Latest / Aired Out / Major League Fishing with angler Garrett Sicely, Diane Lashoones of Rhythm of the Rein Therapeutic Riding and Driving Program

Transcript

Major League Fishing with angler Garrett Sicely, Diane Lashoones of Rhythm of the Rein Therapeutic Riding and Driving Program · Aired Out

0:13
Speaker 1: Side Stall against the Stonstall.
0:24
Speaker 2: Stay stat.
0:30
Speaker 1: Stall and Stanstas newston Stall Stanstanasta Stet.
1:44
Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be a great day for a creamy today.
1:50
Speaker 3: Where's your favorite creamy?
1:51
Speaker 2: Is it?
1:52
Speaker 3: Is it Bragg Farm? Is it Crossroads? Is it Morse Farm?
2:00
Speaker 3: Maybe it's Simon's. I don't know, but I'll tell you what.
2:04
Speaker 3: Any creamy would taste great today, just make sure you
2:09
Speaker 3: eat it fast. Right. We have a heat advisory today
2:13
Speaker 3: and tomorrow ninety five degrees with a heat index as
2:21
Speaker 3: high as one hundred and ten in areas of Vermont.
2:25
Speaker 3: A great day again for a creamy. Get out and
2:28
Speaker 3: enjoy if you can stay hydrated today. Check on your neighbors,
2:35
Speaker 3: as we always say, keep your pets out of the
2:38
Speaker 3: sun and as cool as you can with plenty of
2:41
Speaker 3: fresh water. Don't keep anything or anyone in a car
2:45
Speaker 3: today for very long. State of New York has declared
2:50
Speaker 3: a state of emergency already for the heat. Outside of
2:56
Speaker 3: the fog in the valleys this morning, We're gonna have
2:58
Speaker 3: plenty of sun and cloud today, but again it is
3:01
Speaker 3: going to be a scorcher and tonight too. They're saying
3:07
Speaker 3: clear skies and seventy one degrees for the low Tonight
3:13
Speaker 3: I'll be out doing some stargazing off the back patio
3:17
Speaker 3: for sure. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Sunday and ninety three, so not
3:23
Speaker 3: a whole hell of a lot of relief. And then
3:26
Speaker 3: Wednesday Sunday in eighty five Thursday, big big change seventy
3:33
Speaker 3: four for the high and cloudy skies. It's going to
3:37
Speaker 3: feel nice rain on Friday sixty seven. I know I'm
3:40
Speaker 3: jumping all the way to the end of the week
3:43
Speaker 3: here this morning and the weekend at this point. On Saturday,
3:51
Speaker 3: it's going to be a wet, one steady rain on
3:55
Speaker 3: Saturday about seventy degrees and Sunday partly sunny. And again
4:01
Speaker 3: if you're just joining us. First of all, welcome to
4:06
Speaker 3: aired Out from Flying the Wall Productions, North Main Street
4:08
Speaker 3: and Berry on the web and aired Out VT dot
4:11
Speaker 3: com as made by Woodland Studios. They did such a
4:14
Speaker 3: nice job of the new website. We're streamed everywhere you
4:18
Speaker 3: get your podcasts. Yeah, Facebook and YouTube is where we're
4:21
Speaker 3: live this morning. Thanks to our YouTubers for tuning in
4:25
Speaker 3: this morning. Make sure to like, to comment, to share,
4:30
Speaker 3: to subscribe, to follow. If you enjoy anything that you
4:34
Speaker 3: hear this morning and it's gonna be a good it's
4:36
Speaker 3: gonna be a great show. We have Garrett Ciceley who's
4:38
Speaker 3: gonna be coming in, very well known fisherman here in
4:44
Speaker 3: Vermont and he is gonna be competing again in another major,
4:49
Speaker 3: major tournament. He's gonna tell you all about it, and
4:52
Speaker 3: we're gonna take a deep dive into his passion behind fishing. Also,
4:56
Speaker 3: Diane Leashuns is gonna be joining us shortly from Rhythm
5:00
Speaker 3: of the Rain therapeutic writing program over at water Tower Farm.
5:05
Speaker 3: They have a special event that is coming up this
5:09
Speaker 3: weekend on Saturday that she's gonna tell you all about
5:12
Speaker 3: National Detroit Style Pizza Day Today. I know there's always
5:18
Speaker 3: something eleven days to Independence Day eleven. It hit me yesterday.
5:28
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, finally starting warm up. It's
5:31
Speaker 3: going to be hot for what two days and then
5:38
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna be back to spring leg temperatures.
5:43
Speaker 3: Be careful out on the roads, not only today but
5:48
Speaker 3: all this week. Road construction zones are just everywhere. They're
5:53
Speaker 3: doing culverts, they're doing guardrails, they're doing banking, they're doing paving.
6:05
Speaker 3: There's just so much going on everywhere. Not only is
6:10
Speaker 3: it going to continue to test your patients, but it's
6:15
Speaker 3: also going to demand your attentiveness. Two. Put the phone
6:21
Speaker 3: down and stay focused in some of these construction zones.
6:27
Speaker 3: Please slow down and keep everybody safe. Please. Birthdays today.
6:34
Speaker 3: Dave Rulo on the birthday list today. Good morning and
6:37
Speaker 3: happy birthday, Dave, Bill Dodge. We've got some big hitters here.
6:41
Speaker 3: Harold Blake is on the list down, Marie Tomassey, Kristin Lee,
6:47
Speaker 3: Seantel Safford. Bring in a let's see, is it Farrend,
6:52
Speaker 3: Angie Miller, Pruschelle Maria, Lucy, Annette Young, and Scott Nunn
7:00
Speaker 3: all celebrating birthdays today. Happy birthday everybody on this day,
7:05
Speaker 3: number twenty three of the month. The Thunder first time
7:09
Speaker 3: NBA champs after taking out the Pacers one O three
7:13
Speaker 3: to ninety one. What a big, big story that was
7:17
Speaker 3: over the weekend. Congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Red
7:25
Speaker 3: Sox fell to the Giants nine to five. Yankees going
7:28
Speaker 3: to be with the Reds tonight at seven to ten.
7:31
Speaker 3: Chase Brisco wins at Pocono. It was a pretty good
7:35
Speaker 3: weekend for me anyway, I hope it was for you,
7:40
Speaker 3: no matter what you were doing. It's out on the
7:44
Speaker 3: dirt bike running around with Lily. Just saw a minute
7:49
Speaker 3: ago a Fecto Homes truck drive by with a huge,
7:54
Speaker 3: huge trailer off the back of it. They are so
7:57
Speaker 3: so busy right now. I'm going to post up a
8:01
Speaker 3: picture that I just took this morning of them loading
8:06
Speaker 3: up and heading out with yet another home for somebody
8:10
Speaker 3: to get into. They've been doing this since the seventies,
8:14
Speaker 3: a long long time, built by local families for local
8:18
Speaker 3: families Fecto Homes. Visit them at three point fifty River
8:22
Speaker 3: Street or fecto homes dot com to see some of
8:25
Speaker 3: these gorgeous homes. And you've probably seen me in them
8:29
Speaker 3: because I've been over there and I've seen the new construction,
8:33
Speaker 3: I've seen the prefabs, I've seen the modular homes. I've
8:36
Speaker 3: been inside. They are affordable, They're comfortable, they're well built,
8:42
Speaker 3: well insulated too. Find your view with Fecto Homes. Also
8:46
Speaker 3: shout out this morning to Jeru General Transport. July seventh
8:51
Speaker 3: is fast approaching. We were just saying, what eleven days
8:55
Speaker 3: to the fourth of July. If you want to see America,
8:58
Speaker 3: if you want to get paid doing it, I'm telling
9:02
Speaker 3: you right now. JERU General Transport is the place to explore.
9:08
Speaker 3: It's the place to call this morning, right now, Tracy
9:11
Speaker 3: two seven nine thirty three, twenty five, Tayler, we sent you, Teyler.
9:15
Speaker 3: You're interested in getting your CDL. Yeah, it's coming real
9:21
Speaker 3: fast July uh and the demand has never been higher too.
9:29
Speaker 3: So if you want to be a local truck driver
9:32
Speaker 3: or if you want to take that big rig and
9:34
Speaker 3: head across the country and see it all. Either way,
9:37
Speaker 3: get your CDL do it now, get your permit before
9:40
Speaker 3: the class and get busy with JERU General Transport. It
9:45
Speaker 3: was so much fun to get up there with with
9:46
Speaker 3: Bill the other day and do a ride along and
9:51
Speaker 3: get behind the wheel, which I didn't think was gonna
9:55
Speaker 3: happen ever, and yes I was able to reach the
10:00
Speaker 3: the pedals. Vermont and regional headlines. Probably one of the
10:04
Speaker 3: biggest stories this morning. We have, of course, the Berkshire
10:09
Speaker 3: shooting right there en route one eighteen with injuries that
10:15
Speaker 3: happened over the weekend. We have what was the other
10:20
Speaker 3: one at the eighteen year old who drowned at Bartlett Falls.
10:25
Speaker 3: I've been swimming there myself, certainly in my opinion, not
10:33
Speaker 3: anywhere near the most dangerous of swimming holes, but nonetheless
10:39
Speaker 3: tragedy over the weekend and with this hot weather, I
10:42
Speaker 3: mean more people are getting out and they're doing stuff.
10:44
Speaker 3: They're swimming and they're cliff jumping. And I've done plenty
10:52
Speaker 3: of it myself. Bristol, Warren Falls, Bolton Bowls, I've done,
10:57
Speaker 3: Waterbury Reservoir. I've done a lot of them. Please please
11:02
Speaker 3: be careful. We've had some rain, we've got current. It's
11:06
Speaker 3: not always the greatest combination. But with that said, Warren
11:12
Speaker 3: Falls one of my favorite places. It really is.
11:16
Speaker 2: We have.
11:19
Speaker 3: Mayor Mulvaney predicting a renaissance in the Queen City, big
11:29
Speaker 3: city initiatives to tackle homelessness, the drug problem and housing,
11:37
Speaker 3: and Mayor Mulvaney stantic in Burlington again in the news
11:46
Speaker 3: saying that she is predicting a renaissance in the Queen City.
11:53
Speaker 3: Huge changes are coming. We'll see, we'll see. I think
12:05
Speaker 3: I may have heard this before. Hey, cooling shelters today
12:10
Speaker 3: Montpellier City Hall. I think they're going to be doing
12:12
Speaker 3: that from eight thirty until four point thirty. Also emergency
12:17
Speaker 3: cooling shelters in Berry at the library and Northfield and
12:22
Speaker 3: Plainfield among other towns. Today. If you need more information
12:27
Speaker 3: on that, keep watching the page. We'll be posting stuff up.
12:31
Speaker 3: But not surprised to hear that they're going to be
12:35
Speaker 3: doing that for Mont's Day. Police, as most of you
12:39
Speaker 3: are aware, have identified the body of the woman found
12:42
Speaker 3: dead in Woodbury Friday, the body of thirty eight year
12:45
Speaker 3: old Tina Daegl from Hardwick. She was found by officers
12:49
Speaker 3: near a pull off on the side of Route fourteen
12:53
Speaker 3: on Thursday afternoon and as of Friday night have have
13:01
Speaker 3: I d'd her Please, have not yet confirmed the cause
13:05
Speaker 3: of her death, nor have they identified any suspects, but
13:12
Speaker 3: they ask you to call the Berlin Barracks IT two
13:14
Speaker 3: Twinney one or submit in anonymous tip online VSPT Vermont
13:22
Speaker 3: dot gov if he can. Yeah, And of course, just
13:30
Speaker 3: like you, I am watching this story as carefully as possible,
13:35
Speaker 3: and if I see or hear of anything that is
13:40
Speaker 3: legitimate and not one that has not been sourced or
13:49
Speaker 3: one that has been sourced, well I will pass it along.
13:53
Speaker 3: But man, there's a lot of chatter on social media
13:56
Speaker 3: about this, and none of it I think is is
13:59
Speaker 3: really you and anybody any any favors so I will
14:04
Speaker 3: keep watch and keep listening on that particular story. Diane
14:08
Speaker 3: the students is with us from Rhythm of the Rain
14:11
Speaker 3: Therapeutic Writing and Driving program at water Tower Farm. Good morning, Diane.
14:17
Speaker 4: Hello there.
14:18
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have you on. You know, it's
14:20
Speaker 3: been a while since I've had you in the studio
14:22
Speaker 3: and I would love to have you back at some
14:24
Speaker 3: point this summer.
14:24
Speaker 4: If we can work that out, we will see what
14:27
Speaker 4: we can do.
14:29
Speaker 3: What's happening on Saturday. This is really quite a big
14:34
Speaker 3: deal here.
14:36
Speaker 4: It is we are hosting a premier of a movie
14:41
Speaker 4: that is called Where Horses Heal the Soul. And just
14:45
Speaker 4: a little history on this movie. It was produced in
14:49
Speaker 4: Texas by a filmmaker named Twila bar and she did
14:54
Speaker 4: predominantly used one of the big therapeutic writing centers out
14:58
Speaker 4: there in Georgetown, tex It's called Rock, which is right
15:02
Speaker 4: on center for Kids. She use them in a few
15:06
Speaker 4: other programs in the area to make a documentary about
15:10
Speaker 4: the benefits of equine assisted services, and they highlight four
15:14
Speaker 4: different individuals to children and two military veterans who have
15:20
Speaker 4: been involved in the program, and they basically kind of
15:24
Speaker 4: tell their story. It's a very very interesting movie. I've
15:28
Speaker 4: had a chance to preview it myself, so it's not
15:32
Speaker 4: open to the general public yet. They're hoping to do
15:34
Speaker 4: or release sometime in the fall. But what they have
15:37
Speaker 4: done is offered this film out to therapeutic writing programs
15:41
Speaker 4: around the country to help raise awareness for what therapeutic
15:46
Speaker 4: horsemanship can do. And then also as an added bonus
15:50
Speaker 4: that it helps us a fundraise that help us kind
15:52
Speaker 4: of keep our programs going. So we're really excited to
15:56
Speaker 4: have this. It's going to be at the Savoy Theater
16:00
Speaker 4: in month pail here. It starts at one point thirty.
16:02
Speaker 4: It's a ninety minute film, and we will have people
16:05
Speaker 4: from the program there for question and answer either before
16:09
Speaker 4: or after. So we're hoping for a wonderful turnout.
16:12
Speaker 3: Wow, what a partnership with not only the Savoy Theater
16:17
Speaker 3: but also this film, this production crew. This is really
16:21
Speaker 3: something else.
16:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's one of the nicest things about
16:27
Speaker 4: our industry is that we are very cooperative with each other.
16:34
Speaker 4: Everybody wants to see everybody succeed, so it's a great networking.
16:37
Speaker 4: And this is not just a national organization. Actually the
16:42
Speaker 4: premiere the Professional Association of Therapy to Corsemanship, which is
16:48
Speaker 4: our national organization, is really international, their programs all over
16:52
Speaker 4: the world.
16:54
Speaker 3: Your mission over there on water Tower Farm is massive, Diane,
17:01
Speaker 3: is what It's massive?
17:03
Speaker 4: Oh? Magic? Okay?
17:04
Speaker 3: What you do for people over there to foster healing
17:11
Speaker 3: and pull the community together and get folks on the
17:16
Speaker 3: back of a horse or even in the presence of
17:19
Speaker 3: a horse who are going through experiencing some kind of
17:23
Speaker 3: trauma and man, there are so many different experiences that
17:28
Speaker 3: so many of us have had. How long have you
17:31
Speaker 3: been doing this, Diane.
17:33
Speaker 4: We've been doing this since basically two thousand and one,
17:39
Speaker 4: and we started off primarily focusing on physical challenges that
17:43
Speaker 4: people were dealing with, myself and the other instructor or
17:47
Speaker 4: physical therapists, So we kind of started off on that
17:51
Speaker 4: track because that was our area of expertise, and it
17:54
Speaker 4: just expanded and grew over the years. One thing I'm
17:57
Speaker 4: really excited about now is we have a couple of
18:00
Speaker 4: people in our organization who are very enthusiastic about starting
18:05
Speaker 4: a program to help people with addiction recovery and domestic
18:11
Speaker 4: abuse survivors. So we're really excited and hopefully we can
18:15
Speaker 4: get that rolled out.
18:16
Speaker 3: Equine assisted therapies, and man, that river is running deeper
18:23
Speaker 3: and deeper and deeper. As time goes on, we're learning
18:26
Speaker 3: and experiencing more about this than ever before. I mean,
18:30
Speaker 3: there's connections that that people have that humans have had
18:34
Speaker 3: with animals for thousands and thousands of years. But I
18:38
Speaker 3: mean we hear about it all the time. Dolphins, horses,
18:44
Speaker 3: you know. I mean those are kind of the two
18:46
Speaker 3: big ones. There's something about that connection, Diane, that we
18:49
Speaker 3: haven't fully tapped into and fully understood.
18:54
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and it's a very I'm trying to think of
18:59
Speaker 4: the right word. I'm going to say, nebulous. It's hard
19:01
Speaker 4: to put your hand on exactly what that connection is.
19:06
Speaker 4: And there's actually quite a bit of research going on
19:09
Speaker 4: to find out exactly what it is. A lot of
19:11
Speaker 4: it has to do with heart rate, heart rhythms, electro
19:18
Speaker 4: neetic fields around a living animal, human body, a lot
19:23
Speaker 4: of connections that way. So someday they'll have probably some
19:28
Speaker 4: documented reasons why it works. We just know and see
19:32
Speaker 4: that it does. And I think especially in society as general, now,
19:38
Speaker 4: so many people have moved away from that connection with
19:43
Speaker 4: animals and nature, forests and actual ground versus concrete and
19:51
Speaker 4: I think we physiologically lose a lot because of that absence.
19:55
Speaker 4: So the horses help bring that back.
19:59
Speaker 3: And you know what, it's amazing. It's such a large
20:03
Speaker 3: animal that, let's be frank here, can be intimidating for
20:08
Speaker 3: many of us, especially young children. But there's something that
20:14
Speaker 3: transforms within us. And we're not really, like you say,
20:17
Speaker 3: we're not really sure exactly what that is. But you're
20:21
Speaker 3: doing amazing work over there, Diane, and you have been
20:24
Speaker 3: for a long time. You have a staff that does this.
20:27
Speaker 3: It's not just you.
20:29
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, it's a team effort. We have many,
20:33
Speaker 4: many volunteers. We always love having volunteers. They add so
20:36
Speaker 4: much to the program. Our volunteers always say that they
20:39
Speaker 4: get more out of being there and participating than they
20:42
Speaker 4: feel that they're giving. And that's just constantly we always
20:47
Speaker 4: hear it. I want to make one little just update
20:50
Speaker 4: on terminology. We no longer are water Tower Farm because
20:56
Speaker 4: we sold the property to new owners back in twenty
21:01
Speaker 4: twenty three, so it is now actually Threefold Farm shown
21:05
Speaker 4: by Margo Killern and David Southwick. But they are letting
21:09
Speaker 4: the program continue there and I know that's been confusing
21:12
Speaker 4: for a lot of people. They said, well, the sign's gone,
21:15
Speaker 4: and are you there anymore? Are you doing anything? Like, Yes,
21:19
Speaker 4: we are there. It's just that it's a new sign
21:21
Speaker 4: up front. It's no longer water Tower Farmer's Threefold Farm.
21:24
Speaker 4: But we are still Rhythm of the Rain and we
21:26
Speaker 4: are still working there.
21:28
Speaker 3: Wow, Diane again one more time the Savoy Theater this
21:34
Speaker 3: Saturday at one point thirty. It is a special showing
21:39
Speaker 3: of this incredible documentary that hasn't even been released to
21:43
Speaker 3: the public yet called Where the Horses Heal The Soul.
21:47
Speaker 4: Soul Yeap And you can buy tickets in advance or
21:52
Speaker 4: at the door. Tickets are twenty dollars apiece, and you
21:57
Speaker 4: can look on our Facebook page to our website Rhythmoftharin
22:01
Speaker 4: dot org buy tickets through there. If you are not
22:06
Speaker 4: able to attend but you would like to support what
22:10
Speaker 4: we do, there is another link that you can click
22:12
Speaker 4: just to make a donation for so we will put
22:15
Speaker 4: that out there because you know, obviously not everybody can
22:17
Speaker 4: make it.
22:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is fantastic. You know, we got
22:21
Speaker 3: a lot of horse lovers in Vermont and New England,
22:26
Speaker 3: so I'm hoping there's going to be a great turnout
22:29
Speaker 3: for you on Saturday. Again, your your your ticket. Look
22:33
Speaker 3: at it as a donation to Rhythm Rhythm of the
22:38
Speaker 3: Rain Therapeutic Riding and Driving program. Wow. Yes, that's great stuff, Diane.
22:44
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that the Savoy theaters doing this with you,
22:47
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm so so glad that where the horses
22:50
Speaker 3: here Heal the Soul has connected in with you and
22:54
Speaker 3: they're doing this. It's fantastic.
22:57
Speaker 4: This is great and we really are appreciative of the
22:59
Speaker 4: Savoy They've it's been wonderful folks to work with. Yeah,
23:02
Speaker 4: we're really excited about it.
23:03
Speaker 3: Absolutely. We will keep plugging it away this week and
23:09
Speaker 3: hopefully you'll have a great turnout on Saturday. Thanks Diane,
23:12
Speaker 3: thank you, have a great day. You're very welcome the
23:16
Speaker 3: Aired Out podcast this morning. If you're just joining us,
23:20
Speaker 3: thank you so much for tuning in. A great pleasure
23:23
Speaker 3: to chat with Diane. She's been in the studio in
23:26
Speaker 3: the past. Hope to have her back. But yeah, it
23:29
Speaker 3: is a Monday morning. It is the twenty third already
23:34
Speaker 3: of June, and if you missed it, this morning is
23:38
Speaker 3: going to be a real, real hot one today. New
23:41
Speaker 3: York has already declared a state of emergency for heat
23:45
Speaker 3: indexes up around one hundred and ten degrees air temp
23:52
Speaker 3: ninety five, But of course you combine the humidity with that.
23:56
Speaker 3: It is a great day. As I let off this morning, Creamy.
24:01
Speaker 3: Also a great day for the sprinkler or river or
24:04
Speaker 3: brook or maybe Boulder Beach. I don't know where you're
24:08
Speaker 3: going to be staying cool today, but hopefully you'll stay
24:11
Speaker 3: well hydrated again. I know there are some emergency cooling
24:16
Speaker 3: shelters in and around central Vermont, Northfield, Plainfield, here in Berry.
24:23
Speaker 3: I believe at the library in Montpillier at City Hall
24:27
Speaker 3: from eight thirty until four thirty, so pretty much all day.
24:31
Speaker 3: It's a nine to twenty seven. This handsome guy sitting
24:33
Speaker 3: right next to me, Garrett Cicily. What the hell's going on? Buddy?
24:37
Speaker 3: How are you?
24:38
Speaker 2: I'm doing good, buddy, how are you?
24:39
Speaker 3: It's great to see you, man. Let's talk about what
24:42
Speaker 3: you're up to. Every spring, I think of you when
24:46
Speaker 3: I get my fishing pole out of the out of
24:51
Speaker 3: the barn. I keep it up in the rafters and
24:53
Speaker 3: I always thank you. I got to find the net,
24:56
Speaker 3: I got to find the pole, I got to find
24:58
Speaker 3: the tackle. Box. I got to open up the tack
25:00
Speaker 3: a box, look inside, figure out what the hell is
25:02
Speaker 3: what what am I doing? And I always think of you, man,
25:07
Speaker 3: I know that you love fishing, right next to how
25:12
Speaker 3: much you love your kids?
25:15
Speaker 2: Is that is that? Oh it's a fair it's a
25:18
Speaker 2: fair comparison.
25:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fair comparison, very close.
25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:23
Speaker 3: So have you you've you've been out, You've been fishing,
25:27
Speaker 3: You've you've had some some great experiences already.
25:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've We've had a couple smaller tournaments
25:33
Speaker 2: so far this year, taking second place. Coincidentally enough, in
25:36
Speaker 2: both of those. Did one with a buddy of mine
25:39
Speaker 2: last weekend, caught twenty one and a half pounds a
25:42
Speaker 2: small mouth for five fish and lost. That's the first
25:44
Speaker 2: time that's ever happened. But uh now, we had one
25:50
Speaker 2: yesterday on a southern Champlain at a larabies almost fifteen
25:55
Speaker 2: pounds for five fish. We had to grind for them.
25:57
Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes as the way it goes. But
26:01
Speaker 2: it's you know, second place finishes. I mean, can't argue
26:03
Speaker 2: with it.
26:03
Speaker 3: How long were you out in the water for that?
26:05
Speaker 2: Eight hours?
26:06
Speaker 3: Okay? Wow? And you you put them all back?
26:10
Speaker 2: Yep?
26:10
Speaker 3: You let them all go, oh yeah, wow, So what's happening.
26:17
Speaker 3: What's this mlf UH tournament with Toyota, Right, yeah, it's.
26:23
Speaker 2: A it's the it's a specific series like mlf as
26:28
Speaker 2: a whole, has different like leagues you would call it.
26:33
Speaker 2: They do. They have the one day tournaments, which is
26:35
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Boats bfls. They have divisions all over the
26:39
Speaker 2: United States. We compete up here in the Northeast division
26:43
Speaker 2: for those, and those are just one day weekend tournaments
26:45
Speaker 2: or some on there's one on Oneida, there's one on
26:48
Speaker 2: the Saint Lawrence, like Champlaine, you know around you know,
26:53
Speaker 2: New England and and so on and so forth. But
26:56
Speaker 2: the Toyota Series events, those are this is the first
27:00
Speaker 2: event of three tournaments in that in that field for
27:07
Speaker 2: that division. If you I want to say, it's like
27:12
Speaker 2: the top twenty five. If you come in the top
27:14
Speaker 2: twenty five on the Bot side and or co English side,
27:17
Speaker 2: you you get a chance to compete at the Toyota Championship,
27:21
Speaker 2: which is I can't actually I don't even think I've
27:26
Speaker 2: looked at where it is this year. I haven't really,
27:28
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just focused on this. I want to
27:32
Speaker 2: do good. And just see how we stack up.
27:35
Speaker 3: And you've been on the Potomac River as well, right
27:40
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. Yeah, how'd that go?
27:43
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a
27:46
Speaker 2: lot of fun. Yeah it was. That was the last
27:49
Speaker 2: year of the old bascination format. Was able to win
27:54
Speaker 2: there and that's how I was able to get to
27:56
Speaker 2: Nationals in twenty twenty three. Yeah, that was. It was
28:00
Speaker 2: a fun place. I would absolutely go back.
28:05
Speaker 3: Now you went in prize money here? Yeah, what are
28:08
Speaker 3: we talking?
28:10
Speaker 2: Uh? So last year when I when I took third
28:15
Speaker 2: place at the Saint Lawrence during one of the BF
28:18
Speaker 2: during one of the bfls, I want to say. I
28:23
Speaker 2: want to say, it was like a thousand bucks. That's
28:27
Speaker 2: really cool, Yeah, something like that. Are you are you
28:31
Speaker 2: saving for that? For that bass boat? I mean we
28:34
Speaker 2: talked about this what two years ago? I think, Yeah,
28:38
Speaker 2: I mean everything, you know, YEA. One thing I have
28:44
Speaker 2: realized is everything's got to fall into has got to
28:47
Speaker 2: fall into place. All those cards haven't gotten gotten there yet.
28:51
Speaker 2: But I mean I watch a lot of fishing. I
28:53
Speaker 2: do a lot of fishing. But it's like when it's
28:56
Speaker 2: your time, it's your time, everything will fall into place,
29:00
Speaker 2: and that's one of the things that I've learned. And
29:03
Speaker 2: hopefully this week. You know, First Place First Place Pie
29:07
Speaker 2: is a brand new boat, but I'm not focused on that.
29:10
Speaker 3: When will you be out on the water exactly.
29:14
Speaker 2: This afternoon? My buddy, uh, and my buddy's got to
29:19
Speaker 2: work this morning. He's making his way over from New
29:21
Speaker 2: Hampshire and I'm going to meet him and we're gonna
29:23
Speaker 2: fish this afternoon and all day on Tuesday and Wednesday.
29:27
Speaker 3: Safe to say that you are and please don't pardon
29:30
Speaker 3: the pun, here hooked on fishing.
29:35
Speaker 2: Man.
29:36
Speaker 3: You are a serious diehard here that you live it,
29:39
Speaker 3: you breathe there.
29:40
Speaker 2: It's just the thought of, you know, what could happen,
29:46
Speaker 2: what could be on the end of your end of
29:48
Speaker 2: your line the next time you cast out or anything
29:52
Speaker 2: like that is just that's that's what keeps you going right,
29:58
Speaker 2: you know.
29:59
Speaker 3: Uh, you know my my recent story because I called
30:02
Speaker 3: you and I literally I understand that there's it's what
30:11
Speaker 3: is it like when a hunter ah gets buck fever?
30:16
Speaker 3: I mean, oh yeah, there's something that that happens in
30:20
Speaker 3: us where I don't know, it's like an eye twitch
30:23
Speaker 3: or something. Man, It's like when I had that monster
30:26
Speaker 3: fish on the on the end of my line and
30:30
Speaker 3: then lost it.
30:33
Speaker 2: You probably wanted to cry, didn't you.
30:34
Speaker 3: I I did cry. I did. Have you ever cried
30:42
Speaker 3: when you've lost a fish?
30:43
Speaker 2: Come on, now, just be honest, not entirely all right,
30:51
Speaker 2: I will say there has been more instances than not
30:55
Speaker 2: where my head hits the bottom of the boat and
30:59
Speaker 2: I just stay there for a minute. There's there's been
31:03
Speaker 2: instances like that, for sure.
31:05
Speaker 3: I was beyond stunned. I mean, you go from pure
31:13
Speaker 3: euphoria to devastation in half a second.
31:17
Speaker 2: And that's you know, that's what It's the risk you take. Well,
31:21
Speaker 2: it's the risk you take, but it's also the adrenaline
31:24
Speaker 2: and everything else that comes comes with it, yeah, I mean,
31:28
Speaker 2: and excitement exactly. Yeah, that's why it. You know, it
31:32
Speaker 2: keeps people motivated and just the drive.
31:37
Speaker 3: Not only did I I have it, but it showed
31:41
Speaker 3: itself by jumping out of the water. And I was
31:45
Speaker 3: stunned at how huge this fish was. And I, you know,
31:50
Speaker 3: I had some fun talking about it on the air
31:52
Speaker 3: that it was this big, but it really was. It
31:54
Speaker 3: was this big. And you said, and I called you,
31:58
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god, and you said
32:01
Speaker 3: that it is very possible in some of our smaller
32:07
Speaker 3: landlocked lakes in Vermont, it's very possible to get boards
32:12
Speaker 3: from around ten pounds.
32:13
Speaker 2: And it's entirely possible. Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
32:21
Speaker 3: And I had six pound tests I did not perform
32:26
Speaker 3: for me.
32:27
Speaker 2: Okay, wow. I got one day of practicing on Saturday
32:34
Speaker 2: with my buddy up on up on Champlain and he
32:37
Speaker 2: was fighting. He was fighting a small mouth and I
32:39
Speaker 2: was like, he's like, I gotta be gentle with it.
32:42
Speaker 2: It's five pound test. I'm like, holy cow. I mean
32:46
Speaker 2: some people will use four pound tests on small mouth.
32:50
Speaker 2: Like the lowest I've ever gone is sex. But it's
32:55
Speaker 2: like your drag has to be set. And you were
33:00
Speaker 2: he gotta you really gotta play him. They I mean,
33:03
Speaker 2: you just gotta tire him out. Yeah, it can be done.
33:07
Speaker 3: And I think that was part of the problem was
33:11
Speaker 3: that I was rushing.
33:14
Speaker 2: Oh as soon as you know, as soon as you
33:16
Speaker 2: see that thing jump, your heart's going it's just feels
33:19
Speaker 2: like it's gonna come out of your chest. But the key, yeah, absolutely,
33:23
Speaker 2: the key is just exactly you gotta lower, you know,
33:28
Speaker 2: keep your heart rate low and and everything like that.
33:31
Speaker 2: I mean I took aight and out last weekend and
33:34
Speaker 2: he caught his He caught his new PB kids nine
33:38
Speaker 2: years old, and he's got a five pounder to his name.
33:41
Speaker 3: Wow, you must have been thrilled.
33:46
Speaker 2: I he broke him off the first time, broke him off.
33:50
Speaker 2: I tied it back on and he threw back. He
33:53
Speaker 2: threw back in there. And then when he actually landed
33:56
Speaker 2: that fish, He's like, Dad, get that thing in the boat,
33:58
Speaker 2: Get in the boat.
33:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:00
Speaker 2: I curled it. I curled it in my arm like this.
34:02
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, Wow.
34:07
Speaker 2: And that's yeah, that was that was his response. But
34:11
Speaker 2: he put in the work for.
34:12
Speaker 3: That, chaplain or can you not tell us?
34:15
Speaker 2: It was in about a two hour radius of Arier.
34:22
Speaker 1: Wow.
34:24
Speaker 3: Man, it's it's you. You really embody the the the
34:31
Speaker 3: experience of fishing. This is such a passion for you.
34:38
Speaker 2: It's a very it's super addicting.
34:41
Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure. When did this all start for Garrett.
34:46
Speaker 2: Sicily like right after COVID, Like when I really fully
34:53
Speaker 2: started like thinking that I could compete and do this.
35:00
Speaker 2: I've been fishing my entire my entire life. But and
35:04
Speaker 2: I've caught a lot of bass in high school, in
35:07
Speaker 2: my first, you know, five six years out of high
35:09
Speaker 2: school and so on and so forth. But it wasn't
35:11
Speaker 2: until you know, I started doing it more. It started
35:15
Speaker 2: fishing with Chris Martin Moore, going out with him, and
35:18
Speaker 2: you know, thinking to myself, you know, if I know
35:21
Speaker 2: the northern half of the lake and Chris wants me
35:24
Speaker 2: to join the join the Champlain Valley Bass Club, It's
35:29
Speaker 2: like I can learn and do all and do all
35:34
Speaker 2: this like and if I just put in the time
35:35
Speaker 2: and put in you know, put in the work for it.
35:38
Speaker 2: I mean, everything's you know, it's something that I want
35:42
Speaker 2: to do. You just have to have the mentality. The
35:45
Speaker 2: biggest thing is you have to have that mentality that
35:49
Speaker 2: I don't give a shit who's out there with me.
35:53
Speaker 2: I am as good as any one of these guys.
35:57
Speaker 2: You have to have that mentality. If you don't, you're
36:00
Speaker 2: already losing.
36:00
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, well said.
36:04
Speaker 4: Wow.
36:04
Speaker 3: So but you've you've loved the sport of fishing since
36:09
Speaker 3: you're young kid.
36:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean every kid you know that aspires to
36:17
Speaker 2: to want to do this. I mean every every kid
36:19
Speaker 2: grew up watching Roland Martin Bill Dance. I mean Saturday
36:23
Speaker 2: mornings watching Bill Dance, outdoors Like that's you know, that's
36:27
Speaker 2: how you start out doing it, and then you're you know,
36:31
Speaker 2: you're going places and then you're watching YouTube videos on
36:34
Speaker 2: all these guys and you meet these guys like I can.
36:40
Speaker 2: It's really awesome to say that the people that I
36:44
Speaker 2: have met since I have started doing this, you know,
36:48
Speaker 2: I've got three really good buddies that fish the bast
36:51
Speaker 2: Master Elite series. I mean I could call them, you
36:54
Speaker 2: know and just ask them anything anytime, like ever, did
37:00
Speaker 2: I think that would be.
37:03
Speaker 3: Possible?
37:04
Speaker 2: Possible? Yeah, And it's like the wealth of knowledge and
37:08
Speaker 2: everything else. It's just like the friendships that I have
37:11
Speaker 2: made is is incredible.
37:14
Speaker 3: When you when you get out to your spot and
37:20
Speaker 3: you'll put up the tackle box. Do you have a
37:23
Speaker 3: favorite lure? What are you reaching for? First? Must have
37:27
Speaker 3: your your go to man.
37:33
Speaker 2: It's it's so hard to say because it's a it
37:36
Speaker 2: is a broad a broad spectrum, but.
37:39
Speaker 3: It depends on a few things.
37:42
Speaker 2: It depends on the well where you are, timing, year
37:46
Speaker 2: of the water, temp like all of that. Like this
37:50
Speaker 2: time of year, if there's no wind, I absolutely love
37:53
Speaker 2: throwing a top water. Everybody loves throw on the top water.
37:59
Speaker 3: Now it's top top or it can it be just
38:02
Speaker 3: under the surface, top top top top top to right.
38:05
Speaker 3: I thought that was and that's what I landed, that
38:08
Speaker 3: huge monster one. And it was three o'clock in the afternoon.
38:13
Speaker 3: But traditionally aren't aren't top water is supposed to be
38:16
Speaker 3: uh dark or sunset.
38:18
Speaker 2: Or sometimes sometimes I've had days on Champlaine. We're catching
38:25
Speaker 2: him at noon on top water. It's interesting, it's a
38:29
Speaker 2: lot of fun. But you're a worm guy too, You're
38:33
Speaker 2: you're a fake worm guy. I mean, I love throwing
38:36
Speaker 2: a drop I love throwing a drop shot. I feel
38:39
Speaker 2: very comfortable doing it. I mean it's just a small
38:43
Speaker 2: cylinder style weight and your hook is above it with
38:47
Speaker 2: like a mental style minto style bait above it. I
38:50
Speaker 2: mean you can you can drag it and throw it
38:53
Speaker 2: up the little.
38:54
Speaker 3: Ball with the with the eye on the side of it,
38:56
Speaker 3: right correct, Okay, all right.
38:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that I mean, the whole reason I got
39:04
Speaker 2: into this and wanted to learn is to become versatile,
39:08
Speaker 2: because you have to be sure, you have to be
39:11
Speaker 2: so it's like I can I feel very comfortable in
39:16
Speaker 2: what I know and what I can do to be
39:18
Speaker 2: successful in a in a tournament, Like, I feel confident
39:21
Speaker 2: with every bait that I can that I tie on.
39:24
Speaker 3: How many fishing poles do you have? Cans? Like fifteen
39:31
Speaker 3: fifteen something like that. Wow, but wow, that's something man.
39:40
Speaker 2: It's just it's just a lot of fun and you know,
39:43
Speaker 2: you just you want to see how you stack up.
39:46
Speaker 2: That's why you do these do these tournaments and and
39:50
Speaker 2: so on and so forth.
39:51
Speaker 3: So how long are the MLF Northern Toyota Series events
39:56
Speaker 3: on Champlain going for?
39:58
Speaker 2: There are three day tournaments. The qualifying days are Thursday
40:03
Speaker 2: and Friday. You have to qualify this week, correct, Okay? Yeah,
40:08
Speaker 2: The qualifying days are Thursday and Friday. You have to
40:11
Speaker 2: be in the top twenty five by the end of
40:15
Speaker 2: the day on Friday at the fish on.
40:16
Speaker 3: For overall poundage.
40:18
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, yeah, overall Wait, yeah, you got to be
40:22
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five on each side on the
40:24
Speaker 2: boater and the co English side to be able to
40:27
Speaker 2: fish on Saturday.
40:28
Speaker 3: Okay, Saturday is the start of it. No, Thursday is
40:33
Speaker 3: the start I mean for the actual tournament, yeah, Thursday? Okay, yeah?
40:38
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, but you're I mean, your whole goal
40:43
Speaker 2: is to you know, qualify to fish the final day.
40:46
Speaker 2: Everybody is going to fish Thursday and Friday. But whoever
40:50
Speaker 2: fishes Saturday, is you know, gonna have a chance to win,
40:55
Speaker 2: gonna have you know, a good chance to cash a
40:57
Speaker 2: good check.
40:58
Speaker 3: So and and then Saturday. That's it on Champlain. Correct,
41:05
Speaker 3: Where where will things be staged? Is the public? Plattsburgh
41:10
Speaker 3: is public invited to go over and see.
41:12
Speaker 2: This Plattsburgh City in Plattsburgh City, Marina.
41:16
Speaker 3: Wow, are you? Are you dumb question here? But are
41:25
Speaker 3: you sleeping all right? Or you just worked up about this?
41:28
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm scared, I'm nervous, and I'm beyond excited.
41:37
Speaker 2: Like it's I just want to I just want to
41:41
Speaker 2: have a good have a good tournament. Like Champlain and
41:44
Speaker 2: I we have a very love hate relationship.
41:46
Speaker 3: But yeah, well I'm sure many do uh tell me
41:51
Speaker 3: about your sponsors, who's supporting you? And do you need more?
41:55
Speaker 2: Well? I brought a couple of these, a couple of
41:58
Speaker 2: these along today. Huge shout out thank you to Carl
42:03
Speaker 2: Parton for doing these, doing these up for me.
42:06
Speaker 3: But great guy.
42:07
Speaker 2: But uh, just just a breakdown of everything on what
42:12
Speaker 2: you know on the series. It has all my contact
42:16
Speaker 2: info on there, My address every and everything in between
42:21
Speaker 2: what it includes. I'm appreciative to you as as one
42:26
Speaker 2: of my sponsors this year uh CP Dudley Store as
42:30
Speaker 2: well Cody Chevrol like Cadillact who they are my newest
42:33
Speaker 2: My newest sponsor, Bob Cody, huge shout out to him
42:37
Speaker 2: and and all those guys over there. Cody, very much appreciative.
42:43
Speaker 3: It's just really something else Man tournament Bass fishing one
42:48
Speaker 3: of the fastest growing sports in the US. Major League
42:52
Speaker 3: Fishing runs tournaments and leagues nationwide with thousands of competitors annually.
43:00
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five, Garrett Sicily will compete in two
43:04
Speaker 3: Major League Fishing series, the MLF Phoenix Boat Tours, which
43:11
Speaker 3: has several events in a year long league with publish standings,
43:15
Speaker 3: and the Northern Bass Fishing League with a fence on
43:19
Speaker 3: Lake Champlain, Saint Lawrence River, Oneida Lake and the Potomac River.
43:26
Speaker 3: Different sponsorship levels. This is all of this info is
43:31
Speaker 3: on your page, am I right, yes, sir, which is
43:35
Speaker 3: easy to find. Garrett Sisily Fishing, I think is what
43:41
Speaker 3: it is. The page. The page. Then you have your
43:44
Speaker 3: personal page too, but that's where to go if you
43:48
Speaker 3: want to support this guy and his love and passion
43:52
Speaker 3: for fishing, and maybe at some point in your life
43:59
Speaker 3: you'll be able to literally, let's just say it, quit
44:05
Speaker 3: your day job.
44:07
Speaker 2: And and we don't know that you you truly don't.
44:12
Speaker 2: I would It would absolutely one be the dream. Yes,
44:18
Speaker 2: you know, you know many have a chieved it exactly,
44:23
Speaker 2: so why not me?
44:24
Speaker 3: Yeah? Right, You're You're good enough, man, You're talented enough,
44:28
Speaker 3: you're humble enough, and uh, you've got some real, some
44:33
Speaker 3: real drive and motivation to do this. And we're already
44:36
Speaker 3: proud of you no matter how you do. Will you
44:39
Speaker 3: will you let me know? Absolutely will let me know right,
44:43
Speaker 3: I absolutely will. I'll be watching and paying attention to you, man,
44:48
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Where will you have updates right on your
44:51
Speaker 3: on your page.
44:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll be able to watch all the lands, be
44:57
Speaker 2: able to watch all the wayands live starting their day.
45:00
Speaker 2: But I will have you know, I'll be posting every
45:04
Speaker 2: day as to what my what my boat draw is
45:06
Speaker 2: for for Thursday and Friday, and if fingers crossed, I
45:10
Speaker 2: can make it to Saturday. You know that's that is
45:12
Speaker 2: the goal of the end goal. So major League Fishing
45:16
Speaker 2: dot Com you'll be able to watch all the way
45:19
Speaker 2: ends live.
45:20
Speaker 3: So that's what I was just gonna ask you. Is
45:22
Speaker 3: exactly where.
45:23
Speaker 2: Yep, Major League Fishing dot Com. They have a bunch
45:26
Speaker 2: of different menu tabs. All you got to do is
45:29
Speaker 2: click on the Toyota Series app and it'll show it
45:34
Speaker 2: should when when the Way In starts, it'll show live
45:38
Speaker 2: now the Way in from Lake Champlain Toyota Series.
45:41
Speaker 3: Is your family going to be down there with you?
45:44
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. Yeah, no idea.
45:48
Speaker 3: Jees man, it's so exciting, dude, it's so exciting. Thank
45:51
Speaker 3: you so much for coming in. It's a great honor
45:54
Speaker 3: to support you with this, Garrett. You're you're doing a
45:57
Speaker 3: hell of a job already, man. I appreciate it, man,
46:00
Speaker 3: And congratulations already. We're proud of you. Thanks man, Thanks
46:04
Speaker 3: for popping in, buddy. You got it all right. Everybody,
46:07
Speaker 3: stay well today, Stay cool and do what Garrett's doing.
46:11
Speaker 3: Push the water, stay well hydrated. We'll catch it tomorrow
46:15
Speaker 3: morning right here where you are now. The aired out
46:19
Speaker 3: podcast seen and heard live from North Main streets Bury
46:24
Speaker 3: from a.
47:01
Speaker 1: Stand to Lost Stone Stott STO Standard, Lost Lost Start
47:23
Speaker 1: Time Star Nest s st st Stay