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Ep. 578: Big Shrimpin' · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 3: Buy you lafouche should how you say it?
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  Speaker 1: By you let? What's it mean?
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  Speaker 3: The fuk, the fuk and the buyo right here? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: when the the bike came down from the river, it
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  Speaker 3: forked off, just like the push the push pull you
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  Speaker 3: use when you're hunting. Yep, it funked off. So that's
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  Speaker 3: where it's got it got its name.
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  Speaker 1: Oh a push pulls of foush. Yeah, introduce yourself. Tracy Collins,
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  Speaker 1: you ever been on a podcast before?
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  Speaker 3: No start? My first one.
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  Speaker 1: I could recall how's it feel?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little flushy?
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  Speaker 1: Also joined by his son Rodny Collins. You've been on
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  Speaker 1: the show before round? Yeah, we we did duck hunting.
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  Speaker 1: I came on the famous Greg Fonts Yep. Chili's here,
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  Speaker 1: and then Asa who doesn't know about Asa Carter's right?
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  Speaker 1: Can you do me the fit? Can you listen? Asa
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Clark, Asa Jackson Clark. You're a professional fisherman, right, Yep, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I've done it for about ten years on and off,
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  Speaker 4: charter fishing down here.
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  Speaker 1: How old are you? Twenty nine? About to be twenty nine?
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  Speaker 1: A couple of weeks? Yeah, so you're you're you're a
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  Speaker 1: professional fisherman. Yep? You single? No, I'm engaged.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's going to help you out.
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  Speaker 5: Uh do me.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I want. I just want you
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to for a second now. And then
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  Speaker 1: people will come to me and they'll say, you really
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  Speaker 1: ought to You should really read blank book? Right, you
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  Speaker 1: should really watch blank movie? I Am. I will say
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  Speaker 1: to them, like, if it's not gonna happen. Rather than
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  Speaker 1: creating tension and something that needs to be brought up
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  Speaker 1: again and again, I would just flat out say I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna watch that movie, right, you know what I'm saying, Right,
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  Speaker 1: And then it's just it just it ends and I
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  Speaker 1: don't need to feel guilty about not watching it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't need to feel guilty about not reading the book.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna ask me again if I watched it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just say leave it at that. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: watch that movie. Okay. I would like you to go
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  Speaker 1: and listen to Have you ever heard of a show
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  Speaker 1: called the Bear Grease Podcast? Yeah, with Clayton Nukeom. I
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  Speaker 1: would like you to go listen to the three part
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  Speaker 1: series on Asa Carter. Okay, I'll do that. I like listening.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to do if you if you, if you
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  Speaker 4: tell me to go rate an A Carter book, I
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  Speaker 4: might not have, but I can listen. That's easy because
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  Speaker 4: I drive a lot and I like I like clay
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  Speaker 4: nukelemb He's interesting. So you're gonna listen to the As
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  Speaker 4: Carter series. Yeah, well it'll change your life, actually will.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of it's not my namesake, but I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that it's not. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it is. You never know. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so Asa Carter his name, his namesake for his middle
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  Speaker 1: name was Forrest Carter. Who is he was a gorilla
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  Speaker 1: kind of a famous gorilla fighter during the Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: Oh cool, ye cool, like a somewhat of a tactical genius,
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  Speaker 1: if not a somewhat compromised character, but a famous civil
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  Speaker 1: war fighter.
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  Speaker 4: Gotcha, Well, yeah, after what you told me about his
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  Speaker 4: uh kind of dichotomy of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very very complex person. I'm interested now, ye interest
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  Speaker 1: speech writer, regular writer, brawler confused the wild wild man. Yeah, cool,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll do that. I will do that, don't I
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  Speaker 1: won't tell you I'm not going to do that. Don't
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  Speaker 1: grin f me. You know what that means? Is that
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  Speaker 1: like smiling and yeah you're like, oh yeah, I read it.
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  Speaker 3: Read it, Chili? How was your first oyster? Man?
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  Speaker 6: It was incredible.
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  Speaker 7: I was telling Chief here uh that I feel like
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  Speaker 7: I'm I'm part of one with the land and sea
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  Speaker 7: and I might just buy me a houseboat.
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  Speaker 1: You're by you man, I'm by you man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm working on the the lingo.
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  Speaker 1: I I've been nervous about the lingo, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to share something with you guys that I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to I'm reluctant to admit. Well, last night I had
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  Speaker 1: to look up I got I realized all something that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't entirely clear on what a bye you was.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I know what it is. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't really know what it is. Hm hmm, So what
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  Speaker 3: is it?
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  Speaker 6: I feel like something you would know it is?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is a slow moving stream or river in
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  Speaker 1: flat country with a poorly defined shoreline. So like a delta,
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  Speaker 1: no adelta is where adulta could be adultas where a
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  Speaker 1: river opens out onto a larger fo figures out on
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  Speaker 1: a body of water. But by you, slow moving river
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  Speaker 1: stream in flat country with poorly defined shorelines.
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  Speaker 6: Is that what you guys thought of?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what it means?
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  Speaker 6: You?
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  Speaker 3: By you was actually a branch of the river.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know what I'm saying, the word by you,
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  Speaker 1: by your general r yeah bye.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, by I was thinking of a slow moving body of.
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  Speaker 1: Because like I'm as down on the bayou as anybody
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  Speaker 1: personally slow move. But I didn't realize what that. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize being as down on the by you as
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  Speaker 1: I am, not even knowing what the hell that meant
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  Speaker 1: was making me nervous.
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  Speaker 3: So never really gave you can go right here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we are down on the bayu And.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, Terry people call you chief? What's that all about?
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  Speaker 1: You haven't written?
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  Speaker 3: It came about when Ronnie's son was born and His
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  Speaker 3: mother said, Uh, mister Tracy, what would you want Anthony
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  Speaker 3: to call you? I said, I don't know, maybe Papa
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  Speaker 3: Tea or something like that. She says, how about Chief?
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  Speaker 3: I said, Chief?
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  Speaker 1: It is?
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  Speaker 3: That's where we're at. Really, yeah, I like it?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what your grandkid calls you?
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  Speaker 3: All of them?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, everybody calls them that.
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  Speaker 3: Now they'll call me my friends, my buddies, they call
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  Speaker 3: me chief, and it's all good.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Do you mind, key Walker? See what uh
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  Speaker 1: just tell us in what we were up to last night?
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  Speaker 3: Well last night, I mean I haven't gone out in
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  Speaker 3: a few nights, you know, about a week or so.
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  Speaker 3: So really when you go shrimp and you gotta kind
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  Speaker 3: of go out and hunt, have your hunt hunt on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and search and see where the shrimp are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you gotta kind of look at your tides
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  Speaker 3: and your water clarity, you know, your weather. You just
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's here, say you know, we caught some here,
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  Speaker 3: and you go, you're going to hunt. So last night,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, we had a little rough weather to start.
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  Speaker 3: But knowing that grass, that raison, the seaweed was moving
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  Speaker 3: in the way, do you use for that uhison like
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  Speaker 3: a raisin raisin grass. We call it the sorg The
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  Speaker 3: sorgum is a raisin grass, and in friends they call
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  Speaker 3: it aison. So we wanted to try and get away
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  Speaker 3: from that, so that's when we headed north. Then we
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  Speaker 3: ended up going hit one of the canals, knowing there
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  Speaker 3: wasn't gonna have vanded the raisin grass or I knew
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  Speaker 3: it was gonna be a little cleaner. I just wasn't
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  Speaker 3: quite sure if it was going to do anything, because
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  Speaker 3: the tide was almost at a standstill. But even at
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  Speaker 3: a stand still, you notice they were real small. That's
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  Speaker 3: when your real small ones are going to kind of
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  Speaker 3: just float up and play around, you know, and kind
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  Speaker 3: of just give a little drift.
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  Speaker 1: So we was able to pick up a few like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a few.
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  Speaker 3: A few. Yeah, well that was a little mess. I
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  Speaker 3: mean sometimes you could load the boat in a little
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  Speaker 3: while in that concept, you know, But it wasn't too bad.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping to look, I was looking for the
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  Speaker 3: larger ones.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was able to get a few.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you been in the shrimp business, Well.
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  Speaker 3: I was. You see, my family was always in the
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  Speaker 3: oyster business. But in the summertime we would rig up
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  Speaker 3: a couple of the oyster boats. We had three boats.
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  Speaker 3: We'd put two of them with shrimp rigging and we'd
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  Speaker 3: go out on the beach or in the bays in
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  Speaker 3: the back of Grand Island, and uh, that's what we
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  Speaker 3: did in the summertime. Just the winter time it was oysters.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So it's like it was more like opportunistic when
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  Speaker 1: you could.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'd shift from one season to the next, from
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  Speaker 3: archster season to shrimp season. So we'd we'd get out
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  Speaker 3: of school early, you know, and go with my grandpa
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  Speaker 3: and my dad and I start fishing for shrimp. You know.
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  Speaker 3: We'd do it every summer. Then we kind of broke
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  Speaker 3: away from it for a while then and then I
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  Speaker 3: had this arster boat here. I hadn't shrimped in a
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  Speaker 3: long time, so I just, uh, we went ahead and
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  Speaker 3: utilized it to be able to go out and do
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  Speaker 3: a little shrimping.
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  Speaker 1: When you say you guys broke away from it, did
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  Speaker 1: you break away from it because of the influence of
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  Speaker 1: the oil industry, Well, actually, crazy different class jobs.
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  Speaker 3: It was ulchstering almost a year round. Now, okay, we
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  Speaker 3: was with the refrigeration, we was able to fish arsters
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  Speaker 3: in the summer months, we had an abundance of archsteres,
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  Speaker 3: so it was fishing pretty much.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty much r stream more than then going
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  Speaker 3: back in shrimp.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: How far back was your family go in this area?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Four five generations. Uh, four generations for sure, fishing behind
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  Speaker 3: in the Grand Island area. My dad was raised in Shinyir,
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  Speaker 3: which is the little town right before you get onto
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  Speaker 3: the island. And after the big storm, the big storm
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  Speaker 3: wiped everything out up.
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  Speaker 1: What big storm was at, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they had a name of It was
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  Speaker 3: before Betsy. I want to say it was before Bets,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because my dad was caught in the lake
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  Speaker 3: during Betsy. All the water was sucked out from the
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  Speaker 3: storm and the boats were landing in the mud and
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  Speaker 3: the water just rushed back. They had dropped the anchor
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  Speaker 3: and all trying to before the water rushed back water
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  Speaker 3: water was still there. They had dropped the anchor that
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  Speaker 3: had two boats tied together, and when the water rushed
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  Speaker 3: back in, the boats separated, the ropes popped, he said,
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  Speaker 3: the planks were flying off the sides the mud. They
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  Speaker 3: found mud in the engine room that flew it in
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  Speaker 3: through the little cracks in the windows and all.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: But they didn't have no you know, phones to see
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  Speaker 3: the weather coming and whatnot. They just knew they was
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  Speaker 3: in a storm. They was coming from across the river
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  Speaker 3: from transporting oysters. And they said when they got to
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  Speaker 3: a strict of locks, they used to open the locks
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  Speaker 3: with some mules them. Yeah, the mules used to walk
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  Speaker 3: in the circuit and the turn the shaft to turn
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  Speaker 3: the shaft to open up the locks. And when he
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  Speaker 3: got there, the mules were going, so they they had
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  Speaker 3: to jump on land and manually turned the locks to
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  Speaker 3: open them up to lock themselves through to get to
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  Speaker 3: get back home. And by that time there was actually
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  Speaker 3: a year resistance sixty five, the year was born, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five Hurricane beds okay, but it was before
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  Speaker 3: that they wiped out everything. And where the so of
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  Speaker 3: my relatives where their house landed up in Golden Metal
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  Speaker 3: in Baye Lafouche. The house landed there and they broke
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  Speaker 3: it down in the bayo and rebuilt it on the land.
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  Speaker 3: So we landed in golden Metal. Yeah, because that's where
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  Speaker 3: your house landed.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's how you want to say it.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, not us. There was a relative of it,
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  Speaker 3: but my family and all I guess, you know, my
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  Speaker 3: grandfather had other brothers that lived in that area also,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so that they went up to Golden Metal.
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  Speaker 3: But I still have the property in Shinier where they
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  Speaker 3: used to live. What's there now but nothing that we
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  Speaker 3: had a camp there, but it got wiped out for
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  Speaker 3: I think called Katrina. Yeah, yeah, wiped out everything.
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  Speaker 1: What's a shineer chief like? It's like the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: a by you right at land.
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  Speaker 3: Bridge ser I'm not quite sure the Oakridge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Briandie fixed your mic. Man, if you think that's
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  Speaker 1: two fingers off, five fingers off off your beard and
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  Speaker 1: not too off your mustache?
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  Speaker 8: Now higher higher up right, Yeah, okay, I didn't get
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  Speaker 8: the momo.
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  Speaker 1: Greg's two two fingers off, three fingers off his teeth.
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  Speaker 1: It feels gonna be mad at you, guys. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: So uh so that's pretty much the arch They were
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  Speaker 3: fishing archsters behind back then they jump in the water,
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  Speaker 3: the corn orsters. They would take the ysters out the
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  Speaker 3: mud and put them in the big bolt and just
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  Speaker 3: hand hand picking. And they used to they used to
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  Speaker 3: have a they call it a trouma, a tromai. It's
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  Speaker 3: a triple net besides orstring. So when the shrimp and
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  Speaker 3: season would come around, they go put out a troma.
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  Speaker 3: It might be two three, four hundred feet long, and
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  Speaker 3: it was a small mesh to catch the shrimp, a
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  Speaker 3: larger mesh which would have been about a three inch
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  Speaker 3: mesh to catch like your trout. And then they had
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  Speaker 3: another mesh that would catch like the bull drum, bull
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  Speaker 3: reds and everything. I actually still have some of the
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  Speaker 3: corks that were made out of three out at once.
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  Speaker 3: It's all one net made all together, and they would
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  Speaker 3: just have the smaller mash and catch all the shit
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  Speaker 3: they catch every well, the biggest stuff would get away.
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  Speaker 3: That's where the four inch mesh the big fish would
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  Speaker 3: get caught in it. You need to manually pull them out,
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  Speaker 3: almost like a gill net.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a gill net. So it's it's sort of sorting
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  Speaker 1: what it catches, correct, I gotcha? Oh, so that catches
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  Speaker 1: like a gill net. I got YOUA And what do
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  Speaker 1: they call that word?
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  Speaker 3: May?
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  Speaker 1: Like three meshes in three meshes in frenches may. So
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  Speaker 1: these were oyster men. They would make more other times
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  Speaker 1: a year.
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  Speaker 3: Fish that way, whatever whatever was in season, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and uh whatever they would have. Whatever they would catch,
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  Speaker 3: they would load up in some skiffs, which was a
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  Speaker 3: boat without a deck, and they'd run them up the
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  Speaker 3: Barantaria Waterway and go sell them. That was how they
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  Speaker 3: get rid of them. They'd go sell them a Barataria
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  Speaker 3: Waterway to and somebody would pick them up, bring it
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  Speaker 3: to them new walls or whatever, probably probably little feet.
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  Speaker 3: And they had he had pins built to keep turtles.
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  Speaker 3: They had a pond that they would block off with boards.
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  Speaker 3: They would take the red fish and drum fish and
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  Speaker 3: throw them in that pond. And when they was ready
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  Speaker 3: to go to market, they go round up everything. They
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  Speaker 3: had drums in the in the ground where the turtles
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  Speaker 3: would walk up to lay their eggs and fall in
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  Speaker 3: the little drum about a foot and half deep, and
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  Speaker 3: they go pick up the turtles and they had those
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  Speaker 3: in a pan. Also, fresh water turtles are salt salt uh,
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  Speaker 3: diamondback turtle, little diamondback.
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  Speaker 1: Diamond packed terrapins. Yeah, tell me about the trap again.
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  Speaker 3: It was like a like a barrel, just cut maybe
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  Speaker 3: a two foot barrel to place it in the ground
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  Speaker 3: level with the soil where the turtles would just walk
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  Speaker 3: go up and fall in them because the turtles will
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  Speaker 3: climb ashore to go let their eggs or whatnot. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: they think they were coming ashore, then you they was
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  Speaker 3: coming to short That's what he said. These traps, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to catch the turtles. Man, I'm totally not following.
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  Speaker 2: They come up the shore to lay there is I
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  Speaker 2: got it.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the odds he's gonna come up the plank. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you just place them in different areas. But there was
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  Speaker 3: an abundance of turtles. So a wave of turtles. They
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  Speaker 3: had a good bit of turtles, not necessarily a wave.
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  Speaker 3: It was just in the area where you didn't have
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  Speaker 3: too many little sand banks in the marsh where they
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  Speaker 3: would go. So I guess I guess they knew where
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  Speaker 3: they was gonna go, where they was gonna go. Like
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna go fishing, you know the fish is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be right here. I knew the turtles were gonna
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  Speaker 3: come to live here, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know how I was telling Jack over there about how
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  Speaker 1: if someone asked me to read a book and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna read it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna read no book. I'm just and I'll
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  Speaker 3: say I'm not going to read it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another thing I'm trying to work on in life,
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  Speaker 1: like a self improvement thing, is when someone's explaining something
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  Speaker 1: to me right and I don't understand it, I find
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  Speaker 1: that most people, most people will act not along right.
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  Speaker 1: I have tried in my adult life to become the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: kind of person that says, I just don't understand. That's
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: as bad as it might make me look, instead of
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: acting like I understand, I'll tell them I don't understand. Yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and I get what you're saying, but I don't.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't there. I wasn't there. So I'm trying
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: to explain it the best way I can to figure
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: it out.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, you can if you just want to mess around
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and catch painted turtles map turtles I'm talking about. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: guess yankee turtles up where they like to come out
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and sun themselves. Okay, So you could make a floating
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: pen with meshing it and put a sunning ramp like
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a plank that comes up over it, and they all
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: stack up on their the sun themselves, and all you
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: got to do is spook them, because they don't back
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: down off the plank when you spook them, they just
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: dive in. So they walk up the plank to sun themselves,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and then you just come by and spook them all
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and they fall in the cage and they fall in
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the pent I get that, but I don't get but
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: we don't even spend too much time.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: No, that's good man.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: We all right, you understand it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Greg, have a good idea.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I think you really, No, you got to think the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: amount of time these guys spent on the coastline. They
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: probably had a pretty good idea. Where the sea.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Turtles not sea turtles diving so like like he was saying,
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: it's in the marsh, it's mostly mud, and they would
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: find like a sandy bank on the marsh, which is
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: a rarity.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: So a lot of the turtles would congregate there knowing
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: they're going.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: To come up with places.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: I've seen tarrapins tend to be sandy or parts of
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: the marsh.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Didn't I show you one of the barrels we was
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: going to fish back there or something long time ago?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: They still had the barrel there. I've seen one. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: don't know there's been years now, but I've seen them
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: still there. Uh.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: When you grew up, you were raised by people who
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: hand picked oysters.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I still didn't grow up yet.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: How did that talk about how you called oysters when
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you were doing oysters straight to the dredge? Oh but yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what was that transition like from from guys going in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and hand selecting, Well, we more mass harvest.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Well that was before my time. So when when I
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: started working, we was pulling in the dredge, the chain
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: and the dredge pulling it up and landing on the deck.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yep. But how is that, like are the oysters so
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: thick on the beds that you're just scraping the top
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: of the bed off.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you saw when we when we was loading the oysters. Yeah,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: well we will go pick that up. It might take
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: us a day, two days to finally load up. When
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: we load them up and we haul them here to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: transplant them, we have our bed marked off and it's
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: solid like a like a parking lot. It's real. So
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: we just we're going to pile them up. We could
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: pile them up maybe a six inches thick.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Back up and explain this process. Okay, so that you're
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: moving oysters, explain.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Well, you got the state reefs and you got your
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: private leafs. Okay, so your private leases you can have
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: them cleaned up where there's nothing there, and so you
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: want to restock it. Okay, so you're going to go
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: to the state grounds and sometimes when it opens up, Yes,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: it's full. You could keep pulling them in as fast
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: as you can.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: And it's regulated. The state grounds is the regulating spot. Correct,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And it's full of juvenile oysters?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Correct?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And how do you pick those out?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And it could be from a juvenile to or market
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: ready oyster. Okay, we just load everything up and we
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: bring them and what is what is that? What permit
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: do you need for that? Oh? You just need to
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: have a right now, you need to have a seed permit.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: But seed they called a seed seed permit, but back
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: then you didn't have to have one.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, And you're you're hand grabbing these no no, no,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: with the dredge, so you're dredging off the state round. Yeah, okay.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Since I've been in the arster business, I've never had
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to hand picked. That's when the my great grandfather and
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: my grandfather, they were handpicking. Now we moved up to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the larger boats, and now we're going to state grounds
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and picking up the seed oyster and bringing them to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: our private grounds and washing them over. So we might
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: do that for two months and just fill up a
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: few acres of grounds. But why move them to refish
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: them later? Yeah, but they maybe they're not market size yet,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: But what do you Why not just leave them where
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: they are until they're because they're like nine hours away,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: So we bringing them home where we can go out
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: in a fifteen twenty minute boat ride and fish make
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: our day and then we could resealm. We might fish
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: up shit, eight hundred sacks of oysters in a day
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and a half.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Just to load up the boat. How much does the sack.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Back? Then? Shit, I got paid as little as eight dollars.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: How many pounds?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: One hundred, one hundred pounds or less? You know?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you you have a place, You have a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: private place. He's a private property that is suitable for oysters.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: You go to a remote area far away and you
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: dredge up juvenile. You just dredge up oysters, and then
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you're allowed to take those to your spot and distribute
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: them correct and then give them how much.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Time depending on the size within from like September to April.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Some of them will grow an inch and a half
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: with the salinity change. You might be taking an oyster
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: from a brackish water and putting them in a heavy
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: salinity area. Uh huh. And you got to fish them
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: before the summer toimp because the salinity, like we spoke yesterday,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: may come in heavy and kill them. So we bringing
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: them to this area to for them to grow fast
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and have a great tasting yster. Or we were known
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: if I would taste the oyster, because you could take
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: an orchester and move it a couple of miles away,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: and if it has a different water source, it'll taste
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: different than that chester right there.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Got it, And we had a great area for a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: good taste and archster. That's the thing that I never
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: understood about oysters. Is it oysters blue muscles? Yeah, that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: they're like these like circumpolar species. It's the same thing, correct,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So when you see oysters like this name, that name,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it's just different waters. Yeah, it's not like a different
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: kind of oysters, the same oyster.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I could take an East Cools yster and bring it
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: right here to Grand Island and leave it for a month,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: not even that long. You know what, It's gonna taste
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: like a Grand Island arster. It's not an East cools uster. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: so we would take these oysters, especially the closer you
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: could get to the fresh water line that orchters are thriving.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: You take those ysters and put in a heavy solemnity area. Yep, man,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: they're just gonna explode and gruel and be happy. Man.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: But they're vulnerable to death. Oh yeah, But we.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Usually know all the timing that we're going to fish
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: them out before to get to that point.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And then when you go back. So you bring these
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: seed oysters in and you plan them and then you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: harvest them with a dredge, right, and you're bringing them
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: up Like Ronnie. When we were in your boat last night,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Ronnie was talking about being a little kid and being
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: in the wheelhouse of that boat and we're looking out
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: on the deck where you were pulling shrimp nets what
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: do you call those skimmers?
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: Skims?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And he would talk about looking out that window and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: not being able to he'd go just fall asleep and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: wake up and couldn't see you, and he'd have to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: try to climb over that mountain oysters to come down
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and find where you were at out on the deck
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of that boat.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Because he'd be driving in that front. They had that
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: front steering wheel, and that's where he'd run when he'd
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: be running the dredges.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And you just wake up and there it was. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: wake up and there was being polo issters. And then
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: are you needing to are you then taking all the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: ones that are still too small and pitching them or
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: by that point is everybody harvestable? Right now?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: We at the transplanting era, we're taking everything and then
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: when we're gonna go back to refishing for sale, then
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: we will grade them. Okay, the little ones, we could
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: bring them to a different area to continue.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: They're growing. Oh, so you'll put them in another spot.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Correct, it's forming, you know, you could form, you could
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: kind of mark out with poles. You know what you
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: have where?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And then you.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's that? What's that industry like now? For
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: this area?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: It's uh, the the orsters just don't really take all
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: that great in the wild. But with Storm Ida, it
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: turned everything around. It made the arster, the crabs, the
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: shrimp more abundant. Now it's starting to play back out.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: How is that? Well, you see, an archster takes three
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: years the harvests. So after the storm, the storm stirred
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: everything up. But anything that is in an Orchester growing area,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: anything that would have been like a little shell or
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: anything that an oorster would want to stick to that
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: it stuck. So here we are three years later. There
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: was abundance of oysters this year and great prices, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the prices are all going now down now because because
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the abundance of oysters.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Oh I got you. So it slowed things down and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: then the price is shot up. Like immediately after.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: After the storm there was no oysters. So anybody had
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: a sack of orster, you could get like seventy five
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: bucks right when you're down back to the thirties.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when it started to creep up, it was good.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And then you hit saturation. It's too much oyster.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. Now shrimp also and crabs, Like people couldn't shrimp.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: The bullsom messed up. People couldn't go crabbing for a
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: year or so, you know. So everything was able to
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to just flourish. And when the people started going back out,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: man they would catch and shrimp. They were catching crabs.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: The baby arsters were there, they just weren't markt saw
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: market saw as yet got it. So now they're market saws.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: So now they're starting to flood the market with the oarsters,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: with the aftermatter idel with the seafood.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yep, can you can you explain a little bit that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: process you were telling me about that you would lease
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: oyster ground.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: From the state. Yeah, oh it's from the stately state
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: least correct, I got it? Yeah, but uh yeah, just
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: like if you lease a piece of property anywhere, you
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: know you can pay your lease every year, and you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you just got to know what you have on your bottom,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: you know, how.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Much would you lease like like, for instance, like there's
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: an old saying like in the ranch world, like you
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: have an acre of ground for every head of cat
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: all you have?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: It was like three bucks an acre. You know, it
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: wasn't that bad three bucks an acre a year.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: But how much could you like put like how many
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: oysters could you put in like an acres?
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Oh you could have. I've seen myself work a month
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: and a half, two months on an acre of a
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: acre of ground that had an abundance of orish. But
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: didn't you have hundreds of acres? Though I had a
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: like eighteen hundred. My father and grandfather don't accumulated. Well,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: how the hell, you worked that much ache. Well not
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: all of it was producing areas.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yess, so you got a lot of ground.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: A lot of ground was like mud or currants were bad,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: or too much fresh water.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: We also have these diversions that they're putting and there's
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: they're pumping this fresh water into the marsh hoping to
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: create create new ground. But uh so those areas were
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: no more good reason being the fresh water and there
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: was man made They could flush fresh water when they
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: wanted to, but like the rainy seasons, the water would
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: come up. They wasn't running the fresh water, so orsters
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: would take again. But here we go next. It takes
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: three years to make uh market orster. So here we
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: are maybe two years down the line. Your oarsters are
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: starting to grow but two inches. But they have a
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: rainy season. They flushing the water to grow land and whatnot,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: and they all see, you know, they all die with
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: the fresh water. Sounds too much selantic. We never really
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: had too much problem.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: No, I'm talking like you get too big of a
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: change straight from fresh.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, too much fresh water would kill these oysters.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So so that eventually made the business untenable.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: For some areas. Yeah, you just have to rely on
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: a different area.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you eventually got where you were done with
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: oysters pretty much. I went after Katrina went into the
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: oil field business, you know, and uh did well there
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: and uh ended up getting back out of it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: And uh.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: My little brother had the orster leases and everything, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: he had been working everything during the that era, but
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: uh then he gave it all up too much problem
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: with thieving and not enough oysters and this and that,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: not knowing that Ida would have replenished the leases.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: You know, Oh, I got it. Yeah, how much like
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you've been at this so long vision oysteram correct shrimp
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and and all that, and you you broke the chain. Sorry, Ronnie,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: but you broke the chain.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: What like in your guys recollection of growing up, of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: spending time here in the deep family history down here,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: how would you begin to express the cultural change that
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: happened with oil?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad he didn't get into the orster business,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, right, Yeah, you know, I mean,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: it's a good culture, but it's just not it's just
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: not there anymore, you know, I don't he wouldn't have
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: really made it because just with mud and nature. Just
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: the orsters were not producing and you just wasn't having
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: a reproduct, real good reproduction anymore.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Are those leases something you can sit on, so you
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: don't you know, you can just maintain the lease, not harvest.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Wait for as long as you pay your lease. As
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: long as you pay it, that's all they were about it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They don't care if you're fishing it or not.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: That's right, okay, because they can't tell you, oh, you
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: got to fish this area. Well there's mud, there's no oysters.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: What you want to do with it. But sometimes you
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: maintain areas to keep the other people. You want to
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: put borders on yourself. But we had a lot of
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: problems with uh, with thieving going on.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the thing I wanted to I wanted
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you guys to explain it's oyster poaching.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Well, if if like when we seeding and we piling
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: these oysters up, so you're going through all the work,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: a little boat could come there and in fifteen minut
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: just hurry up and make a few dredges and load
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: their boat up and go somewhere else and cultivate and
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: call them you.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: Know, and they're lean them up and they're doing it
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: at night A lot. These little boats are coming at night.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: You was doing it?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: What kind of dudes are doing it?
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Boats in these little small Carolina skiffs were just kind
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: of sliding.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: People that really don't have anything to lose.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: But these guys will actually come like you have a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: least area and it's worth someone's effort to come into
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: your least area.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: And harvest. Yeah, in fifteen minutes, if they make a
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: couple of dredges and they make let's say ten sacks,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: So ten sacks when the price is really hard. It
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was getting anywhere from fifty to seventy bucks. They make
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: their night in I gotcha in fifteen men.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So they're just doing like like real quick, hitting small
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: chunks of small chunks of income, but like high high
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: money per hour of effort.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, ten sacks at fifty all at fifty at all,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: that's five hundred bucks, I see.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, when you already had all the overhead to go
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: out there and get them and bring them.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And so it's more it's like a quick money thing. Quick.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It's not a three year play. And who they worried about?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: No body? I got it, you know what?
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, if they get caught, sometimes they just
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: get a slap on the wrist.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: When you you were saying that you uh, when you
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: when you sold your leases, like leases can move from
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: one individual to another. Correct, And you were saying you
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: kind of wish you would held on to like a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: little bit, or tried to hold onto a little bit. Correct,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: because now you you you want back in the game. Uh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: not really, oh, but you just kind of I really
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it, I really, you know. I mean I've a
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: subleased some leases. Now you know, when I'm able to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: get back out there, you know, oh, I got you
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: okay subleases. So and once I get out there, you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed for a little while and it's like I'm ready.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: To go back home.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Is it more work than catch a shrimp?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Uh? In some ways, yes, it's more physical.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: And every archster just like the shrimps. You know, sometimes
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: you gotta pick all your big shrimp out, you know
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: where every archster has to pass through your hand and
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: you're gonna grade it. You know, you gotta all those
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: mountains oysters, Well, those don't have to pass through your
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: hand until you refish them.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Ye.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: When you're gonna go refishing, you put it on your
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: table and then you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Gotta sort them all, shorting them.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes they have a dead one on a live one.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: You gotta knock the dead one off. You gotta clean
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: it up and put it in your pow. Then you
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: gotta sack them up. So then you gotta stack them.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Then you gotta load them on the conveyor. Then you
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: gotta put them in the truck. Then you gotta take
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: them out of the truck. You handle these arsters eight
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: ten times, you know. So it's it's a lot of
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: physical work. I mean, and how are you who are
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: you selling Most of those oysters to a lot of
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: these places are out of business now, but uh, it
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: was just some uh little shops that were we would
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: sell to and they would buy the orses, they would
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: shock them, they would pack them, and then they would
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: distribute with wholesale. Also, we had a retail business that
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: was out of this world.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: We would just bring him in front of the house
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: and sell them off off the side of the road.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: That was that sign you had.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oysters, get you some get you some watch, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you'd sell them shocked your whole We.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Had a little shop that we would do some shucking. Yeah,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: and we'd sell them by a sack.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Ronni, did you get tangled up in that business when
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: you were young for a little.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: While in high school? After school, I'd go chuck a
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: few sacks, you would.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gotten that special shucker with it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Man, he made that, he made that bund yeah.
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Then you when was the first time he started shrimping
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: for money, like commercial shrimping. Oh, about three years ago. Okay,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And you rigged out your oyster boat, correct. Ronnie was
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: explaining to me how that boat would be a little
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: bit different if it was fitted specifically for shrimp.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't have had those tables and everything and
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: that big wench and stuff, you know. But like right now,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I could just move my cables and my nets out
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: the way, and I could throw my dredge off the
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: side and continue working oysters.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, And then when you go out like that
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: for shrimp, how long do you normally go out for it?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe two nights, three nights of the max, you know.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you sleep on the boat in the daytime, yes, sir,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: because it's a nock turn it's a it's a nocturnal.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Well, sometimes you're catching the daytime, you know, so I
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: mean sometimes you'll you gotta work with the shrimp. You know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: if it's given, then you fish. If it's not given,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: once you see it slacks off, you might as well
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: slack off and go get you some rest. So then
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: you guys just anchor up wherever you're at, drop it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: You want to try and find some some little piece
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: of island to get behind, just in case, you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: while you're sleeping you get a storm, because sometimes summer
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: storms will have fifty sixty mile our winds and come
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere, yes, indeed, And then you cook up whatever,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: cook up someone to catch from the night.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I'll get up and felay some fish and peel a
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: few shrimp and put some rice and beans on, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: got a meal meal like eat like a king's huh.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: And then you like, then you guys go to bed
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: and get rolling again. Oh yeah, well yeah, and what's
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the like layout for me? What the shrimp How the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: shrimp market makes it good? You know, gets good times,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: bad times, good times, bad times.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Well I really don't know it all that good, but
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I mean it's.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I was reading we were all reading about this morning. Yeah,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I was reading about what you were telling me about,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: right right, So like the tariffs that went in when
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Trump came in, well and it was your senator that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: was I was reading about how your.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Senator you might know more about it than me.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Now, well talking about it too, Senator Kennedy. Senator came
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: who Ronnie was playing me a clip Senator Kennedy, who
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: was talking about the defund the police movement. He said,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: next time you get in trouble, call cracket.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: If you don't like cops just because they're cops, next
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: time you're in trouble.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: But when Trump he was saying that when or he's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you know, reading about it. Is when Trump started to
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: do tariffs on China, a senator from Louisiana came in
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and said, please add crawfish and shrimp, oh yeah, to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the list, making the claim that a lot of stuff
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: was come from aquaculture facilities in China where they were
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: using antibiotics, antibiotics and shrimp some questionable practices injecting.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that inject it's pretty scary.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Injecting the silicon and then and then not having the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: US not having proper regulation on what's coming in mislabeled seafood.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Seafood coming in mislabeled origin companies that was sort of
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: masquerade as regional companies with names that would be deceptive.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: They were actually imported seafood, killing the killing the industry here.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: And so your senator saying, man, I'd like to do
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: more protective tariffs to protect the local the American people. Yeah.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: And then I was surprised to see in the same
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: little bit of casual reading we did this morning that
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Louisiana is actually a major consumer of imported crawfish. Wow,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: because people probably just see crawfish.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I think if you see the name, you just assume, yeah,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: fish seafood.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, in Louisiana's crawfish. Who the hell was suspected?
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Its overseas and a lot of people I guess they
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: go after the cheap the cheap price. Yep, you know
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: what I mean. But it don't help the American people,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I would never think coming here that if I
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: was buying something in the store, I was buying something
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: from overseas, but just went I would just think I
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: was buying local naturally, right.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: You don't think about it. Yeah, so what what kind
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: of price fluctuations you see? You told me something last
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: night about a price from forty years ago. Yeah, man,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: forty years ago, not even adjusted for inflation. But forty
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: years ago you were getting more.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Than we are today for the same sage shrimp. It
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: was a sixty seventy shrimp. Right now we're getting like
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: thirty five cents. Forty cents. Forty years ago, we were
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: getting sixty five cents for that same sage shrimp. But
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: that's what's crazy is you're talking about wild caught, wild caught,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: real good tasting shrimp, and and.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: People not out of any kind of maliciousness. It's just
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: like people not understanding. No, people chasing like a little
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: bit of savings, restaurants chasing a little bit of savings
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and buying.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Some farm raised bullshit from overseas. Yeah. Man, it's like
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: I think they blindfold of people. I mean, they just
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: the people don't maybe the people that just don't hear
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: and know any better or whatnot. I'm not quite sure.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to say what what's the problem there,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: because I've been in the supermarkets where the prices were
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: really high and it's not going to you, no, no, man,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: no way, How can you give the fishermen a dollar?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: And you go see you go see the same shrimp
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: in the market somewhere for maybe fourteen to fifteen dollars
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: and it looks rotten. Yeah, they charge you that much
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: to ring. You know how much it cost it's aged.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: You don't know how much it.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Costs to make that not so fresh. You can bring
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: you can bring.
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: Fresh shrimp to some areas like like further north that
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: that are far away and bringing fresh shrimp and they'll
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: be like, oh, that's that's good. It's wrong when it
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: was wrong. When it's like this is fresh, it's wrong.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: It's rotten, like it's efficient. And on the display at
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: the store is like you could see like the heads
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: all black and starting to turn orange. It's it's rotten,
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: and they lose their The thing I found I'm just
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: a casual. I told you that's now I'm a big
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: time shrimper. I'm actually not very bad. I deal with
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: very small quantities of shrimp that we catch. But the
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: thing I found man is like a questionable shrimp. His
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: head is much more willing to detach from his body.
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: You ever notice that like a new one.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: His head's on there pretty good, and you let him
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: sit around, his head gets to be where it's just
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: isn't He doesn't have a lot of fidelity to his body.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: After a while, spots the fall away.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Well, we were even doing spot prins last week and
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: you could tell day one the way they looked. And
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: then we were cooking up like our last meal for dinner.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Just the look of them look different, different shade.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and their eyes, eyes are glowing when they're alive.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: That goes away. You know the thing I found. Maybe
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you guys can explain to it. Thing I found about
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: shrimp is it? Uh, if you pull him up from
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: deep water. So when we catch shrimp, we'll fishing three
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: hundred feet of water with pots. Okay, the shrimp pots
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: baited with fish heads. You don't think I've seen it. Yeah,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: if you pull him up and just any kind of
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: minimal handling, you cannot put that thing back in the water.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Because you're bringing us from such a depth.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Well, no, because like if you're pulling it up in
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a shrimp squirts out at the surface. Yeah, you'll see
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: him kick down and I don't know if he's fine
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: or not, but he kicks down. I don't know if
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: he survives or not. But if you take that sucker
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: up on a boat.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I mean and you dump them in a bucket, there
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: they're done.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: You put them in a bucket and wait a minute,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and you put them back in the water. He is
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: deader like something that a fish would not phase the fish.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: It seems they're just a sensitive correct, you know, sensitive creature.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, here too, I mean you could they could
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: take so much. And then you know, especially these white shrimp,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: even though they're big, they're really not all that a
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: durable you know, a brown ship shrimp they could have
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: survived a little drop of water. You know, they'll suck
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: in that little drop of water and still living. But
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: a white shrimp, man, it's just like I'm done.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Yep. Is there a big price difference between what you
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: get for white shrimp and brown shrimp?
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Well, the big difference there is the size is the
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: brown shrimp will not get big like a white shrimp.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: And then when we were coming, I wish I knew
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: better where we were Chili. When you and me were
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: driving in, we got a little side tracks. We're trying
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to find that pole boy place.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Order.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: It was. The town started with an R. We were
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: in Racelan and that's where we got her.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: First I got I thought, I hit the pole Boy Place,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: and we want to buy a hospital. Then we thought
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the poor Boy Place is in the hospital, and then
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: we eventually realized that somehow just clicked down the hospital.
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: And then to keep driving around the hospital.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Being like, I understand how there's a pole Boy place
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: in here to the cafeteria, I honestly wouldn't be surprised. Yeah,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: it's like this right next to stand, just like the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: ambulances and stuff. Yeah, see the pool we walk in.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: She's like he is here for.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I don't know how to explain it, Chili,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: but I somehow clicked down the hospital, not the poor
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Boy place, But we want about the pole Boy place where.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I think this should have been our first sign that
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the shrimp industry was in trouble because this guy lays
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: out mine, He lays out my bun. This is a
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: phenomenal poll boy. First I got a little nervous. Yeah,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: he was very nervous about that. I come in and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I come in and there's a woman in front of me,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and she has a burger at the pole Boy place,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: only whatever gets a burger, and that burger is.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: A bun.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: And a patty nothing, And I was like shit, and
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: we'd already ordered, and I'm kind of panicking, like I
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: don't want my pole Boy without shredded lettuce and tomato.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: And he was very distraught about it the place.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: But then we see in the background, we catch a
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: guy come through with a bunloaded with lettuce and that
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: breathed easy. Yeah. He takes fresh catfish, very fresh. We
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: saw him go. He went in the back room. It
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: looked like he flayed the damn fish. Yeah, comes back
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: a while later, holds the flave, treating his fingers.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, they didn't freeze that.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: No, no joke.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: He goes in the room while later walks out with
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: a catfish flake like this, very impressed into that fire.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: And then I made a bad call.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I then he like very quickly lifted the basket and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Jill, you're gonna get some raw ass. I
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: was watching the wrong basket. He'll take anyway, The point
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: being I knew the shrimp business was in trouble. Yeah,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: he lays my bun out and he was packing shrimp
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: into that bun, like when you're trying when you got
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: too much stuff in your duffel bag and you're trying
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: to get one more little bit of clothes in there
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: before you zip the shot. He was packing shrimp into
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: my bun with the palms of his hands pressing them
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: into it. They wouldn't even hold all the shrimp. When
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I opened the wrapp rub, it was just shrimp. Yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: He spent like ten minutes just eating shrimp.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I know, And I thought I must have had one
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: hundred bucks worth of shrimp in my sandwich, because like
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: what you because grocery store prices right. But then we
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: left there and we're driving along, I guess the upper side,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: what the hell it feels by you?
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: The foochs? Was that by the foosh?
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: So that same value you were driving along, the same
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: value that pumps out here that we the past.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: We went out to go diving, shrimp boat after shrimp
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: boat after shrimp boat after shrimp boat with signs out
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: front selling shrimp three fifty pound four whatever the hell.
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's three fifty to go and rate.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And that's like, this is all shrimp is just selling,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: selling to what you'd get, but selling it at a
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: quarter of the price you'd pay in a store when
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: you can't even get something that quality because these are
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: brand new, fresh caught shrimp r And is it so
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that is that a function of what we're seeing. That's
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: a function of that the commercial market is just not present,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and you're fishing for locals.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: But what's what's the price sholl getting for like the
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: twenty sixteen twenties and the ten.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: To fifteen for a dollar five and a sixteen to
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: twenty which would be the next size small?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Explain those terms that might fuse people.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Well, sixteen twenty, ten to fifteen to the pound, ten
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: to fifteen shrimp to the pound? Is that tails or heads?
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: And tail?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Heads and tail?
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: So sixteen twenty ors sixteen twenty? I mean if you count,
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: if you take usually count them by threes. You take
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: three pounds and you dump them on your table, and
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: you come at threes yep, as one. Well, if you
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: count eighteen, what's a sixteen to twenty? If you count
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: nineteen sixteen twenty, God, it's just a way to caliact
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: insteatic doing just one pound? Look one pound and I
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: count fifteen shrimp? No, you do three pounds. That way,
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: it's more to.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Get a better average correct understood, And those little ones
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: like I don't know, like as a consumer, you might
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: wreck popcorn shrimp correct, Yeah, yeah, you know if you
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: guys use that term now, Like yeah, the first the
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: first small shrimp we had was running like a sixty
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: seventy to the pound.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: At sixty to seventy shrimp.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: To that small those cents bitches.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not the last ones we caught. They had a
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: lot more smaller ones that might have been eighty to
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: one hundred to the pound.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And those are worth if you take them, not if
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: you go find a buyer for it, but you go
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: to the shed. Yeah, like the shed, that's the commercial buyer,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: the shrimp shed. So you take it to enter it
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: into the commercial market where it could get wherever distributed around.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: They're gonna pay you what for those little shrimp maybe
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: thirty cents a pound a pound, yeah, not the sixty
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: seventies right now, they might be around forty to forty five.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: And again, like I said, forty years ago, there was
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: sixty five.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Now that same shrimp. If you keep that same shrimp
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: alive and sell it to the bait market, you get
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: thirty cents apiece.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: For one nice shrimp for one when those little shrimp,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: but you got to keep it on the lost. Do
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you ever say, do you ever work in that trade?
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Though I've been, Uh, I came very close to it
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: because you.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Got got all the air raiders and everything, and.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, not only that, you know, it's just
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: a different market. You're not really if you load up
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: with shrimp, well you just got live shrimp. You gotta
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: go in with with just uh maybe a couple of
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: thousand up to maybe six thousand shrimp where you know,
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: you got to have a lot of live wells going
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: on to keep these shrimp from dying.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: Wouldn't it Wouldn't that be extremely difficult though, because I
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: think I don't know if it's you or you explaining
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: yesterday that like when you catch shrimp in your net
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: off your.
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: Boat, a lot of them died.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: A lot of them died because they end up drowning
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: it with when they're in the net.
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: Talking about that you make so when you do live
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: bait tarling, you tryal for very sharp drags. You don't
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: make a long drag like we were doing to an
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: hour drag because you're gonna kill a lot.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Of your catch.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, once you pick up, you pick up, you dump
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: your bag, you throw in, you deal with that. Then
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: you heard me pick up again. You just continually pulling
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: them in. You don't drag them in the net long
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: at all. You're always dealing with whatever you're catching at
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: the time. Just keep dealing with.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: And that's why you for saying he likes to do
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: short pulls too, to keep him fresher longer. You know,
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: look for you coast them, right, they look better because
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: they're not being dragged in the water for that long
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: after they're dead.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Right when you uh the porpoises, they'll tear that mesh
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: getting at they want to get at the shrimp fish,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: or they want to get the fish.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: The fish that are trying to escape or getting stuck
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: in the sod of your net. Sometimes you have a
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: maybe a full five inch fish that will get stuck
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: in the and they want to pull it out of
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: your net. When they grabbing onto your net and they're
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: gonna pull and tear your.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Net, dude, you get what you wind up with quite
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the caravan man, you know, like you go on the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: back of this boat. Dude, it's like he's we started
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: before it got We started before it got dark out.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: And you go on the back of that boat and
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: it's like, first off, you get the sense of those
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: birds have all done that before, you know it, multiple
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: species of goals, pelicans, and they get in there and
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: they could ride the uh they could ride the call it. Yeah,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: they can ride the draft of the boat over the back. Yeah.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: So but they got it, so dialed it. The boat's
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: going in one direction and that bird is sitting in
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the draft of the boat cocked at a forty five
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: degree angle to his line of travel and just moving
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: along sideways. Man, do this all the time, dude, and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: coming down and grabbing stuff. And then in the water
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the porpoises porpoise.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: You see, if they would have had thirty forty boats,
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: they would have been distributed. But they sense a boat,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: so they're all coming from all directions. Man. They want
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: they want a free meal. Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: No, it's funny because you can tell everybody's done that before.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, indeed they had one guy.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Uh. In fact, that was right in the West Canal
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: where we were. I seen him up against the bank
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: and it was before the storm and he was hand
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: feeding one it would come up and he'd hand feed
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: it and hand feed it. And then I seen him.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: I said, yeah, man, I've seen your feeding that porpoise. Yeah. Man,
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: he would come all the top to me. But since
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: the storm he hadn't seen him. So, I mean, it's
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: what Yeah, yeah, since the storm he hadn't seen him anymore.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: But before the storm he used to hand feed that
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: certain purpose at the same place all the time. You
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: kidding me? Awesome? Yeah, straight, I mean I was. I
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: was shrimping my buddy I had with me. I said, look,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: he's feeding that the purpose had their head up and
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: just sitting there waiting with them out open. Yeah.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: It flipped me when the fish.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: It was there.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: And you like take you like take pictures of sunsets
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and stuff when you're out. Oh yeah, man, you never
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: you never lost track of the beauty of it all.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: No, man, Nature's the thing of its own.
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: It's just so Yeah, it's nice.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I could see getting like all after all your life,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: that you lose that doing it for work. No, man,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: you might after a while, just be ambivalent.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, man, Like I told you,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: the last three or four times I went shrimping, it
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: causes me to go shrimping. It costs me the money
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: bank to go shrimping and bait ice, I mean a
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: few and ice. You know, it cost me a little
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: bit to go shrimping. And but I enjoy you know,
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: And like I said, the August season is when I
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: really enjoy it. Those big shrimp they're red.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: They're jumping on the deck of the boat, on top
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: of the net. And every time I see you, when
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I tell my my my crew members, look, look the
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: on top, I'm just it's just so excited you. And
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: uh they're jumping in front of that net just like popcorn. Man,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: they're running, They're jumping all over the place. When you're
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: really fine them. It's pretty neat.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: To see, you know.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: It's just I enjoy it.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he says.
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: It's a famous phrase.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, catch phrase.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Catchphrase.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Man, So you haven't gotten into have you gotten into
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: spearfishing like your son here?
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Not as much?
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: He uh, he brought it to a different level.
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: It was we started out just uh going dive for lobsters,
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: you know, with the tank and haul and everything, you know,
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: and and it come on, we're going to get lobs
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: of Dad I don't want to shoot some fish man,
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: so we he so we had to give up our
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: my wife and I had to give up our lobster
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: hunting so he can shoot him some little hogfish and
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: then lo and behold, man, we was lost in one
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: time and he's shooting some fish and I look in
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: the distance and he got some little three foot sharks
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: hitting the bloodline and coming back to hit it again.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: And they finding the trail to you know who. And
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: then uh, when they when he sees the little sharks coming,
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: they had like two or three of them. He's like,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: hm hmm, he sharks, you know it. And he goes
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: and he's behind his mom. He grabs his mama and
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: I could hear her screaming under the water. I said,
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: I was like twelve years old Ronnie's original shark.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Shark shield.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: I never thought you could scream under the water. But
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: it's mama was screaming under the water. Man. And I'll
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: looked off to the side and they had a big
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: about eight nine foot, a big nurse just kind of
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: sitting there.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: I'm glad they didn't see that one, you know, but uh,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: it's good man under the water is beautiful man. It's
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: just a whole other world, you know. And then uh,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: like Ronnie, you know, Ronnie went for the with and
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: then uh started the free diving.
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I gotta start breathing up and learning how to
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: free diving. I always got them big fans, and I'm
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: not nowhere close to what they'd do, well y'all do
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: you know? But I mean I enjoy you, you know,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: just go out there. And he likes to go to
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: Bahamas and get some calk.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: You like that.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: That's fun, man, that's a little wrist diving too. Yeah,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: you're right, well it's about it's about nipple deep.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: We went a little bit further than nipple, you know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: but it was about twenty five or sold. But I
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: mean it's just nice to see. Also, you know, just
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: a nature things. And I'm a crustacean fisherman, and so
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Conker right up.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Here, crustace your crustacean specially, yeah, man, Conker Lobster's like
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: what he likes to do. Like when we go together
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to the Bahamas. That's your idea vacation. You switch, you
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: just switch crustaceans.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: Snails and crayfish.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tell me about that that ship man. I
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: even made a note in my phone to ask you
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: about the snails the begnas. Yeah, okay, okay, lay the
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: snail situation out for me.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: Well, snails are also in the salinity area, you know,
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: so when we would transplant orses.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Are you guys using the word s cargo, But it's
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: because it's not a land begonna began, Yeah, be gonna.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know how you spell it, or we just
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: call it a big but uh you see, so we
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: transplant these oarsters. Yeah, so these oorsteres have a scent.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: They have a smell of their origination, origional area. So
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: when you put it in this new area, that's scent
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: travels throughout the water. So drum fish, your snails, your trout,
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: everything trout, they'll come to eat the little fish in
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: the oysters, but the snails smell.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Them like they know something went on.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Then the new food they smell us, so they come
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: into the dinner table. So these snails are moving in.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: So whenever we bet arsters in the salinity area, we'll
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: always check the edge. And I remember one time we
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: checked the edge and we had like sixty five big snails.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: So we knew they were coming, so we put it
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: down in September. But when the cool the winter comes,
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: these snails go in the mud or they'll just hide out.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: So we knew it was gonna be safe that we
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: had to fish them out before the water warmed up.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: So when so we are right for the winter. But
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: when the water starts warming, we put out these snail traps,
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: which would have been a we'd go cut like these
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: little tall oak trees, about a two inch oak tree,
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: and we'd uh nail some palmetta leaves on it, yeah,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: and the wrap the palmata leaves with some bailing wire.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: The hell's that? Yeah, and then we'd uh stick these poles.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Thunder set again, so we'd.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: Uh sometimes a bamboo or an oak pole. I use
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 8: the bamboos sometimes to No, bamboo is.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Just the mark. But uh we would nail these palmetal
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: leaves to the to the pole and then wrap them
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: with biling wire and we'd push the pole in the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: mud on the edge of the reef where the palmetto
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: would just start touching the mud. And these snails they
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: want to hurry up and lay. Then after they lay
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: is when they're dangerous because after they lay, they don't
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: want to eat, so they hurry up and they laying there.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: They climbing these poles to lay their eggs.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: So they wanted to lay the egg on the palmetal.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Correct. They want to climb to put their egg in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: the water, cool in the water to float around. So
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: they're gonna climb anything they can. They climb the crap cages, poles,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: anything you have, they're gonna climb.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: We could actually walk outside right now, probably catch a
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: couple of off the pilings, like those oysters you saw
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: in the pilings. If you go walk outside now, you're
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: gonna see begos on a metium.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Okay eating the oysters.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll they'll drill drill a hole in them, either
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: drill a hole in them or they'll they'll cluster up
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: on one and suffocate it until it opens up and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: they'll get there drilled in there really and they actually
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: spit their stomach bile in the oyster and it it
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: dissolves this orster like a jelly and they'll just suck
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: it out. Liberty hole.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: Many way to go, you say, one time, like you
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: actually ate one that had been started to get drilled on.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: If you eat an orster that just started to get
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: that stomach ball in it. Man, you just don't want
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: to see another oyster for a while, you know. But
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: it's nasty, man, that stuff. So we we've caught up
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: to like thirty five five gall and thirty five five
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: guy on buckets of snails in one day, just passing
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: out traps. Yeah is that? Are you do that more
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: to protect the oysters?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Are you doing it to eat the snails?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Protect the oysters?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but then you're eating those snails too. Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: Well, when we have that big of an amount, it's
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: hard to get rid of them, you know without back
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: then we didn't have Facebook and this and that. Right now,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: you could get rid of them quick. People really want them.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: The crab fishing will catch them and they'll put them up.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: They'll sell them like a forty fifty bucks for a
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: bucket of snails.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Really oh yeah, man, And how do you guys fix those?
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Well? I used to have a pressure cooker that could
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: hold a five gallon bucket of snails and you pressure
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: them for like fifteen minutes. Now you could put them
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: in the freezer and boil them for fifteen minutes. But
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: if just a raw snail, you got to boil it
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: for about an hour, whistle, and you got to boil
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: the hell out of it.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: That crab ball season we put on the craw fish
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 8: bowling that same seasoning, and you just take them out
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 8: with a little small knife.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: Now they have a little area on the backside of
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: it you gotta peel or cut off. We call it
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: the back out a tobacco whatnot. It's just the area
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: where they keep that boil at their stomach ass. It
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: turns purple off to you boil it or whatnot. Yeah,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: you want to cut that off. You eat too much
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: of that of you'll get see got it?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Talk about your gumbo. You were talking about your gumbo
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: rest last night. Oh man, I'm getting hume girl ready.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: I was gonna say, talking about all these oysters I
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: want to go.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: We're talking about oyster gumbo.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Man, he told me that he don't put sausage in
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: his gumbo because the minute you put sausage in your gumbo,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: it's sausage gumbo.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: Sausage gumbo. Man, I don't care what gun of gumbo
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: it is. You put sausage in it, it's a sausage gumbo.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: And that's my philosophy.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: You know, man, Now I've cooked, so you make a
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: huge quantity.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a certain saucee pod. If I'm gonna
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: cook a gumbo, that's my pot. I put all my
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: same ingredients quantities or whatnot, and I'll freeze it up, man,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: and I'll eat it for whenever I want some gumbo.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: It's ready to go.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: And you do a gallon of oysters.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Gallon of oysters. I put the chicken towes, chicken legs maybe,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: and some chicken wings, gizzards and maybe it's salt pork
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: and the and then a gallon of oysters. Man. I
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: make a dark ru and season it up so good,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: and you eat it out in your boat if you
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: need to. Oh, if I need to, yeah, I'll bring
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: some on the boat and we'll go shrimping and all
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: I'll bring me some gum bull and yeah.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Good life, man, good life, living the dream. I like
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: to eat out and never got burned out on seafood.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: You're still oh no, man, I'd like to see the
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: palla oyster shells from the oysters I eat in my life?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 8: How many how many ocees you eating? The oyster eating
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: competition that you did.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: I don't think I eat that, man, I'm sure I
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: ate about eighty oorsters. Maybe, I don't know, maybe not
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: your own. I know they chucking for you, but you
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: know you had over when they were counting dozens and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: you did over a dozen dozen. Cool. I don't remember, man,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: you have a better memory than me.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: Man, But did you win? Oh no?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: Those professional eaters ridiculous amount.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: They would just just inhale like I was trying to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: pull it. Oh yeah, I don't know.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: They throw them back up.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: I really don't.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: It's like those professional eaters, those people you just qualified.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: If you throw it up, you are Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not into that. Yeah, I tell you. I don't
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: mean to judge, man, but I'm not into that hot
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: dog eating contest.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I'd rather enjoy, you know, enjoy yours.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Where they get where they're like, they dunked that bun
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: in water, so you can basically slurp the bun and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: they inhale those dogs. It's pretty nasty. Come on, man.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: Then there's the controversies where they would dip them, but
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: they would leave some of them in there, so not
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: having to con man, they take the cups away.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to dip a hot dog bun have
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: it all come back out. I've never tried it. I'm
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: just guessing it's hard to do it. But we tried
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: to give it a little shake in there. We tried
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: with the bagel chips. This trip worked that well, Oh
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, it's not good. Ronnie and Greg, Can
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: you guys give Chili some critiques on his first sper
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: diving expedition. Chili explained to us, he's not a waterman.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: No, what'd you think of it? From South Dakota?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 6: What did I think of it?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: So?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: I think for us, we see what's going on, but
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: for someone it's hard to explain everything that's going on
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: down there.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I was gonna say, like it's hard to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: like rationalize like everything that's going on, Like it's weird.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 7: It was weird, like being on the surface and just
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 7: kind of rolling with all the waves, being next to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: a rig and then like you get below the surface here.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Talk about being in the boat first, because I kept
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: telling you got to get in the water else you
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: have no idea what's going on?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, See was yelling at me that I needed
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 7: to get in the water to just just to be
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 7: able to put it all into perspective, and uh, I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: was like, yeah, I'll go, I'll go, and I'll end
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: up going and yeah, it's just it was. It was
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: incredible trying to just like just get below the surface
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: and just seeing like all the different types of fish
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: which I don't know about, and uh, everything is pretty
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: pretty calm, and it was. Yeah, it was like one
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 7: of the I was telling see if it was one
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: of the coolest natural things I've ever seen in my life,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 7: Like not man made or anything like that, but like
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 7: just the natural beauty behind it all was pretty pretty incredible.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: And uh, I would definitely do it again. I don't
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: know if I would go around and buy all the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 7: spearfish and stuff come down and like make trips down
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 7: to the Louisiana or wherever else to go diving and snorkeling. Uh,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 7: but if I got extra gear on the boat, yes,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: if there's if there's some extra flippers kicking around.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: I'd start playing with that and you gotta fish.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: I got it.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: The old South Dakota washing rarity, not many people know
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 7: about it, well, they.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: Do know about it, they don't they just don't know
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: about the new name.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: So yeah, and I'm getting a barracuda, which is which
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: is great.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: He's gonna stuff the head.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna I'm gonna hear amount the amount the head. Yeah,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: that was cool too. And he's gonna have a big
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 7: fish fry. Gonna have a big fish fry. Everybody's invited
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 7: except for you, Greg. Uh uh no, Yeah, that was
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: it was just it was incredible.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: When I I remember, I was actually right by Dan.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: It was a byhind the camera right now. Uh, And
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 7: I saw barracuda and I kind of like had a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: moment of like, oh ship, because I didn't you.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Know what you were looking at. Just sort of instinctively
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: I knew. I knew that that was a bar Yeah.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: It's like a fish that like most people be like,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: oh I recognize, I have to. That doesn't look friendly
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: at all, like a little snag. Yes, the mouth is
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a little open.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: I was like, I don't want to fuck with that thing.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: But uh yeah, So I saw it and then Dan
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 7: was telling me. He's like, oh, yeah, like that's baracuda,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: and I'm like, oh, that's cool. And then I ended
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 7: up swimming next to Steve and he's like, oh, we'll
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: try to shoot a barracuda and he's like, shoot that
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 7: one right there, and I was too far away.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: I was probably thirty feet away, way too far.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: Wait, I didn't know he had a rifle. Yeah yeah,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 6: fed out three hundred weather dead.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: But then I told I'll squeeze you when it's time
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: to shoot.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and then we would get up there was cool.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: I was watching from you know, I don't know, thirty
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: four feet give you a little.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: Goose when Yeah, He's like, I'll squeeze your rom when
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 7: it's time to shoot, and I was probably like, I
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 7: don't know, seven feet away from this thing and squeeze
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 7: my arm, pulled the trigger and ended up getting.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: It, and uh yeah, I know. It was incredible though,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: Like I very very glad.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: I got on the in the water and we dripped
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: it away too, So you'll manage to dispatch the South
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: Dakota wahoo.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Pretty pretty big one like was going about it, and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: he came. He came swimming.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I was about to say that looked like a Greg job.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: He didn't like my plan, so I take off and
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: went out of the rig and I saw Steve chasing it,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: trying to wragule it.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: And it was very much alive. And then I just
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: circle back. When you came after you, it was going No,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: he came right back, but I thought he was gonna
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: get me. I thought he's gonna pale me with the shaft.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: He was all over you. They got crazy when you
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: shoot him out of the water. Greg didn't like what
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: was going on. It came. He thought he thought we
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: were gonna get mold. This is probably reasonable.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: I gave it a few seconds and said to intervene
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: with probably think I was playing cat and.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: Mouse with that big dogs messing and all that.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So in the end we.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Got we've got amber we got amberjack, which we had
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: in those delicious yep, the controversial amberjack.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Meaning it's delicious amberjack.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's it's one of those many I
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: keep saying, this is one of those many fish that
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: people argue about. Yeah, there's certain fish that people don't
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: argue about, like like if you go, I mean, there's
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: certain fish is just universally accepted as good. Like no
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: one wants to hear from someone who says that, why
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: who's no good? Right, Sure there's.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Someone, but it's just no one care Like snapper snappers.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Some some dude somewhere doesn't like it, but it's just
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: accepted common carp Of course, you're gonna find a guy
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: that says common carp were great. You know, you're gonna
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: find a guy that says kyote meat is great. But
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: it's just generally people aren't into common car. But it
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: seems to me in my limited experience, the amber jack
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: splits people right down the middle, supplits people right down
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: the middle. There's a little bit of regionality to it.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: Well, there's even I feel like when I first came
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: down here with some of the guys I was going with,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: it's the first fish I ever shot in Louisiana, And
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: even they were like, eh, you know, maybe maybe I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: have a little bit. But they weren't like, oh good,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: you shot a shot a ambridge.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Well my take on was, how bad could it be
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: if it's so tightly regulated. Uh so this was like
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: bad one a day, a short season. It can't be
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: that bad.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: It was a little looser back then. I mean you're
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: talking probably fourteen fifteen years ago. I shot it in March.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't even the same time of year.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 8: Okay, I'm trying I'm trying to remember when they started
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 8: bringing in the season on amberjack. Yeah, I say, I
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: was trying like middle school when they started putting on
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: so it's.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: A tight season.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I also didn't realize how old I was getting, so
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: I've been coming down here for a long time. And
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: then you talked about and Ronnie's consumerly younger than I have.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's the regulations changed greatly with that fish
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: over the year, so.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: It's a one a one month season one day. Yeah,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: it's a tight ass regulated fish, which says to me,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: someone wants it.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 8: But the commercial guy who got a long season, they could,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 8: Oh they do they get them like a winter, they
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 8: long let them. No, they they bandit bandit fish them,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 8: kind of like snapper. They do what bandit fishing, big
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 8: giant reel, put a big, big hand crank on it
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 8: and they'll put like twenty to fifty hooks on it
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 8: and up it down or with the amber jacks, sometimes
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 8: they'll run a lot less hooks. But you never seem
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 8: like a snapper boat. Like snaper boats fish with big
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 8: bandit reels with and catch and god that mounts a snapper.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen it.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: It looks like a big black pulley on like a
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: metal arm that they'll sticking a rod holder in the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: gunwale and they just crank it up.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: But it's it's got a big metal wheel on it,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: like it's got one main line with a bunch of
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: droppers on it exactly bat them as it goes out. Yep. Yep.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: You'll have like an auto jig auto jigs or what.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: No, you just lay it on the bottom and then
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: by the time on a good spot, by the time
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: you get it all on the bottom, you bring it
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: back up.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: Basically.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: God, it's all just circle hooks. Yep. Yeah. And that's
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: how they catch them.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 8: That's how they fish them.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Got amberjack, Yeah, got gray triggers yep. Also tightly regulated.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, very tightly regulated per day, and they all also
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 8: have a very small season, like they close the same
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: day as Amberjack.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, kobea tighter and tighter all the time.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: That that was That was a killer for me, not
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: one per person, but was hurting yesterday seeing all those
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: Kobe and letting them swim away.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: There was a lot.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: First, my side job is commercial kobea and it's like
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: you used to be able to go and you know,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 8: you get two per person and no boat limit. Now
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 8: it's one per person to per vessel. Oh see, if
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: you're out by yourself, it's one. Yeah, so if you
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 8: buy yourself is on one.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Yep. Mangrel snapper which still very you know, a very
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: friendly regulatory structure.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 8: They haven't really changed much. They've been the same as
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: long as I can remember.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 6: And no season on them.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: Something.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: I think it helps the mango snappers and they're tougher
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 8: to catch on rod and reel. They're a lot smarter.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Than the reds. They're slick, yeah, got it.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And from what I heard back in the day too,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: is that you used to be the mangro What we
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: like do with mangrove fishing now where we go up
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: and chum a rig and then we'll let the you
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: know kind of free line, let the hook float back
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: with it. It used to be white trout and croakers
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: like back this way before my time. But like, yeah,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: we used to fish on Grand on Grand, I would say, yeah,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: there used to be no mangroves do. It's all big croakers,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: like bull croakers, that big you know, like we're catching
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: the little ones in the shrimp nets.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: They're like this big.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 4: So I heard I was never here for this because
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: in the seventies eighties, but it's what it used to be.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: The mangrove fishery was a croaker fishery really yep. And
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: as those croakers went down, the mangrels came up. Yeah
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 4: you know cyclical, something else comes up and takes hereinks
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: your spot and.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: We got red snapper yep, which went the other direction.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know it fluctuates all the time.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: So we fished last year Friday Saturday, so the season
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: was a certain window of time.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, just a weekend and you can only have two
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 8: per person, and then as the season went one they
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 8: opened it up to by the end of the season
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: last year you could have four per person yep. Whereas
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 8: I mean I can remember as a kid going out
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 8: when I first started free dive and everything that it
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 8: was like one week a year and you can only
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 8: have two per person.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: And right now it's open all week.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: Now it's opening. It opened it up the I think
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 8: in April they opened the mid April. They opened it
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 8: this year and it's opened all week long and four person.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: Hmm, sixteen inch.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: It's a very uh in Louisiana. It's a very fluid
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: regulatory structure, like they're fine tuning all the time.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: So one of the places you have to go to
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: you really have to pay attention if you're coming from
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: out of state. I'm just so used to a season
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: and a size.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: That's you say, when I go to my mom's lake,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Like when I go to Michigan fish my mom's lake.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: In my lifetime, there's been one change, yeah, and that
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: was that pike went from twenty one to twenty four
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: inches and bass went from twelve to fourteen. Other I
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: can't think of a single change that's happened in fifty years.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: Well, even here the end season change, they'll be does
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: he go throughout?
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they'll they'll close it on you last minute,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 8: or even like like the amber jack season just just
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 8: popped up. What in April I think, or Scelda the text, Hey, look,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 8: they're giving us a springs amber jack season this year,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 8: which is Spring's my favorite time to shoot him because
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 8: they come up higher in the water column. It's a
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 8: little easier free dive for them versus like trying to
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: shoot them in August because they give us an August season.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 8: Most most years like that's more I guaranteed season, but
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: the spring season we hadn't had it in three years,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 8: and this was the first time in three years. Guy
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 8: should go out again and in May and shoot them.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: What else did we get?
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 8: Trying to think we had a dog snapper dog snapper
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: scamps and they get a scamp sandwich.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: It wasn't a monster one, but scamp, grooper, campgrouper.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Yep, what else? That's about it?
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: That's about it?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: Passed up.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean there's all kinds of fish we didn't get.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean alma cot. Did we get alme CoA?
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they get some almal cozy.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Special Almalco.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was great man, Thanks for having us down.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: You people bill watch all about it. Yeah, we'll be
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: able to watch all about it.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 8: How do you like those amberjack amberjack fights?
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: I could see getting drowned by one of those. I
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: could see you got if you didn't do something right
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: and got wrapped up, he's gonna drown you.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to know where your knife is.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got that line when he's going all crazy,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: If you got that line around your foot, he's gonna drown. No, man,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: you're not holding him back. He'd have no problem dragging you.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: Oh no, they're not even trying, and they're just working you.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: You cannot you'd get like you try to tighten down
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: on him and you just going under water, Yeah, pulling
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: you down as you go, and you got to realize
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: you gotta let go to get a breath.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's all about finding that right amount to give
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: him and attention to like yourself, but still not letting
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 8: them get to the rig, because once they get to
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: the rig, it's pretty much it becomes even game over.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: It becomes really tough to go retrieve them. Yeah, these
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: fish like just people listening. These fish. If you shoot one,
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  Speaker 1: you can get over. And these guys will no joke,
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  Speaker 1: hand the lineup or hand the gun up to the
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  Speaker 1: boat and they tie this thing off to the cleat
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  Speaker 1: to try to stop it. Yeah, I mean tie it
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  Speaker 1: off to the cleat on the boat, and then you
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  Speaker 1: run the risk that he'll pop off because he's got
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: something firm to pull against. But other than that, you're
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: gonna lose it. Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: When we're riding real fishing forum on charters, it's we
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 4: use big fifty with tigger fifty wides and they'll be
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  Speaker 4: Once you hook them up, you basically got to slam
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  Speaker 4: it in reverse and hold the hold the spool with
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  Speaker 4: your hands. And they're still screaming out like forty to
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  Speaker 4: fifty pounds of drag. Just to give some perspective, So
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  Speaker 4: use big uh what's the Jerry Brown braid? Like three
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  Speaker 4: hundred pound braid braid and you just basically lock it
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  Speaker 4: down and try to winch them in. But they're still
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  Speaker 4: screaming back towards that rig.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you try to back the boat away. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: have to. You have to use the boat.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the biggest braid you could find with something like
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  Speaker 8: three hundred or up to five hundred pound test mind know,
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  Speaker 8: with a sixty knight circle hook with a live blue
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  Speaker 8: runner and you drop that down to the school and
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  Speaker 8: when you when you hit, when you feel meat it,
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  Speaker 8: you just throw it in four reverse the back of
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 8: the school there. Because they go in the rig, they'll
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  Speaker 8: cut it instantly. I mean you saw like Greg had
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  Speaker 8: even was cutting his dynamo with his first one out
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  Speaker 8: on the strip.
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  Speaker 3: Rig donkeys, rig donkeys.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, they're strong.
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  Speaker 3: It's cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: Just it's like a pack of wild dogs coming in
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: when you when you shoot a mangrove or something like that,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: and when Chili was fishing.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Try it was the benefit of Chili's fishing. Yeah, Steve, Yeah,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: that's how we. Yeah, Chili dropped down with the rod,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: caught a snap or pulled it up, and they just
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: come up with it like they're fish.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like to try and shoot deep on a
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: free dive, like you ain't trying to shoot him because
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 8: you know you got to. You're about to get your
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: hands full, and uh, you definitely want to hurt them.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 8: You don't want to You don't want to just take
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 8: any shot you could get on them because you want
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 8: to give that that get that stunt on them, so
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 8: where they're stunned and gives you a little time to
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: get to the surface and prep yourself.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 6: They're not they're not dead.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: They're just charging their turbos.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Greg says, you got to break their will, break their will.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: Sometimes they break you because sometimes you lock down on
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: them and.
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  Speaker 2: You're swimming up and you're trying to you know, you're
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: trying to break their stread there. Then you look up
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: and go, I'm deeper than I was when.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: I shot it.
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  Speaker 1: He says, when you hit it, if you if it
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: stuns for a second, Yeah, then you got to hog
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: it and it kind of He thinks it breaks their will.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't think it breaks.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: Then they then they puke out whatever they have in
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: their stomachs.
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  Speaker 8: And the like when they flare the up, flare their
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: gills up, and they'll charge up with auction. Like I said,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: like they're charging their turbos and then they're ready to
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 8: kick your ass. He's like, I'm gonna vomit up my lunch,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 8: charge my turbos.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: Take it with me.
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  Speaker 8: When you see the tails start to flick like that,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 8: get ready because you bother go for a ride.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, hold on, Yeah, I was legit a
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: little bit, not not scares that the right word. But
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: you just become aware of how you could do something wrong.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: If you're not being careful about your right well.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: You just have to be, especially if you're if you're
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: shooting real like most of us do, and you start
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: getting that line up. If you do not clean off
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: to the boat and you get it up and they
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: make another run where that line is, you just have
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: to be very aware of what you're going.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 8: As you've seen they do, like you'll get you'll start
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 8: gaining on them like, oh yeah, might I might have
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 8: broke their wheel and they're like, oh no, no, no, no,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 8: we're making another run.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a fish, you know. Some fish, you
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: do break them, they'll do wahoo.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: They'll do one or two maybe three runs, and then
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: they'll turn side aways or run out of gas.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: Where.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the amberjack are just no nonstock resilient. Yeah yeah, well,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: yeah you did it.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 8: I lived, I lived, got you a big one, and
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 8: then you got your good either.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I labeled that one Steve Steve's Special Amberjack,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: my little one.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: But man, yeah, I was. I thought it was pretty good.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: And I texted Yanni. He's he's got a strong North
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: Carolina influence, married married into a North Carolina fishing family.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I texted him and it said, he says, right off,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: do they eat those? That's crazy? I said, very popular,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: very popular, and then he followed up with congratulations, that's cool,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: so must be something. Well, Chief, thanks for coming on
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  Speaker 1: the show man, I appreciate it. You're the first oyster
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: man we've ever had on all right, Yeah, and I
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: hope they fix your prices up here, man or what oysterman?
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Man oysterman. What do you guys call it?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: Man?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Ok? I hope they get your prices squared away. I
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: think that consumers of it would be great if consumers
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: of seafood uh factored in the if it costs them
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: an extra buck or two, factored in the source of
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: where they're getting there, the source of where they're getting
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: their seafood, right to help sustain certain you know, sustained
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: certain industries and practices.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: Realize it's locally called and you know wild caught fish.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: Man's wrong.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: Silicon free, silicon free, no added antibiotics. Still that's wrong,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, man, thanks for coming on the show.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thank you, thank you.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: Row your boat.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 10: Gently down the stream, Oh your bod gently down stream?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 9: Man, That says an icey manro me an icey an icey.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: Life is not a dream? Row harboled.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: Gently down the street.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: Roll your bod.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 9: Gently lead down the street. And I say, icey manly
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: an icey an icey.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: Life is bo a dream? I listen, I say, I say,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: life is bod a dream? Rip yr pen.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 9: Gentlyad down the scene.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, rip yr pen.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 9: Gentlyad down the scene? An iceys and iceay manly an
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 9: I say, an icey, here the lady scream, rip your pants, gent,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: lead down the scene. Rip your pants gently, lead down
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 9: the scene.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: I say, and I say.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: Rollie, I say, I say.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: Here the lady. Stream stream stream