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Speaker 1: to Bent, the fishing podcast equivalent of Fear and Loathing

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Speaker 1: with the everyone being afraid of sharks thing, and can

423
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Speaker 1: we cancel Shark Week while rabbit please, you know, man,

424
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna make me divulge stuff. You're gonna make me

425
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: go to a dark place here. But I can relate

426
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: to this study um too much because don't call it

427
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: a study. It's a YouTube show. It's not a study.

428
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: There's no peer review here. I can relate to the

429
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: YouTube video on a personal level level because in my

430
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: much younger we'll say, late teens, early twenty days, I

431
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: may or may not have experimented with goats blood in

432
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 1: the shark fishing arena. And that's from growing up watching

433
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: Jaws and just assuming that if you put mammal blood out,

434
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: it's like shark magnet right, um, And I got this, man,

435
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 1: I don't want to get off here, but like I

436
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: got this from a halal meat market and processor in Trenton,

437
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: New Jersey. And I called the guy and I was like, hey, uh,

438
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm I'm looking for a five gallon

439
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: bucket of goats blood. And he was like, you want

440
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: blood coming in, man, blood, you bring your own bucket.

441
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: And I was like all right. So I roll into

442
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: this place and it's like there's like legit goats and

443
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: ship out back that they're slaughtering at this halal meat market.

444
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: And the guy, he didn't even charge me. He took

445
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: my bucket and brought out five gallons of warm hair

446
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 1: filled fresh blood. Like the goat was screaming as he

447
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: was filling my bucket. And then I took it home

448
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: and froze it and put an eye hook in it

449
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: so I could tie it off, and we took it

450
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: out of my buddies boat and we were like, get ready, boys,

451
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: because this is just gonna be like it's it's like

452
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: you don't even know what's going to happen. They're gonna

453
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: come a jump in here, they come. You know what

454
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: really loves mammal blood, blue fish, not one shark in

455
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: that slick, And I was like, that's just it must

456
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: have been a south wind and upwelling and the temperature

457
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: is wrong. So I went back like two weeks later

458
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: and bought another bucket of goats blood and uh still know.

459
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: So the long and short of that is, I've spent

460
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: a fair amount of time sharking, and just the regular

461
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: old bunker or mackerel chum that catches some sharks. Man,

462
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: the goats blood is just not worth the effort. Yeah,

463
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: they don't want to eat mammals. They don't want to

464
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: eat you. So you didn't have to watch that video.

465
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Speaker 1: You could have just come to me and been like,

466
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Speaker 1: does warm mammal blood catch more sharks? I would have said, now,

467
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: it just it just stinks up your ninety three GMC jimmy.

468
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: You should you should have fed that headline to the

469
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Speaker 1: Daily Mail just I know I should have. I should have,

470
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, it is true though, you know the

471
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: movies and everything that made it so like, oh man,

472
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: if you're out there swimming around and bleeding like it's

473
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: it's a magnet, I don't. I don't think so. And

474
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: I think it's because obviously, like like all fish sharks,

475
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 1: they're used to what they know, and they know fish blood,

476
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: So I mean, how often are they smelling beef blood?

477
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: It's probably not as attractive as we'd all like it

478
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: to be. But um, we'll move on from my nine

479
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: GMC Jimmy too much more expensive things here, And I'm

480
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what, dude, I'm hesitant to actually call

481
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: this news per se, but this is the way I

482
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: look at this game we play here. If the article

483
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: in question legitimately pops up in a Google news search,

484
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: not just a general search, then it qualifies as news.

485
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: So right, all right, I mean that's what. Yeah, if

486
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: it pops up in a knee search, then then then okay.

487
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: And I did in fact find this in a news search,

488
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: granted on page eighty seven of the search. Um, but

489
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: this comes from upscale Living mag dot com, which, as

490
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 1: the name suggests, is for people that have more money

491
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: than they know what to do with, just like us, right, Joe, Yeah,

492
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: you subscribe, don't you? And the story is called why

493
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: you Should invest on the Best Fishing High End Rods

494
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: by author Danner Alleys, who's grammar and ability to write

495
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: headlines isn't as upscale as it probably should be. Um. Anyway,

496
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: the art for this story features an ugly stick rod,

497
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: so just yes, it does. Oh it does. It's a

498
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: tight shot. But Irony Joey knows an ugly stick Okay,

499
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: so just keep that in mind as we press on you.

500
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read this whole thing because it's long,

501
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: but it's a great example of an article pretending to

502
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: say a lot without really saying anything at all if

503
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: you actually know the subject matter, and it just like

504
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: talks in broad strokes about how quality rods are made

505
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: of better components and are more sensitive than cheap rods,

506
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: and like that's not wrong, it's just it's saying it's

507
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: so quickly that it's not really giving you anything. But

508
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: then you have lines like this, Okay, so ask yourself

509
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: a few questions. What types of lures do you want

510
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: to use with the rod? How likely is it that

511
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: you'll know a fish has struck with the technique you're using.

512
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: If you are not sure what to look for and

513
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: find yourself in the sea of information, click here for

514
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: a useful guide. It's also worth mentioning that the probability

515
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: is high that you just wouldn't be able to go

516
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: this deep into specifics if you are using a cheaper rod, right,

517
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: But then I click on the link and it goes

518
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: to a story on us angler dot com titled best

519
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: drop shot Rods for the money our favorites reviewed. Just

520
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: so it's like, I hope, I hope that's what you're

521
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: looking for. You know, some poor rich dude bought fifty

522
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: drop shot sticks to outfit his new contender. Because it

523
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: is misleading information. But my favorite section, which is also

524
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: the shortest in the entire piece, is titled or slugged rather,

525
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: what else do you gain from buying a high end rod?

526
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: And it reads great rods are going to allow you

527
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: to get beyond the mechanics and into the fishing. False. Nothing,

528
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: no um, and they last a lifetime, as every quality

529
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: rod is trimmed out with the very US Guide's thread,

530
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: high grade cork as well as and I don't know

531
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: what these are trouble free real seats also false. I

532
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: break a high end rod every third time I go

533
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: in the garage to throw something in. The recycle can

534
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: just break almost just as easy to in fact, and

535
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: sometimes they break easier than the cheap one. I can't

536
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: hardly break an ugly stick just you know some of

537
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: the other ones that I won't mention. You can taking

538
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: the lawnmow rounds like snapped another loom as ship you

539
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: know um and that closes out with Also, while not

540
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: the most essential thing in the world, they feel better

541
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: in your hands and add a whole new sense of

542
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: luxury when displayed or showcase. Now wait a second, because

543
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: sense of luxury is also a hyperlink that takes you

544
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: to a story on Psychology Today called the Emotions of Luxury.

545
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: You went deep, man, like all the way down the

546
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: rabbit hole. I applaud your your journalistic diligence here. You

547
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: know who this is for, man, And I wish I

548
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: wish I was one of these people. I think we

549
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: all do. It's like this week, I just decided because

550
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: I read something or bought a Guy Harvey shirt or

551
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, Like, I'm into fishing, so I'm

552
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: gonna dump ten grand on every single thing I could

553
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: possibly need for this hobby. And then next week I'll

554
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: read something about mountain biking and then we'll dump ten

555
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: grand on mountain biking things. That's who this is for. Yeah, No,

556
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean I've guided this guy, and I think a

557
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: lot of people have this. I'm gonna get into the

558
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: fishing this summer, and walks into the shop and drops

559
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: just thousands of dollars. On the same day he gets

560
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: his first guy to trip to learn how to do it,

561
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: and the shop owners love. Of course this particular person,

562
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: this is your guy. This is how they survive. So

563
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dog on on these people because they

564
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: keep the industry going. But I mean, I think this

565
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for us to talk about how wrong

566
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: and misleading this information is for people who can't afford

567
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: to spend ten grand to go fishing, and how this

568
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: might be the kind of thing to keep people from

569
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: getting into something because they think they got to spend

570
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: a ton of money to do it, and that's just

571
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: not true. You're exactly right, and you know it's it's

572
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: like I can't imagine you won't agree. It's like for me,

573
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, when you start out fishing junk, and I

574
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: still fish a lot of junk, but like you can't

575
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: go right into the thousand dollar rod because that's a

576
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: treat for later if you can afford it, that you'll

577
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: appreciate more later after you've put in your time with

578
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: the junk. Absolutely, yeah, I mean I I don't think

579
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: I ever I don't think I ever fished a thousand

580
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: dollar rod until I was working in the industry and

581
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: someone handed me one like hey, this is a thousand

582
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: dollar rod, and like, oh no, I'm gonna break it,

583
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: but I want. One thing I have learned in getting

584
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: the opportunity to fish lots of different gear and try

585
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: out all the different levels of gear is that you

586
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: don't come to actually need those those kind of fine

587
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,959
Speaker 1: tuned elements until you're a pretty good angler, until you're

588
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: a pretty high level angler. So the person who doesn't

589
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: have background, doesn't have an experience, isn't going to appreciate

590
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: what they get for that money. Sure, And then on

591
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: the flip side of that coin, right, if you are

592
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: really good at what you do and you do really

593
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: value high end gear, you've also probably guided the guy

594
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: who like would refuse to now use anything but that stuff.

595
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: And it's like, dude, if if you can, if you can,

596
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, use a Winston and send a line seventy

597
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: feet if you know what you're doing, and like, this

598
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: lodge only has ugly stick fly rods for the tarp

599
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: and like, shut up, you should be able to do

600
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: it with that too, you know what I mean? And

601
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: and dirty little secret, sorry to the top company in

602
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: the gear companies. Uh, expensive gear won't make you a

603
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: better angler, straight up. Like, it's not gonna do it.

604
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: It's not gonna make you cast better. It's not gonna

605
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: make you catch more fish. It might be a little

606
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: more fun to fish with. You might enjoy it a

607
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: little bit more, but it's not going to be the

608
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: difference between whether you're good or you suck. If the

609
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: article says it will not get you past the mechanics

610
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: any faster if you don't know any of the mechanics,

611
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: it does not. It does not. Um, I'm gonna I'm

612
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna transitions here. I'm gonna stick with the theme of

613
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: junk but but but but change it up. And I'm

614
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: also gonna stick with something that I a seed I

615
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: planted last week in fish News. Alright, you remember last

616
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: week I reported on scientists mapping carp scales to make

617
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: super battle armor. Oh yeah, I've been making one allah

618
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs in the garage ever since. It's

619
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: on the form out there. Yeah, you're keeping the carpet

620
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: in a in a tub in your basement and making

621
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: them hose themselves off to Alright, I'm gonna stop. Uh,

622
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: that's not the only way we're using fish scales to

623
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: create a dystopian future. Have you ever heard of temporary

624
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: flexible electronic displays? Is that just like the technical term

625
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: for the button panel on the toaster of it? Your

626
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: toaster open has button panels? You do subscribe to that magazine,

627
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: don't you are? I read the high end toaster of

628
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Speaker 1: an article. I just have a lever that I push,

629
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Speaker 1: you know. That's uh, that's the not what they are.

630
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: But I hadn't heard of these either, but apparently we

631
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: all will very very soon. The idea is that sometimes

632
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: in the near future, will all be sticking clear plastic

633
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: patches on ourselves. But instead of delivering a slow dose

634
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: of sweet, sweet nicotine, those patches will be like little

635
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: computer screens that you wear on your skin. So think

636
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: of it like temporary tattoos meet apple watches. All right, okay, alright,

637
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: so wait, so wait the screen doesn't there's no like

638
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: micro chip in the screen. It's just like whatever your

639
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: device is will project onto your skin like it'll get

640
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: like you will watch it on your arm. Yeah, I don't.

641
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: I don't have an engineering degrease. I don't know. I

642
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: don't know how it works. But from what I could

643
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: tell from reading the article, yes, these are these are

644
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: little screens that are disposable. They're temporary that somehow communicate

645
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: with your device and and project or or receive information

646
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: from your device that you can see on your skin.

647
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: That's that's my under my my very limit it understanding

648
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: of it. And uh and some smart researchers in China

649
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: are thinking ahead to the environmental implications of this technology, right,

650
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: So these are gonna be single use items theoretically made

651
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: of plastic that people wear and and display stuff and

652
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: then pull them off and throw them away, So they'll

653
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: they'll end up being like the disposable straws of the future.

654
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: And I'm already feeling sorry for the turtles. And I

655
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: don't know where they're going to get stuck on them,

656
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: but um. According to a study published by the American

657
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: Chemical Society, nanotechnologists are working on ways to use actual

658
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: fish scales to make these temporary electronic displays. They're deriving

659
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: gelatin from the collagen and fish scales and molding it

660
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: into a thin film that's flexible, transparent, and biodegradable. And

661
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: then they're using that film to build an alternating current

662
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: electro luminescent device that continues to glow even after being

663
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: bent and real axed over a thousand times. All Right,

664
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: So I will admit, even though I'm terrified at the

665
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: prospect of everyone around me covering their bodies and screens,

666
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean, at least they'll just be destroying the fabric

667
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: of society and not the not the planet itself. Well,

668
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: this is what pops into my head right away. Um,

669
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: the people who make glow sticks for the rave scene

670
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: must be scared shitless about this. I mean, they're They're done, dude.

671
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean take the rave scene to a whole new level. Really,

672
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you can just like, instead of needing those

673
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: big screens up over it, people can be the screens

674
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: like you can. You can project whatever is going on

675
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 1: inside out right under your chest. And because no one's

676
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: wearing any shirts and a rave from what I've seen,

677
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: and it's gonna get ugly. Casino in Vegas has already

678
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: pre ordered, but hopefully they're getting the fish scales ones

679
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: and not the plastic ones. That's what I say. And

680
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: then the other thing that comes to mind is I

681
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: would have to assume that that the tilapia processors and

682
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: Gorton's Fisherman's of the world are gonna benefit here because

683
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: that's probably where they get the scale supply. Right, That's right,

684
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: that's right. Those scales are going to be put to

685
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: good use. They're not just gonna be ground up in

686
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: the meal anymore. All Right. That brings us to the

687
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: end of fish News, But before we move on, we

688
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: have an update for you. That's a it's kind of

689
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: a bummer. Yeah, we're we're we're we're rolling into That's

690
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: My Bar here, which we know you guys love. You've

691
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: been sending a lot of great feedback. And this little

692
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: closing note on news sort of ties back to our

693
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: very first installment of That's My Bar. You might remember

694
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: that I shouted out the sip and dip in Great Falls,

695
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite bars of all time,

696
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: and I mentioned piano Pat, the woman who's been playing

697
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: music there for half a century now, and listener Matt

698
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: Bradley wrote to tell us recently, piano Pat had kind

699
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: of a nasty fall broke a hip, got a little

700
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: bit of a brain bleed. Uh, kind of a scary situation.

701
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: Sounds like she's making a recovery and she is doing well,

702
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: but she could use a little help with their medical bills.

703
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: So they set up a go fund Me account, and

704
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: both Joe and I have contributed to that. Yes, I

705
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: had to help because I've never actually been to this

706
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: bar or met piano Pat, and I that that can't

707
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: be that way, Like I have to eventually get out

708
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: there with you and listen to piano Pat play so

709
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: speedy recovery Pat, when they we're gonna get back to

710
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: doing what you love. And on that note, let's go

711
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: drink somewhere else this week. Best God damn bar tender

712
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: from tim buck to to Portland, Maine. The Portland argument

713
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: for that matter, I've only been to q West once

714
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: and that was from my cousin's wedding. At first, I

715
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: was kind of pissed at him for getting hitched all

716
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: the way down in Florida until I realized that the

717
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: wedding was going down in May and lined up perfectly

718
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: with the front end of tarpin season. At that point,

719
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: all was forgiven. Once we got through the nuptials, the reception,

720
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: and the after after party at a drag show on

721
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: Duvall Street, the family all drifted back to their respective

722
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: corners of the count Tree. I stuck around for a

723
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: few days to fish, sleep in a hotel room that

724
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: costs more than a half days guide wages and still

725
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: smelled like Neptunes jockstrap. But I did catch a couple

726
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: of tarpin and landed my first permit, so it was

727
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: definitely worth it, according to my good friend Toosh Brown. However,

728
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: I missed out on one of Key West's absolute best features.

729
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: Tasha's nomination for that's my bar goes like this the

730
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: Green Parrot and Key West just as many bikers and

731
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: trashy hose as any other bar on Duval, but it's

732
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: not on Duval, so there's a cool factor that applies better.

733
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: Yet not many cruise ship passengers go there because it's

734
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: a long hot walk from the dock and that tends

735
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: to melt gelatinous orbs wearing black socks and hybiscus tunics.

736
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: Plus they claim it's the oldest bar in the Keys,

737
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: so that's worth something. After hearing this glowing recommendation and

738
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: doing a little research. I feel like I kind of

739
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: blew it not hitting this bar up. The Green Parrots

740
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: motto is a sunny place for shady people, which I love,

741
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: and it kind of seems like that could apply to

742
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: all of Key West, so maybe the bars emblematic of

743
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: that whole place. It's been around since eighteen fifty when

744
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: it was a little speakeasy in the back room of

745
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 1: a Cuban grocery. Since then, it's catered to sailor's hippies,

746
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: commercial shrimpers, drug smugglers, and now of course tourists. Thanks

747
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: Tosh for contributing to what is sure to become one

748
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: of the most valuable informational resources in the modern world.

749
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: And remember, we need your help to compile our list

750
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: of the best fishing bars on the planet. Email us

751
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: at bent at the mediator dot com and tell us

752
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: why your favorite drinking establishment deserves honorable mention. I love

753
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: how you describe the hotel you stayed in is smelling

754
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: like Neptunes jockstrap, because I understand exactly what you mean.

755
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: I've stayed in so many shitty motels it's unreal. But

756
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: there are a few in the Keys easily in my

757
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: top five and the worst, right, the worst was so

758
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: infested with biting insect that every night I would literally

759
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: build a barricade of off insect repellent of wipes around

760
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: the mattress, which subsequently I believe was filled with straw.

761
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: But the baracuta fishing out back was real good. You

762
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: go for the fishing in the drinking, you don't go

763
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: for the accommodations. So it was was the item that

764
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: we're we're just about to cover and get to in

765
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: this week's sale bin hanging on the wall of that

766
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: place by Jens No, uh, but it could have been.

767
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: It would not have been out of place. It sounds

768
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: like it. You know, hey, folks, call your bank. Hot

769
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 1: item okay on the auction block today. You're not gonna

770
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: want to miss this one. Price recently reduced. This is

771
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: the sale bin. Why did you put the hand to pay?

772
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm getting, man, You didn't have

773
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: to be so hurtful with me, so angry. So this

774
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: comes from a seller in Pasadena, Maryland, and it's possible,

775
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: based on the item, that he actually might have thought

776
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: he lived in Pasadena, California, where such and item might

777
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: have been more appropriate. I don't know, but we have,

778
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: for the low price of four hundred and nine dollars

779
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: a white marlin fish mount. But wait, because there's so

780
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: much goddamn more. Um a white marlin fish mount done

781
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: in sunset colors. I don't know if i'd call that sunset.

782
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, but it is certainly not natural color. I

783
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: can tell you that. Yeah, I looked at it, and

784
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: I was like sunset colors otherwise uh, otherwise known as wrong,

785
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: just completely inaccurate. So the fins and the stripes, like

786
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: the accent blues and aqua's are accurate. But if you

787
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: could picture this, anything that would have been white or

788
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: silver or lightly colored is painted like screaming neon pink

789
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: and and neon orange. I mean, it blends, right. You

790
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 1: gotta go from south to north on this thing, from

791
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: from the bottom, from the belly up towards the dorsal

792
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: it blends not at all seamlessly, from hot orange to

793
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: bright pink into sort of an indigo purple. Well, this

794
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: is really something else. This is what happened here, right

795
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: how the decision was made at the time. So we

796
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: assume that someone in the time space continuum caught the

797
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: white marlin, was proud of the white Marlin, decided they

798
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: needed a amount of the white marlin, and then got

799
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: to sunset colors, which I'm sure at the time just

800
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: sounded brilliant, but it's one of those pieces that for

801
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: the years following you look at and question every single day,

802
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: Like every time somebody comes over, you're like, did you

803
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: see that? Just sun sunset? I got? I got the

804
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: sunset colors. Man, it's pretty dope, right. People are just like, yeah, yeah,

805
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, I get it. I was

806
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: I was fifteen once and I bought myself a sunburst stratocaster,

807
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: thinking that that was really really cool because I I

808
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: was maybe doing a fair amount of acid at the time,

809
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: and I thought that would be a great idea. My

810
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: only hope is that whoever was on this charter boat

811
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: was also doing a fair amount of acid. And this

812
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: is how the fish looked in their memory of the

813
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: trip as it leapt with back backing out, back lit

814
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: and they're like, bro, I got I want that thing

815
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. I meet painted just

816
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: like that, and he followed through. So good on him,

817
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: I mean he followed through. Uh it takes me back.

818
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: Do you remember this has got to be going back

819
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, but it was sort of on trend

820
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: for certain replica houses in Florida to do like those

821
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: tattoo flame schemes on fish. Do you remember that? Oh,

822
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: thankfully I don't remember. Yeah, I must have missed that

823
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: particular trend and I'm not sorry. Like the back half

824
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: of the fish would be one solid color and the

825
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: whole head was just like racing slash tattoo flames. That

826
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: was a thing that they offered. So I will say this,

827
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: if nothing else, at least this is not a mass

828
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: produced color scheme like the flames. Like, it isn't original, right,

829
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably probably isn't one of a kind.

830
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: So um, if you have four dollars kicking around, I

831
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: would I would look this one up on Facebook Marketplace

832
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: because I'm sure. I'm sure it won't last long, even

833
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: though it is already lasted over two weeks. But guess what,

834
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: it's reduced from eight hundred, so you're really getting the

835
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: screaming deal now you could get this guy down to

836
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: three ten, like guarantee. Anyway, we love the junk, we

837
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: love the weird sales. So if you find some online

838
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: in your area, some some weird, odd fishing things for purchase.

839
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: Do please send us the links at bent at the

840
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: meat eater dot com so that we can make fun

841
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: of people where you live here on our show. Hey,

842
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: we're coming to the end here and that means it's

843
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: time for end of the line, probably the most critical

844
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: segment in this entire podcast, because without it, how the

845
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: hell would you know what to tie on this weekend.

846
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: Miles taking the lead on this one, and I concur

847
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: with his choice. It deserves to be here. You're damn right,

848
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: it deserves to be here, although I wouldn't take our

849
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: end of line segment is the only thing you should

850
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: fish over the weekend. But there are certain lures that

851
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: just seem like they get lost in the couch cushions

852
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: of fishing history, right and and then exactly, just because

853
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: we get distracted by the shiny new bait drop doesn't

854
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 1: mean that those classic lures stopped working. They're still damn good. Well,

855
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: that's not allowed enough. Spitter baits are great lures for kids.

856
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: Cast it out, read it in, there's a pretty good

857
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: chance something will take a whack at it. Plus they

858
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: usually just have the one hook so they don't hang

859
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: up too easily, and chances of an easily distract it

860
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: or maybe uncoordinated child burying the point somewhere painful is

861
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: lower than say, an inline spinner, like the maps I

862
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,959
Speaker 1: sunk in my father's face when I was seven. Sorry

863
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: about that, Dad. But while spinner baich remained staples and

864
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: any serious freshwater anglers arsenal, another type of safety pin

865
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: style lures seems relegated to the kids table. I'm talking

866
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: about the beetle spin. You remember those beetle spins used

867
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: to take up prime real estate in my boxes before

868
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: I got all sophisticated somewhere in my late teens. Legend

869
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: has it that the beetle spin was invented by a

870
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: guy named Chuck Woods. Woods was part of a crew

871
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: of progressive bass anglers who hung around Finks Tackle Shop

872
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: on the Kansas side of Kansas City in the fifties, sixties,

873
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: and seventies. Woods that his buddies are often credited with

874
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: inventing finesse bass fishing. I mean, I suspect that plenty

875
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: of other anglers in other parts of the country independently

876
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: figured out the fish and slower and more delicately pays off.

877
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: But It's also fair to say that Woods was an

878
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: innovator in the sport word. His invention of the beetle

879
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: spin alone bestows hall of fame status. In my eyes,

880
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: you'd have a hard time finding a simpler lure than

881
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: the Beatles spin. It can be fished to virtually any

882
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: speed with any retrieve. It still produces burn it, crawl it, bumpet,

883
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: troll it, jigg it, fish, bite it. That's sheer versatility,

884
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: maybe the reason it's often associated with tackle box owned

885
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: by people under sixteen. But there's also this inherent goofiness

886
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: of the beetle span. It doesn't have the molded, skirted

887
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: elegance of a grown up spinner bait or the sleek

888
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: simplicity of inline spinner. It certainly isn't near as highbrow

889
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: as a box of complex cranks, and it doesn't offer

890
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: a fraction of the rigging options you'll find in a

891
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 1: sack of sankos. One might argue that the beetle spin

892
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: isn't even really its own bait. It's a spinner arm

893
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: attached to a jighead tip the split tail grub. It's

894
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: a frankenstein of spare parts, easily assembled for less than

895
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: a dollar, So why would any idiot buy a Beetle

896
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: span All right? First off, name brand beetlespins still sell

897
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: for under two bucks, so you're not breaking the bank

898
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: either way. Second, I have experimented with just about every

899
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: permutation of soft plastic trailer, and I'm convinced that the original,

900
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: narrow bodied split tail outperforms all the others in just

901
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 1: about every situation. I cannot explain why those stock bodies

902
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: moved like they've been pumped full of boatocs. They pretty

903
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: much starfish their way back to the boat no matter

904
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: what you do to them. A curly or paddle tail

905
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: would impart a heck of a lot more action, but

906
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: in my personal experience, they catch fee of fish. So

907
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: I keep buying the real beetle spins just to get

908
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: my hands on those lifeless bodies. My one and only

909
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: complained about beetle spins is that Johnson quit making the

910
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: magnum size sometime in the late eighties or early nineties,

911
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, believe it or not. I caught my

912
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: first muskie on a magnet beetle spin orange with black stripes,

913
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,919
Speaker 1: of course, and that bait pin more pike than any

914
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: other throughout my childhood. So Johnson, if you're listening, bring

915
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: back the magnum. Please. For those of you out there

916
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: who like me, stopped reaching for beetle spins right around

917
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: the time you started getting interested in the spice channel,

918
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: I suggest you revisit your roots. From bluegill to croppy

919
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: to bass, to seatrout to redfished pike. The things just

920
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: weren't before. We go a toast to some good news. Finally,

921
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: in reference to what's generally known as the Pebble Mine,

922
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Army Corps of Engineers did not issue

923
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: the permit Northern Dynasty Minerals requested to mind the headwaters

924
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Now, if you don't know what

925
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, then you have not been paying attention

926
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: for the past decade or so. But that's all right.

927
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: You can read all the details about this in Sam

928
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: Longdren's excellent series of articles covering the situation at the

929
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: meat Eator dot com. Bristol Bay is the reason that

930
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm here making this sometimes silly and sometimes serious podcast

931
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: about fishing, an activity that is itself sometimes silly and

932
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: sometimes serious. I got my first guiding job at a

933
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 1: lodge up a river that feeds Bristol Bay. Fourteen years ago,

934
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: the year after Northern Dynasty discovered the pebble deposit, I

935
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: got to spend four months out of the year living

936
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: in waiters, drinking tent warm beer, trying to keep my

937
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: clients from pissing off brown bears, and standing beside those

938
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: clients as they caught what were often the biggest fish

939
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: of their lives, massive rainbows, dolly varden, Arctic crayling pike,

940
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: and of course wild native Pacific salmon. In addition to

941
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: the fish and the bears, so very many bears. I

942
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: saw wolves, moose, caribou, links, even a wolverine. For a

943
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: young man whose gray matter folds were sculpted on stories

944
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: of wild fishing in Alaska, developing an intimate relationship with

945
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: that place was one of the most significant opportunities of

946
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: my life. I knew the exact gravel bars the sack

947
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: I would funnel across, which slews the chums like to

948
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: spawn in the big flats where the fire engine red

949
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: things dug their reds, the pounded down spots on a

950
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: bank where one bear's territory ended and another's began. I

951
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: knew the scenes were early season trout stacked up to

952
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: feed on juvenile lamp rais and migrating smolt, the water

953
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: temperature at which the catifs would hatch and the rainbows

954
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: would start eating mice. I was lucky enough to get

955
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: to know the circulatory rhythms of one of the most

956
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: incredible places in North America. Those years inspired me so

957
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: much that I wrote a book about one of them,

958
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 1: and that book jump started my career as an outdoor writer.

959
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: Today I get to feel inspired again because a coalition

960
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: of people, some of whom can barely agree on the

961
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: color of the sky, we're able to agree that this

962
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: place is too valuable to risk and stood up for it.

963
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: I would like to thank everyone who dug in on this,

964
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: who made noise, who worked to stop it. So many

965
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: quote unquote winds in our current culture go to one

966
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: side or another, but I genuinely believe that this is

967
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: a win for all of us, at least all of

968
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: us who care about fish and wilderness. So thank you

969
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: and salute. That's it for this week, To to put

970
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: it in cliffs notes form. For for those of you

971
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: who just barely got through school like we did, you

972
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: just learned how to piss off people in Erie, Pennsylvania,

973
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: where to drink in Key West if you don't give

974
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,479
Speaker 1: a ship about Key Lampie, which I don't, or Marty

975
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: grab beads, which I do a little, and the Joe

976
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: is all about slipper dicks. I I Yeah, all true

977
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: things just got said there. And you know we are

978
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: an educational program. Really it's reading Rainbow for anglers. But

979
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: you don't have to take my word for it. Just

980
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: read our reviews, which we could use more of. So

981
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. What I'm saying is please leave us

982
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: a review. If you like what you're hearing, or if

983
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: you hate it for that matter, let us know by

984
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: sending an email to Bent at the meat Eater dot com.

985
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: We are civil servants of the fishing community and love

986
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: feedback from you guys. Tell us what you like, what

987
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: you don't, what you'd like to hear, and we'll do

988
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: our best to deliver the goods. We hope you guys

989
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: are hitting the water this weekend, and if so, hit

990
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: us up let's know how it went. Yeah, I'm sure

991
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 1: all those sunset shots will be breathtaking.