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It's the Terrible at Fishing radio show on Gold

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Country Radio. Here's your fishing expert and

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host, Michael Ruffino. Welcome back to Terrible

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at Fishing everybody. This is Michael Ruffino,

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your host. There's a lot of stuff this week.

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A lot of stuff this week. I guess we'll just

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start with the beginning. First of all, fishing

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is starting and I love fishing. I may be terrible

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at it, but I love doing it. And last week I was

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going to get out there at Lake of the Woods right

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after the stocking and try to get some browns.

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Loaded up my truck the night before inflated

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my boat And I get out there first thing in the

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morning and find out half my boat was deflated.

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I had a whole first time in 20 years and so Couldn't

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go fishing. So I had to fix my boat. So I flipped

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it over and working on you know, it's got four

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chambers and two pontoons and so Obviously it

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narrowed it down to one half of one pontoon and

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I worked fine. I finally found that little itty

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bitty pinhole. It had to be when I stored my

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boat over the winter because I roll it up and

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put it, you know, in the garage. So I patched

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it. And a day later, I put air in it that night.

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Man, I couldn't have. messed up the patch so

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I flip it over again and and This week anyway,

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and then it's slower like Doesn't help much and

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then I find this other little pinhole not too

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far from The other pinhole so I put I put a good

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patch on it So now my boats all fixed up it ain't

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Lincoln as hard as a rock so but I I was pressure

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testing it on Wednesday, so I called up the resort

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and since I am an employee at the resort and

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They had a boat that was acting up now I'm here

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to offer my services The motor was acting up

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and so I figured I'll take it out for you We'll

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run it through its paces. We'll check it out

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We'll see why it's the motors just stalling on

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people and stuff like that, you know I'm just

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there to help. You know, I'm self -sacrificing

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my services and day With my fishing poles and

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my gear out on the lake on a beautiful day. I

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Know you're thinking Wow Mike you are one of

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the most unselfish people I have ever run across

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I know I know it's It's good to be kind. It's

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sharing is caring and You know, it's uh, it's

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very important so I go out there and, you know,

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I don't have a fish finder on this boat or anything

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like that, but I really don't need a fish finder

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for Lake of the Woods. But it'd be nice to know,

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you know, something underneath me in the water

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temp. Although a buddy of mine, he's got his

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bass tracker and him and Mike are out there and

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they're fishing and right in front of me they

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catch a three pound smallmouth. I think they

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just did it to torment me. Actually, they caught

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quite a few, you know, a few smallmouths. That

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three -pounder being the biggest last time I

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had talked to him. And a rarity. I got skunked.

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Got some nibbles, got some bites, but I didn't

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land anything. But it's beautiful and I'm troubleshooting

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this boat and I think it's a fuel filter That's

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what I think I think they if they replace that

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fuel filter, they'll be they'll be fine Because

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it would starve I thought first, you know when

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they described to me it was like a vapor lock

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issue and For those who don't know what a vapor

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lock issue is when your fuel line is near a heat

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source and it overheats it boils the fuel within

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that fuel line and it boils and it creates basically

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a dam and a blockage in the fuel line and your

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engine starves and putters out you have to wait

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for it to cool down for you to start the engine

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again so anyway this one didn't have you know

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first thing I did is look for the you know vapor

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lock issue And since I was borrowing a boat,

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I wasn't quite sure, you know, what to bring,

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so I just brought bare minimums. And so I didn't

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have any jerk baits. I went with other baits

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and, oh well, silly. But now I have my boat.

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It's all ready and it's hard, you know, the pontoons,

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you know, are hard as a rock. I fish on an inflatable

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pontoon boat for two and it's called a, it's

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made by a company called Sea Eagle and it's a

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Foldcat 375. It's actually 12 and a half feet

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long and the Foldcat is the most easily out of

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all the Sea Eagles. It's the only one that's

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actually won awards. and but it can be fitted

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so many different I have over a dozen rod holders

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on my boat and I've got a fish finder and I've

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got side imaging I've got anchor trolleys on

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I mean it's just you can do anything you want

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with a sea eagle foldcat and for 1500 bucks you

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really just can't go wrong for a boat it is a

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fantastic boat and it's and it's built solidly

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20 years. I've never had a puncture in it. Secondly,

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I think it had to be my fault in the way I stored

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it, and I messed it up just a little bit, but

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it's fixed. So, lakes. I am hearing good things

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from Howard's Prairie, too. Howard's Prairie

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is hitting pretty good, and I've heard doglake

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Is doing is starting to act up just a little

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bit. So I'll be out now out on the water more

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and more and I do have some new designs on baits

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and I'm going to be making some soft baits with

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a new pigmentation and We want to be testing

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those out and a lot of times in early season.

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It's kind of fun for me to test out some of my

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new designs on my baits. So I'm very excited

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about getting out on the lake and throwing some

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new stuff I've been working on over the winter

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and seeing what we can do with it. So, black

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and blue works really, really well this time

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of year. So, if you ever, if you want to go bass

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fishing or anything like that, try some black

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and blue baits. Chatter baits work very, very

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well. I did not bring my chatter bait box with

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me this week. But jerk baits work very, very

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well, evidently, according to my buddies. So

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I would give that I you know I would actually

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start throwing some jerk baits out there And

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see if you can't get some smallies or some largemouths,

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isn't it? They they caught those right in front

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of the lodge. She's so no -secret spot They were

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probably in about eight feet Look like they were

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in eight to ten feet of water because I saw them

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catch the three -pounder and So they wouldn't

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have very far from the marina and I did sort

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of circle the lake seeing if there were any hot

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spots around the perimeter of the lake and I

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think I was using the wrong bait and so I couldn't

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find any hot spots although they did. I'm bringing

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jerk baits next time. I really wanted to get

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some footage of me catching. You know, I had

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my action camera and stuff and I just, I was

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ready. I was ready. Um, we are, I, I, I shouldn't

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say we, I said I. I'm going to be doing some

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more river fishing, um, this year, learning fly

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fishing and, um, fly fishing is, um, it's hard

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to learn something new when you're proficient.

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something that's effective and so you have to

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I have to sacrifice see a productive day for

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a constructive day does that make sense so days

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where I'll be catching stuff I have to go and

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learn something to build the foundation to be

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productive later and That requires, well, patience,

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humility, patience, and more patience, and more

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humility. Because I'm not, I am, well, patience.

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You know, I've invested a lot of stuff and money

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time and effort in bass fishing and To learn

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a new way of fishing in different venues of fishing

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Well, that's going to require That's gonna require

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a lot in it And for all you fly fishermen out

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there, and I appreciate you listening to my radio

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show If you want to teach me how wear a win and

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Just send me an email Okay at terrible at fishing

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2019 at gmail .com so it's terrible at fishing

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2019 at gmail .com now I will You know, the reason

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it's 2019 is that's when I was paralyzed. And

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that's when I started the channel. And so, believe

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it or not, terrible at fishing was taken. So

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I threw 2019 the year I started it. And I just,

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it's amazing, you know, in six years, you know,

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I could be up and about, but a lot of people,

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they don't realize, you know, why I call myself

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terrible at fishing. So, you know, silly me.

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You know, when you couldn't speak and you couldn't

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walk, you're terrible at everything. But I'm

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very excited about having my boat back. So this

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week and the following weeks, I'm going to be

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testing some new formulations for my soft baits.

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And I'm going to, you know, we're going to see

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if I can get a chameleon Shad is really what

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I'm working for. It's a chameleon shad. Something

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that shifts color but within a translucent shad

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design. And so I'm looking forward to playing

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with my Plastisol and seeing what I can do there.

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I'm very excited about not only the rivers opening

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up, the lakes opening up, I'm very excited about,

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you know, everything this year. We have more

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water. I mean, if you go to the Great Meadow,

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it's the Great Pond. People wonder, you know,

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where that water goes from Lake of the Woods.

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There is an outlet creek in the northwest or

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northeast part that travels all the way down

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to the upper Klamath, but it also flows into

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the Great Meadow. And the Great Meadow is just

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flooded. You know, it is just flooded. The Lake

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of the Woods and every lake is spilling over

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right now. And there is going to be great CFM,

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you know, volume in our rivers and creeks. There's

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going to be our lakes are going to be just spilling

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over. The ODFW has done an aggressive job. at

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stockings, so we're gonna have some great, great

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fishing. I think in June, every week, Lake of

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the Woods is getting some stock. So in our next

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segment, so stick with me after the commercial

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break here, stick with me because we're gonna

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go over to the stocking schedules. for the area.

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And I need you to remember to follow the stocking

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schedules, not necessarily for the rainbow trout

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that they're putting in, but for the things that

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are going to be eating the rainbow trout. So

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stick with me. We'll see you back in just a minute

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or two. And we're going to talk about where the

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greatest fishing is going to be on this rotation

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of stocks. Out in the backwoods under the stars,

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I turned in the radio from my old car. Gold Country

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locally and beyond. Welcome back to Chair Bullet

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Fishing everybody. So, I know this is what you

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all have been waiting for. Besides, you know,

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figuring out my angst about catching nothing

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and about my boat. So, you know, some of my viewers

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have asked me to give you some updates on some

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of the stocking schedules. So, we're going to

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be talking about some of these stocking schedules.

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Now, I will tell you that when they put a lot

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of legals inside a lake or a water body, it excites

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big fish that come up and eat them. And, legals

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are just perfect fodder for those massive, you

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know, brown trout and largemouth trout. So, we're

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going to talk a little bit about these. Now,

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some of them have always asked about Lost Lake.

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Lost Lake is just one of those lakes that I don't

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fish that very much. I should, but I don't. But,

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Lost Lake, so we're going to talk about in the

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next two weeks. And we'll probably do this as

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a regular update now that the stocking schedules

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are in full force right now So this is actually

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pretty nice. So on May 5th to May 9th Lost Lake

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is going to get 2400 legals 2400 legals 400 trophies

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and 50 broods 2400 legals a lot of legals And

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when they put legals inside a water body, they

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basically get shocked, but they also talk. There's

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a lot of noise. And so a lot of these fish, these

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bigger fish are going to be coming up and hitting

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them. This is a great way to follow the stocking

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schedule. So May 5th to May 9th is, you know,

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one of those. And they're going to repeat that

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same stock. 2400 -450 for May 12th through May

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16th and that's at Lost Lake. So this is a great

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time to hit and fish those big guys. Now you

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can fish the big guys with big jointed Rapalas

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or swim baits or glide baits. Works really, really

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well. And you want, you're going to match the

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hatch. You're going to get one that looks, uh,

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reflect a rainbow trout and you're going to try

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to sneak it in there and try to get their attention.

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So make it look like it's dying. These are great,

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great. time to get some big fish. So, Lost Lake

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has got nearly 3 ,000 plants in the next two

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weeks, each week. So, I would tell you, you know,

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if you like Lost Lake, work it! Work it! Alright,

00:19:07.339 --> 00:19:10.660
so let's look at some other lakes. Again, Lost

00:19:10.660 --> 00:19:13.720
Lake. got a lot of good stuff going in. Now,

00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:18.339
Running Y has a pond. This is great for the kids.

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They've been stocking a couple hundred legals

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inside the Running Y pond. I mean, just go out

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there with the kids, throw out some spinners

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and some jigs or whatever. Really fun for the

00:19:32.299 --> 00:19:35.829
kids to catch. Um, it's easy too. The Running

00:19:35.829 --> 00:19:39.710
White Pond is super, super easy. It is open to

00:19:39.710 --> 00:19:42.470
the public. Don't worry about that. And, uh,

00:19:42.750 --> 00:19:44.849
you know, throw the kids, you know, have the

00:19:44.849 --> 00:19:47.289
kids out there, have some pic, you know, have

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a picnic. Really nice. Now Lake of the Woods,

00:19:51.529 --> 00:19:53.910
uh, they're starting to get their stocking too.

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So Lake of the Woods, um, from the May 5th to

00:19:57.809 --> 00:20:03.440
May 9th, Is going to get 670 legals and 600 trophies.

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So they're splitting boom boom, you know They've

00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:09.740
been stocking at the main ramp because it's pretty

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much the only ramp that's open right now Probably

00:20:13.900 --> 00:20:18.500
Aspen will be coming open pretty soon. But 670

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and 600 is their May 5th to May 9th Stocking

00:20:23.180 --> 00:20:28.009
is pretty much what they did last week Again,

00:20:28.569 --> 00:20:32.210
those particular fish will be holding over and

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sort of stowed in. There's a divot right in front

00:20:35.609 --> 00:20:39.069
of the boat ramp. You can always throw out there

00:20:39.069 --> 00:20:42.329
and catch them. They like to hide underneath

00:20:42.329 --> 00:20:47.849
the marina, which is all out right now. So real

00:20:47.849 --> 00:20:52.650
easy if you want to catch the Brown's Troll early,

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early morning and late, late in the afternoon.

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and even at night, troll it around the marina

00:21:01.450 --> 00:21:04.890
area and lodge area to the Green Gazebo and come

00:21:04.890 --> 00:21:08.890
back. Try to stay within 10 feet. Actually, that's

00:21:08.890 --> 00:21:15.869
a great way to work that area. So that's Lake

00:21:15.869 --> 00:21:18.750
of the Woods, May 5th to May 9th, we'll be getting

00:21:18.750 --> 00:21:21.910
another stocking. And again, if you just want

00:21:21.910 --> 00:21:24.609
to have fun with the kids, go to the Burning

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Y Pond. Phillips Reservoir is getting 9 ,500

00:21:30.089 --> 00:21:34.250
legals. Phillips Reservoir is getting 9 ,500

00:21:34.250 --> 00:21:38.630
legals. That's a lot of, that's a big dump, all

00:21:38.630 --> 00:21:42.109
right? It's the largest, yeah, that's the largest

00:21:42.109 --> 00:21:46.950
dump that week in this area of the state. So

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Phillips Reservoir, 9 ,500, May 5th to May 9th.

00:21:51.369 --> 00:21:54.750
And, again, great time to catch those, you know,

00:21:54.829 --> 00:21:57.529
get the bigger ones that will be eating these

00:21:57.529 --> 00:22:05.410
guys. Actually, it's not the biggest. Jackahominy

00:22:05.410 --> 00:22:14.430
Reservoir is getting 60 ,000 broods. That's May

00:22:14.430 --> 00:22:17.309
12th to 16th, but we're not there yet. All right.

00:22:18.250 --> 00:22:21.609
So that's Phillips Reservoir, Running Y, Lake

00:22:21.609 --> 00:22:27.329
of the Woods. Let's go to that next week, 12th

00:22:27.329 --> 00:22:31.450
through 16th. Chickahominy is gaining 3 ,000

00:22:31.450 --> 00:22:36.289
legals and 60 ,000 fingerlings. I'm sorry, 60

00:22:36.289 --> 00:22:40.650
,000 fingerlings. Again, that's food. Okay, that's

00:22:40.650 --> 00:22:46.150
food. Thompson Reservoir is not scheduled for

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anything that week. So, but they're really stocking

00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.700
Chicahominy with fingerlings. They're just doing

00:22:54.700 --> 00:23:00.779
a lot in the next few weeks. Let's go down the

00:23:00.779 --> 00:23:05.460
list here a little bit. Oh, Anna Reservoir. I

00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:08.420
didn't talk about Anna Reservoir. Anna Reservoir

00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:13.380
between 19th and 23rd will be getting $2 ,400.

00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:24.200
Again, legals are a good wake up call for a reservoir.

00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:28.940
So, I love following those. Alright, let's go

00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:33.160
on to some of the other ones. So, again, I'm

00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.720
just going through... That's not in that area.

00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.640
I'm looking through, okay, Lost Creek Reservoir.

00:23:47.940 --> 00:23:52.079
Yeah, Lost Creek Reservoir is got May 12th through

00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.839
May 16th. They're gaining 10 ,000 legals and

00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:01.519
1 ,500 trophies. It's 11 ,500, so that's a great

00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:07.579
stocking. Lost Creek Reservoir, really good stocking

00:24:07.579 --> 00:24:11.799
right there. um that's the 12th through 16th

00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:16.900
also howards prairie the 19th through um although

00:24:16.900 --> 00:24:23.339
yeah yeah the 19th through 23rd they're getting

00:24:23.339 --> 00:24:30.660
7450 legals um again great great time that is

00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:33.140
a great time for the bigger stuff to come up

00:24:33.140 --> 00:24:37.329
and have and have lunch so or dinner or whatever

00:24:37.329 --> 00:24:42.089
they want. This is really good. So Howard's Prairie,

00:24:42.289 --> 00:24:48.349
19th through 23rd will be fantastic. Applegate

00:24:48.349 --> 00:24:50.650
Reservoir, if you want to travel over there to

00:24:50.650 --> 00:24:57.450
Applegate, they're getting 15 ,000. 15 ,000 legals

00:24:57.450 --> 00:25:01.210
and 500 trophies in the week of 19th through

00:25:01.210 --> 00:25:10.089
23rd. So that's... That's huge, huge stocking.

00:25:11.230 --> 00:25:17.210
Fish Lake on the 12th through 16th, they're getting

00:25:17.210 --> 00:25:22.529
4 ,500 legals and 500 trophies. So 12th through

00:25:22.529 --> 00:25:27.829
16th, Fish Lake will be getting 5 ,000 fish dumped

00:25:27.829 --> 00:25:34.539
into it. So that's a lot. Let's see. Fish Lake,

00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:42.900
that's that. Looking through it, looking through

00:25:42.900 --> 00:25:46.079
it, looking through it. You know, Medco Pond,

00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:50.079
I never talk about Medco Pond. Medco Pond, you

00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.279
can't put a boat or anything, but a simple area

00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:56.180
to fish, nice picnic area. I mean, 2 ,000 legals

00:25:56.180 --> 00:26:00.190
on the 12th through 16th, a great area. seldom

00:26:00.190 --> 00:26:04.450
known by. So look it up, Medgo Pond. Really nice

00:26:04.450 --> 00:26:10.710
little pond to hit. Nice area too. I mean, it's

00:26:10.710 --> 00:26:13.549
beautiful, beautiful country. I mean, we have

00:26:13.549 --> 00:26:16.569
beautiful country too. So I mean, what can I

00:26:16.569 --> 00:26:20.269
say? Now Willow Lake is another one of those

00:26:20.269 --> 00:26:23.549
lakes that I enjoy because such a simple lake

00:26:23.549 --> 00:26:28.829
to fish. So the Willow Lake at 19th through 23rd

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:32.859
is going to receive 5 ,500 fish, 4 ,000 legals,

00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:38.880
1 ,500 trophies. So 19 through 23 Willow Lake

00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:41.880
is going to get a really good stocking. Simple

00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:46.240
lake, two points, nice little cubbies, great

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:50.900
area to go fishing. I love that lake. The east

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:53.819
side of the lake is really good for bass, really

00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:56.920
good for bass on the east side of the lake. So

00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:02.390
give them a shot too. really fun time this time

00:27:02.390 --> 00:27:07.269
of year. So, as kind of the stocking schedule

00:27:07.269 --> 00:27:11.190
for the next few weeks, there are some hidden

00:27:11.190 --> 00:27:16.890
gems, okay? As we get farther into it, Gerber

00:27:16.890 --> 00:27:19.849
Lake is just starting to wake up. I mean, all

00:27:19.849 --> 00:27:24.130
these lakes are spilling over. We are officially,

00:27:25.009 --> 00:27:29.990
Oregon is officially out of a drought. and we

00:27:29.990 --> 00:27:37.289
had suffered through a huge drought. I mean,

00:27:37.569 --> 00:27:39.329
Hyatts and Howards Prairie pretty much became

00:27:39.329 --> 00:27:44.049
non -existent, and now they're full of water.

00:27:45.230 --> 00:27:49.230
They have been, as the dams were removed from

00:27:49.230 --> 00:27:55.410
Klamath, ODFW was busy removing fish out of those

00:27:55.410 --> 00:28:00.799
reservoirs and relocating them. And by relocating

00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:05.599
it, it created a new game fish reservoirs in

00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:11.339
Gerber, Willow Valley, Howard's Prairie. I mean,

00:28:11.339 --> 00:28:13.500
where we weren't catching bluegill before, we're

00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:18.039
catching bluegill now. Where we weren't catching

00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.660
decent sized bass, we're catching decent sized

00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:27.769
bass now. And crappie, good crappie. So we're

00:28:27.769 --> 00:28:32.130
you know, they they relocated a lot of the crappie

00:28:32.130 --> 00:28:37.369
from JC Boyle Which had really good crappie populations

00:28:37.369 --> 00:28:40.849
and put them over into Gerber. So we got some

00:28:40.849 --> 00:28:45.509
really good renewed fishing and if you've ever

00:28:45.509 --> 00:28:50.549
been Excited about fishing This is a great time

00:28:50.549 --> 00:28:53.710
to be excited about fishing because we've got

00:28:53.710 --> 00:28:58.579
our reservoirs and our rivers are just busting

00:28:58.579 --> 00:29:02.900
at the seams. It's like a whole new thing. I

00:29:02.900 --> 00:29:05.920
mean, last time I was at Gerber, it was like

00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:10.420
two ponds. It wasn't even a lake, because it

00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:15.799
was so low that, you know, the divider of the

00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:21.119
underbody had created two water bodies. It wasn't

00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:26.279
very good at all. We're going to have a great

00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:29.839
time. I Hope you guys are excited about fishing

00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:34.579
in the area We've got great stocking wait till

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:38.400
June hits. I mean, it's just boom boom boom boom

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:44.319
boom. I mean, it's just fresh Fresh meat is being

00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:49.759
dumped in all of these ODFW is busy busy busy

00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:54.140
and just like I told you recently the Chinook

00:29:54.140 --> 00:29:58.359
count up at Spencer Creek 192 and the winter

00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:03.000
counts and Coho just over the border no steelhead

00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.359
really yet but we're going to get there the Klamath

00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:10.759
River is revitalizing faster than anybody and

00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:16.740
to my dismay and pleasure the Klamath River is

00:30:16.740 --> 00:30:20.640
is coming back And that is a wonderful thing.

00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:29.299
New boat ramp over in the J .C. Boyle area. So

00:30:29.299 --> 00:30:35.680
you've got yourself a pretty nice, really nice

00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:40.480
things. So anyway, I want to thank you guys for

00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.579
stopping in terrible at fishing this week. And

00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:47.799
I hope. You guys have gotten some good ideas

00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.559
of where to go and what to throw so have fun

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:57.220
Tight lines to all of you. You will see me out

00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:03.359
on the water tight lines to you all That was

00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.000
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00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.380
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