substitute for hushbuk. And that's just how 207 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: that happened. Let's get to work with a question. Why 208 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: would you go to the trouble of making a trot 209 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: line to catch some catfish when you could just go 210 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: to a restaurant and eat them, or go to a 211 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: store and buy them. Well, I'll tell you why, because 212 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: this is America and we ought to be doing American things. 213 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: And one of the most American things you can do 214 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: is gathering up your own grocery from Nature's grocery store 215 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: to feed your family. So you ready to beat the system, 216 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: the system that tries to dictate what the quality of 217 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: our food is and how we feed ourselves. A lot 218 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: of you listening are probably already doing this, but most 219 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,719 Speaker 1: folks get all the groceries from the store, and we 220 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: ain't about that life. So I'm going to tell you 221 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: one way to do it yourself. Baiting of a trot 222 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: line and teaching an ice chest full of fish how 223 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: to ride in a boat is about as red, white 224 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 1: and blue as you can get. Also, it's fun Bailey Suzanne, 225 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 1: tell you o Mama to get the grease hot we 226 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: fixed and catch a miss a fish. All right. You 227 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: ain't got nobody to show you how to do it, Yes, 228 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: you do me. Lots of good online articles and videos 229 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: will give you all kinds of methods and techniques to try. 230 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: You can get trot lines pre made with hooks and everything. 231 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: It's just about any bait and tackle shop or the 232 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: supplies to make your own, which is what I like 233 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: to do. Don't be scared. This ain't hard. There's literally 234 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: no way to mess this up. If you can get 235 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: one end of a line tied to a stob or 236 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: a tree and the other end with a hook on 237 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: it and bait and in the water, you win. But 238 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: just like anything else, the more you do it, the 239 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: better you're gonna get at it better. Yet, to practice, 240 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: you gotta go fishing. So what is a trot line. 241 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: It's a length of line suspended horizontally near the bottom 242 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: of a body of water, with hooks attached by individual 243 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: links of a line at a measured intervals from one 244 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: end of the other. I can't believe I did that 245 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: makes sense? No, of course, it don't, But do this 246 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: for me. Picture a section of power line between two 247 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: poles in your head. Now, if every ten feet along 248 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: that pier line you had a smaller line hanging down 249 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: five feet from it with a hook on it, that's 250 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: a trot line. And for the record, there's no such 251 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: thing as a trout line. You can call it that, 252 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: I guess, but that ain't what it is. You can 253 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: say a rooster dip snuff, but that don't make it 254 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: so until you seem spit, and I ain't never seen 255 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: want to do that. Another thing. You can rig a 256 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: trot line and make it as fasty as you want, 257 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: but it's not necessary. One bottle of string and a 258 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: few hooks will get it done just as well. Them 259 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: filatis are going to taste the same regardless of how 260 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: you turn them loose into grease. Last summer, I was 261 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: digging around on the innerwebs and found a spot across 262 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: the river called the Memphis Net and Twine. These folks 263 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: have been serving commercial fishermen and anyone looking to fish 264 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: with lines or nets since nineteen sixty two. They got 265 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: more stuff on there than Carter's got liver pills, and 266 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: will fix you up and help you out with what 267 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: you need. You can look them up yourself at memphisnet 268 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: dot net. That's how you get them anyway. Here's a 269 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: recipe for a simple but effective trot line. These are 270 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: your ingredients. One roll of number thirty six twisted tard line, 271 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: one roll of number eighteen twisted tard line, one bag 272 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: of trot line clips, one bag of six aut circle hooks, 273 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: and some weights around threety five pounds each. Depending on 274 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: how long the line is will determine how many weights 275 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: you use. On one hundred foot line, I put a 276 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: weight in the middle and then one on about halfway 277 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: to each end, for a total of three. Now this 278 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: is one of a million ways to make a trot line. 279 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: Notice I didn't say thee way to make a trot line. 280 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: We're just talking basics here, and this is how I 281 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: make a basic trout line. The twisted line has been 282 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: dipped in tar and makes them easier to hold when 283 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: they're wet. They're not as slick as regular nylon line, 284 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: and it helps protect it too. The number thirty six 285 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: is our main line. The drops where our hooks go 286 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: are made from the smaller number eighteen size line and 287 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: just like the number suggests. The number eighteen is half 288 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: the diameter of the main line. You ain't got to 289 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: use two sizes of line, and if you don't want to, 290 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: but the smaller line is easier. Thread through the hooks 291 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: and the clips when we go to putting them on 292 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: the main line. Now, stretch out about one hundred feet 293 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: of that rascal out in your yard and tie each end. 294 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: Here's where you need to check your local regulation so 295 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: you don't get jammed up by mister Greene's. First, make 296 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: sure trout lines are legal for the water you want 297 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: to fish, and what the minimum spacing is for the 298 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: drop hooks. If they're too close together, it could be 299 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: considered a snag line, and that's a whole different animal 300 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: when it comes to fishing regulations. I like to space 301 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: mine about four or five feet between each drop. That 302 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: gives you plenty of room for my caught fish to 303 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: ramble around without filing himself on the next hook, making 304 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: it easier for me to get off the hook, and 305 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: when I run the line. Also, it keeps that hook 306 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: fishing instead of jobbed and the fish I've already caught. 307 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: So take one of those clips and clip it on 308 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: the line and repeat that every four or five feet. 309 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: Give yourself plenty of slack on it each end to 310 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: tie your line off before you start adding the clips. 311 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: Now doing some quick math in my head thanks to 312 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: Miss Brenda McDougall, my most favoriteiss math teacher, who not 313 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: only worked on my brain but also the seat of 314 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: my breeches when my focus went from math to anything 315 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: else I'd rather be doing at that time. You're going 316 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: to wind up anywhere between twenty and twenty five clips, hooks, 317 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: and drops. Before we start adding the hooks, make sure 318 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: you know where the youngs are and you've got your 319 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: pet squared away. The last thing we want to do 320 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,719 Speaker 1: is wreck our truck line with a non targeted species, 321 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,479 Speaker 1: especially one that can tell Mama on you. So how 322 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: do we make a drop? This is easy. We want 323 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: that hook to hang about two feet below the main line, 324 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: so take four foot of that smaller line and cut 325 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: it off the row. Match those two ends together, tie 326 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: an overhand knot and take a lighter and burn the 327 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: cut in so they don't start fraying and come unwound. 328 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: Which reminds me of a horse I was setting a 329 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: straddle of one time that come unwound. Before it all ended, 330 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: I done travel from one end to that rascal to 331 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: the other before he picked out some soft rocks for 332 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: me to land on. Me and him parted ways. When 333 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: something unexpectedly comes unwound, it's never good, So tire a 334 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: good knot and burn the ends. Now you got a 335 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: two foot drop of number eighteen line and you about 336 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: to rock your first drop on your first trot line. 337 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: Take a hook and feed the double line through that 338 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: eye and pull the hook through the loop it formed 339 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: on the other side, securing the hook in one end 340 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: of the drop. Now repeat that process by looping it 341 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: onto the clip you've already attached to the line and bingo, 342 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: you got it. Now do that for the rest of 343 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: your line, and you're ready to fresh. But Brent, what 344 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: am I gonna do? Now? How do I get my 345 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: trot line from the to the river? I hope y'all 346 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: really don't sound like that. But remember Memphis net and twine. 347 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: They make an item called a plastic wine, or you 348 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: can buy or you can make one out of a 349 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: scrap piece of paneling, or you can just use a 350 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,239 Speaker 1: five gallon bucket, hang the hooks from the inside and 351 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: have all the line contained inside the bucket. Personally, I 352 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: like the wine because it takes up less bait in 353 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: my boat, but using the bucket is usually faster to 354 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: each his own. To me, the best tasting catfish is 355 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: the belly meat off a flathead. But we're not gonna 356 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: worry about targeting specific species of catfish right now. Outside 357 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: of the mudcats. We'll take a blue cat, a channel cat, 358 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: or a flathead. Sometimes the mudcats are fine. It just 359 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: depends on the water you're fishing, and since we're headed 360 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: to the river where the water's moving, we're gonna be 361 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: good with any of them. There's really no way to 362 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: wrongly fish or trot line. Some are just better than others. 363 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: Right now, talking about fishing the river, and the example 364 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: I can give you is the Mighty Celine River in 365 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: Cleveland County, where currently, as my niece continues her research, 366 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: the count is up to eight generations of reefs that 367 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: ran around that part of Arkansas, breaking hearts, killing animals, 368 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: and catching fish. That's where the Lloyd Wilton Buddy Reeves 369 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: Celine River access is located. I have so many wonderful 370 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: memories of this place, and a lot more stories from 371 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: down there that I'll share with you all in the future. 372 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: But now we've got to get some bait. And you 373 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: can catch some flatheads with live bait, but you can 374 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: catch them all with bait that leaves sin in the water. 375 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: So on the way to the river, we'd stop and 376 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: we used to get some beef liver or chicken hearts 377 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: or livers at the grocery store, and some folks would 378 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: just buy some pre made stink bait to use. Lots 379 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: of folks make their own bait, and we might talk 380 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: about how they do that sometime, but right now we're 381 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: going to go with this. The river wasn't real white, 382 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: and we could stretch a line across it pretty easy 383 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: in most places. We just had to make sure that 384 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: we waited it down enough where the boats wouldn't hit it. 385 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 1: And that shouldn't be a problem if you have it 386 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: said right, because fishing on the bottom is where you 387 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: catch catfish, So don't forget your weights, get one end 388 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: tied off to a stob or something solid on the 389 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: bank near the water, and run that line out at 390 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: about forty five degree angle to the opposite bank. Now, 391 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: catfish feed upstream on the bottom, and having your bait 392 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: close to the bottom and at an angle, gives the 393 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: fish more opportunities to find it as he makes his 394 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: way upstream. Once you've tied off each end, go back 395 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: and get on the downstream side of your line, catch 396 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: a hold of it, and pull yourself across the river, 397 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: baiting as you go. Remember to put enough slack on 398 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 1: each end so your weights will pull it down near 399 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: the bottom. Now, we'd usually bait up an hour or 400 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: so before dark and then either go back to the 401 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: camp or build a fire on the bank and just 402 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: sit there, or we just go back home. We didn't 403 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: live far from there, so it really didn't matter. But 404 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: we'd run the line after darker couple of times at 405 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: night if we were camp close, or if the fish 406 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: are biting good. When we got all we wanted to clean, 407 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: or we didn't want to keep checking it throughout the 408 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: next day, we just take it up and get skin 409 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: and fish. Y'all, Please remember to wear you life jackets, 410 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: and it's a lot safer when you're messing with a 411 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: trout line to have some help. You're fishing in more 412 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: water than you can drink if you fall in, so 413 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: watch yourself. All right, here comes the best part. All 414 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: the struggle up to now is about to pay off. 415 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: When that peanut oil it's three hundred and fifty degree, 416 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: that's the time to slip that catfish fla into that 417 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: golden cauldron of bubbling goodness. For the love of humanity. 418 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: Here's how you do it now. What I'm about to 419 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: reveal has been a closely guarded secret for years. If 420 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders would've had this mixture and cooked the fish 421 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: instead of chicken, a dude would have been a general. 422 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,199 Speaker 1: This mixture has evolved over time, but at my father's passing, 423 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: this was the recipe for his fish bread, and we 424 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: use the same one for all fish crappee brim bash. 425 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: It didn't matter. This was it. It's our favorite. I'm 426 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: happy to share it with y'all, but y'all fix it 427 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: how you like it. Ours was made by using three 428 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: cups of yellow corn meal and a big mixing bowl. 429 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: Put a third cup of lemon pepper and an eighth 430 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: cup of granulated goodness. That takes your fish to the 431 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: next level, and that is caging Land brand crawfish bowl. 432 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: It doesn't take a lot because the flavors are pretty 433 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: intense and concentrated, but at that ratio, at least for us, 434 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: the flavor is great and the kick ain't enough to 435 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: knock the baby out of the high chair. But you 436 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: regulate it for what's best for you and yours. It's 437 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: a lot easier to add than it is to take out. Also, 438 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: it's going to depend on how many folks you're trying 439 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: to feed, and definitely how much fish you have as 440 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: to how much bread you make. A good rule thumb 441 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: is cooking about a half a pound of fish per person. 442 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: If you're a little light on fish, use little plates 443 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: and make sure the taters and the hush puppies are 444 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: out at the front of the servant line. There's a 445 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: pro tip for you now. I like soaking my filets 446 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: and sweet milk before our bread them, but you ain't 447 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 1: got to. You can just pat them dry and chunk 448 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: them in the meal and bread them that way. I've 449 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: et them both ways, and I like them both ways. 450 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: Makes no difference to me. Just be sure and holler 451 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: when it's done. This is something the whole family can 452 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 1: do from start to finish, and you ought to be 453 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: involving them anyway. Mama's Daddy's youngins neighbors, old folks who 454 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: don't like a good fishing trip, or at least the 455 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: community and bonding of a fish fried man. It's good stuff. 456 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: I hope you all have enjoyed this as much as 457 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: I have. I hope you'll come back next week. We're 458 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: gonna talk about some more country stuff and have a 459 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: good time while we're doing it. This is Brent Reeves. 460 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I'll be here.