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September 4, 2025 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: He has a new book out. All his books have
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Speaker 1: been bestseller's Bill O'Reilly next week on the program. A
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Speaker 1: rare wildlife encounter with amanatee halted a sixty four million
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Speaker 1: dollar ferry project down in Port Ramsas a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. According to Texas Department of Transportation text dot
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Speaker 1: cruise knew what to do and they saw the sea
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Speaker 1: cows swimming nearby. The project is upgrading ramps and landings
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Speaker 1: at the Porta Randaz's ferry system was stopped immediately when
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Speaker 1: the crews saw the manatee and knew it was federally protected.
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Speaker 1: They said it was not in distress. It lingered for
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Speaker 1: several hours near the ferry operations before heading toward Corpus
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Speaker 1: Christie Bay. Construction has resumed. The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding
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Speaker 1: Network that's the tx MMSN in case you were wondering,
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Speaker 1: said it received multiple sightings of manatees this summer, including
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Speaker 1: along surfside Quintana Porta Ranas. They said these West Indian
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Speaker 1: manatees usually spend winters in Florida, but sometimes migrate all
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Speaker 1: the way to Texas in the summer. According to Texas
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Speaker 1: tax Natural Science Research Lab, West Indian manatees can be
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Speaker 1: found in rivers, estuaries coastal areas from the southeast US,
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Speaker 1: along Central America, the West Indies, and the northern coast
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Speaker 1: of South America. However, they say manatees are exceedingly rare
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Speaker 1: in Texas waters. I've seen a lot of manatees because
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Speaker 1: we know go down to South Florida quite a bit
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Speaker 1: and they're not rare. They are common down there, but
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Speaker 1: they are exceedingly rare here. Pretty cool to see him
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Speaker 1: in Texas. Speaking of which, this past weekend, an eight
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Speaker 1: year old girl vacationing in Galveston was bitten by a shark,
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Speaker 1: but of course the people in Galveston weren't going to
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Speaker 1: announce that. Her family to a Waco TV station, KWTX
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Speaker 1: reported Monday that Harper Ochoa had been bitten last Saturday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: feeling quote something grabbed the back of her leg while
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Speaker 1: she was playing in the surf. After she returned to
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Speaker 1: the beach, family members noticed a big chunk out of
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Speaker 1: the back of her leg below her calf. The account
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Speaker 1: didn't give the location of the beach or the name
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Speaker 1: of the hospital, noting only Ohoa used to live in
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Speaker 1: the Waco area and is still in Central Texas. The
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Speaker 1: Galveston Island Beach Patrol was never notified. Chief Austin Kerwin
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Speaker 1: told the chronicle the beach patrol prefers the term quote
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Speaker 1: bite over a well, I'm sure they do. We were patrolling,
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Speaker 1: said Kerwin. We had a truck in that zone. Nobody
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Speaker 1: called us, Nobody told us about it. We listened to
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Speaker 1: the EMS if there's a call on the beach. We
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Speaker 1: never got that call. First they heard about it was
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Speaker 1: the KWTX story on Facebook. Ochoa's mother, Christa told the
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Speaker 1: station that doctor quote was able to confirm it looked
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Speaker 1: like something from a shark. She got thirteen staples in
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Speaker 1: the back of her leg. Of course, anytime there's a
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Speaker 1: shark bite, the story goes viral. The New York Post
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Speaker 1: Tuesday described how the girl quote screamed in terror as
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Speaker 1: a hulking shark ripped a large chunk of flesh from
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Speaker 1: her body. There was no new information as the story
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Speaker 1: worked around the media. Some users were skeptical. Chris o'choas said,
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Speaker 1: I assure you it's very much true, and she said
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Speaker 1: the family was on Jamaica Beach when the girl was bitten.
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Speaker 1: Jamaica Beach Fire Department Galveston Police Department said that he
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Speaker 1: had gotten calls from all over since the story was published. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: an eight year old boy was bitten by a shark
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Speaker 1: while snorkeling off Key Largo on Labor Day three, twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. Moreau Monroe County Sheriff's Office in the Facebook post,
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Speaker 1: the victim was airlifted by Trauma Star to Jackson Memorial
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Speaker 1: Hospital in Miami. Officials notified the Coastguard in the Florida
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Speaker 1: Fishing Wildlife Conservation Commission. The boy's current condition has not
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Speaker 1: been released. The attack marks the latest in a series
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Speaker 1: of shark encounters in the Keys. July thirty, seven year
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Speaker 1: was viciously mauled and dragged one hundred yards by a
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Speaker 1: brown bear moments after stepping outside of her Alaska home
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Speaker 1: for an early morning job. Arian Colton miraculously survived the encounter,
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Speaker 1: but has remained hospitalized since. She was left with severe
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Speaker 1: injuries requiring surgery. Tuesday morning, around five am, the bear
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Speaker 1: charged from a nearby property and ambush Colton one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty feet from her home in Kenai, dragging her
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Speaker 1: down the road before a neighbor found her shocked at
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Speaker 1: bloodied body in his yard. This is according to Alaska
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Speaker 1: Wildlife Trooper David Loring. Loring said he heard the barking,
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Speaker 1: wolfing sound of a bear. He'd been around bears before,
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Speaker 1: he thought a bear may have got a dog. He
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Speaker 1: really didn't think much of it until he heard some
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Speaker 1: more in the daylight. He walked out there and located
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Speaker 1: a female in the woods on his property. Wildlife officials
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Speaker 1: say the woman, who is a nurse recently moved to
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Speaker 1: southern Alaska, was conscious but bleeding heavily from her face
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Speaker 1: and scalp. She was transported to Anchorage, nearly three hours
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Speaker 1: from her home. She is stable, said the family, but
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Speaker 1: has suffered severe injuries that will require extensive surgeries and
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Speaker 1: a long hospital stay. They have started a GoFundMe account
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Speaker 1: arian has had her initial surgery. This was updated this
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Speaker 1: past Saturday. Doctors are positive and hopeful. It's still a
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Speaker 1: long road to recovery. Officials believe the bear, which was
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Speaker 1: based on its tracks and has not been located, have
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Speaker 1: issued a warning urging residents and visitors to remain alert
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Speaker 1: as bears bulk up on salmon and berries for the
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Speaker 1: winner and apparently they are bulking up on people as well.
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Speaker 1: Get them before they get you. How many times do
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Speaker 1: I have to tell you this? I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: some serious stuff here. People. Brown bears, they're vicious, more
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Speaker 1: so than black bears. But then there's this. In Japan,
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Speaker 1: authorities arrested the son of an elderly man on murder
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Speaker 1: charges after originally believing he was fatally mauled during a
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Speaker 1: bear attack. Fujio Shindo, aged ninety three, was discovered collapsed
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Speaker 1: and bleeding by his wife inside their home, alarming police
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Speaker 1: into thinking a a bear had wounded him. In a twist,
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Speaker 1: police arrested Fujiyuki Shindo, aged fifty one, for allegedly murdering
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Speaker 1: his father. The bear attack theory was withdrawn when authorities
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Speaker 1: recognized the man's wound were more consistent with knife injuries.
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Speaker 1: Cops had sent out a bear attack warning mail to
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Speaker 1: residents in the northern Japan area, where shrinking farmland have
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Speaker 1: allowed bears to encroach into an area populated by humans
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Speaker 1: two hundred and nineteen bear attacks last year, resulting in
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Speaker 1: six deaths. Did you hear what I said? Two hundred
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Speaker 1: and nineteen bear attacks and six debts? Do you think
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Speaker 1: you might want to do something people of Japan on
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Speaker 1: all these bears?
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Speaker 9: Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know, my guess is purely speculation, but the bear
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Speaker 1: huggers in Japan have prevented them from doing anything. It's
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Speaker 1: my theory that the bear huggers think that the bears
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Speaker 1: are more important than people, and that the bears need
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Speaker 1: a place to go and they should just continuing attacking
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Speaker 1: the people. The son told police he didn't notice anything
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Speaker 1: unusual at the family home during the time of the
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Speaker 1: bear attack. He's believed to have used a knife to
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Speaker 1: slash his father's face and back. The man was dead
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Speaker 1: on arrival at the hospital. Investigators seized multiple knives from
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Speaker 1: the home as they tried to identify the murder weapon.
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Speaker 1: No motive has yet been identified. I mean, it's bad
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Speaker 1: enough you have to look out for bear attacks in
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Speaker 1: your community. Now apparently you have to look out for
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Speaker 1: your children too. In northern Japan, Lazars, I want to
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Speaker 1: know the look. I'm I'm pro first responders. Everybody knows that,
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Speaker 1: but I gotta say the cops in this little community
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Speaker 1: in Japan, or like bear killed him? I mean generally speaking,
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Speaker 1: like this lady that was attacked by the griz had
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Speaker 1: half her head chewed off, right, I mean you look
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Speaker 1: down in the house in a living room and there's
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Speaker 1: blood and there's dashes. I guess they thought the knife
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Speaker 1: wounds were claw marks. I mean, I don't know. Doesn't
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Speaker 1: say how long they needed to determine. Hey, this guy
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Speaker 1: wasn't bitten by a bear. He was stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: I mean, give me Colombo, right, or give me Monk.
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Speaker 1: If something happens to me, don't call these people in
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Speaker 1: northern Japan. I'm just saying, and the chances of me
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Speaker 1: getting eaten by a bear in my living room slim
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Speaker 1: here in this area. I'm gonna say now, in defense
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Speaker 1: of the police, there have been two hundred and nineteen
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Speaker 1: bear attacks in this area. So maybe it's just a
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Speaker 1: logical conclusion. I mean, how many bear attacks in Brian
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Speaker 1: College Station would it take to end the bear attack problems.
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Speaker 1: I'm just asking. There's a lot of us armed in
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Speaker 1: this community, right, there's a lot of us armed in
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Speaker 1: this state. I would think one bear attack would be enough. Look,
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Speaker 1: we've got mountain lions around here, we've got bobcats around here,
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Speaker 1: lots of deer, trash pandas lots of different animals, foxes
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Speaker 1: that we know of. No bears. But I will say this,
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Speaker 1: We've talked about this. There are more and more bears,
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Speaker 1: black bears, not brown bears, black bears showing up in
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Speaker 1: the state of Texas, in East Texas and in West Texas.
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Speaker 1: Pretty soon they may be following the Brass River right
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Speaker 1: to Brian and College Station. I'll let you know. People
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Speaker 1: will tell me when the bears show up, but we'll
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Speaker 1: be ready for them. I'm just saying we're going to
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Speaker 1: be ready for the bears. Authorities in southeastern Spain forced
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Speaker 1: to temporarily shut down a popular stretch of beach after
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Speaker 1: two venomous sea creatures known as blue dragons were spotted. Hey,
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Speaker 1: if you people want to be scared about stuff, these
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Speaker 1: blue blue dragons. They are nasty looking. The town of
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Speaker 1: Guardemar del Segura, located just north of Tora Vieha on
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Speaker 1: Spain's Mediterranean coast, implemented a swimming This looks like something
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Speaker 1: that show up in Australia. Now, I'm sure they already
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Speaker 1: have them in Australia, because everything in Australia will kill you.
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Speaker 1: Rare marine animals discovered near Weaver's Beach for motives of
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Speaker 1: citizens safety. The police force said in a Facebook post
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Speaker 1: we have been all swimming on all the municipal beaches
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Speaker 1: until the new order. The blue dragon is a deadly
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Speaker 1: kind of sea slugs. What's three to four centimeters? I
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Speaker 1: don't know my convert it. I know you have a device. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. They're rarely seen in the Mediterranean,
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Speaker 1: morely found. Listen to me drifting on the surface of
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Speaker 1: tropical and temperate waters in the Atlantic, Pacific Indian oceans
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Speaker 1: like a ha, so one and a half inches. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so that's pretty small. But you ought to see the
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Speaker 1: picture of these blue dragons now, I'm telling you. They're
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Speaker 1: vivid blue coloring and wing like tendrils give them a
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Speaker 1: ghostly look, but their beauty masks a dangerous defense mechanism.
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Speaker 1: By the way, that's a cool name for an animal.
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Speaker 1: Blue dragon. Very cool. But they feed on venomous prey
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Speaker 1: like Portuguese man of war. We know what those are
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Speaker 1: in Texas. That concentrates the stinging cells in their own tissues,
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Speaker 1: which makes it more venomous than its prey, capable of
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Speaker 1: delivery painful stings that can cause nausea, vomiting, skin irritation,
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Speaker 1: acute allergic reactions. I'm telling you you don't want any
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Speaker 1: part of these blue dragons. Have you looked those up?
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Speaker 1: Look up the blue dragon. Mayor Jose Sayaz confirms the
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Speaker 1: sightings issued a red flag warning closing beaches while a
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Speaker 1: preventative device was deployed to monitor the shoreline. In other words,
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Speaker 1: I gotta put up a net. I mean, yeah, but
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Speaker 1: look what that thing looks like. Yeah, that's crazy. I
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Speaker 1: mean would like, it's only an inch, right, and it's
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Speaker 1: bright blue blue. It's cool looking. But when you blow
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Speaker 1: that up and see these things and these stingers on
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Speaker 1: this little animal, swimmers were told to rinse with salt
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Speaker 1: water and seek medical attention. Yeah, I don't worry about that.
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Speaker 1: While rare in Spain, their appearance another reminder of increasing
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Speaker 1: unpredictability of marine ecosystems. Guardimardelle Segura, known for its sunny climate,
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Speaker 1: rocky Cliffs Golden Beaches, draws thousands of tourists each year.
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Speaker 1: The beach closers came at the height of the summer season.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't say they've reopened them yet. I'm just telling you
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Speaker 1: it's one more thing to look out for. The blue Dragon.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a cool name, you gotta admit. But
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Speaker 1: you know any part of that blue dragon man, So
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. These little things are eating Portuguese men of war.
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Speaker 1: Now you know what those look like, right, They float,
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Speaker 1: They've got those huge lawn tentacles that sting the fire
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Speaker 1: out of you. They eat those things and apparently that
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Speaker 1: just intensifies the amount of poison in their system. When
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Speaker 1: they eat things like Portuguese man o war. When you
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Speaker 1: have a one inch little thing eating a Portuguese man
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Speaker 1: o war, I guess they just sting them and paralyze them. Right,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to mess with the blue dragons. I'm
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Speaker 1: Outdoor edition. A Spanish tourist is under fire after viral
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Speaker 1: footage showed him pouring beer down an elephant's trunk and
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Speaker 1: a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. It's been slammed by conservationists
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Speaker 1: as dangerous and deeply respectful. In the video, the man
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Speaker 1: who uses the Instagram handle at Skydive Kenya is seen
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Speaker 1: drinking a can of beer and then pouring the rest
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Speaker 1: down the elephants trunk. The footage sparked swift outrage. Kenya
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Speaker 1: Wildlife Service calls it unacceptable, dangers, completely against our values.
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Speaker 1: This never should have happened. We don't even allow people
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Speaker 1: to go near the elephants. Well, apparently you do. The
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Speaker 1: elephant's been dentif as Boopa, a large long tuss bull
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Speaker 1: with distinctive damaged ivory bupa, is well known among visitors.
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Speaker 1: Was rescued in nineteen eighty nine has served as an
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Speaker 1: ambassador for the conservation. The sanctuary says they take cases
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Speaker 1: like this extremely seriously. The man describes himself as an
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Speaker 1: adrenaline junkie on TikTok does it use his real name.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Winnie Keenru, a Kenyan biologist, warned that the stut
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Speaker 1: not only endangered the elephant, but misrepresented the nature of
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Speaker 1: wild animals. About ninety five percent of the elephants in
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Speaker 1: Kenya or wild. He says it's wrong to have social
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Speaker 1: media posts and give the impression you can get close
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Speaker 1: to the animals and feed them. Look, you can't fix stupid.
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Speaker 1: Experts say feeding foreign substances, something like beer, could disrupt
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Speaker 1: the behavior and overall health of the animal. Look, this
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Speaker 1: animal is I don't know, three tons, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: four tons, I don't know. I'm not saying I would
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Speaker 1: ever give beer to an elephant. I'm not saying that.
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Speaker 1: And I understand that they don't want people feeding beer
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Speaker 1: to elephants, or feeding anything to elephants. I get all
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Speaker 1: of that, but I highly doubt a couple of swallows
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Speaker 1: of beer in a four thousand pound elephant is going
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Speaker 1: to affect this elephant. I don't think the elephant is
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Speaker 1: wandering around bumping into trees and slapping other people on
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Speaker 1: the back, being drunk on two swallows of beer. Right,
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Speaker 1: I'm not advocating it. Don't go telling your friends I
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Speaker 1: said start feeding beer to elephants. Got an extra beer,
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Speaker 1: call me right. Otherwise, give him to a friend, leave
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Speaker 1: it to yourself. That's our lesson to date. People don't
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Speaker 1: mess with blue dragons and don't feed beer to elephants.
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Speaker 1: I hope you take that away all right? Who did
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Speaker 1: go back and listen to interview? I did several months ago.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Crowe is an author at Texas Monthly. He wrote,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion a compelling story on people trying to
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Speaker 1: grow and catch big bass. Let's jump out to the
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Speaker 1: Players Fund Center phone line right now, We're gonna visit
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Speaker 1: with writer Ryan crow He has an article in a
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Speaker 1: recent edition of Texas Monthly on growing and fishing for
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Speaker 1: big black bass. Ryan, I'm told by a story that
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Speaker 1: maybe not an addict, but you fish for bassa tom
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Speaker 1: or two in your life, have you not?
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Speaker 6: I have?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I grew up fishing for bass in Minnesota, so
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Speaker 3: the large mouth out there are considerably smaller than the
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Speaker 3: ones in Texas here. But but since I've moved here
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Speaker 3: a number of years ago, I've definitely been out a
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Speaker 3: number of times. You know, Texas is probably one of
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Speaker 3: the best places in the country for large mouth bass.
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Speaker 3: It's it's really hard to beat.
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Speaker 1: What led you to this story?
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Speaker 3: I like the fish, that's kind of that's kind of it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a couple of things, to be honest.
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Speaker 3: I there's there's the fishing aspect of it, which I'm
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Speaker 3: really into, and it gave me excuse to go out
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Speaker 3: and see some of these private lakes, talk to people
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Speaker 3: who are managing them, who own them, the guys that
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Speaker 3: are spending a lot of money fishing for them, and
33:56
Speaker 3: that's it's just a it's a unique group of people,
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Speaker 3: and it's always fun to hang out with fellow fishermen.
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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of interesting stories here too. People
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Speaker 3: put a lot of time and effort into this and
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Speaker 3: it's and anytime you find somebody that has passion about
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Speaker 3: whatever it may be, it's really fun to be around
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Speaker 3: that person. And these people just happen to love raising
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Speaker 3: and catching big bass.
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Speaker 1: In some of these cases, money is no object, correct.
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Speaker 3: That is true. They I mean we're talking some of
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Speaker 3: these ranches. Yeah, you know, are tens of thousands of
34:32
Speaker 3: acres and they have multiple ponds on them, and you
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Speaker 3: can spend pretty much any amount of money you want
34:39
Speaker 3: trying to raise a big bass. I will say, there
34:44
Speaker 3: is there's only so much you can do to tweak
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Speaker 3: the environment. You have to get lucky at some point
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Speaker 3: with the conditions right. You cannot have a drought. You
34:53
Speaker 3: can't have otters invading. And there's a lot of things
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Speaker 3: that are outside of your control, but you can spend
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Speaker 3: a lot of money trying to control those things. And
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Speaker 3: that's what as people do. And and you know, I
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Speaker 3: definitely heard numbers around, uh, you know, six figures a
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Speaker 3: year for some of these lakes.
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Speaker 1: You know, I kind of liken this to growing big
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Speaker 1: bucks on a high fence ranch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I heard that a lot when I
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Speaker 3: was talking to these people, and they definitely it's a
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Speaker 3: similar pursuit in the sense that you're trying to to
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Speaker 3: tweak the environment in some way to to to raise
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Speaker 3: an outlier, if you will. Yes, And you know, the example,
35:36
Speaker 3: but I actually heard more often was it's like trying
35:39
Speaker 3: to raise cattle on a on a ranch, right, Like,
35:44
Speaker 3: if you have too many cattle on a ranch, like,
35:46
Speaker 3: it's just not going to work. So you have to
35:48
Speaker 3: take out a lot of bass from these lakes.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 3: Otherwise they everybody all the basket depressed in terms of
35:56
Speaker 3: their size, and you can't really grow an outlier that's
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Speaker 3: really big. So it is it's a unique thing and
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Speaker 3: you have to be on top of it from the
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Speaker 3: get go. When you're putting in lakes starting from scratch whatever.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you can't like really take any time off to
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Speaker 3: grow them big. And again you got to get lucky.
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Speaker 3: That's a big factor here.
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Speaker 1: The other thing, one of the things that I learned
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Speaker 1: among many is that these lakes can have a life
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Speaker 1: to them. You mentioned the fact that guys will spend
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Speaker 1: a lot of money they can reach a peak at
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Speaker 1: which time maybe it starts going down on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the graph.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: I didn't realize that going into it either, but talking
36:41
Speaker 12: to a lot of people in this world, they all
36:45
Speaker 12: kind of agree with that that there is probably a
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Speaker 12: ten to fifteen year window where a.
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Speaker 3: Lake peaks, and then just money wise, it's probably best
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Speaker 3: to start from scratch, because again a lot of these
36:58
Speaker 3: people are trying to to raise the outliers, the double
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Speaker 3: digit bass, the fifteen pound bass. So you can have
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Speaker 3: an amazing fishing lake and catch you know, six eight
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Speaker 3: pound bass just you know, hour after hour. But that's
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Speaker 3: not exactly what these guys are trying to do. They're
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Speaker 3: trying to grow really big bass, and to do that,
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Speaker 3: everything plateaus and then you just kind of have to
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Speaker 3: sink more money into it. And by that I mean,
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Speaker 3: you have to control the baitfish population. You have to
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Speaker 3: add more baitfish to make sure that there's enough forge
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Speaker 3: fish in the lake. You have to take out all
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Speaker 3: the smaller bass because they're eating the forge fish. You
37:38
Speaker 3: have to keep make sure otters are not coming into
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Speaker 3: the lake because they target the big fish. And otters
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Speaker 3: are more prevalent now than ever. So there's just a
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Speaker 3: lot of things that can that happen that basically as
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Speaker 3: the lake is developing, it will eventually kind of taper off,
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Speaker 3: peter out when it turns when it comes to big bass.
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Speaker 3: Now again you have a great fishy lake that's just
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Speaker 3: produced his year after you after year. But again we're
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Speaker 3: talking about outliers here.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I was talking to a ranch owner this last
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Speaker 1: weekend out there, and he has a lake in fact
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Speaker 1: that's that that's managed by Luco and John Jones who's
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine as well. And besides otters, which
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Speaker 1: until I talked to John, I didn't realize there was
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Speaker 1: such a huge problem around here. Uh, you know, you've
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Speaker 1: got cormorants, you've got eagle bald eagles. In fact, you've
38:35
Speaker 1: got ospreys. He's got all kinds of things that are
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Speaker 1: after those fish.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really interesting to talk with John Jones
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Speaker 3: about this, and actually he took me out on this lake.
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Speaker 3: I can't mention a but.
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Speaker 1: You wrote about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and it was a real treat to go
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Speaker 3: out there and see that firsthand and see the effort
38:57
Speaker 3: that they're putting into it. And again, this is not
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Speaker 3: everybody's trying to do this with their legs. They're just
39:03
Speaker 3: you know, some people are just you know, want to
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Speaker 3: have a good fishing lake. But this is this is
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Speaker 3: a little bit different, and sometimes, you know, just one
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Speaker 3: little thing can go wrong if you will that it
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Speaker 3: doesn't produce the gigantic bass that these people are after.
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Speaker 3: And again it's you're kind of trying to control nature,
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Speaker 3: which is, as we all know, is very hard to control.
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Speaker 3: So you kind of just trying to find that window
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Speaker 3: of time where you can really get it right and
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Speaker 3: get a double digit bass, maybe the fifteen pound one,
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Speaker 3: maybe even something bigger.
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Speaker 13: Yep.
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Speaker 1: As I understand that there's kind of three main groups
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Speaker 1: at play here. There's fishermen that are willing to pay
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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day to get on these lakes
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Speaker 1: or be part of a club that pays a yearly
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Speaker 1: due and then they pay to go back on the lake.
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Speaker 1: Then you have guys who are making a living now
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Speaker 1: of kind of brokering these said selling to these fishermen.
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Speaker 1: And then as you mentioned, you've got the ranch owners
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Speaker 1: and the landowners who may not necessarily be making money off.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they're losing money because they're spending a lot
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Speaker 1: of money to get a lake on their own property
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Speaker 1: that they want.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely exactly kind of how it plays
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Speaker 3: out for the ranches themselves and the ranch owners the
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Speaker 3: ranch managers. It's not exactly an income revenue generating at all.
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Speaker 3: For the most part, it's more just a passion project
40:43
Speaker 3: the people that they're allowing on the ranch. Like sometimes
40:45
Speaker 3: these fishermen come in and they'll call whatever you know,
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Speaker 3: fish under seventeen inches that they catch, and that helps
40:53
Speaker 3: the rancher control that population that way a lot of times.
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Speaker 3: With the other gentleman that went out with his name
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Speaker 3: is Steve Alexander. He runs private water fishing in Texas.
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Speaker 3: He sort of offers his advice on for these ranch
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Speaker 3: owners on how best to control the lake. Again, a
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Speaker 3: lot of them are not necessarily trying to raise big bats,
41:16
Speaker 3: but he offers some insights for them, and through his
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Speaker 3: company h he's allowing fishermen to come on these ranchers
41:24
Speaker 3: and fish. These ranchers are allowing fishermen to come on
41:27
Speaker 3: and everybody. It's from what I understand, it's a really
41:30
Speaker 3: uh you know, small knit group of people that take
41:34
Speaker 3: care of the properties. Right. So, you know, the ranchers
41:37
Speaker 3: are for the most part happy to have these people come.
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Speaker 3: It's fun to talk to these fishermen. They're usually pretty
41:43
Speaker 3: dedicated fishermen, so they know something about it. They have
41:46
Speaker 3: their own techniques that they like to tweak and see
41:49
Speaker 3: what they can uh, you know, change up to uh
41:52
Speaker 3: and kind of invent something new there. So there's just
41:55
Speaker 3: a lot of you know, interesting things going on, which
41:57
Speaker 3: is why there they're come out there. But again, it's
42:01
Speaker 3: hard to beat some of these these lakes for the
42:05
Speaker 3: fishing opportunities for a big bass. And that's why these
42:08
Speaker 3: guys are willing to pay that much money. I mean,
42:10
Speaker 3: a lot of them are are surgeons in Dallas or
42:13
Speaker 3: you know, entrepreneurs in Austin, or you know, maybe they
42:17
Speaker 3: work at an oil and gas company in Houston. You know,
42:21
Speaker 3: these guys are, you know, And again they're primarily men
42:25
Speaker 3: have some money with some disposable income, and instead of
42:28
Speaker 3: playing golf, they're they're doing this on the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yep, I got to tell you, I fished all my life.
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Speaker 1: I had not I did not realize that there were
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Speaker 1: lures that cost up to three hundred dollars and more.
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Speaker 3: There's there's there, and there's a couple that you know,
42:45
Speaker 3: are three four hundred dollars without being painted, and then
42:48
Speaker 3: you send it to an artist and they'll paint it
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Speaker 3: a specific color for you, and that's another couple of
42:52
Speaker 3: hundred dollars. And some of these lures, uh, they're some
42:56
Speaker 3: on the black market because it's made by a custom
42:58
Speaker 3: lure maker who's only turning out, you know, maybe a
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Speaker 3: couple of hundred a year. And so these people are
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Speaker 3: getting on the list, buying their buying their five hundred
43:08
Speaker 3: dollar lure and then turning around and selling it for
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Speaker 3: a grand. It's it's it's insane. I mean, I can't
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Speaker 3: even imagine fishing with a thousand dollars lore. I would
43:15
Speaker 3: be panicked the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Did you know this before you started this article?
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Speaker 3: I knew. I knew that there was lures out there
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Speaker 3: that were expensive, that were a couple of hundred dollars.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know the extent to which people were willing to,
43:33
Speaker 3: you know, find them and pay for them on the
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Speaker 3: black market and obsess over every little detail about them.
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Speaker 3: You know. I've obviously spent my fair share of money
43:43
Speaker 3: on lures over the years, as we all have. But
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Speaker 3: to drop five hundred dollars for one specific lure, I mean,
43:51
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a different class of people doing that.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. We've already kind of
43:57
Speaker 1: made that point. I mean, I I loved your visit
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Speaker 1: with Ken Addington. I mean, by his own admission, he's obsessed.
44:06
Speaker 1: This is what he does, this is what he spends
44:08
Speaker 1: his free time doing. Right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ken was a treat to get to know and
44:15
Speaker 3: talk about fishing. And I had dinner with him many
44:18
Speaker 3: times and we talked for two hours at least each
44:21
Speaker 3: time about fishing and lures and where he's fished, how
44:26
Speaker 3: many times he's fished there. He's just really obsessed with fishing,
44:30
Speaker 3: and I've come across a lot of upsets for fishermen
44:33
Speaker 3: over the years. It's been a real treat it was
44:36
Speaker 3: part of my job to be able to do that.
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Speaker 3: But Ken is up there in terms of one of
44:40
Speaker 3: the guys most passionate that I've come across, and he's again,
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Speaker 3: he fishes for everything, but he would rather catch large,
44:47
Speaker 3: muth fast and pretty much anything else. And he knows
44:50
Speaker 3: so much about fishing that I mean, you just just
44:55
Speaker 3: watching him absorb infolks when he talks to absorbent fo
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Speaker 3: really fun to be on the water with people who
45:03
Speaker 3: are that knowledgeable. It makes your better fishermen. And that's
45:07
Speaker 3: another reason why I'd love doing the story.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I grew up chasing bass in private
45:14
Speaker 1: ponds and lakes around you know, North Texas, but I
45:18
Speaker 1: became a saltwater guy and I love fishing saltwater. What
45:22
Speaker 1: is it about the black bass, especially in the state
45:26
Speaker 1: of Texas that people get obsessed over?
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Speaker 9: You know?
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Speaker 3: I ended up talking with a lot of people about
45:36
Speaker 3: that question, and I think it's just because they're they're
45:40
Speaker 3: kind of everywhere, yeah, and they're not there. It's you
45:44
Speaker 3: can spend a lot of money fishing for them, but
45:46
Speaker 3: you don't have to. You can go out there with
45:50
Speaker 3: with you know, a zept co reeal that you know,
45:54
Speaker 3: with your kid and catch a bunch of nice bass
45:58
Speaker 3: in the state of Texas, just anywhere in the state
46:01
Speaker 3: of Texas. And I think it's because it's an every
46:03
Speaker 3: man species, if you will, that that it's really hit
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Speaker 3: accord with with more people than the most saltwater I
46:13
Speaker 3: love it. I love fly fishing. Yeah, So like you know,
46:18
Speaker 3: tailing reds on the coast, there's nothing that's more fun
46:21
Speaker 3: in my mind than that but black bass. You can
46:26
Speaker 3: fish from from anywhere, and like you know, I live
46:29
Speaker 3: in Austin right by the lake there. I chat with
46:32
Speaker 3: the fishermen down in the water. It's just you can
46:35
Speaker 3: catch those fish everywhere, and so you just kind of
46:37
Speaker 3: get lured in. And I think for a certain segment
46:40
Speaker 3: of those fishermen, they, like all fishermen, are after, you know,
46:45
Speaker 3: that peak experience and peak experience for them, and that's
46:48
Speaker 3: big bass. For some of them, it's big bass on
46:51
Speaker 3: their spawning beds. I think there's just, you know, for
46:54
Speaker 3: whatever quirk, there's a few people who love big bass
46:58
Speaker 3: rather than the saltwater species you.
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Speaker 1: Talked about how this went to another level. It's been
47:04
Speaker 1: almost forty years ago when Mark Stevenson at Lake Fork
47:10
Speaker 1: caught this seventeen pound bass, and it became really the
47:19
Speaker 1: state mascot, right Ethel.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
47:23
Speaker 1: And from that point on, I think the clamoring and
47:29
Speaker 1: just the fascination over big bass and growing big bass
47:34
Speaker 1: in what the Texas Parks and Wildlife have done with
47:37
Speaker 1: their shayl lunker, that's created obviously interest for more people
47:44
Speaker 1: than just obsessed fishermen, hasn't it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Ethel really supercharged bass fishing overall. I
47:54
Speaker 3: think that particular fish just you know, keeping it alive
47:58
Speaker 3: in the live well and then bringing it to bass
48:00
Speaker 3: pro shops like it was really spurred an entire generation
48:04
Speaker 3: of people to go chase fish, uh in in all
48:09
Speaker 3: across the country. I should say Texas because it was
48:13
Speaker 3: in Texas here where it was caught Lake Fork. Like.
48:16
Speaker 3: I just think that Texans were immediately aware of what
48:22
Speaker 3: was in their backyard and that then spurred them to
48:25
Speaker 3: explore the state more. And you know, there was other
48:28
Speaker 3: things that were happening around then. New reservoirs were being created, Uh,
48:34
Speaker 3: there was you know a little bit more ethics around
48:38
Speaker 3: catching movies. There's there's things happening around then that that
48:43
Speaker 3: helped spur the the fish, large amouth bass fishing into
48:49
Speaker 3: kind of the stratosphere. But Texas Parks and Wildlife there's
48:52
Speaker 3: a lot of credit for the shri lunker program that was, unquestionably,
48:57
Speaker 3: you know, one of the better fishery across the country
49:01
Speaker 3: and still is today for raising big bass.
49:05
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to believe, but when I was
49:09
Speaker 1: growing up, you caught a big bass, you didn't let
49:12
Speaker 1: that bass go, even if you weren't going to eat it.
49:15
Speaker 1: You brought it back, it was on a stringer, you
49:18
Speaker 1: took pictures of it. That's pretty much unthinkable these days,
49:23
Speaker 1: isn't it among bass fishermen for big bass?
49:27
Speaker 8: It is?
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Speaker 3: And in fact, I would say it's it's maybe swung
49:30
Speaker 3: too far in the opposite direction that nobody keeps bass
49:33
Speaker 3: at Yes, And I think there's a pretty strong argument
49:36
Speaker 3: to be made where it's it's totally fine to keep
49:38
Speaker 3: some bass under fifteen inches. It's going to help the
49:40
Speaker 3: population overall, right, And I mean, frankly, bass are pretty
49:44
Speaker 3: good to eat, yeah, you cook them right, So, but
49:48
Speaker 3: I do think that catching and release was seminole in
49:52
Speaker 3: terms of creating better fisheries on a lot of these
49:55
Speaker 3: reservoirs across the state. I would say that now, again,
49:59
Speaker 3: maybe we've just gone too far in the out direction
50:01
Speaker 3: and people should consider at times taking a bass or
50:04
Speaker 3: two home on the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Where are we going from here? Ryan? Are there are
50:10
Speaker 1: there other steps we can take? Is there more? I mean,
50:15
Speaker 1: I'm guessing we're waiting for maybe a nineteen or twenty
50:20
Speaker 1: pound bass to come out of a public reservoir. Is
50:23
Speaker 1: that the next step?
50:27
Speaker 3: I think everybody's waiting for that. But again, I in
50:30
Speaker 3: the piece I called it ecological kids myths. It takes
50:34
Speaker 3: a lot of luck for that to happen. So you
50:37
Speaker 3: need all the conditions on the growing side just to
50:41
Speaker 3: get that fish that big, But then you also have
50:44
Speaker 3: to have somebody lucky enough to catch it.
50:45
Speaker 1: Yep.
50:46
Speaker 3: And I would say on that front, the technology has
50:50
Speaker 3: definitely gotten better with forward facing sonar and other innovations
50:54
Speaker 3: that have allowed really you know, a high level targeting
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Speaker 3: of these fish. But again, you still got to get
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Speaker 3: a fish that's that is that to begin with, and
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Speaker 3: that's the outlier. That's the thing that takes just you know,
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Speaker 3: a bit of freaking nature to happen. And so there
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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not sure that you can I'm sure
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Speaker 3: there's innovations that are going to happen. There always are
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Speaker 3: and there have been. But that's that's where I think
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Speaker 3: we plied total lot, and I don't know that you're
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Speaker 3: going to see that many more bass that are that big.
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Speaker 3: I think people will just have an easier time targeting them,
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Speaker 3: and by a versue of that, you'll probably start seeing
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Speaker 3: more big bass.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what your opinion is. I'm not a
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Speaker 1: huge fan of the forward facing sonar.
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Speaker 3: I'm not either. I fished with it for this story
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Speaker 3: a couple of times, and it's really interesting to go
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Speaker 3: out and see the lake and see kind of what's
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Speaker 3: happening under the water and such high depth detail, and
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Speaker 3: you can watch your lure in front of a fish snow.
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Speaker 3: It's definitely a unique type of fishing. It reminds me
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Speaker 3: a lot of ice fishing when I grown up, where
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Speaker 3: you had sonars down there and you could see your
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Speaker 3: your lurea hopping up and down off the bottom. For
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Speaker 3: for northern pike. So there's there's a place for it,
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Speaker 3: for sure. I do understand it. There's It is intriguing
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Speaker 3: on its own level, but again I'm more of a
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Speaker 3: sight fisherman. I would definitely rather do top water for bass. Yes,
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Speaker 3: in the spring. It's just that's more exciting for me,
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Speaker 3: even if I catch less bass.
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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, And I say that on the salt on
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Speaker 1: salt water all the time. I know I can catch
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Speaker 1: more under the surface, but just give me one on top.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean everybody has their own, uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: their own specialty when it comes to fishing, or their
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Speaker 3: own desire when it comes to fishing. And I'm not
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Speaker 3: one to pooh pooh. Anybody's exactly like they're catching a
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Speaker 3: ton of fish. They're going to out fish meat for sure. Yes,
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Speaker 3: the ford with forward facing sonar, but there's a part
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Speaker 3: of me that would rather go in, you know. Right
52:59
Speaker 3: then you have my fly rode even for a big
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Speaker 3: mass and catch one on a popper. I think that
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Speaker 3: for me is the pinnacle.
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Speaker 1: A man after my own heart. You can read the
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