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It's the Terrible at Fishing Radio show on Cold Country Radio.

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Here's your fishing expert and host, Michael Rafino.

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Welcome back to Terrible at Fishing everybody.

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We are having a really good week.

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I am feeling better.

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So my RSV is subsided, which is great.

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My frostbite seems to be doing a little bit better.

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My fingers are almost back to normal color, but still dead as a door nail on the tips.

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It's really hard to type.

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It really is.

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My fingers really should know what to do by now, all these years.

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But they seem to be missing stuff.

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I really need your fingertips.

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Well, we have finished a 32 year storm, which is awesome.

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We have good ice at our local lake.

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So still you could get out there and I do some great ice fishing.

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And speaking about ice fishing, remember last week we talked about my event on Saturday,

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which was the Lake of the Woods Terrible at Fishing, Ice Fishing Derby.

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And we had 75 people or so show up for the Derby.

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And we had a lot more than that.

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We're actually having fun out on the lake.

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And even though I couldn't get out on the ice with you guys, I had a great time watching

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your reactions.

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The children bringing the fish up to me.

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Their smiles.

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Their stories.

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And I'll tell you that that really is why I do what I do.

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My favorite thing to do is to give stuff to people.

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I mean, I just have a good, I just enjoy it.

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I had a lot of prizes that I donated.

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And you know, I even had an ice fishing tent.

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And the neat thing about the ice fishing tent is that it was one of many, many prizes.

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And that went to the person, the person with the biggest fish was a fisherman named Jesse.

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And he had a, who's he?

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I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm sorry.

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Looking through all the fish.

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And yeah, Jesse.

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And he got to choose any prize he wanted.

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And he had a beautiful rainbow trout.

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His son had a pretty rainbow trout, by the way.

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But he had the bigger one.

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And he, he chose one of my prizes that I made, not the tent, but a cribbage board that I

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had made and painted.

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It's a custom, I love making cribbage boards.

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His son Remington really had the prettiest fish.

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His son had the prettiest fish and beautiful rainbow trout.

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Great magenta color on it.

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And Remington, he did, I mean, him and his dad, they, they won a couple prizes.

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And of course, you know, you know, making sure everybody gets what they want.

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We had several sockeye salmon, or a kokane salmon, three of them caught.

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And we had a German brown trout caught, lots of perch, of course.

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And our biggest perch was nine inches, which is a big perch for Lake of the Woods.

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We had quite a few between eight and nine inches.

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Most of them were pretty fat because they were females and they were, they were, you

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know, full of eggs, which is great getting them out of the lake before they lay their

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eggs because you really just want to thin that, that out.

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But we had a lot of eight to nine inch perch caught, lots of them.

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And Jesse and Remington, they, they caught over, they caught 40 fish in total.

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So we had some, we had a young fisher girl, Sawyer, she wants some stuff and David wants

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some stuff and, and we just, you know, we just had a really, really nice time.

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I think the biggest, let me see, the biggest kokane salmon, there it is.

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That's, that's a pretty one though, but it wasn't the biggest.

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I didn't write down everybody's winnings.

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I just, I used my app, my fish techie app, and it does AI weighing and measuring and

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stuff like that.

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And I love that because I had all these fish.

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I just take this little ball that you, that it uses as a scale and then I put it next

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to the fish, take a picture and it goes ahead and figures out all the dimensions, you know,

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the girth, the length and the weight.

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And since I did that to all fish, it was all fair and, and yeah, it's about 96% accurate.

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So, but when you're doing so many, this is really, really nice.

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I really like this fish techie app.

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The app itself is free, but you got to buy these two little balls and they're called

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proof balls and you can get them on Amazon.

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You see, what's it called?

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It's called proof ball.

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That's what it's called by fit fly techie.

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Let's go figure it's fly techie is the company that makes the balls, fish techie is the app.

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But wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

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And we had such a good time and had a young, young man here.

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He looked like he was about 12 and he, he took the tent and perfect because he could stand

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up in the tent.

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It's a one man tent or two kids and it was a nice little tent.

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Again, it was one of those things that I had and I was happy to give away and support the

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whole thing.

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And we had such a good time visiting with a lot of people.

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There was a group of women called, they were wilding and I ain't never heard of it either,

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but they were trying to get in touch with the wild side and they went snowshoeing.

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It's a big group out of Grant's Pass in that area.

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And they got wild, they got girls over there that need to get wild evidently.

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But there were a bunch of sweet ladies and fun.

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Obviously they were very funny.

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And one of them's on a show coming up, Naked and Afraid, one of the leaders.

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So evidently she's already got her wild side.

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I asked her, I asked her, so why are you on that show?

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And she goes, oh, they just asked.

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I go, oh.

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And I looked at her and I says, you know, I remember college back in the early 80s.

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It seemed harder.

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So they asked you, you want to get Naked and Afraid?

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And you said, yeah, sure, why not?

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So anyway, she's evidently on that show this week.

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Her name was Sky, I think, but that's not her name on the show.

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I guess that they're using her real name.

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But anyway, she's from our area.

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But we had a really nice time.

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The marina made breakfast pizza.

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Oh, man.

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This breakfast pizza is like a quiche and it's so, so good.

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And then you had this broccoli cheddar soup.

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It was really good.

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I mean, on a cold day like that, you just want soup and sandwich.

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He was serving soup and sandwiches.

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And that's the nice thing about Aaron at the Lake of the Woods marina.

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It's really the best eatery, I think, in at Lake of the Woods.

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I mean, one of the best pizzas you'll ever eat.

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And on events, he will surprise you with things like breakfast pizza.

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And it's really, really good.

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The day was beautiful.

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It really was beautiful.

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I mean, I know the storm came in later in the day, but it was after the event.

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And Sunday, it was sort of like a free-for-all derby without me.

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And people still had a great time winning prizes that Lake of the Woods donated on that day.

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But it was just a beautiful day with people and with the community.

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This was a free event, a community event that we put on.

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And it was, it's one of three derbies a year, fishing stuff, you know.

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And the next one's going to be the first week in June for the kids.

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And that's probably the best day of the year, that Saturday.

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And then we have one in September, which is a big derby.

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And all these derbies are free.

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Now the one in June for the kids, it's a catch and cook.

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So they catch it.

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We have the Boy Scouts volunteer and they clean the fish.

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And we have grills set up for the fish to get cooked and the kids can eat it.

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And it's just, and these are big trout, big trout.

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You know, these are trophy sized trout.

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And so they're having, I mean, the kids get to see from water to plate.

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And it's just a great time to see the kids light up like that.

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I've been pretty busy with making baits and making, I have discovered games in my creation.

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And using my artistic skills to make unique games.

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I'm just having a good old time making cribbage boards.

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I know.

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Cribbage.

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You probably, you know, the young ones out there probably don't even know what cribbage

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is.

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But cribbage is basically a race using points you get from cards.

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And you deal out cards and you get points for pairs and for runs and stuff like that.

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And then you got this little race track on the cribbage board with pegs.

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And you race those pegs all the way to the 121.

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And you can make multiple laps if you want.

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But just a lot of fun actually.

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And it's very quick, very fast paced, very competitive.

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Ask anybody who's played cribbage.

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They've been playing cribbage for decades upon decades upon decades.

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And it's still one of their favorite games.

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I know.

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And I'm just having a good old time making these cribbage boards.

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I know.

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I know.

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It's a simple things in life.

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I even made myself my own scrabble board because we didn't own scrabble in our family.

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I don't know why because I like scrabble.

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So I made a scrabble board.

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A big foot one.

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You know, big foot is one of our favorite mascots locally.

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Everybody loves big foot.

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I mean, even if you believe, don't believe in big foot.

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You love the mythology and the possibilities of big foot.

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I mean, just enough.

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Let's say he's out there.

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Just for argument's sake.

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Let's just say he's out there.

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He's the best hide and seeker ever.

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And we know he's friendly.

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Yeah.

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He's a friendly guy.

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Because I've never heard of anybody killed by big foot.

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So there you go.

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He's a big, friendly dude or dudette.

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We're not impartial.

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Or we are impartial.

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We're not partial.

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That's what I meant.

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So I've been making a lot of big foot stuff because, you know, big foot's fun.

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Now, you know, there's many people that believe they've seen big foot.

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You know, just because you haven't seen doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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I've never seen an elk.

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I've never seen an elk.

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I know.

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You guys are saying, Mike, they're all over the place.

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I don't think so.

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Because if they were all over the place and as much as I'm outside, I would have seen one

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by now.

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But I ain't never seen an elk.

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I went to squim Washington.

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My in-laws lived.

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And they said, oh, we got lots of elk.

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I said, great.

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So I went up there, spent a week.

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Got on a porch, looked.

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Never saw an elk.

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I'm pretty sure big foot's pet isn't elk.

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I'm pretty sure because I ain't never seen either one of them.

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But everybody says they exist.

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I know.

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They say, well, you know, here's pictures of it.

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Look, there's pictures.

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I know.

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Yeah, there's pictures of big foot too.

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But you know what?

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I ain't never seen them.

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It doesn't mean they don't exist.

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I'm just saying that in front of this Italian, they don't make an appearance at all.

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Evidently, they got a white butt.

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I don't know why.

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And I asked my buddy.

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I said, well, isn't that a white tailed deer?

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He goes, no, no.

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That's the tail.

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Elk have white butts.

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I said, oh.

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And one day I came home and this big mule deer was in my front yard.

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And I was like, oh my gosh, that's got to be an elk.

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So I took pictures of it and it was a mule deer.

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Mule deers are rather bulky.

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And I thought it was an elk.

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I don't know.

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So I'm still learning, still waiting to see my very first elk and big foot.

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In the meantime, it's not like I doubt everybody, but I do enjoy the thought of believing in

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them.

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All right.

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Well, I'm going to let's take a break and we'll come back and we'll talk more about

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the events of Klamath Falls.

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Out in the backwoods under the stars.

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I turned in the radio from my old car.

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The Terrible at Fishing Radio Show.

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Michael's got the secrets around you know.

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You can't lie, your cast just find Gold Country Radio.

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Alright, welcome back to Terrible at Fishing everybody.

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Now that I'm feeling better, I'm getting outside again.

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You get cabin crazy, don't you?

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You get stir crazy and you just got to get out.

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So I went to, I took my daughter to her class, her school and then afterwards, you know,

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we stopped by Cook Woods and Cook Woods is an exotic woods dealer, wood dealer here in

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town.

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It's at the end of Shasta Way and it is the best smelling store or it's not really a store.

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It's more of a warehouse where a lot of wood is but it smells great.

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Ugh, all the aromas of all these different woods and it's gorgeous wood.

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He has exotic woods, right?

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He has normal woods and he has exotic woods.

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So and I'm poor so I can't afford you know a lot of his wood.

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So I always go to the other warehouse where he's got scrap woods and then you know they're

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in big cardboard bins.

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And I discovered a new wood and when I go look at wood, I you know, it's sometimes it speaks

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to me.

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It tells me what it wants me to do with it.

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I know it sounds weird but that's what happens with an artist.

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It actually tells you what the possibility is and in our mind we see it.

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More like when I bought my 69 Dodge Charger was a piece of junk.

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My wife thought it was the ugliest car in the world but I saw in my mind what a finished

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product was.

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So even as ugly as it was, you know, it was beautiful to me and when I finished it she

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finally got to see how gorgeous a 69 Dodge Charger is.

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So I found this piece of wood, this type of wood and it's called Osage Orange.

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Osage Orange.

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And Osage Orange Wood is in that yellow real deep yellow tone.

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It's gorgeous.

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I've never seen a wood like this.

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I mean I've seen lots of wood.

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You're used to wood, right?

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But the Osage Orange is kind of deep yellow and a beautiful grain to it.

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It's beautiful.

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And Osage Wood, Osage Orange Wood is known for being really, really dense and hard.

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So it was used for, it's also called bow wood.

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The indigenous tribes used it to make bows.

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It's very rare.

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It's not a common wood and it comes from an orange tree, the Osage Orange tree.

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And the tree is native to the Great Plains region of North America.

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It's got a beautiful red bark on it and it's just gorgeous.

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So this piece was in one of the bins and the color hit me like, I mean like a rock.

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And I knew exactly when I saw what I wanted to do with this.

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And I do wood burning and so I wanted to put a tiger because the richness of the yellow

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on this and then the beauty of the grain both imitated the body of a tiger.

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So I burned a tiger's head staring directly at you.

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And then, you know, the one thing about art is whenever I create art, I focus a lot on

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the eyes.

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And so I painted these eyes in order to make them really stand out.

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And it turned out absolutely, well, it's stunning.

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Now, I'm a little partial since I created it.

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But the grain looks like stripes on the tiger in the wood.

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The yellow, I mean, it's just the tiger, right?

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I mean, you want orange and it can and Osage Orange can be orange, but this is a very yellow

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piece.

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And then of course the live edges on this piece just accentuated.

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On the back of it, I put, you know, the details of what Osage Orange wood is, you know, and

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what this piece of wood is.

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And it turned out, you know, one thing you'll find I'm very passionate about everything.

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When it comes to fishing, I'm passionate at fishing.

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When I do art or when I create, I'm just very passionate about these things.

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And when I write, if you ever read one of my books, you will get a feel from the writing.

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It's not just antiquated information.

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There's a lot of me, a lot of my personality put in my literature.

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And I've got eight books on the market, just FYI.

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And one's a bestseller and the rest of them, I just didn't name them right.

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You know, you got to really name them right to really find those, the mark, you know,

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tap into those markets.

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But nonetheless, I am just thrilled to death with this Osage Orange wood and something

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I've never heard of before, something that struck me like a ton of bricks.

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And when I finished it, it just turned out so.

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And then it changes with light.

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Those the grain will actually disappear and then reappear depending on the angle of light

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that you have put upon us.

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Really is a fantastic, whoever buys it is just going to, you know, put it on, you know, it's

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only seven by eight inches, but it turned out so beautiful.

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You can just put it on your desk and just look at that and just have it look.

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I mean, it's just beautiful.

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Maybe I won't sell it.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It's just so, so pretty, so pretty.

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And I wish I could, you know, I don't have a CNC machine to make, you know, cribbage boards

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out of wood, but maybe one day we'll get a CNC machine.

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But that is, I'm looking at it right now and this is just an amazing, you know, piece that

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anybody would be happy.

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So enough of me bragging about my latest endeavor on art.

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Now I did get some, about 20 blanks of the four and a half inch square bills.

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And these are big giant baits.

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And I mean, for a square bill, I've never seen a bigger square bill.

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These things are going to be fantastic this summer.

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So we'll get to painting those and have a fun with those.

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So it's just a good time.

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You know, I mean, the snow is melting.

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You know, we're starting to see the ground again.

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And you know, my hand is coming back and my lungs, well, lungs are lungs, but not as bad

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as they were last week.

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And then I've started to make these cribbage boards that everybody seems to enjoy.

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And I've been learning cribbage because I didn't know how to play it.

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And it's very competitive.

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I know.

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It's very competitive.

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He played against somebody and in it, and it can get pretty hairy.

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But the, you know, what my machines are doing, what I'm doing, mixing new colors, beautiful

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vibrant colors for my baits.

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Some of them are in the fluorescent range of colors.

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And so we're going to do some really fun testing.

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And then with my big baits, I'm put, I mean, with some of them, we'll have a collector's

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box, but some of them will have these.

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Have you ever seen on your people that put these really thick vinyl bags with Velcro

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and they fold it over the shaft of their rod and then over and it covers their baits.

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And it keeps the bait from catching on you on other things and tangling up on your other

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rods.

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Anyway, it's a great little thing.

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I've always wanted some, but I never got any.

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So I bought a lot of them.

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And so some of my big baits are going to have this bag that you will use.

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And you would appreciate it immensely because these run about five bucks, you know, just

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a bag, really thick vinyl.

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I mean, I use really sharp hooks and they don't poke through it.

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Anyway, you just, instead of throwing away the packaging, you actually will use this

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in order to keep your baits from hooking other things.

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And it'll be really a nice thing for you to have.

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If you don't have them, you probably should get them because I should have got them a

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long time ago because I've got taken a lot of hooks out of my legs.

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A lot of hooks.

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And one day I'm going to show you, you know, I should make a video on my YouTube channel

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on how to remove a hook.

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I have done it a couple of times on video when I did hook myself.

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And then I just, you know, somewhere on the, on my YouTube channel, I have thousands of

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videos on my YouTube channel.

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So if any of you ever wonder, you want to binge watch?

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I've got playlists of lakes of Southeast Oregon.

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I have a lot of Lake of the Woods ones because I'm there a lot.

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And ice fishing ones.

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I started a fly fishing one as I learned more about fly fishing.

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And but my favorite, I've told you, is the not anymore playlist.

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It is basically all videos are less than seven minutes and they teach you something about

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fishing, about species, about different baits, about tying knots, about casting.

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You know, my favorite, my favorite rod is a bait cast, you know, bait casting reel.

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And once you go into bait casting, once you learn it, it is very, very difficult to go

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back to spinning rods.

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Now, spinning rods still have a place in my arsenal, but bait casting is really 90% of

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my fishing.

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It is, except for, you know, except for ice fishing.

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Ice fishing, we use a different type of reel altogether.

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We use an, I use an inline reel.

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It looks like a fly fishing reel is what it looks like.

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You know, it's just a spool basically.

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But this one, this one's got actually gear ratio on it, three to one.

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And it has, it frees up wonderfully to drop even a 1 1 1 8th of an ounce jig.

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And it's something that all the others can't do.

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And so when I go ice fishing, I actually have this, this inline ice fishing reel.

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And it is really the best reel for ice fishing.

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I would definitely go with a four, two or four pound test for your ice fishing because

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you really want a light line.

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You don't want the line to stop your drop of a very light jig.

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Now, 1 1 8th of an ounce is a very, very light, is the lightest jig I've ever seen.

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And a company called Mule, like the Mule, like a jackass Mule fishing.

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Mule fishing makes those.

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And I've never seen it available anywhere else.

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But Ethan, the guy who, who designed it and he owns Mule fishing, I actually interviewed

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him on my, my terrible fishing YouTube channel.

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So it's a good video to watch with Ethan and why he calls it Mule fishing and where he

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got his ideas from.

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He's very much into finesse fishing.

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So he loves crappie fishing, pan fishing and stuff like that.

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But some of these are also made for bass and trout and stuff like that.

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So I actually have, in my tackle bag, I always have Mule fishing gear in it, jigs and soft

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plastics.

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And I always go out with them.

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So that tells you something about, in fact, Mule fishing, you think, except for one bait

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by six cents, everything else I make.

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So I make all my baits.

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So my hard baits and my soft baits.

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But go to my YouTube channel, Terrible at Fishing, and see what I've been up to.

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And see some of these events that I keep talking about.

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But I want to thank you guys for tuning in this week.

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And I will see you guys out on the water or on the ice.

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Or on my YouTube channel, you'll see me.

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Anyway, you guys take care, tight lines to you all, and be safe out there.

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As the ice warms up, it'll start to thin out.

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So please, in the next couple of weeks, you got good ice fishing, but after that, please

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be safe.

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That was Terrible at Fishing, the radio show.

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With fishing expert Michael Rafino.

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Check out Terrible at Fishing on YouTube.

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And tune in next week for the next episode and more great fishing tips.

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Terrible at Fishing, Fridays at 7pm on Gold Country Radio.