Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that the lump sucker of we've all
Speaker 1: caught one of those, which gave you a ninety seven
Speaker 1: percent chance of just snagging one in the asshole region.
Speaker 1: Those stock bodies moved like they've been pumped full of
Speaker 1: bo tongs. Throws him on his ass, ruined his phone.
Speaker 1: The girlfriends Peter, Good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to Bent, the fishing podcast equivalent of Fear and Loathing
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, minus the drugs and hip cool interesting
Speaker 1: people as the main characters. I'm Jose Surmellie Miles, and
Speaker 1: thankfully I've I've never found myself in the depths of
Speaker 1: neither binge. My my own depravity usually just involves torturing
Speaker 1: water creatures for my own amusement. Anyway, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: what we do best and send all kinds of oddities
Speaker 1: related to fishing whizzing past your ear holes. It's your job, okay,
Speaker 1: to snatch a nugget of knowledge or fun factor weirdness
Speaker 1: before it gets away and is thereby consumed by the
Speaker 1: SMA harder, more aggressive predator downstream. Oh that image, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you got me thinking about aggressive predators and
Speaker 1: that kind of fits because today's regional Fisher comes to
Speaker 1: us from Captain Zach hammer Miller down in South Florida,
Speaker 1: and uh, if you're familiar with the segment, you should
Speaker 1: be excited for a Florida edition. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: The hammer is is uh an old buddy of mine,
Speaker 1: dear friend. And yeah, basically, um Za just recaps what's
Speaker 1: going on in his real life right. His sports are
Speaker 1: based around his recent experiences as they pertain to chartering
Speaker 1: part time, paying the bills by working in the residential
Speaker 1: irrigation industry, and generally hating South Florida and all the
Speaker 1: people that live there that aren't him. So, as Zach
Speaker 1: likes to say, buckle up, what's up, everybody, it's your boy,
Speaker 1: Captain Zack the hammer Miller from Throat Down Fishing Charters
Speaker 1: here in St. Lucy, Florida, coming at you with this
Speaker 1: week South Florida Fishing Report. Oh and yesterday we had
Speaker 1: a hoot and anny of a trip with a young
Speaker 1: eighteen year old couple that was down here staying on
Speaker 1: vacation at the Club med for their honeymoon from ch Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: And he called me up and he's like, man, He's like,
Speaker 1: I want to catch a goliath group or I'm like, mother,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get catch as many as you're in Midwest
Speaker 1: asking handle. So we go out there. I hook him
Speaker 1: up with the rope, the gloves and a circle hook.
Speaker 1: I'm like, here you go, buddy, have at it. He's like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, where's the rod. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is the rod. I'm like, this is it. Surprised I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get ready. He's like, man, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could take it. I'm my dude. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: gotta be about your ship. You gotta be in it
Speaker 1: to win it. Brother. So we dropped down a fifteen
Speaker 1: pound beneit of this dude catches in. As soon as
Speaker 1: that thing hits the bottom thump, and he's like, how
Speaker 1: do I know when it gets eight I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. That thing's gonna give dump
Speaker 1: truck with the mother get ready. You better eat your
Speaker 1: wheaties because it's coming here hard and fast. Boom thump.
Speaker 1: He is getting yoked. Dude, I come in for reinforcements.
Speaker 1: On the back side of that rope. It almost spools us.
Speaker 1: You know how hard it is. To get spooled on
Speaker 1: a hundred feet of rope. So this grouper, once it's
Speaker 1: done thrashing around, throws him on his ass, ruined his phone.
Speaker 1: The girlfriend's puking and he's like, God damn. He's like
Speaker 1: nobody in Oklahoma was gonna believe me, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, probably not anyway. Another bite that I heard
Speaker 1: was really good this week was the sail fish offshore
Speaker 1: in about a hundred twenty ft. Unfortunately, I was not
Speaker 1: able to attend that bite because I was busy in
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty degree heat index, crawling on my stomach
Speaker 1: under a ladies trailer and a retirement home in six
Speaker 1: inches of water, trying to find a main sprinkler break.
Speaker 1: But you know, as I sat down there, reflecting on
Speaker 1: hearing how people were putting nine sales to the boat
Speaker 1: in the morning, I was just sitting under her trailer
Speaker 1: praying that it collapsed on me so I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: to live out this hellish nightmare anymore and keep missing bites.
Speaker 1: Now for this week's South Florida Freshwater Fishing Report, brought
Speaker 1: to you by the wonderful people at the Okachobe Water
Speaker 1: Management District, after we got twenty seven inches a biblic hole,
Speaker 1: Moses asked rain they were kind enough to dump all
Speaker 1: that lovely freshwater out into our saltwater Indian River here,
Speaker 1: making it an absolute toxic wasteland. The water is so
Speaker 1: fresh right now. We're out at the front of the
Speaker 1: mouth of the inlet the other day and outgoing tide,
Speaker 1: and we were site fishing long nosegar coming out the
Speaker 1: inlet with some to lapia rolling around, absolutely electric freshwater
Speaker 1: fishing twenty miles from the nearest body of freshwater. But hey,
Speaker 1: we can't knitpick on where we're getting our reports from here.
Speaker 1: Let's just be real people, freshwater. That's it. That's the
Speaker 1: end of the story. Unless you want to site fish
Speaker 1: gar with me and what's supposed to be saltwater. That
Speaker 1: is your freshwater fishing report for this week. Alright. So truthfully,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't actually know Zach. I've I've never
Speaker 1: I've never met the dude, But I know I know
Speaker 1: you do, and I know you fish with him a lot,
Speaker 1: and I just I have to ask, is he is
Speaker 1: he actually fun to hang out with her? Is he
Speaker 1: just kind of a dick all the time? That's a
Speaker 1: fair question. But he's a blast. He's he really is,
Speaker 1: and he's one of those people. His grumpiness is endearing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like the hammer wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the hammer if he wasn't bitching about something. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I love fishing with him. And true story, we met
Speaker 1: years ago while shooting a land based shark fishing deal
Speaker 1: because he used to be heavily involved into that scene. Um,
Speaker 1: and I owe my biggest fish ever to Zach ten
Speaker 1: foot hammerhead. We estimated in the five pound range off
Speaker 1: the beach, like I reel that some bitch in with
Speaker 1: my feet on the sand. You know. So he knows
Speaker 1: his ship and you can find him at throw down
Speaker 1: Fishing dot com. You'll catch fish, You'll leave feeling more
Speaker 1: patriotic and better equipped to insult people. I'm sold. I'm
Speaker 1: sold on all counts there. Seriously that that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: worth the president mission. I will I will holler at
Speaker 1: Zack the next time I feel like getting the hell
Speaker 1: out of town and being a tourist in someone else's
Speaker 1: part of the world. Uh. And you know where I
Speaker 1: live up here in Montana, we we depend on the tourists,
Speaker 1: right like we depend on all those people come to
Speaker 1: our state and spend their hard earned or I mean
Speaker 1: more likely easily inherited money on restaurants and hotels and
Speaker 1: fishing gear and ski passes and you know, of course
Speaker 1: fishing guides. But that doesn't mean that we're like nice
Speaker 1: to them. It doesn't mean that when we see California
Speaker 1: plates in traffic, we don't cut them off and flip
Speaker 1: them the bird like it. And I realized that that's
Speaker 1: kind of a problem, like we should think a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger and recognize that we need them and maybe
Speaker 1: be nice to them. But we're not. And it turns
Speaker 1: out that's not unique to specifically tourist destinations as as Joe,
Speaker 1: as you will explain in this next installment of Weekly Word,
Speaker 1: Webster's Dictionary defines fish as this week's word is muppier.
Speaker 1: That's m e U p e A R. And I
Speaker 1: first heard this and while steel head fishing on Elk
Speaker 1: Creek in northwest Pennsylvania about seven years ago. And I
Speaker 1: remember the water that fall was ridiculously low, and it
Speaker 1: actually trapped all the steel head that had already run
Speaker 1: up Elk from Lake Erie into any pools that were
Speaker 1: more than a foot deep, so needless to say, it
Speaker 1: made the fishing really tough because there were so many
Speaker 1: fish jammed into each hole. They were like black with
Speaker 1: steelhead that on any given drift there was I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe like a three percent chance that one would actually
Speaker 1: open its mouth, and eighth the fly, which gave you
Speaker 1: a nineteent chance of just snagging one in the asshole region.
Speaker 1: But it was during our struggle. We're fishing with local
Speaker 1: guide Chris Gazolin, and he lamented that man, the mupp
Speaker 1: bears are gonna be snagging the ship out of him
Speaker 1: this weekend, and my natural reaction to that was the
Speaker 1: hell's a mupp bear man? And Chris informed me that
Speaker 1: it was the local term for city folk from Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: that come up here to crash at their family cabins
Speaker 1: and trailers and fish for the weekend. Now, according to
Speaker 1: the Urban Dictionary, which by the way, I personally hold
Speaker 1: in higher regard than Merriam Webster's, it's also used by
Speaker 1: year round residents of western Pennsylvania college towns to refer
Speaker 1: to out of state students to use it in a sentence,
Speaker 1: I can't wait until the mupp ears leave for spring break. Likewise,
Speaker 1: students from Western PA that leave Pittsburgh and its suburbs
Speaker 1: to go to schools in more rural areas say things
Speaker 1: like a mup bear study and business. So the term
Speaker 1: can also be used as a general contraction of I'm
Speaker 1: up here coming from Jersey, I was. I was just
Speaker 1: like tickled by the term. I thought it was just fantastic.
Speaker 1: And there's some version of muppier almost everywhere you go right.
Speaker 1: As an example, a muppier along the North Jersey coast
Speaker 1: is called a Benny, which is an acronym for anyone
Speaker 1: that shows up on the weekend from the cities of Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark,
Speaker 1: or from the entire state of New York, which gives
Speaker 1: Benny the n y at the end there right. Inevitably,
Speaker 1: someone spray paints Bye Bye Benny on at least one
Speaker 1: Garden State Parkway overpass every Labor Day weekend, and I
Speaker 1: still laugh every time I say it. Since we're on
Speaker 1: the topic of derogatory terms for outsiders, we'd love to
Speaker 1: have a few more for future weekly word segments, so
Speaker 1: please email them to us at bent at the meat
Speaker 1: Eator dot com and I'll come up there and check
Speaker 1: them out. Moving on to trivia, where we call up
Speaker 1: people we know and talk them into playing a stupid
Speaker 1: game where they can't actually win anything but stand a
Speaker 1: pretty good chance of losing their dignity. Today we're talking
Speaker 1: to phishing guide, movie star, and terrible boat driver my
Speaker 1: good friend Frank smith First, you gotta be highly skilled
Speaker 1: for these shows. You understand that. If I under are
Speaker 1: you well burst? They are? You very smart men? All right,
Speaker 1: today's contestant is my very good friend Frank smith Hurst. Frank,
Speaker 1: how are you all great? I'm just nervous. Are you
Speaker 1: excited to play the trivia game? I am excited? I'm excited?
Speaker 1: Should I have a mind like steel trap for trivia?
Speaker 1: I won the trivia contest, the trivia open until you're
Speaker 1: at one time? Oh not not to build yourself up
Speaker 1: too much. Well we'll see now I'm gonna drop the ball.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said that, you know, I will say this.
Speaker 1: I before we actually met, Frank, I knew you as
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people in the fishing industry
Speaker 1: know you as as a guy who went all over
Speaker 1: the world and caught all kinds of exotic cool species
Speaker 1: from Baja to come chop cut to Dubai. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've been all over the place and caught all kinds
Speaker 1: of cool fish. But when we actually started hanging out
Speaker 1: and I got to know you on a personal level,
Speaker 1: I realized very quickly that your deep, deep, deep passion
Speaker 1: actually seems to be for native fish of your home
Speaker 1: state of Georgia, despite the fact that you've been all
Speaker 1: over the world native American fish, you know, not just Georgia.
Speaker 1: George is really interesting because it's got so many species.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's three species. Will hold on
Speaker 1: before you go there, I'm gonna stop you, Frank, because
Speaker 1: your questions. Your first question, Frank, how many different species
Speaker 1: of freshwater fish are native to Georgia? Is it A
Speaker 1: six hundred eight B one hundred and thirty three see
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five or D seventy seven? Um,
Speaker 1: just like the S A T. S. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go with ce Alex oh Ding ding Ding. He
Speaker 1: nails it well. And just so you know, that's debatable
Speaker 1: because there are so many really really amazing sociecies debatable.
Speaker 1: On the upside, there's a lot of subspecies. I can
Speaker 1: show you some stuff that isn't in the books. You know,
Speaker 1: you get down in the black Water swamps, there's some
Speaker 1: wonderful hybrid weirdo sunfish and their strands of bass down
Speaker 1: there that have yet to be discovered and named. Derek,
Speaker 1: you heard it here first. You you're on a roll, buddy,
Speaker 1: You're on a roll. Question number two, which is kind
Speaker 1: of more tagging onto your love of strange fish from
Speaker 1: all over the world. Which of the following is not
Speaker 1: is not an actual fish? Is it? A? The longtooth
Speaker 1: snapping eel b, the sarcastic fringe head, see the slippery
Speaker 1: dick or D the lump sucker. Do you want to
Speaker 1: hear those again? Oh? You know, I think I've getting
Speaker 1: a good idea about what to answer, but I definitely
Speaker 1: want to hear them again because they're so good. So
Speaker 1: you got a the longtooth snapping eel b, the sarcastic
Speaker 1: fringe head, see the slippery dick or D the lump sucker,
Speaker 1: which is not an actual fish? What was what was
Speaker 1: b again? The sarcastic star castic fringe head? Mm hmm
Speaker 1: that one. Uh. The others just seem like better fish names.
Speaker 1: VI A trifle um. I don't know this for sure,
Speaker 1: except I know the slippery dick. We can eliminate that.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that the lump sucker. We've all caught
Speaker 1: one of those. Um A, what was A again? The
Speaker 1: French long the long toothed snapping eel. M m yeah,
Speaker 1: And I know it's either A or B or the
Speaker 1: right answer. That's what I's got to pick one. Which
Speaker 1: is it? I'm getting close. There's a process that plates
Speaker 1: in work here. Um, I'm just gonna say it's the
Speaker 1: a A. You are like a savant at this, Frank. Yes,
Speaker 1: the long too snapping eel does not exist, but the
Speaker 1: sarcastic fringe head is a real fish. Frank, so far
Speaker 1: I think you are the old the grand champion of
Speaker 1: our trivia show. Thank you so much for playing. What
Speaker 1: did I win? Salutely? Nothing? Yeah, that's that's about the story,
Speaker 1: if that's okay. The funny thing about this is that
Speaker 1: I was recently in the process of putting together a
Speaker 1: hosted trip for sarcastic fringe heads and I can only
Speaker 1: get two people to sign on. Yet. Last year, my
Speaker 1: hosted slippery Dick trip sold out in two days at
Speaker 1: ten thousand. No. I'm sorry, Joe, but I'm not touching
Speaker 1: that slipper, you're not taking a bait on that I'm
Speaker 1: not touching the slippery dick. Let's chug along to fish
Speaker 1: News first and foremost to educate you on recent fishy happenings,
Speaker 1: but also to see who's better they're finding good fish
Speaker 1: news stories Me or Joe. Fish news that escalated quickly.
Speaker 1: So this is fish News. And as a reminder, this
Speaker 1: is also the fish News Competition official because Miles and
Speaker 1: I have no idea what news stories the other is
Speaker 1: bringing to the table. This episode three, we have an
Speaker 1: overlap yet, so good for us, right, It's it's inevitable
Speaker 1: at some point one of us is gonna be really pissed.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. And every time we talk before we
Speaker 1: do this, it's like this is gonna be the week,
Speaker 1: and like you're gonna have this one, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: That's why it's always beneficial to be the leadoff man,
Speaker 1: which is me this week. And I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: how I missed this one. I do not know, but
Speaker 1: it's probably because I don't spend nearly as much time
Speaker 1: looking through my general Facebook feed as most people. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's either that or most of my friends are legit anglers.
Speaker 1: So maybe we all missed this one, okay, but it's fantastic,
Speaker 1: all right. This article comes from USA Today and is
Speaker 1: titled ready fact check, No, blue gills aren't as dangerous
Speaker 1: as piranhas. Nope, I did not. I think we're good again. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's what happened, right. Apparently apparently there's been a
Speaker 1: meme circulating on Facebook, and it's a picture of a
Speaker 1: bluegill replica amount and on top it reads did you know?
Speaker 1: And below the photo it reads the blue gill fish
Speaker 1: is one of the most dangerous fish in North America.
Speaker 1: The bluegill is related to the deadly piranha, which is
Speaker 1: responsible for twenty thousand deaths per year. When the yeah,
Speaker 1: when the bluegill are feeding into school, they can completely
Speaker 1: dismantle a human body in less than fifteen minutes. Bluegills
Speaker 1: are responsible for over five deaths in the United States
Speaker 1: every summer. This is some real ship that was circulating
Speaker 1: on Facebook. And the funny thing is, when I believe
Speaker 1: it was really circulating, I don't believe this is real,
Speaker 1: but anyway, go ahead, I don't want to jump in here. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was really circulating, right, So when I clicked on
Speaker 1: the link to to actually look at the post and Facebook,
Speaker 1: sure enough, like there's the official um false information sticker
Speaker 1: on it from Facebook, like the false information firewall that
Speaker 1: I had to click and say, like, do you still
Speaker 1: want to see this even though we've proven its false information?
Speaker 1: And I swear, dude, I've never seen this pop up
Speaker 1: and if people are listening or like, yeah, everybody's seen that,
Speaker 1: like apologies, but this one was news to me, all right.
Speaker 1: And according to the story, Facebook user Crystal Bast shared
Speaker 1: the image to a fishing group recently and it was
Speaker 1: reshared over nine thousand times, and um, you know, here's
Speaker 1: the weird thing. Though USA Today says the meme has
Speaker 1: actually been around for two years and this woman just
Speaker 1: reposted it, and they say, um. A PolitiFact check article
Speaker 1: from last year pointed out that Ohio Fish News, where
Speaker 1: the information supposedly came from, isn't a real publication, and
Speaker 1: Crystal Bast herself said she reshared it because she thought
Speaker 1: it would be a fun joke that would lead to
Speaker 1: funny comments. And some of those comments because I looked, include, wow,
Speaker 1: somebody has been breathing in too much car exhaust and
Speaker 1: my favorite one almost pulled my nipple off yesterday. But
Speaker 1: here's here's where it really hits home for me. Okay,
Speaker 1: because the dispelling of this fake news was left to
Speaker 1: poor journalist Katie Landeck at USA Today, And I got
Speaker 1: the biggest kick out of the fact check sources at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the article, which includes SeaWorld and Cornell University.
Speaker 1: So like poor Katie Landeck had to actually dig into
Speaker 1: a bunch of legit sources, which is which is the
Speaker 1: professional way to do things right. I'm not not gonna
Speaker 1: but I sympathize because it hearkens me back to early
Speaker 1: days at the magazines, like when you're like young and
Speaker 1: all you wanna do is write about the cool ship
Speaker 1: that you're catching and badass fish and somebody's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to call the guy that just
Speaker 1: called world record short nose, pig face grunt and get
Speaker 1: the scoop on that. Oh that is like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's the low person on the total pole there and
Speaker 1: might be came across that came across someone's desk and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to refute this, and she looked like you
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding. Clearly this is the world and make
Speaker 1: a difference with journalism not journalism. Oh my god, I will.
Speaker 1: I will admit though, like I have been bitten by
Speaker 1: many a blue deal before, but it really just kind
Speaker 1: of tickles. Yeah, you know, like it kind of feels good.
Speaker 1: You can you can dangle your feet in off the
Speaker 1: dock and the little blue del come up and it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun. Used to be able to do that
Speaker 1: in Spas, right, that was like a whole thing Mamber
Speaker 1: of years ago. They had like, you know, foot treatment.
Speaker 1: They would eat the dead skin off your nasty ass feet.
Speaker 1: The spines. I've been hurt worse by the spines and
Speaker 1: the teeth. I don't even know if they're out teeth.
Speaker 1: But yeah, again, apologies if that's the thing. Like, everybody
Speaker 1: is aware of this meme, but I certainly wasn't. I
Speaker 1: this is the first I've ever heard of it. News
Speaker 1: to me, man, news to me. Um. I'm gonna stick
Speaker 1: with our theme of of of of fish attacks, all right.
Speaker 1: I I first came across this story through a particularly
Speaker 1: um I think we just called a sensationalist headline that's
Speaker 1: from the Daily Mail. So here here's here's the headline
Speaker 1: that's like weekly World News, isn't it exactly exactly? Get this?
Speaker 1: One YouTuber conducts gruesome experiment by pumping human blood and
Speaker 1: fish blood into the ocean to see which meal sharks
Speaker 1: prefer to feast on. Right now, there's so much to
Speaker 1: talk about just in that headline right there. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, like a headline probably shouldn't go on
Speaker 1: for two lines. But I'm not gonna get all journalists
Speaker 1: on this because the Daily Mail. But you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, Joe, but YouTube isn't my go
Speaker 1: to source for valid science, and I'm gonna tell everybody
Speaker 1: out there that it really shouldn't be yours there. It's
Speaker 1: like not or Facebook for that matter. It depends on
Speaker 1: the science. Like if like it is my go to
Speaker 1: for putting together I kea furniture, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But that's not really signed not science, not science directions. Sure,
Speaker 1: how to videos, yes, science, No, uh, just don't don't
Speaker 1: confuse those people like YouTubers are known for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons, right, but they're scientific. The rigor in scientific
Speaker 1: methodology just is not one of them. Correct. Also, let's
Speaker 1: just keep going with this. Let's let's assume this headline
Speaker 1: has even a kernel of truth to it. Where did
Speaker 1: human blood come from? Yes? I mean fresh human blood
Speaker 1: is not something you can just go by at the
Speaker 1: store unless you're Keith Richards like you don't get human blood.
Speaker 1: No one can go get that or Walterski. So I
Speaker 1: I dug into it a little. Uh. The YouTube video
Speaker 1: itself is titled Shark Attack test human blood versus Fish
Speaker 1: Blood and Shocker. It was part of this year's Shark
Speaker 1: Week on Discovery Channel. Yeah that's right, hang on, hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on. It was. It was made by a guy
Speaker 1: named Mark rober He he seems like he actually does
Speaker 1: understand science because he used to be an engineer at NASA,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say that qualifies him as far more
Speaker 1: of a scientist than I am, or or than you are, Joe, Like,
Speaker 1: he's a legitimate NASA engineer who turned YouTuber. I want
Speaker 1: to know some of the backstory on that, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have it. Anyway. I watched the video, which
Speaker 1: was predictably YouTube cheesy but interesting and well put together.
Speaker 1: And for the experiment itself, they put three surfboards out
Speaker 1: in sharky waters in the Bahamas. One had a jug
Speaker 1: of fish blood, one had a jug of quote human blood,
Speaker 1: and one had a jug of seawater as a control.
Speaker 1: Each had a little pump that scored at a shot
Speaker 1: of liquid at regular intervals. They monitored the area with
Speaker 1: a drone and counted the sharks that came to each board.
Speaker 1: And here's where it kind of fell ap art for me.
Speaker 1: The human blood was actually cows blood, all right, because
Speaker 1: they couldn't get human blood. And yeah, I get cows blood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cow blood and human blood are similar to a shark. Like,
Speaker 1: I get all that, but don't call the video human
Speaker 1: blood versus shark blood. That's just misleading, right, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's I know. I'm in all the titles, all the
Speaker 1: coverage like human blood. No, there's no human blood involved.
Speaker 1: No humans gave up any blood. It's just cows blood.
Speaker 1: But the takeaway, which I do think is valid, is
Speaker 1: that sharks are much more interested in fish blood than
Speaker 1: in mammal blood. Uh and you know humans are mammals.
Speaker 1: So I think there's some validity to the experiment. It's
Speaker 1: just the way it's covered that kind of pisces me off.
Speaker 1: And uh so, like the full on the numbers are
Speaker 1: that eight sharks went after the cow blood and a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four went after the fish blood, So
Speaker 1: that that does say a lot. And all those people
Speaker 1: are out there like I'm scared of sharks. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go swimming. I'm scared of sharks. There's so
Speaker 1: much science out there. The sharks just don't want to
Speaker 1: eat you. They might bite you by accident, but they
Speaker 1: don't want to eat you. So like, let's just stop
Speaker 1: with the everyone being afraid of sharks thing, and can
Speaker 1: we cancel Shark Week while rabbit please, you know, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make me divulge stuff. You're gonna make me
Speaker 1: go to a dark place here. But I can relate
Speaker 1: to this study um too much because don't call it
Speaker 1: a study. It's a YouTube show. It's not a study.
Speaker 1: There's no peer review here. I can relate to the
Speaker 1: YouTube video on a personal level level because in my
Speaker 1: much younger we'll say, late teens, early twenty days, I
Speaker 1: may or may not have experimented with goats blood in
Speaker 1: the shark fishing arena. And that's from growing up watching
Speaker 1: Jaws and just assuming that if you put mammal blood out,
Speaker 1: it's like shark magnet right, um, And I got this, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get off here, but like I
Speaker 1: got this from a halal meat market and processor in Trenton,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. And I called the guy and I was like, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm I'm looking for a five gallon
Speaker 1: bucket of goats blood. And he was like, you want
Speaker 1: blood coming in, man, blood, you bring your own bucket.
Speaker 1: And I was like all right. So I roll into
Speaker 1: this place and it's like there's like legit goats and
Speaker 1: ship out back that they're slaughtering at this halal meat market.
Speaker 1: And the guy, he didn't even charge me. He took
Speaker 1: my bucket and brought out five gallons of warm hair
Speaker 1: filled fresh blood. Like the goat was screaming as he
Speaker 1: was filling my bucket. And then I took it home
Speaker 1: and froze it and put an eye hook in it
Speaker 1: so I could tie it off, and we took it
Speaker 1: out of my buddies boat and we were like, get ready, boys,
Speaker 1: because this is just gonna be like it's it's like
Speaker 1: you don't even know what's going to happen. They're gonna
Speaker 1: come a jump in here, they come. You know what
Speaker 1: really loves mammal blood, blue fish, not one shark in
Speaker 1: that slick, And I was like, that's just it must
Speaker 1: have been a south wind and upwelling and the temperature
Speaker 1: is wrong. So I went back like two weeks later
Speaker 1: and bought another bucket of goats blood and uh still know.
Speaker 1: So the long and short of that is, I've spent
Speaker 1: a fair amount of time sharking, and just the regular
Speaker 1: old bunker or mackerel chum that catches some sharks. Man,
Speaker 1: the goats blood is just not worth the effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't want to eat mammals. They don't want to
Speaker 1: eat you. So you didn't have to watch that video.
Speaker 1: You could have just come to me and been like,
Speaker 1: does warm mammal blood catch more sharks? I would have said, now,
Speaker 1: it just it just stinks up your ninety three GMC jimmy.
Speaker 1: You should you should have fed that headline to the
Speaker 1: Daily Mail just I know I should have. I should have,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, it is true though, you know the
Speaker 1: movies and everything that made it so like, oh man,
Speaker 1: if you're out there swimming around and bleeding like it's
Speaker 1: it's a magnet, I don't. I don't think so. And
Speaker 1: I think it's because obviously, like like all fish sharks,
Speaker 1: they're used to what they know, and they know fish blood,
Speaker 1: So I mean, how often are they smelling beef blood?
Speaker 1: It's probably not as attractive as we'd all like it
Speaker 1: to be. But um, we'll move on from my nine
Speaker 1: GMC Jimmy too much more expensive things here, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what, dude, I'm hesitant to actually call
Speaker 1: this news per se, but this is the way I
Speaker 1: look at this game we play here. If the article
Speaker 1: in question legitimately pops up in a Google news search,
Speaker 1: not just a general search, then it qualifies as news.
Speaker 1: So right, all right, I mean that's what. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it pops up in a knee search, then then then okay.
Speaker 1: And I did in fact find this in a news search,
Speaker 1: granted on page eighty seven of the search. Um, but
Speaker 1: this comes from upscale Living mag dot com, which, as
Speaker 1: the name suggests, is for people that have more money
Speaker 1: than they know what to do with, just like us, right, Joe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you subscribe, don't you? And the story is called why
Speaker 1: you Should invest on the Best Fishing High End Rods
Speaker 1: by author Danner Alleys, who's grammar and ability to write
Speaker 1: headlines isn't as upscale as it probably should be. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the art for this story features an ugly stick rod,
Speaker 1: so just yes, it does. Oh it does. It's a
Speaker 1: tight shot. But Irony Joey knows an ugly stick Okay,
Speaker 1: so just keep that in mind as we press on you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read this whole thing because it's long,
Speaker 1: but it's a great example of an article pretending to
Speaker 1: say a lot without really saying anything at all if
Speaker 1: you actually know the subject matter, and it just like
Speaker 1: talks in broad strokes about how quality rods are made
Speaker 1: of better components and are more sensitive than cheap rods,
Speaker 1: and like that's not wrong, it's just it's saying it's
Speaker 1: so quickly that it's not really giving you anything. But
Speaker 1: then you have lines like this, Okay, so ask yourself
Speaker 1: a few questions. What types of lures do you want
Speaker 1: to use with the rod? How likely is it that
Speaker 1: you'll know a fish has struck with the technique you're using.
Speaker 1: If you are not sure what to look for and
Speaker 1: find yourself in the sea of information, click here for
Speaker 1: a useful guide. It's also worth mentioning that the probability
Speaker 1: is high that you just wouldn't be able to go
Speaker 1: this deep into specifics if you are using a cheaper rod, right,
Speaker 1: But then I click on the link and it goes
Speaker 1: to a story on us angler dot com titled best
Speaker 1: drop shot Rods for the money our favorites reviewed. Just
Speaker 1: so it's like, I hope, I hope that's what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. You know, some poor rich dude bought fifty
Speaker 1: drop shot sticks to outfit his new contender. Because it
Speaker 1: is misleading information. But my favorite section, which is also
Speaker 1: the shortest in the entire piece, is titled or slugged rather,
Speaker 1: what else do you gain from buying a high end rod?
Speaker 1: And it reads great rods are going to allow you
Speaker 1: to get beyond the mechanics and into the fishing. False. Nothing,
Speaker 1: no um, and they last a lifetime, as every quality
Speaker 1: rod is trimmed out with the very US Guide's thread,
Speaker 1: high grade cork as well as and I don't know
Speaker 1: what these are trouble free real seats also false. I
Speaker 1: break a high end rod every third time I go
Speaker 1: in the garage to throw something in. The recycle can
Speaker 1: just break almost just as easy to in fact, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they break easier than the cheap one. I can't
Speaker 1: hardly break an ugly stick just you know some of
Speaker 1: the other ones that I won't mention. You can taking
Speaker 1: the lawnmow rounds like snapped another loom as ship you
Speaker 1: know um and that closes out with Also, while not
Speaker 1: the most essential thing in the world, they feel better
Speaker 1: in your hands and add a whole new sense of
Speaker 1: luxury when displayed or showcase. Now wait a second, because
Speaker 1: sense of luxury is also a hyperlink that takes you
Speaker 1: to a story on Psychology Today called the Emotions of Luxury.
Speaker 1: You went deep, man, like all the way down the
Speaker 1: rabbit hole. I applaud your your journalistic diligence here. You
Speaker 1: know who this is for, man, And I wish I
Speaker 1: wish I was one of these people. I think we
Speaker 1: all do. It's like this week, I just decided because
Speaker 1: I read something or bought a Guy Harvey shirt or
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, Like, I'm into fishing, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna dump ten grand on every single thing I could
Speaker 1: possibly need for this hobby. And then next week I'll
Speaker 1: read something about mountain biking and then we'll dump ten
Speaker 1: grand on mountain biking things. That's who this is for. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I've guided this guy, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people have this. I'm gonna get into the
Speaker 1: fishing this summer, and walks into the shop and drops
Speaker 1: just thousands of dollars. On the same day he gets
Speaker 1: his first guy to trip to learn how to do it,
Speaker 1: and the shop owners love. Of course this particular person,
Speaker 1: this is your guy. This is how they survive. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dog on on these people because they
Speaker 1: keep the industry going. But I mean, I think this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for us to talk about how wrong
Speaker 1: and misleading this information is for people who can't afford
Speaker 1: to spend ten grand to go fishing, and how this
Speaker 1: might be the kind of thing to keep people from
Speaker 1: getting into something because they think they got to spend
Speaker 1: a ton of money to do it, and that's just
Speaker 1: not true. You're exactly right, and you know it's it's
Speaker 1: like I can't imagine you won't agree. It's like for me,
Speaker 1: you know, when you start out fishing junk, and I
Speaker 1: still fish a lot of junk, but like you can't
Speaker 1: go right into the thousand dollar rod because that's a
Speaker 1: treat for later if you can afford it, that you'll
Speaker 1: appreciate more later after you've put in your time with
Speaker 1: the junk. Absolutely, yeah, I mean I I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever I don't think I ever fished a thousand
Speaker 1: dollar rod until I was working in the industry and
Speaker 1: someone handed me one like hey, this is a thousand
Speaker 1: dollar rod, and like, oh no, I'm gonna break it,
Speaker 1: but I want. One thing I have learned in getting
Speaker 1: the opportunity to fish lots of different gear and try
Speaker 1: out all the different levels of gear is that you
Speaker 1: don't come to actually need those those kind of fine
Speaker 1: tuned elements until you're a pretty good angler, until you're
Speaker 1: a pretty high level angler. So the person who doesn't
Speaker 1: have background, doesn't have an experience, isn't going to appreciate
Speaker 1: what they get for that money. Sure, And then on
Speaker 1: the flip side of that coin, right, if you are
Speaker 1: really good at what you do and you do really
Speaker 1: value high end gear, you've also probably guided the guy
Speaker 1: who like would refuse to now use anything but that stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's like, dude, if if you can, if you can,
Speaker 1: you know, use a Winston and send a line seventy
Speaker 1: feet if you know what you're doing, and like, this
Speaker 1: lodge only has ugly stick fly rods for the tarp
Speaker 1: and like, shut up, you should be able to do
Speaker 1: it with that too, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: and dirty little secret, sorry to the top company in
Speaker 1: the gear companies. Uh, expensive gear won't make you a
Speaker 1: better angler, straight up. Like, it's not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna make you cast better. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: make you catch more fish. It might be a little
Speaker 1: more fun to fish with. You might enjoy it a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but it's not going to be the
Speaker 1: difference between whether you're good or you suck. If the
Speaker 1: article says it will not get you past the mechanics
Speaker 1: any faster if you don't know any of the mechanics,
Speaker 1: it does not. It does not. Um, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna transitions here. I'm gonna stick with the theme of
Speaker 1: junk but but but but change it up. And I'm
Speaker 1: also gonna stick with something that I a seed I
Speaker 1: planted last week in fish News. Alright, you remember last
Speaker 1: week I reported on scientists mapping carp scales to make
Speaker 1: super battle armor. Oh yeah, I've been making one allah
Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs in the garage ever since. It's
Speaker 1: on the form out there. Yeah, you're keeping the carpet
Speaker 1: in a in a tub in your basement and making
Speaker 1: them hose themselves off to Alright, I'm gonna stop. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's not the only way we're using fish scales to
Speaker 1: create a dystopian future. Have you ever heard of temporary
Speaker 1: flexible electronic displays? Is that just like the technical term
Speaker 1: for the button panel on the toaster of it? Your
Speaker 1: toaster open has button panels? You do subscribe to that magazine,
Speaker 1: don't you are? I read the high end toaster of
Speaker 1: an article. I just have a lever that I push,
Speaker 1: you know. That's uh, that's the not what they are.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't heard of these either, but apparently we
Speaker 1: all will very very soon. The idea is that sometimes
Speaker 1: in the near future, will all be sticking clear plastic
Speaker 1: patches on ourselves. But instead of delivering a slow dose
Speaker 1: of sweet, sweet nicotine, those patches will be like little
Speaker 1: computer screens that you wear on your skin. So think
Speaker 1: of it like temporary tattoos meet apple watches. All right, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: so wait, so wait the screen doesn't there's no like
Speaker 1: micro chip in the screen. It's just like whatever your
Speaker 1: device is will project onto your skin like it'll get
Speaker 1: like you will watch it on your arm. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have an engineering degrease. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know how it works. But from what I could
Speaker 1: tell from reading the article, yes, these are these are
Speaker 1: little screens that are disposable. They're temporary that somehow communicate
Speaker 1: with your device and and project or or receive information
Speaker 1: from your device that you can see on your skin.
Speaker 1: That's that's my under my my very limit it understanding
Speaker 1: of it. And uh and some smart researchers in China
Speaker 1: are thinking ahead to the environmental implications of this technology, right,
Speaker 1: So these are gonna be single use items theoretically made
Speaker 1: of plastic that people wear and and display stuff and
Speaker 1: then pull them off and throw them away, So they'll
Speaker 1: they'll end up being like the disposable straws of the future.
Speaker 1: And I'm already feeling sorry for the turtles. And I
Speaker 1: don't know where they're going to get stuck on them,
Speaker 1: but um. According to a study published by the American
Speaker 1: Chemical Society, nanotechnologists are working on ways to use actual
Speaker 1: fish scales to make these temporary electronic displays. They're deriving
Speaker 1: gelatin from the collagen and fish scales and molding it
Speaker 1: into a thin film that's flexible, transparent, and biodegradable. And
Speaker 1: then they're using that film to build an alternating current
Speaker 1: electro luminescent device that continues to glow even after being
Speaker 1: bent and real axed over a thousand times. All Right,
Speaker 1: So I will admit, even though I'm terrified at the
Speaker 1: prospect of everyone around me covering their bodies and screens,
Speaker 1: I mean, at least they'll just be destroying the fabric
Speaker 1: of society and not the not the planet itself. Well,
Speaker 1: this is what pops into my head right away. Um,
Speaker 1: the people who make glow sticks for the rave scene
Speaker 1: must be scared shitless about this. I mean, they're They're done, dude.
Speaker 1: I mean take the rave scene to a whole new level. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can just like, instead of needing those
Speaker 1: big screens up over it, people can be the screens
Speaker 1: like you can. You can project whatever is going on
Speaker 1: inside out right under your chest. And because no one's
Speaker 1: wearing any shirts and a rave from what I've seen,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna get ugly. Casino in Vegas has already
Speaker 1: pre ordered, but hopefully they're getting the fish scales ones
Speaker 1: and not the plastic ones. That's what I say. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing that comes to mind is I
Speaker 1: would have to assume that that the tilapia processors and
Speaker 1: Gorton's Fisherman's of the world are gonna benefit here because
Speaker 1: that's probably where they get the scale supply. Right, That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Those scales are going to be put to
Speaker 1: good use. They're not just gonna be ground up in
Speaker 1: the meal anymore. All Right. That brings us to the
Speaker 1: end of fish News, But before we move on, we
Speaker 1: have an update for you. That's a it's kind of
Speaker 1: a bummer. Yeah, we're we're we're we're rolling into That's
Speaker 1: My Bar here, which we know you guys love. You've
Speaker 1: been sending a lot of great feedback. And this little
Speaker 1: closing note on news sort of ties back to our
Speaker 1: very first installment of That's My Bar. You might remember
Speaker 1: that I shouted out the sip and dip in Great Falls,
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite bars of all time,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned piano Pat, the woman who's been playing
Speaker 1: music there for half a century now, and listener Matt
Speaker 1: Bradley wrote to tell us recently, piano Pat had kind
Speaker 1: of a nasty fall broke a hip, got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a brain bleed. Uh, kind of a scary situation.
Speaker 1: Sounds like she's making a recovery and she is doing well,
Speaker 1: but she could use a little help with their medical bills.
Speaker 1: So they set up a go fund Me account, and
Speaker 1: both Joe and I have contributed to that. Yes, I
Speaker 1: had to help because I've never actually been to this
Speaker 1: bar or met piano Pat, and I that that can't
Speaker 1: be that way, Like I have to eventually get out
Speaker 1: there with you and listen to piano Pat play so
Speaker 1: speedy recovery Pat, when they we're gonna get back to
Speaker 1: doing what you love. And on that note, let's go
Speaker 1: drink somewhere else this week. Best God damn bar tender
Speaker 1: from tim buck to to Portland, Maine. The Portland argument
Speaker 1: for that matter, I've only been to q West once
Speaker 1: and that was from my cousin's wedding. At first, I
Speaker 1: was kind of pissed at him for getting hitched all
Speaker 1: the way down in Florida until I realized that the
Speaker 1: wedding was going down in May and lined up perfectly
Speaker 1: with the front end of tarpin season. At that point,
Speaker 1: all was forgiven. Once we got through the nuptials, the reception,
Speaker 1: and the after after party at a drag show on
Speaker 1: Duvall Street, the family all drifted back to their respective
Speaker 1: corners of the count Tree. I stuck around for a
Speaker 1: few days to fish, sleep in a hotel room that
Speaker 1: costs more than a half days guide wages and still
Speaker 1: smelled like Neptunes jockstrap. But I did catch a couple
Speaker 1: of tarpin and landed my first permit, so it was
Speaker 1: definitely worth it, according to my good friend Toosh Brown. However,
Speaker 1: I missed out on one of Key West's absolute best features.
Speaker 1: Tasha's nomination for that's my bar goes like this the
Speaker 1: Green Parrot and Key West just as many bikers and
Speaker 1: trashy hose as any other bar on Duval, but it's
Speaker 1: not on Duval, so there's a cool factor that applies better.
Speaker 1: Yet not many cruise ship passengers go there because it's
Speaker 1: a long hot walk from the dock and that tends
Speaker 1: to melt gelatinous orbs wearing black socks and hybiscus tunics.
Speaker 1: Plus they claim it's the oldest bar in the Keys,
Speaker 1: so that's worth something. After hearing this glowing recommendation and
Speaker 1: doing a little research. I feel like I kind of
Speaker 1: blew it not hitting this bar up. The Green Parrots
Speaker 1: motto is a sunny place for shady people, which I love,
Speaker 1: and it kind of seems like that could apply to
Speaker 1: all of Key West, so maybe the bars emblematic of
Speaker 1: that whole place. It's been around since eighteen fifty when
Speaker 1: it was a little speakeasy in the back room of
Speaker 1: a Cuban grocery. Since then, it's catered to sailor's hippies,
Speaker 1: commercial shrimpers, drug smugglers, and now of course tourists. Thanks
Speaker 1: Tosh for contributing to what is sure to become one
Speaker 1: of the most valuable informational resources in the modern world.
Speaker 1: And remember, we need your help to compile our list
Speaker 1: of the best fishing bars on the planet. Email us
Speaker 1: at bent at the mediator dot com and tell us
Speaker 1: why your favorite drinking establishment deserves honorable mention. I love
Speaker 1: how you describe the hotel you stayed in is smelling
Speaker 1: like Neptunes jockstrap, because I understand exactly what you mean.
Speaker 1: I've stayed in so many shitty motels it's unreal. But
Speaker 1: there are a few in the Keys easily in my
Speaker 1: top five and the worst, right, the worst was so
Speaker 1: infested with biting insect that every night I would literally
Speaker 1: build a barricade of off insect repellent of wipes around
Speaker 1: the mattress, which subsequently I believe was filled with straw.
Speaker 1: But the baracuta fishing out back was real good. You
Speaker 1: go for the fishing in the drinking, you don't go
Speaker 1: for the accommodations. So it was was the item that
Speaker 1: we're we're just about to cover and get to in
Speaker 1: this week's sale bin hanging on the wall of that
Speaker 1: place by Jens No, uh, but it could have been.
Speaker 1: It would not have been out of place. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it. You know, hey, folks, call your bank. Hot
Speaker 1: item okay on the auction block today. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: want to miss this one. Price recently reduced. This is
Speaker 1: the sale bin. Why did you put the hand to pay?
Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm getting, man, You didn't have
Speaker 1: to be so hurtful with me, so angry. So this
Speaker 1: comes from a seller in Pasadena, Maryland, and it's possible,
Speaker 1: based on the item, that he actually might have thought
Speaker 1: he lived in Pasadena, California, where such and item might
Speaker 1: have been more appropriate. I don't know, but we have,
Speaker 1: for the low price of four hundred and nine dollars
Speaker 1: a white marlin fish mount. But wait, because there's so
Speaker 1: much goddamn more. Um a white marlin fish mount done
Speaker 1: in sunset colors. I don't know if i'd call that sunset.
Speaker 1: I mean, but it is certainly not natural color. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that. Yeah, I looked at it, and
Speaker 1: I was like sunset colors otherwise uh, otherwise known as wrong,
Speaker 1: just completely inaccurate. So the fins and the stripes, like
Speaker 1: the accent blues and aqua's are accurate. But if you
Speaker 1: could picture this, anything that would have been white or
Speaker 1: silver or lightly colored is painted like screaming neon pink
Speaker 1: and and neon orange. I mean, it blends, right. You
Speaker 1: gotta go from south to north on this thing, from
Speaker 1: from the bottom, from the belly up towards the dorsal
Speaker 1: it blends not at all seamlessly, from hot orange to
Speaker 1: bright pink into sort of an indigo purple. Well, this
Speaker 1: is really something else. This is what happened here, right
Speaker 1: how the decision was made at the time. So we
Speaker 1: assume that someone in the time space continuum caught the
Speaker 1: white marlin, was proud of the white Marlin, decided they
Speaker 1: needed a amount of the white marlin, and then got
Speaker 1: to sunset colors, which I'm sure at the time just
Speaker 1: sounded brilliant, but it's one of those pieces that for
Speaker 1: the years following you look at and question every single day,
Speaker 1: Like every time somebody comes over, you're like, did you
Speaker 1: see that? Just sun sunset? I got? I got the
Speaker 1: sunset colors. Man, it's pretty dope, right. People are just like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, I get it. I was
Speaker 1: I was fifteen once and I bought myself a sunburst stratocaster,
Speaker 1: thinking that that was really really cool because I I
Speaker 1: was maybe doing a fair amount of acid at the time,
Speaker 1: and I thought that would be a great idea. My
Speaker 1: only hope is that whoever was on this charter boat
Speaker 1: was also doing a fair amount of acid. And this
Speaker 1: is how the fish looked in their memory of the
Speaker 1: trip as it leapt with back backing out, back lit
Speaker 1: and they're like, bro, I got I want that thing
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. I meet painted just
Speaker 1: like that, and he followed through. So good on him,
Speaker 1: I mean he followed through. Uh it takes me back.
Speaker 1: Do you remember this has got to be going back
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, but it was sort of on trend
Speaker 1: for certain replica houses in Florida to do like those
Speaker 1: tattoo flame schemes on fish. Do you remember that? Oh,
Speaker 1: thankfully I don't remember. Yeah, I must have missed that
Speaker 1: particular trend and I'm not sorry. Like the back half
Speaker 1: of the fish would be one solid color and the
Speaker 1: whole head was just like racing slash tattoo flames. That
Speaker 1: was a thing that they offered. So I will say this,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, at least this is not a mass
Speaker 1: produced color scheme like the flames. Like, it isn't original, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably probably isn't one of a kind.
Speaker 1: So um, if you have four dollars kicking around, I
Speaker 1: would I would look this one up on Facebook Marketplace
Speaker 1: because I'm sure. I'm sure it won't last long, even
Speaker 1: though it is already lasted over two weeks. But guess what,
Speaker 1: it's reduced from eight hundred, so you're really getting the
Speaker 1: screaming deal now you could get this guy down to
Speaker 1: three ten, like guarantee. Anyway, we love the junk, we
Speaker 1: love the weird sales. So if you find some online
Speaker 1: in your area, some some weird, odd fishing things for purchase.
Speaker 1: Do please send us the links at bent at the
Speaker 1: meat eater dot com so that we can make fun
Speaker 1: of people where you live here on our show. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're coming to the end here and that means it's
Speaker 1: time for end of the line, probably the most critical
Speaker 1: segment in this entire podcast, because without it, how the
Speaker 1: hell would you know what to tie on this weekend.
Speaker 1: Miles taking the lead on this one, and I concur
Speaker 1: with his choice. It deserves to be here. You're damn right,
Speaker 1: it deserves to be here, although I wouldn't take our
Speaker 1: end of line segment is the only thing you should
Speaker 1: fish over the weekend. But there are certain lures that
Speaker 1: just seem like they get lost in the couch cushions
Speaker 1: of fishing history, right and and then exactly, just because
Speaker 1: we get distracted by the shiny new bait drop doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that those classic lures stopped working. They're still damn good. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not allowed enough. Spitter baits are great lures for kids.
Speaker 1: Cast it out, read it in, there's a pretty good
Speaker 1: chance something will take a whack at it. Plus they
Speaker 1: usually just have the one hook so they don't hang
Speaker 1: up too easily, and chances of an easily distract it
Speaker 1: or maybe uncoordinated child burying the point somewhere painful is
Speaker 1: lower than say, an inline spinner, like the maps I
Speaker 1: sunk in my father's face when I was seven. Sorry
Speaker 1: about that, Dad. But while spinner baich remained staples and
Speaker 1: any serious freshwater anglers arsenal, another type of safety pin
Speaker 1: style lures seems relegated to the kids table. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the beetle spin. You remember those beetle spins used
Speaker 1: to take up prime real estate in my boxes before
Speaker 1: I got all sophisticated somewhere in my late teens. Legend
Speaker 1: has it that the beetle spin was invented by a
Speaker 1: guy named Chuck Woods. Woods was part of a crew
Speaker 1: of progressive bass anglers who hung around Finks Tackle Shop
Speaker 1: on the Kansas side of Kansas City in the fifties, sixties,
Speaker 1: and seventies. Woods that his buddies are often credited with
Speaker 1: inventing finesse bass fishing. I mean, I suspect that plenty
Speaker 1: of other anglers in other parts of the country independently
Speaker 1: figured out the fish and slower and more delicately pays off.
Speaker 1: But It's also fair to say that Woods was an
Speaker 1: innovator in the sport word. His invention of the beetle
Speaker 1: spin alone bestows hall of fame status. In my eyes,
Speaker 1: you'd have a hard time finding a simpler lure than
Speaker 1: the Beatles spin. It can be fished to virtually any
Speaker 1: speed with any retrieve. It still produces burn it, crawl it, bumpet,
Speaker 1: troll it, jigg it, fish, bite it. That's sheer versatility,
Speaker 1: maybe the reason it's often associated with tackle box owned
Speaker 1: by people under sixteen. But there's also this inherent goofiness
Speaker 1: of the beetle span. It doesn't have the molded, skirted
Speaker 1: elegance of a grown up spinner bait or the sleek
Speaker 1: simplicity of inline spinner. It certainly isn't near as highbrow
Speaker 1: as a box of complex cranks, and it doesn't offer
Speaker 1: a fraction of the rigging options you'll find in a
Speaker 1: sack of sankos. One might argue that the beetle spin
Speaker 1: isn't even really its own bait. It's a spinner arm
Speaker 1: attached to a jighead tip the split tail grub. It's
Speaker 1: a frankenstein of spare parts, easily assembled for less than
Speaker 1: a dollar, So why would any idiot buy a Beetle
Speaker 1: span All right? First off, name brand beetlespins still sell
Speaker 1: for under two bucks, so you're not breaking the bank
Speaker 1: either way. Second, I have experimented with just about every
Speaker 1: permutation of soft plastic trailer, and I'm convinced that the original,
Speaker 1: narrow bodied split tail outperforms all the others in just
Speaker 1: about every situation. I cannot explain why those stock bodies
Speaker 1: moved like they've been pumped full of boatocs. They pretty
Speaker 1: much starfish their way back to the boat no matter
Speaker 1: what you do to them. A curly or paddle tail
Speaker 1: would impart a heck of a lot more action, but
Speaker 1: in my personal experience, they catch fee of fish. So
Speaker 1: I keep buying the real beetle spins just to get
Speaker 1: my hands on those lifeless bodies. My one and only
Speaker 1: complained about beetle spins is that Johnson quit making the
Speaker 1: magnum size sometime in the late eighties or early nineties,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, believe it or not. I caught my
Speaker 1: first muskie on a magnet beetle spin orange with black stripes,
Speaker 1: of course, and that bait pin more pike than any
Speaker 1: other throughout my childhood. So Johnson, if you're listening, bring
Speaker 1: back the magnum. Please. For those of you out there
Speaker 1: who like me, stopped reaching for beetle spins right around
Speaker 1: the time you started getting interested in the spice channel,
Speaker 1: I suggest you revisit your roots. From bluegill to croppy
Speaker 1: to bass, to seatrout to redfished pike. The things just
Speaker 1: weren't before. We go a toast to some good news. Finally,
Speaker 1: in reference to what's generally known as the Pebble Mine,
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Army Corps of Engineers did not issue
Speaker 1: the permit Northern Dynasty Minerals requested to mind the headwaters
Speaker 1: of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Now, if you don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, then you have not been paying attention
Speaker 1: for the past decade or so. But that's all right.
Speaker 1: You can read all the details about this in Sam
Speaker 1: Longdren's excellent series of articles covering the situation at the
Speaker 1: meat Eator dot com. Bristol Bay is the reason that
Speaker 1: I'm here making this sometimes silly and sometimes serious podcast
Speaker 1: about fishing, an activity that is itself sometimes silly and
Speaker 1: sometimes serious. I got my first guiding job at a
Speaker 1: lodge up a river that feeds Bristol Bay. Fourteen years ago,
Speaker 1: the year after Northern Dynasty discovered the pebble deposit, I
Speaker 1: got to spend four months out of the year living
Speaker 1: in waiters, drinking tent warm beer, trying to keep my
Speaker 1: clients from pissing off brown bears, and standing beside those
Speaker 1: clients as they caught what were often the biggest fish
Speaker 1: of their lives, massive rainbows, dolly varden, Arctic crayling pike,
Speaker 1: and of course wild native Pacific salmon. In addition to
Speaker 1: the fish and the bears, so very many bears. I
Speaker 1: saw wolves, moose, caribou, links, even a wolverine. For a
Speaker 1: young man whose gray matter folds were sculpted on stories
Speaker 1: of wild fishing in Alaska, developing an intimate relationship with
Speaker 1: that place was one of the most significant opportunities of
Speaker 1: my life. I knew the exact gravel bars the sack
Speaker 1: I would funnel across, which slews the chums like to
Speaker 1: spawn in the big flats where the fire engine red
Speaker 1: things dug their reds, the pounded down spots on a
Speaker 1: bank where one bear's territory ended and another's began. I
Speaker 1: knew the scenes were early season trout stacked up to
Speaker 1: feed on juvenile lamp rais and migrating smolt, the water
Speaker 1: temperature at which the catifs would hatch and the rainbows
Speaker 1: would start eating mice. I was lucky enough to get
Speaker 1: to know the circulatory rhythms of one of the most
Speaker 1: incredible places in North America. Those years inspired me so
Speaker 1: much that I wrote a book about one of them,
Speaker 1: and that book jump started my career as an outdoor writer.
Speaker 1: Today I get to feel inspired again because a coalition
Speaker 1: of people, some of whom can barely agree on the
Speaker 1: color of the sky, we're able to agree that this
Speaker 1: place is too valuable to risk and stood up for it.
Speaker 1: I would like to thank everyone who dug in on this,
Speaker 1: who made noise, who worked to stop it. So many
Speaker 1: quote unquote winds in our current culture go to one
Speaker 1: side or another, but I genuinely believe that this is
Speaker 1: a win for all of us, at least all of
Speaker 1: us who care about fish and wilderness. So thank you
Speaker 1: and salute. That's it for this week, To to put
Speaker 1: it in cliffs notes form. For for those of you
Speaker 1: who just barely got through school like we did, you
Speaker 1: just learned how to piss off people in Erie, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: where to drink in Key West if you don't give
Speaker 1: a ship about Key Lampie, which I don't, or Marty
Speaker 1: grab beads, which I do a little, and the Joe
Speaker 1: is all about slipper dicks. I I Yeah, all true
Speaker 1: things just got said there. And you know we are
Speaker 1: an educational program. Really it's reading Rainbow for anglers. But
Speaker 1: you don't have to take my word for it. Just
Speaker 1: read our reviews, which we could use more of. So
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. What I'm saying is please leave us
Speaker 1: a review. If you like what you're hearing, or if
Speaker 1: you hate it for that matter, let us know by
Speaker 1: sending an email to Bent at the meat Eater dot com.
Speaker 1: We are civil servants of the fishing community and love
Speaker 1: feedback from you guys. Tell us what you like, what
Speaker 1: you don't, what you'd like to hear, and we'll do
Speaker 1: our best to deliver the goods. We hope you guys
Speaker 1: are hitting the water this weekend, and if so, hit
Speaker 1: us up let's know how it went. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: all those sunset shots will be breathtaking.