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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. Well, we've had another

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exciting week. Finally got my boat back out on

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the water this week and that is exciting for

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me. You're just more comfortable with all your

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own stuff, your own boat, your own fishing gear.

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It's just so much nicer. It was a beautiful day

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on Wednesday. And Wednesday was also a stocking

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day at Lake of the Woods. That's where I was.

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And they stocked a little heavier on the trophies

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than they were on the legal size rainbow trout.

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They stocked it at about 2 30 in the afternoon

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and we'll go over stocking schedules here pretty

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soon. I did catch a couple decent trout and as

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well as perch, of course, and the I caught, let

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me take a look, just over a one pounder and just

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over and a 1 .6 pounder. my fishing so they were

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see if I can find the measurements and we are

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going to yeah here we go a 14 and a half incher

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and a 16 and a third incher rainbow trout they

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hit a spinner and you know when when things are

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dumped into the lake they basically they're not

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real hungry. They are under a shock, so you're

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really working off of an instinctive bite. And

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so throwing a spinner is a great way to catch

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fresh stock. And I'm going to be fishing in the

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next couple days to work for what eats these

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legals, which is brown trout. The brown trout

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are going to be coming up and hitting these legals.

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When stocking is actually done, all those new

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fish are dumped into the reservoir, or the lake

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in this case, and they make a lot of noise. I

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mean, they really do. Fish actually have audible

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signals, and they're just blah blah blah blah

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blah. I mean, they're just yelling in their way,

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and it's carrying over the entire lake. So now

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the whole lake And it's not a big lake, it's

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only three miles by one mile, and sound travels

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farther in water. So all these fish that were

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in other parts of the lake are coming to the

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stocking area, which is the main ramp at Lake

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of the Woods. So now you've got largemouth bass

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and rainbow trout, or brown trout, that are coming

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to eat these. Now, the crazy thing is too, we're

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seeing the bass start their pre -spawn. We'll

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talk about that, too, on what to do about bass

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in this next four weeks or so. But those brown

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trout are huge. Now, please put them back. After

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you measure them and do what you want with them

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in photos, put them back in the lake. I am a

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catch and release type of guy, unless it's, you

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know, planter fish or something like that, or

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I damage the fish. but these fish are old they're

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wonderful to catch and with brown trout you're

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going to troll around the lodge area in about

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10 feet of water and try to get that big swim

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bait down to about 8 feet just about you know

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two or three feet off bottom and Troll it and

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and and try to stop and start it and make it

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look injured. You're going to be doing it in

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a light pattern or a rainbow pattern, which sort

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of mirrors the rainbow trout. You're going to

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do it first thing in the morning and late late

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in the afternoon, like right before sunset. The

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beautiful thing about Lake of the Woods, you

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can fish it at night. It is a 24 -hour lake.

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and at night you can get some really big fish.

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Now again, please put these fish back in the

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lake. Legally you can keep it, but there are

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some lakes like Diamond Lake, if you catch a

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brown, you cannot legally damage it permanently

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and you can't keep it. So you have to put it

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back. But just for gamesmanship, do what you

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need to do and put it back. And I use an app

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called FishTechie and you just put a little orange

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ball next to it and you take a picture of it

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and it does all the measurements for you and

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you can put it back in the water ASAP. You don't

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have to pull it out of the water, you don't have

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to gill it and weigh it and measure it. I mean,

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they're tough fish. Don't get me wrong, like

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bass, because these are old fish that have survived,

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you know, a decade plus, and they're tough. But,

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I would suggest putting the brown back in the

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lake, please. Just so other people can enjoy

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it. And then, of course, repeat the cycle as

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they get bigger. So, that's the beauty. of it,

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following the stocking schedules of legal size.

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Trout gives you the beasts that actually eat

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these legal size. I mean, when you think about

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it, I mean, how big does a fish have to be to

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eat an eight -inch fish? I mean, it's got to

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be pretty big, and a big enough mouth, et cetera,

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et cetera, et cetera. So using, if you just want

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to catch the stock fish, I mean, just a spinner

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or some rainbow power bait, And I would suggest

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a water bobber or a bubble bobber. Bubble bobbers

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are bobbers that slide on your line and you fill

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it with water. No air in it whatsoever. Just

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fill that thing up with water, the bobber. You're

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going to put it on the smaller end pointing towards

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your rod. And then you're going to put a barrel

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connector. That's a stopper. you're going to

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put three to five feet of leader on it. No more,

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no less. Three to five feet of leader with a

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number 10 hook and then just put some power bait

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on it. You're going to toss it out there and

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just let it sit with slack. No tight lines on

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it, okay? You're going to give that that bait

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slack. What ends up happening with a bubble bobber

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is that it has enough Weight to sink but enough

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buoyancy to have neutral buoyancy within the

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water so what it's going to do is going to draw

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it's going to slowly drop into the water column

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and then it's going to touch the weed bed and

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Stop and it's going to have this neutral buoyancy

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and then power bait floats So three to five foot

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leader your your bait is up above it and with

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the motion of the water, the current, it's going

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to be moving slowly. That is enough for the trout

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to be attracted to it. When the trout bites it,

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this is where it's important to not have tight

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lines, okay? You gotta give it slack. The trout

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is going to swallow that bait and hook itself

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and give it the ability to run on it. and then

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when it runs it's going to create you know that

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slack is going to tighten and it's going to hook

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itself it's going to set the hook itself at that

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point your rod is going to bend pull it up have

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fun and then repeat if you do this okay the bubble

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bobber method with three to five foot leader

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you will catch your limit of trout. Now, you

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will also catch a lot more than that. So, what

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you'd wanna do to do this properly, have a hook

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de -hooker. It's a de -hooker, it's just a little

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thing. And when you pull it up to your boat,

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if it's not what you want, leave it in the water

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in the net. and just pop the hook out with the

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de -hooker and keeping the fish in the water.

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Stock trout are easily shocked. They're easily

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shocked. So if you pull them out of the water,

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you do think they're going to die. They're not

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going to survive. De -hook it and let them go.

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And then keep repeating until you get a size

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of a trout that you want. So you're going to

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catch a lot of legals, but you want trophies.

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And don't worry, you're going to catch like 20

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fish in a day. You're going to have your pick.

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Stop at five. Your limit is five, okay? That's

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your limit is five. So please obey the law, okay?

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But keep the fish in the water and use a de -hooker

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in order to remove the hook. If you use the bubble

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bobber method, you will catch a lot of trout.

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What you want to do is sort of hit the drop -off

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and cast towards the shallows. Since they did

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stock at the main ramp, what I noticed, because

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I was out there, I noticed that they were going

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left along the shoreline. By working Rainbow

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Bay along that shoreline, you're going to find

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those trout. There are some holdover areas, which

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is underneath the marina, right there. There's

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some divots just beyond the boat ramp dock, just

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beyond it, about 75 feet. There's a holdover

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area where they like to settle in. But along

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that shoreline, on the main ramp towards Rainbow

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Bay, running along Rainbow Bay, they went left.

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I did follow the migration of it. And you're

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going to catch a lot of trout this weekend. Just

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shore fishing, bank fishing, the Rainbow Bay.

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Also, I'm sure they'll make their way over to

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Sunset there, too. And there's a nice holdover

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beyond the old lily pad area that they like to

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settle in on. So you're going to have to need

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some kind of flotation device to get out there.

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And you'll be able to fish that holdover area

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in the middle of Rainbow Bay towards the lily

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pad area. You know what I mean. There's no lily

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pads at the moment, but they're growing. and

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there's this divot out there and you can catch

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your limit out there. So really easy fishing

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over at Lake of the Woods right now. We're going

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to go, we're going to talk a little bit about

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in our next segment we're going to go over the

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stocking reports because I think that's real

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important for you to chase big giant fish and

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have a great day. Now I uh There there is a really

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cool event coming up not this weekend, but the

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following weekend on Saturday at Veterans Park

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There's a migratory bird day now. I am a big

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bird watching fan I am I mean my wife and I we

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owned a store in Fresno at one time called the

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Wild Bird Center and Every Saturday I took people

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out on Bird walks and I showed them the birds

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of you know, Fresno. And it was amazing because

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you can walk through a neighborhood and see five

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different woodpeckers, which is one of my favorite

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categories of birds. Also a lot of cedar wax

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wings. You'd be surprised at what you would see

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walking in your neighborhood. And if you just

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listen and look up to see what's there. Now,

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Migratory Bird Day is a celebration of what's

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coming in the area. And we have so much waterfowl,

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which is my weakness. I'm more of a songbird

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type of guy. But you'd be surprised the variety.

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I mean, just in Veterans Park, you could probably

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knock out 70 different species of birds in a

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day, maybe 100. There are so many. The Green

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Herons that love Lake River. And there's just,

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I mean, the Green Herons are really cool. And

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if you bring your binoculars, you know, to the

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park, I will have a booth set up and to show

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you, you know, my stuff, but also to help you

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with your bird identification. So that's the...

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That's not this tomorrow. This is actually going

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to be on the 17th. So, 17th at Veterans Park.

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Alright, we're going to take a break and we're

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going to go over the fishing stocking schedules

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in this next segment. Pay close attention because

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beyond. terrible at fishing but it feels just

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right okay welcome back to terrible at fishing

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all right we are going to go over the stocking

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schedule for our area so let me go to the website

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which is the od myodfw or odfw .com and you can

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go to the fish stocking schedule and just type

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in a lake, okay? Put the dates that you want,

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type in a lake, and you can just go ahead and

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hit apply. And then it gives you the stocking

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schedule. Now, last week, or this week I should

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say, they stocked 670 legals, 600 trophies. So

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that was a really good stocking. You saw, if

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you follow me, You on Facebook You will find

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that I did catch some pretty good size one that

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came right off the truck Now May 19th through

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23rd, which is in a couple weeks That week they're

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going to really stock it up with Legals 1000

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Legals with 600 trophies So, that's 1 ,600 fish

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that will be dumped into Lake of the Woods. So,

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now we're going to go to Fish Lake. Now, interesting

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about Fish Lake... Fish Lake is a different forest.

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And Fish Lake is a lake with... that has a different

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hatchery. So you get slightly different fish

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there, and the 12th through 16th, they're going

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to put in a ton of fish. It is a trout lake,

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okay? It's not a bass lake like Lake of the Woods.

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So next week, okay, this coming week, they're

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going to put in 4 ,500 legals. Now what's so

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great about that? is that those tiger trout,

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which are ravenous and huge, illegal to keep,

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but they will be hitting those legals. So 4 ,500

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legals and 500 trophies. 5 ,000 fish next week

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at Fish Lake. That is, well, that's a lot. That's

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a lot. And that's because the, those other fish

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that are in it, they're just going to be wanting

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it. Now, over at Lost Creek Reservoir, if you

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thought that was a lot, okay, the same week,

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again this is a different hatchery than we get

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on this side, Lost Creek is going to be stocked

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with 10 ,000 legals. 10 ,000 legals and 1 ,500

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trophies for a total of 11 ,500 fish. So next

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week, Lost Creek Reservoir will be given 10 ,000

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and 1 ,500. Again, the big fish are going to

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be coming up and hitting these 10 ,000 legals.

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It is going to be a fantastic stocking. So let's

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look at Willow Lake. I love Willow Lake. It's

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just a cute little lake, great for kayaking,

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great for small boats. So let's take a look to

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see when they have in two weeks. They're going

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to have a really good stocking. Again, we're

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seeing our bass into a pre -spawn mode. When

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they go into pre -spawn mode, they're not going

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to hit anything. All right, they're going they're

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finding their beds They're laying their eggs

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and they're gonna sit there and they're gonna

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sit in the shallows. I do not recommend fishing

00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.940
bedding bass now some people do Really hard to

00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:26.200
get them to bite. But if you do put them back,

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let them finish their nesting But I don't like

00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:33.339
disturbing them Typically, I'm going to be waiting

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on bass fishing for, you know, somewhere in late

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June. And then when they come off, their beds

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are going to be really, really hungry. It's going

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to be a lot of fun catching them. And the water's

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warming up really nice. It was 53, 54 degrees

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when I came off the lake this week at Lake of

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the Woods. Willow Lake. Alright, from the 19th

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through 23rd we'll be giving 5 ,500 fish, 4 ,000

00:21:02.779 --> 00:21:07.180
legals, 1 ,500 trophies on such a small lake.

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This will make fishing incredible. It is a very

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beautiful little footprint of a dinosaur lake

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and it's like a big giant T -Rex put its foot

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down. Willow Lake is about 20 minutes past Lake

00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:28.210
of the Woods, 25 minutes. Great lake, beautiful

00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:31.190
lake, incredible boat ramp. It has a great boat

00:21:31.190 --> 00:21:34.869
ramp. You're going to love launching at Willow

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Lake. So 5 ,500 fish will be put there in about

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a week and a half. That is going to be a lot

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of fun. So let's go over to Howard's Prairie.

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We gotta go type it in, Howard's. There it is,

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Howard's Prairie. Now let's see what they're

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going to be getting. They are going to be getting

00:22:07.190 --> 00:22:10.990
just legals on the 19th through 23rd, about a

00:22:10.990 --> 00:22:12.730
week and a half. They're going to be getting

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7 ,450 legals. Now the great thing about that

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is, you know, again, bigger fish are going to

00:22:19.450 --> 00:22:22.150
be coming up, those largemouths, Howard's Prairies.

00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.640
Again, we're looking at a spawning type of scenario,

00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.940
but you can catch a lot of really nice big fish

00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:34.640
that are feeding off a large plant of legals.

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So week and a half, 7450 fish. So let's look

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at Hyatt's Hyatt Reservoir, which is not too

00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:54.519
far from Howard's Prairie. Nothing Let's look

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at Gerber. I like Gerber and Come on Nothing,

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what do you mean Gerber? How about Willow Valley?

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Nothing all right, so we're just going to be

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Oh Thompson Thompson, let's see if Thompson's

00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.039
getting anything. They've been stocked really,

00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:25.579
really well. You go to Thompson, you're going

00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:28.599
to be catching some big stuff. They got nothing.

00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:32.579
But you don't have to worry about that. You go

00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:37.160
to Thompson, it'll do really well. Now, Anna

00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:42.319
Reservoir, a little bit of a drive, but Anna,

00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:45.119
let's see if Anna's getting anything. Oh yeah,

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we're getting Anna at 2400 Legals. 19th through

00:23:48.559 --> 00:24:04.319
23rd Okay, so that kind of oh wait, how about

00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:13.359
Lost River? Lost Creek, Lost Lake, no All right,

00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:20.490
we are looking We're looking really good, so

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So those are our fishing reports our fishing

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stocking schedule or for our local area right

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now now What are you going to use Now berm worms

00:24:34.930 --> 00:24:39.029
work always work Yeah, but spinners are working

00:24:39.029 --> 00:24:41.609
really really well, and they usually do this

00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:46.900
time of year small finesse spinners Very good.

00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:50.000
Now, I've been using some bigger ones. So basically,

00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:55.019
you know, you'd be surprised at what a lipless

00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:58.819
crankbait with a spinner attached to it, a willow

00:24:58.819 --> 00:25:01.539
blade, or if it's small and finesse, maybe a

00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:13.220
Colorado blade. Try that. You can go to Amazon

00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:18.619
and look up spinners. or spinner hooks, ones

00:25:18.619 --> 00:25:20.619
that already have the spinner attached to them.

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:25.039
Adding a willow blade hook to the back end of

00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:30.480
a crank bait or a lipless blade works very, very

00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:34.359
well. It'll get you about twice your hookup ratio

00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:38.660
because it adds length, it adds a swimming action,

00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:42.740
and it adds flash, of course. So all three of

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:47.839
those things are a sort of a trick, okay, to

00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.759
add to your arsenal that you already have. And,

00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.240
you know, for a few bucks, adding that hook with

00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:59.940
a willow blade, a willow blade is an elongated

00:25:59.940 --> 00:26:04.039
blade. Again, we want to increase the size of

00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:08.660
our bait without increasing our outgo money,

00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:12.759
but also add that swim action. And if you watch

00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:17.559
me on terrible at fishing on YouTube and type

00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:21.599
in brown trout. You will see me catch a 27 inch

00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:26.619
9 pound brown trout off of a lipless with a willow

00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:33.539
blade attached to it that I made. So if you if

00:26:33.539 --> 00:26:35.980
you go to my YouTube channel you will see stuff

00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:41.130
like this. I did not record the trout that I

00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:42.950
caught because it was at the end of the day and

00:26:42.950 --> 00:26:49.589
my batteries were dead. And we'll get some more

00:26:49.589 --> 00:26:53.710
footage on there. And I've been busy doing a

00:26:53.710 --> 00:26:57.880
lot of artwork. For the migratory bird day because

00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:00.700
I want to present, you know my art I will be

00:27:00.700 --> 00:27:02.940
selling some of my baits over there and stuff

00:27:02.940 --> 00:27:06.579
like that But I want you guys to really dive

00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:09.440
into the migratory bird watching when you're

00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:14.380
fishing is just a joy This time of year, you

00:27:14.380 --> 00:27:19.190
know We've got our spring migration and they're

00:27:19.190 --> 00:27:21.509
coming into town. You're going to see sandhill

00:27:21.509 --> 00:27:24.470
cranes. You're going to see some absolutely beautiful

00:27:24.470 --> 00:27:31.869
birds. The green herons and just beautiful, beautiful

00:27:31.869 --> 00:27:37.009
birds. And I'm enjoying it. The western tanager,

00:27:37.210 --> 00:27:39.990
which is sort of like my, I call my tequila sunrise

00:27:39.990 --> 00:27:43.250
birds. If you ever go on a bird walk with me,

00:27:43.289 --> 00:27:48.859
you will laugh. because I have nicknames. Now,

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.099
Audubon guys go nuts. Audubon guys are pretty

00:27:52.099 --> 00:27:56.099
anal about naming their birds. You know, you

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:59.180
will do, they say, oh look, a blue jay. An Audubon

00:27:59.180 --> 00:28:03.180
guy will get mad at you because we have no blue

00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:06.079
jays in the western United States. That's in

00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:08.839
eastern United States. What we have are scrub

00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.119
jays and we have stellars jays. We have mountain

00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:18.339
bluebirds and western bluebirds. And so, to an

00:28:18.339 --> 00:28:22.180
Audubon guy, some of them, not all, but some

00:28:22.180 --> 00:28:25.900
of them are pretty anal. And they will correct

00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:29.599
you. And they will tell you that that is not

00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:31.920
a blue jay. Well, if you really want to get picky,

00:28:32.299 --> 00:28:35.519
that's not a blue bird at all. Those feathers

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:39.200
are not blue at all. That's just what you perceive

00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:44.779
it to be. And they're actually brown. So I mean

00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:47.339
you can give a Audubon guy kind of a hard time

00:28:47.339 --> 00:28:50.420
if he's giving you a hard time By calling a J

00:28:50.420 --> 00:28:53.460
a blue J here on the Western United States. You

00:28:53.460 --> 00:28:55.839
can just tell them So what color is it? You'll

00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:58.880
say oh, they're blue. Yeah, is it a J? Yeah,

00:28:59.099 --> 00:29:01.980
and well, it's not a blue J It's a scrub J or

00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:04.440
a Stellar's J, but you can also tell them that

00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:08.440
there's no such thing as blue feathers so It's

00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:16.079
an optical illusion I'm so honoring. I went on

00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:20.960
a bird walk in Squam once and the guy was, you

00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:23.299
know, I go, oh, everybody come over here. There's

00:29:23.299 --> 00:29:26.119
the tequila sunrise bird over here. And the,

00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.720
the, the, the Audubon guy was just mad at me.

00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:31.480
And it was a Western tanager, which it looks

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:34.819
like the drink, you know, red, orange, yellow,

00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.339
just beautiful. I mean, it's just. looks like

00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:40.279
a tequila sunray, or bad hair daybirds, you know,

00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:42.839
a stellars jay, or a belted kingfisher, those

00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:47.279
are bad hair daybirds. And so it's kind of fun

00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:55.160
to get under their skin. But my guys, my team,

00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.500
my group, we always have a good time. And, you

00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:01.359
know, I will give them those little things that

00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:03.819
there's no such thing as blue and feathers. Or,

00:30:04.059 --> 00:30:06.779
you know, the average, you know, eagle's nest,

00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:09.420
you know, bald eagle's nest, weighs 3 ,000 pounds.

00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:13.880
And those are fun little facts that, you know,

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.839
an autobahn guy just doesn't give you. He just

00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:19.319
gives you the proper definition and, you know,

00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:26.740
the bird code for that. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed

00:30:26.740 --> 00:30:31.460
this week's show and hopefully you will get up

00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:35.039
to the lakes. Every lake is spilling over. Every

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:41.180
river is at volume. You are going to have the

00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:46.619
best fishing this year in Oregon. So, tight lines

00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:49.380
to each and every one of you. Have fun out there.

00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:52.380
I really hope I helped you get excited about

00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:56.329
what's happening. locally. We'll see you on the

00:30:56.329 --> 00:31:01.450
water or on the 17th at the Migratory Bird Festival

00:31:01.450 --> 00:31:06.480
at Veterans Park. That was terrible at fishing

00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:11.019
the radio show with fishing expert Michael Ruffino

00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:14.279
Check out terrible at fishing on YouTube and

00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.140
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00:31:17.140 --> 00:31:20.660
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