WEBVTT - Ep. 72: Crashing Santa’s Slay-fest 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.000 You know here it Bent. We love the children. I 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:15.280 just really hope none we're listening to that because I 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.439 brought it. You you could have a goddamn monthly stick 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.799 on the shower. You make point first, Apple went in, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.040 bought all the flies, bought a fly box to put 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.239 him in, went out to the river. Immediately lost the 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:27.880 fly box and it was one of the cool ones 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.520 with like it was like the aluminum and glass with 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.800 like the windows and ship. Just find someone to get 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.800 out on the mistletoe. Oh my, lady, make it happen. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.960 Good morning to januarate anglers, and welcome to Bent the 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.120 Fishing Podcast that Jess wants to say. She falls in 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.560 a well as go cross, she gets kicked by the 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:52.239 mule and go back to normal. I don't know. I'm 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.200 Joe Surmelli and I'm hating Samac and I have no 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.200 idea what that was. Okay, you have to at least 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.560 know what it's from. I saw the title of it, 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.880 Like I know it's from that, But like I've adding 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.959 to the pantheon of movies that Hayden has not seen. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.959 That is, uh, you've never seen The Christmas Vacation. To 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.280 have seen the Oh my God, I've never seen any 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.840 of like, I've never I know, there's like family vacation 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.960 and I've never I've never seen him. All right, all right, 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.240 you might hear something about that anyway, What that was 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.279 I opted out of Clark gris On saying folks, folks, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.119 marry Christmas at the last second while putting this together. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.240 And I opted into that because I felt like it, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.480 because it's a better line, that's all. Is it the 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.400 anals or the animals? I think it's either way. It's 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.320 like tomato tomato. I'm sure. I'm sure listeners are gonna 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.040 let me know. Um, I mean, like you know, and 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.200 that's even if they're listening today anyway, because it's Christmas Eve. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.280 So I guess it kind of gives us a license 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.240 to sort of say whatever we want without a bunch 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.840 of constants. Yeah, I think we can be a little 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.639 weirder than normal. Um. And you know what, since Ben started, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.040 I swear to God, every major holiday has fallen on 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.200 a Friday, like without fail, Like join us next week 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.280 for the Yeah, join us next week for the New 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.680 Year's Eve show, like give me a break, you know. Uh, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.600 But you know, despite that, we always have a good 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.000 time with holidays. I mean, if nothing else, it makes 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.680 coming up with a theme incredibly easy. So that's always 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.880 kind of nice. It is kind of nice. Like the 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.880 obvious thing for me to do right now is to 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:36.120 ask you, uh, these hotday scripts do right themselves? What 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.160 what would be leaving on your tree this year? Joe 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.919 I asked for a new set of drift boat oars, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.800 which Santa set. He said, that's no problem, but the 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.880 LVC has working at cataract Ores, like I guess we'll 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.160 say embedded at cataract Ores. They're a little backed up, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.560 So strong chance my oars won't end up under the 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.040 tree tomorrow morning. Like more like Santa might have to 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.000 swing by with other just before springs shadd season kicks in. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.960 But how about you, what are you getting this year? Um? 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:13.880 I asked Santa Claus for a used truck topper. Um, well, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.200 you know, I'm not gonna make like Santa source materials 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.400 and like the Times of COVID because like that's not cool. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.920 It's like it's it's a little greedy. Um. And I'll 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.760 tell you what, Santa, I'm formerly offering to go have 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.639 these with you if you could find a used one 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:36.600 in like the two grand range. Um, I'll tell you 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.480 what one better. I'll go look on craigslist and save 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.760 the always the trouble and uh yeah, very low, very 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.280 low lift gift this year. That is so nice, man, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.440 what a guy helping sand out like that? You know, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.840 thinking about it, I I bet out there somewhere is 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.960 a Jerry the canoe salesman for truck toppers. I'll bet 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.360 you he exists. Yeah, probably, but instead of like a 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.200 cup of tea, you know, like pound natty ice and 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.760 a shot of yeager and uh and hang out with 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.000 them around like the burn barrel. You know, that could 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.000 be more interesting than the real Jerry. But dude, at 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.840 least doing that it would add an element of excitement 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.960 to receiving you know that gift. Um, I always felt 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.720 kind of sad, you know, like as you get older, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.360 it's it's a little bit said. Yes, it's a little said, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.320 because you know what you're getting, right, Like, you get 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.520 what you need, you get less junk, and you get 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.360 what you need. But the magic of sort of losing 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.719 sleep over whether or not something you ask for will 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.400 or will not be under the tree is gone. Um, Like, 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.919 oh man, so many specific presents come to mind for me. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.160 But a big one was the micro machines race in 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.479 a case. The micro machine man here with the perfect crue. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.040 Micro man want to come in first place? Got the 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.280 electric micro machines racing a case. Open the case to 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.000 start the race, clucking into play. It set up that way. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:55.920 He great, your micro machines road great and stick the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.560 track of both the world race past the barking like 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.000 Superstar Jerry at the point you're talking to carry away 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.200 the fun. Check out the carazing example, screw cars on 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.600 the micro machines around micro Machines racing the case and 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.640 bower Row competition race sts. He sold separately with two 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.080 road race and vehicles, power packs and controllers from Galube. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.080 And I got it, but it kind of sucked, like 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.960 the cars didn't really stay on the track. It was 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.400 not that easy to pack back up into the case. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.479 But I was still thrilled to have it, you know, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.760 it was like it was a big one. Yeah. See, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:29.800 Like I don't remember specific toys like that. It was 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.840 more whatever like I was obsessed with at the time, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.080 like fishing or you know, hunting or where have you. Um, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.000 But I was like when I was a kid, kid 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.960 I was really into Pokemon cards. Like um you were. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.640 You may have been as enthralled by the micro machine commercials, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:54.320 is I was about these kinds of commercials to be 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.240 the old man Pokemon master draggy. I think I am 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:07.960 the Bookemon game. You'll do awesome activities, wipes and meet 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.440 new friends. A speak in your journey could become a 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.479 Pokemon methods right there. See wow, Mancie, I had no idea, like, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.760 have you and Phil bonded over this? Because I don't 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.560 think he could ever fire you. Isn't that some kind 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.839 of Pokemon warrior code? I I this is all news 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.920 to me. I think, other than working in Meteor, this 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.479 might be the only thing that Phil and I have 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:35.400 ever had in common. Um, although you know, and my 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.640 my Pokemon days are a little bit behind me. But 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.200 I remember being a kid and they were like ten 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.919 packs of Pokemon cards in my stocking one year, and 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.720 I went just like ape shit because it was never 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.880 like that. I wasn't from Like, it wasn't like when 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.000 I wanted something as a kid, I just got it 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.440 in spades, you know, if I if I begged enough 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.440 for it, like he got one pack of Pokemon cards. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.840 but you know, and every now and again it was 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.440 a special thing. Um, but he on Pokemon cards. Here's 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.800 something that's gonna dry Phil just in nuts when I 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.400 when Phil, this is for you man. When I was 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:19.120 in first grade, so I traded a holographic first edition 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.200 Chancey for two just regular as Pika Choose because the 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.520 show had led me to believe that Pikachu was the 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.480 best thing that there could possibly be. So you know 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.559 what that means. And I'm sure you're greating your teeth 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.440 right now. Um, he's gonna call you into his office 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.640 like with a little like buzz, like, Hayden can kind 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:43.120 of my office? Please? Thanks? He was like, what the um? 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.920 But thinking back on like a president, that really blew 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:52.560 my mind was I got a Crossman pellet gun. There 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.040 was a full on campaign involved. Did I snuck bb 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.760 gun onto my list every year? And I never actually 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.240 got one from Santa But my my grandfather used to 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.280 snap up everyone he saw at flea market, so I 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.640 had a whole arsenal at his place. Anyway, we certainly 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.559 hope you find what you want under the tree tomorrow. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.920 Perhaps there will even be a few goodies from our sponsors. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.240 Thirteen fishing. Um, if you were really good, like really 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.120 really good, maybe you'll even find the Black Betty Freefall 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.440 Carbon tenth Anniversary Trick Shop Edition ice reel. Have you 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.800 seen that one? I know you have, Dude, I ache 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.520 for one of those, Man, I ache for one of those. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.839 It's like this, like brilliant gold. It shines like a 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.760 thousand sons. It's like the Excalibur of the ice fishing world. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.000 That exactly. It kicks so much, ass man. Yeah, it's yeah, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.319 it's very bold. It's either excalibur like the real O 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.320 d B would use. Um, but despite it being a 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.880 bold statement piece, it's also highly functional. I probably should 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.560 have asked Santa for one. You know, it's never too late, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.880 man Um. You might get a chance in a very 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.280 special edition of our Upid Fire Q and a segment 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.960 covering water. I'm going in. I can hold it all right. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.160 So now, Joe, a couple of weeks ago, I set 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.080 up kind of a cool interview about the issues on 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.520 the Madison River and we both thought it went like 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.400 we both thought it went really well. Death I mean 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.120 kind of cool. I'm just kidding. It was great. It 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.640 was great. Okay, Well for this installment of covering water. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.680 I've kind of set up something a little extra special, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.520 and I'm oh, I'm really excited. Today we're joined by 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.000 a very remote guest all the way from the North Pole. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.520 That's right, boys and girls, we're here with the one 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:55.640 and only Santa Claus. What's you're okay? Man? I'm fine. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:01.000 Merry Christmas? Oh right? Um? Like I said, we're here 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.439 with Santa and Joe. You said a certain someone might 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.000 want to say hi. Yeah, I was gonna. I was 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.480 gonna ask can my three year old say hi? Real quick? 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.800 Is that? Okay? That perfect? His name is? I know 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.719 what his name is? Right? Okay? Great? Hey, but come 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.720 me here for one second. If somebody I want you 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:29.880 to meet. Look who it is, Jamie? Who's that? Santa 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.920 rights so sleepy, he's real tired for making all the toys. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.079 But kids know Santa's got a buzz on erge, what 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.559 a buzz? Actually? But what can you go downstairs? Why 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.280 don't you go downstairs for a little while? Okay, thanks buddy? 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.320 Come on, man, really, you guys just want to take 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:50.960 it from the top real quick. Yeah. I don't know 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.240 if you guys noticed, but it's Christmas Eve. Let's just 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.480 do the interview. Okay, so Hayden brought you in because 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.920 it turns out you're you're quite the avid angler. Now. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.319 I know you're normally the one who asks this, but Santa, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:09.240 what do you want for Christmas? Man? Well, Nick wants 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.600 is a trip to St. Bart's and some time off. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.280 As a matter of fact, as soon as I get 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.120 done dropping off all this ship tonight, old Sandy Claus 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.120 is going to take a well deserved trip for some 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.240 billfits just me and Brandy. I mean, this is Claus. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.360 You're gonna chase some bone fish while you're down there, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.720 you know, I I hear it right there. I tried 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:34.560 the whole fly fishing for bone fish thing. That one 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.560 of those snot nosed twenty year old Instagram influencers womby 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.200 guys completely turned me off to that ship. Yeah well yeah, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.800 that can that could be tough, um, but I guess 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.280 it's a good reminder for our listeners. Always make sure 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.520 you're booking it a really reputable guy, you know what 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.320 I mean? You know, their kids had the audacity to 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.920 tell me that if I had a Helios three like him, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.840 maybe I'd be able to get out ten more feet 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.760 of line and actually make a shot. Mother. The only 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.480 reason you have a human three is because I brought 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.000 it to you. You couldn't afford a gut damn monthly 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.640 stick on the shower you make pulling tourists around the apicle. Yeah, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.439 I can see how that that might be. Um. And 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.280 you know what else, all of you stop asking for 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.360 fancy ass setups for Christmas? Do you know how many 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.560 cease of assist orders I get from Saint Croix? Do 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 you know how many elves I've lost a graphite dustin 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.160 resent fumes? Do you know how many times I had 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:32.479 to take comfinitely time slay ride to avoid osha a lot? Okay, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.319 stop it, Um, Maybe maybe we should just move on here. Okay, 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.600 let's just let's just all take a breath while I 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.920 explain exactly how covering water works. So this is our 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.360 rapid fire Q and a segment of ben. Okay, And 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.000 what Hayden and I are gonna do is gonna put 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.240 two minutes on the clock and we are just gonna 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.720 pepper you with questions. And the whole idea here is 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.920 that you don't really have any time to answer. You 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.160 can't think too hard. You just have to kind of 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.560 answer as quickly as you can. And what we'll do 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.640 at the end of this we promise um is to 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.600 give you one minute to expand or explain more about 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.320 whatever you think was the most damning answer. And and 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.920 based on how this has gone so far, I I 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.960 would I would expect that there's going to be some 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:20.280 damning answers. So does that all sound good? Sannah? I'm okay, perfectly. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.199 We put two minutes on the clock here, Heyden, you're 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:27.280 gonna ask first, right, all right, let's see how this 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:32.640 goes and begin milk or cookies? What species of fish 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:39.280 is on your bucket list? How is that? How's that possible? Look? 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.600 I live in a magic group where all things are possible, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:51.120 you idiot. But the permit is in all your years 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.319 of doing this, which lure has ended up in stockings 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.160 more than any other? I mean, it was a dirty 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.280 devil spoon for almost eighty years until some beside make 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.320 a crank bait that looks like a Budweiser kid. All right, uh, 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:09.280 favorite reindeer. I don't know yet. What what do you 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.560 mean you don't know yet? CWD man. We got a 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.920 new crew this year. They all got in c W. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.880 D and died. No, it turns out was just blitz 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.160 and I had to test them all though. Whatever freezer 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.680 spul Holy shit, everyone is so consumed with clean energy, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.920 yet you still rely heavily on cole Can you tell 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.200 us why you're kidding? Right? Really, that's your ethics question, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.760 not the hundreds of years of forced the elephant labor. Look, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.160 I got an endless supply of call up there. Okay, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.320 you switch and putting hyper allergenic crystals or some ship 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.480 in the stockings of the kids that were asking Paul, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.320 you're the cost of goods grows up? All right? Uh, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.920 where's the one place you've always wanted to visit? Are 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.720 you fighting with me? I am literally going everywhere tonight. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.760 What what your favorite fish eat? That's easy. I'm also 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:08.840 a big fan of Mah Dolphin like Flipper Dolphin. Yes, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.800 Santa hates dolphins. Everybody, My man, who's the naughtiest angler 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.880 on your list this year? Ginger kids? You pay all 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:24.640 around with Ross robertson. What's your favorite lure of all time? Cricket? 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.160 Oh my god, we're running out of time here, best 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:33.040 gift you've ever got? Well, there's one of your Jack 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.440 Frost and the heat and miser got together and got 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.080 me this huge cake. Right they lift in the middle 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.160 of the workshop. Now I'm about to cut into it 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.880 and boom, Candy pops out. And I'm not talking about 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.840 Jolly Ranchers. I'm talking about Candy, one of the North 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:56.400 Pole dancers. Off alright, everyone, Uh, Santa Claus, Joe, you 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.880 want to wrap this up? And yeah, Santa, I, I I 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.200 know you're busy and I think you have to get going. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.720 But fair is fair. You are supposed to have one 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.320 minute to expand on on any one of your answers. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.960 Maybe you want to tell us a little bit more. Well, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:15.520 let me just tell you a little bit more about Candy. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:23.520 You know here it bent. We love the children. I 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.080 just really hope none we're listening to that, because you'll, dude, 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.400 you'll have three hundred kids at the mall next Christmas 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.920 asking Santa for Budweiser, crank baits and Michigan crickets. You 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.880 know what I mean. We might have We might have 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.840 done a disservice to the youth there. Yeah, in case. Uh. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.920 You know, some listeners are extraordinarily ethical folks and have 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.040 never surrounded themselves with this type of company. A Michigan 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.480 cricket is a gigantic like weighted treble hook. It's like 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.800 an egg sink refused onto a treble hook, and it's 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.640 used to uh to snag fish. Now you can do 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.200 that like legally for like paddlefish, but most us of 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.800 the time you hear it talked about. It's in the 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.720 Great Lake salmon scene. Yeah, that's right, no offense Michigan. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.480 But I did once I did want to see a 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.639 Pennsylvania conservation officer pull about fifteen of those out of 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.040 his glove box and he'd collected them along Elk and 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.119 Walnut Creek in just a couple of days, you know 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.800 what I mean. Like, I was like, I can't believe 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.600 it's that many. Pretty crazy, um, But you know what, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.560 Speaking of snagging, let's see who snagged the better fishing 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:35.679 related story in this week's fish News. Fish News that 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.960 escalated quickly. Alright, so real quick question for you, have 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.600 you ever gotten allure or some flies for Christmas? Right? 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.600 And then you stare at them all winter because you 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.960 know it's winter so you can't run out to use 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.520 the new hula popper. And then the first time you 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.280 ever get them out of the water, you lose them, Well, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.720 let me tell you a story. Man. I know you 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.399 love my long winded stories. Uh. I do something more uh. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.240 Kind of analogous to that is the Edison Show. You 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.480 know you can go there and you get a whole 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.960 bunch of flies for like show. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Man. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.800 Well I just got sick of being burned on not 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.399 having super small flies. So I went there one time 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.919 with like two bucks in my pocket. I was like, look, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.000 I'm gonna get all the midges. I'm gonna get all 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.159 like the little tiny baits. I'm gonna get all that 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.280 ship just taking care of right now. Went in, but 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.480 all the flies. Bought a fly box to put him in, 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.960 went out to the river, immediately lost the fly box. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.840 Oh my god, you lost the entire bod, entire thing. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.280 It was one of the cool ones with like it 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.280 was like the aluminum and glass with like the windows 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.320 and ship the little flip the switch English switch stream 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:46.320 style stuff jacket ye switchblade and stream same thing. I 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.560 don't have a specific lore or fly story, but it 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.919 happened to me um in another in another capacity with 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.120 a remote control boat, like I got one of those 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.240 for Christmas. Neither of these are actually related to the question. No, 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.320 I started with the question They're not really it at all. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.120 But I was told by my dad not to touch 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.080 it until spring, and he would take me out and 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.720 show me how to use it. Did I listen? No? 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:11.200 And I sunk it. No. It was a really sweet 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.000 like chriscraft sport fisher and it went around you hit 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.399 an iceberg. No, it literally, I ship you not. It 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.800 just went around in one circle. The bow dipped and 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.520 it literally just drove itself underwater. And then I watched 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.840 it underwater, still driving, spiraled down. It was a bad 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.720 deal anyway. Here's why I started. What is why I 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.080 brought up lost lures because if you happen to need 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.800 a break from your family over the holidays, just quick 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.960 note that the final episode of the Canadian Angle with 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.520 j Siemens drops today on meat Eater's YouTube channel. And 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.520 here's what he does. He don's full Scooba gear, He 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.040 goes diving on Lake of the Woods for lost lures, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.720 refurbishes them, and then uses your misfortune to score himself 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.560 an epic muskie to close it, like you you gotta 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.280 see it right, And I thought the whole premise was 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.760 extremely clever the way he did that. Yeah, man, that 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.840 that's a that's badass, man. I grew up fishing lake 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.280 wall in paw Pack a bunch. And let's say it's 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.560 a hydroelectric dam. Is like, you know the reason for 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.080 this lake being here, so the water level changes like constantly. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.320 And where I lived, there was this shoal that went 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.800 straight out along this weed bed, and every summer around, 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.399 like you know, August is when they would drop the 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.879 lake the lowest you could go out on that shoal. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.720 In addition to picking up like pretty fresh props, I 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.800 mean some of them were dinged up. Occasionally you can 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.800 find like a nice clean prop. You would find all 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.879 sorts of lures and cool crank baits and ship just 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.600 going all the way. People that's their hobby, man, Like 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.159 that's just what they barely fish to just pick up lures. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.440 But anyway, I thought that was really neat. You should 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.840 watch that. Let's get on with the news here. We're 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.800 gonna try and keep it light and perhaps Festivus. I 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.040 don't know I've gone Festivus, but I don't know where 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.520 you've gone. Because this is a competition and we don't 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.200 know which story the other dude grabbed and at the end, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.360 jolly old sat Philip of the audious Engineericus Mountains will 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.040 declare a winner and it is your lead this week, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.840 my man, So have at it. Oh right, man. So 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.760 you know it's not super festive. It's not festive. It's 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.760 not festivus, is it? No? No, unless you can consider, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.640 like you know, the destruction of one of the most 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:30.240 important fisheries in the world a festive occasion. That what 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.600 fishery are we talking about? All right? So, so recently 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.919 it was recommended that there be a four fifth reduction 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.280 on the cod catch in one of the two primary 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.639 New England cod fisheries. Can you can blame the Italians 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.119 seven fishes back a lot, man, it's pretty much all 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:53.680 the Italian's fault. Yeah, man, so uh, darn Italians. I'm 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:58.600 very Italian. Please don't at me. On on December tenth, 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.840 the New England Fishery Management Council decided on a quota 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:08.080 of five hundred and forty thousand pounds um. And this 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.520 is of you know, Atlantic cod, down from a previous 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:16.760 quota of two point four million pounds. So again, yeah, yeah, 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.520 four fifth reduction. The reduction would be for the George's Bank, 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.520 Um the other primary Atlantic cod fishery that way, the 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.399 Gulf of Maine will see the quota, Uh, stay you 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.560 know stable from last year. I believe it's five hundred 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:38.080 and ninety thousand pounds. Now. Look, reductions like this in 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:42.399 the economic short term suck. But this kind of management 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:47.159 really is essential for long term conservation goals. Uh. And 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.200 to contextualize that, we can look back on a little 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.240 history of New England's cod fishery to understand why. And Joe, 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:56.920 I'm gonna pass this to you in a second. It's 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:01.080 quite a history. Like yeah, it's yeah, so everybody likes cod. 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.840 You know, it's a white, firm, flaky fish. It's good 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.879 to eat, it's not fishing. Everybody likes it, man, the 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:12.120