WEBVTT 00:00:01.759 --> 00:00:05.500 It's the Terrible at Fishing radio show on Gold 00:00:05.500 --> 00:00:08.679 Country Radio. Here's your fishing expert and 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:17.120 host, Michael Ruffino. Welcome back to Terrible 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.539 at Fishing everybody. I hope you've had a very 00:00:19.539 --> 00:00:23.460 good week. I was out of town last week. We'll 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:26.269 talk about that. Did some fishing out of town. 00:00:27.210 --> 00:00:29.769 So you heard a replay of one of my old shows 00:00:29.769 --> 00:00:34.909 last week. So apologize for that but 52 shows 00:00:34.909 --> 00:00:40.130 a year I get a couple days off. So this week 00:00:40.130 --> 00:00:44.009 has been We'll start with bad news and we'll 00:00:44.009 --> 00:00:48.310 just forget about it for now, but This week was 00:00:48.310 --> 00:00:55.359 a bad week for our family We had to make a decision 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.500 about our dog, and you all know what that decision 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:06.019 was. Great dog. Got her from a no -kill shelter 00:01:06.019 --> 00:01:13.939 some 14 years ago, and she was a good dog. And 00:01:13.939 --> 00:01:18.599 really, she adopted my oldest daughter. Slept 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:23.180 with her every day. So, it was the only time 00:01:23.180 --> 00:01:28.719 I've ever been in the room when they euthanized 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:33.120 the animal. I had to support my daughters and 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:42.299 be there with them. So, it was hard. And you 00:01:42.299 --> 00:01:45.200 guys know that. Losing a dog is different than 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.780 any other animal. And I don't know why we bond 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:55.920 so well to dogs, but we do. And well, if you've 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.379 ever had to lose, make that decision to lose 00:01:58.379 --> 00:02:01.359 an animal, you know how our family's coping. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.599 We're grieving still, and we probably will for 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.099 a while. On the other hand, there's a little 00:02:09.099 --> 00:02:11.960 kitten in the backyard underneath the porch that 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:17.159 seems to have adopted our porch. So, I don't 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:22.960 know if that's just coincidence or not, but Named 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:27.199 Java. It's black with a little bit of white under 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:31.219 its chin. Anyway, in the backyard somewhere. 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.939 So, anyway, that was the bad news. Now, last 00:02:35.939 --> 00:02:40.879 week I was out of town. My wife had graduated 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.479 from OIT with her bachelor's degree in hospital 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:50.520 administration and she she got a job right away, 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.120 which is whoo! So she started her new job this 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.960 week. So we wanted to celebrate her huge accomplishment, 00:03:01.539 --> 00:03:06.139 so we went to Lincoln City. My youngest went 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:10.319 with us, and we went to Lincoln City, got a verbo 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.300 right on the beach there, opened the window. 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:18.129 There's the waves, the sound of the ocean. You 00:03:18.129 --> 00:03:21.310 could see dolphins every once in a while surfing. 00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:24.729 Really good surf. A lot of sand. It looked like 00:03:24.729 --> 00:03:28.669 a California beach. And the dolphins were in 00:03:28.669 --> 00:03:31.050 the... Well, actually, there was one time a dolphin 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:33.349 and a harbor seal were actually playing with 00:03:33.349 --> 00:03:35.569 each other. They were just almost like playing 00:03:35.569 --> 00:03:39.069 tag in the waves. And then whales showed up. 00:03:40.030 --> 00:03:43.490 You know, several pods of whales were right there, 00:03:43.710 --> 00:03:48.139 right off of Lincoln City there. So it was really 00:03:48.139 --> 00:03:52.340 nice. I've never been to Lincoln City, and Lincoln 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:55.460 City's got everything you can imagine with a 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:59.080 view that is to die for. I strongly recommend 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.919 that. I'd probably do it again. We're sort of 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.319 working our way up the coast, but that definitely 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.520 is on the agenda to do it again. Now in the meantime, 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.900 I wanted to do some fishing, some deep -sea fishing. 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.579 So I went to Depot Bay and jumped onto a what 00:04:16.579 --> 00:04:19.600 I used to call a cattle boat. Just a bunch of 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.240 people on a boat. And we had 18, I think, on 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:29.360 that boat. And so I get on one of these and it's 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.259 a bottom fishing where you catch lean cod, rock 00:04:32.259 --> 00:04:36.300 cod, stuff like that. And I wasn't doing too 00:04:36.300 --> 00:04:40.850 good. It was so funny. You know, the deckhand, 00:04:41.009 --> 00:04:44.610 Grant, he asked me. He goes, so Mike, what do 00:04:44.610 --> 00:04:47.550 you do for a living? I go, well, I'm terrible 00:04:47.550 --> 00:04:50.009 at fishing. And he started laughing. He goes, 00:04:50.110 --> 00:04:53.529 no, no, really. I go, really? I'm terrible at 00:04:53.529 --> 00:04:56.209 fishing. I have a YouTube channel called Terrible 00:04:56.209 --> 00:04:58.170 at Fishing. I have a radio show called Terrible 00:04:58.170 --> 00:05:00.589 at Fishing. I have a best -selling book called 00:05:00.589 --> 00:05:03.610 Terrible at Fishing. I go, you really do have 00:05:03.610 --> 00:05:08.439 somebody on the boat that is defined by terrible 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.660 at fishing." And he started laughing, and so 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:15.319 did a few other people. He told the captain, 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:18.279 and the captain couldn't believe that he had 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.379 somebody called terrible at fishing on his boat. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:26.019 I did catch one cod. I thought I'd do some crabbing 00:05:26.019 --> 00:05:29.680 while I was on this group trip, and I pulled 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:35.759 up a crab cage, and so we had a lot of crab. 00:05:36.449 --> 00:05:39.230 And so we caught a lot of crab. Which, by the 00:05:39.230 --> 00:05:42.389 way, I have found out that crabbing, one, it's 00:05:42.389 --> 00:05:49.149 easy. Two, they ain't worth it. I mean, it's 00:05:49.149 --> 00:05:53.490 just, you gotta, you know, I'm a lobster guy, 00:05:53.610 --> 00:05:56.990 not a crab guy. Lobster's easy. Big giant tail, 00:05:57.149 --> 00:05:59.470 crack it open, boom, there's the meat. And it's 00:05:59.470 --> 00:06:02.779 a lot of meat. Crabs, Dungeness crabs, not like 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:05.920 king crabs. You know, I've gotten king crabs. 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.600 There's a lot of meat inside a king crab. But 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.519 Dungeness crab, it's just not that big. And so, 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.000 you know, I'm cracking all the legs and pulling 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.519 the meat out and crack and pull, crack pull. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:22.939 And I'm like, and I look down in that bowl where 00:06:22.939 --> 00:06:28.670 all the crab meat is. It was about a pound. And 00:06:28.670 --> 00:06:31.170 you think, Mike, a pound's pretty good. You know, 00:06:31.170 --> 00:06:35.290 it's like $80 retail, right? It don't look like 00:06:35.290 --> 00:06:40.949 that much. It's a lot of work for that, a pound 00:06:40.949 --> 00:06:48.569 of meat. But, you know, the crew were fantastic. 00:06:48.709 --> 00:06:51.370 They really were. I didn't do too good. I had 00:06:51.370 --> 00:06:55.569 never gone deep sea fishing without using live 00:06:55.569 --> 00:06:59.639 bait. Now, I'm from beach community, Santa Barbara 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.439 County and Southern California. I mean, we fished 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.720 off of, you know, took boats out of Avila, off 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:13.660 of, out of Ventura. It's just, you know, we always 00:07:13.660 --> 00:07:17.639 fished our bait, usually squid, you know, you 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:21.819 know, one of those called sabiki rigs. We just 00:07:21.819 --> 00:07:23.620 go up, put them down there, pull, pull, pull, 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:26.480 and just start pulling up bait fish, right? Usually 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.569 squid. And then after we catch a whole bunch, 00:07:29.810 --> 00:07:33.629 then we go out and we go bottom fishing. And 00:07:33.629 --> 00:07:36.970 you always catch a bunch. Well, in this boat, 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:41.170 they didn't use live bait. They used what I would 00:07:41.170 --> 00:07:44.949 call just a jig. It was a big jig. It's about 00:07:44.949 --> 00:07:52.730 a two ounce head on it with a curly tail plastic 00:07:52.730 --> 00:07:57.170 on it. And then a small sort of rock cod jig 00:07:57.170 --> 00:08:02.029 just above it. And people were catching, but 00:08:02.029 --> 00:08:03.949 it's just not in the volume that I'm used to 00:08:03.949 --> 00:08:09.970 it. If we used squid or mackerel or whatever 00:08:09.970 --> 00:08:12.610 we have for bait fish up here, we caught a lot 00:08:12.610 --> 00:08:16.410 of mackerel down in Southern Cal. You would catch 00:08:16.410 --> 00:08:22.310 a lot more fish if you use live bait. And a sabiki 00:08:22.310 --> 00:08:24.769 rig is easy. It's got like five hooks on it, 00:08:25.949 --> 00:08:30.829 little balls on it, and you could just go off 00:08:30.829 --> 00:08:34.169 of a boat or off of a pier and just drop it down, 00:08:34.470 --> 00:08:36.830 jig it a little bit, and boom, get two or three 00:08:36.830 --> 00:08:39.450 fish on it, pull it up, and that becomes your 00:08:39.450 --> 00:08:44.129 bait. And that's the easy part about sabikis. 00:08:46.169 --> 00:08:49.330 should have brought my pole with the Sabiki rig 00:08:49.330 --> 00:08:53.149 and pulled up some live bait. I didn't think 00:08:53.149 --> 00:08:55.309 about it. I didn't think I needed it because 00:08:55.309 --> 00:08:59.090 every boat I've ever gone out does that. This 00:08:59.090 --> 00:09:05.549 is the first boat I had my rod in the car and 00:09:05.549 --> 00:09:09.809 my Sabiki rigs. Believe it or not, I had everything 00:09:09.809 --> 00:09:13.629 in the car, but I thought I'd use their stuff. 00:09:14.789 --> 00:09:17.289 I should have brought my stuff and if I used 00:09:17.289 --> 00:09:21.309 it, great. If I didn't, fine. But next time, 00:09:21.450 --> 00:09:24.350 live and learn. We're definitely using a Sibiki 00:09:24.350 --> 00:09:26.490 next time and we're going to start pulling up 00:09:26.490 --> 00:09:30.149 some bait fish and we'll be using that. But that 00:09:30.149 --> 00:09:33.990 was, that was fun. It was fun. I had a great 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:38.149 time with everybody. You know me, I've never 00:09:38.149 --> 00:09:40.610 met a stranger. Make friends with everybody. 00:09:41.470 --> 00:09:44.809 and make them laugh and just have a good time. 00:09:45.309 --> 00:09:50.950 And we had a good time, really did. And so, after 00:09:50.950 --> 00:09:55.350 that, the next day, my daughter wanted to go 00:09:55.350 --> 00:10:00.429 whale watching. So, I booked us on a two -hour 00:10:00.429 --> 00:10:05.009 trip to go whale watching the next day. And the 00:10:05.009 --> 00:10:08.990 gray whales, not a whole lot of them, In fact, 00:10:09.269 --> 00:10:12.350 we just left Depot Bay and all of a sudden you 00:10:12.350 --> 00:10:14.690 see this ring of boats. That's because they're 00:10:14.690 --> 00:10:20.009 surrounding the only whale in the ocean. At least 00:10:20.009 --> 00:10:24.049 that day. It was so funny. It was like all the 00:10:24.049 --> 00:10:26.830 boats were keeping a distance from this whale, 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:30.230 which is legal. You have to give them distance. 00:10:30.909 --> 00:10:34.779 And everybody's watching this whale. I put a 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:38.620 video of it on my Terrible at Fishing YouTube 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:44.159 channel, but it was funny because it was the 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.899 only whale. After a while, we left that whale 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:51.320 looking for more whales, and we go all the way 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:55.559 down to Devil's Punch Bowl and come back and 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:58.740 didn't see a whale. I didn't even see dolphins. 00:10:59.700 --> 00:11:05.059 I really didn't. I was like, where's all the 00:11:05.059 --> 00:11:08.519 mammals at? You know, I mean, I was looking hard. 00:11:08.620 --> 00:11:12.080 I had my binoculars. I mean, I was looking hard. 00:11:13.419 --> 00:11:15.740 But when we get back, my little girl loved it 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:18.919 because she got to see whales sort of up close. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.259 You're only allowed certain distances from whales 00:11:23.259 --> 00:11:29.019 legally. I think it's 100 feet. And so we get 00:11:29.019 --> 00:11:34.730 back to our Verbo. little beach house. And then, 00:11:34.730 --> 00:11:38.149 I think it was the next day, we see three whales 00:11:38.149 --> 00:11:44.149 out our window. That's two more than we did when 00:11:44.149 --> 00:11:49.009 we paid to see whales. So, yeah, it was really 00:11:49.009 --> 00:11:53.669 cool. And we did some, you know, walking on the 00:11:53.669 --> 00:11:57.549 beach, collecting some shells and whatnot, you 00:11:57.549 --> 00:12:01.220 know, whatever, and did some shopping. I got 00:12:01.220 --> 00:12:03.700 this new game called Canvas. It's a board game, 00:12:03.980 --> 00:12:07.240 a family board game, and I love it. I love it. 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.279 You get to make pieces of art and score points. 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.919 Canvas is a great, great board game, by the way, 00:12:14.019 --> 00:12:19.080 and to be honest, easy to learn and tricky and 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.360 complicated to... I mean, there's a strategy 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.480 to it, but it's a very easy game, and I am not 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.559 for complicated games. I'm just not for that. 00:12:29.700 --> 00:12:32.559 You've got about 50 ,000 pieces in front of you, 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:34.440 and you've got to figure out what does what. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.240 That's not fun. But that was, you know, again, 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:42.620 if you ever go online and check out that board 00:12:42.620 --> 00:12:46.360 game called Canvas, they've got two expansion 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.000 modules. I only got the main one and wanted to 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.139 see if I liked it. Some girl inside the the game 00:12:52.139 --> 00:12:54.860 store just said, you gotta get this! And I said, 00:12:54.899 --> 00:13:00.159 okay, I'll get it. I was such a softy. I wasn't 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:07.850 feeling too good. Okay, I'll get it. So it was 00:13:07.850 --> 00:13:12.070 it was just a lot of fun Lincoln City is I know 00:13:12.070 --> 00:13:14.990 you all probably been there many times, but it 00:13:14.990 --> 00:13:20.610 was my first time and I loved it Really was a 00:13:20.610 --> 00:13:23.769 very nice place and the neighbors that lived 00:13:23.769 --> 00:13:26.029 there. They were on the beach. They were very 00:13:26.029 --> 00:13:29.070 sweet Seems like good people were living there. 00:13:29.070 --> 00:13:32.460 So and we went into stores and stuff like that. 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.860 You know, I talked to everybody and they seemed 00:13:35.860 --> 00:13:40.100 very down -to -earth, everybody there. But that 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:45.820 is this last week and a half, two weeks. Oh, 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.580 in our next segment we'll go over fishing reports, 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:54.899 but I'll also go over this week I went on my 00:13:54.899 --> 00:14:00.940 first bike fishing trip. I know. I bought an 00:14:00.940 --> 00:14:05.740 e -bike to go fishing and you're going to hear 00:14:05.740 --> 00:14:09.820 all about it in this next segment. 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Radio, small budget, big reach. real 00:15:47.669 --> 00:16:06.149 results. All right, welcome back to terrible 00:16:06.149 --> 00:16:10.590 at fishing. So how terrible am I at fishing? 00:16:11.809 --> 00:16:15.580 Well, You know, I already told you about last 00:16:15.580 --> 00:16:17.179 week, you know where I went deep -sea fishing 00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:22.399 caught one cod a lot of crap one cod and Everybody 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.679 laughed because I was the terrible at fishing 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:29.320 guy on the boat And that's fine I mean if you're 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.879 gonna be if you're gonna be known as something 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:36.519 own it just soak it up It's that's you man. I 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.700 mean just be proud of your identity, even if 00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:44.820 it's not really complimentary So this week, you 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:48.039 know, you guys know I bought an e -bike because 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:54.299 I can't drive anymore. And my neurological symptoms 00:16:54.299 --> 00:17:01.299 have crept back in and basically, you know, I've 00:17:01.299 --> 00:17:03.759 suffered blackouts. I mean, it's like turning 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.900 off a light switch. I'll be fine and then BAM! 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:11.210 I'm off. And then BAM! I'm back on again. dizzy, 00:17:11.269 --> 00:17:14.690 disoriented, but I'm there. And you can't be 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:19.650 driving a car doing that. Just can't. So, in 00:17:19.650 --> 00:17:25.589 order to have us, you know, to promote public 00:17:25.589 --> 00:17:29.910 safety, I'm not driving. It's voluntary, but 00:17:29.910 --> 00:17:32.569 I would hate to have that happen and somebody 00:17:32.569 --> 00:17:36.670 get hurt or worse yet die. So, I don't drive. 00:17:38.129 --> 00:17:42.009 But I bought a bike. You're thinking, Mike, what's 00:17:42.009 --> 00:17:44.230 the difference between driving a car and a bike? 00:17:44.289 --> 00:17:47.910 Well, the difference is three tons of metal and 00:17:47.910 --> 00:17:53.750 me. I could hurt myself, but I'm not going to 00:17:53.750 --> 00:17:59.109 hurt anybody else. But you got to get around. 00:17:59.190 --> 00:18:01.289 I mean, it could black out crossing the street. 00:18:03.170 --> 00:18:06.009 So, I mean, you can minimize the damage, but 00:18:06.009 --> 00:18:10.359 you're not going to... you know, the best thing 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:15.299 to do is try not to hurt anybody else. So, I 00:18:15.299 --> 00:18:18.779 got a bike and then I fitted my bike with fishing 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:22.880 rod holders, among other stuff. I mean, I made 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.339 my bike a fishing machine. I got three rod holders 00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:29.440 on it and, you know, I think my rods are seven, 00:18:29.539 --> 00:18:32.079 seven and a half feet, so they are the tallest 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:40.069 bike flags in town. And, I went bike fishing 00:18:40.069 --> 00:18:45.910 Wednesday and I got up early. I put my phone 00:18:45.910 --> 00:18:50.210 on the phone holder on my bike and I typed in 00:18:50.210 --> 00:18:52.549 my Google and I wanted to go to Crystal Springs 00:18:52.549 --> 00:18:57.329 Park ramp right there over at Lost River. So 00:18:57.329 --> 00:18:59.990 I punch in Crystal Springs and it gives me this 00:18:59.990 --> 00:19:05.069 bike route. Most of it is on the OCE trail. So 00:19:05.069 --> 00:19:09.970 I get on my bike, and there's my map, and I wear 00:19:09.970 --> 00:19:13.210 a full helmet. You know, I don't like those little 00:19:13.210 --> 00:19:18.450 cap helmets. Because I really think if I, you 00:19:18.450 --> 00:19:20.109 know, I know I'm gonna fall off one day. I'm 00:19:20.109 --> 00:19:23.970 gonna crash. So what's gonna, you know, keep 00:19:23.970 --> 00:19:26.230 my jaw from breaking? And then I can't talk. 00:19:26.549 --> 00:19:29.789 You might as well kill an Italian. So I got a 00:19:29.789 --> 00:19:33.849 full helmet. I've got my biker gloves and I've 00:19:33.849 --> 00:19:37.609 got pads. I know I'm going to fall one day. It's 00:19:37.609 --> 00:19:42.410 just going to happen. It might be a blackout 00:19:42.410 --> 00:19:45.529 but I'll fall down and I just want to minimize 00:19:45.529 --> 00:19:49.869 the damage to me. So I go down and I'm heading 00:19:49.869 --> 00:19:53.589 down. I go down East Main Street there and by 00:19:53.589 --> 00:19:56.670 Cook and it takes a little dirt road past a lot 00:19:56.670 --> 00:19:59.829 of homeless people there until I find OCE Trail. 00:20:00.329 --> 00:20:05.609 where there are more homeless people there. Never 00:20:05.609 --> 00:20:11.069 went that way before, but I think that's where 00:20:11.069 --> 00:20:14.769 homeless encampments are. And so I'm going down 00:20:14.769 --> 00:20:19.250 the OCE trail, and it's about 10 miles to get 00:20:19.250 --> 00:20:22.579 to this one spot. I've fished a spot before because 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:25.680 it's the boat ramp. I've launched there and fished 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:28.480 that area. It's best by the dam, by the way, 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:33.200 but we'll find out. If you watch the video, you'll 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.559 see that using a Google map is not the best thing 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:42.420 in the world. It's just not. So, it takes me 00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:46.460 all the way down to this what did not look like 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:50.099 a road. It didn't. It looked like a path to somebody's 00:20:50.099 --> 00:20:52.619 house, but it was called Reader Road, I think 00:20:52.619 --> 00:20:55.799 it's called. So I'm looking at it, and you'll 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:58.400 see it in the video. I'm thinking that's not 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:01.119 really a road, but you know Google says go that 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:04.039 way, and I'm thinking if I'm going on some guy's 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.440 private property, I'm probably gonna die. You 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:13.559 know, it's an open -carry state. I'm gonna die. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:20.009 So I go down this dirt road and I'm waiting for 00:21:20.009 --> 00:21:24.650 a dog to chase me, a bull to gore me, a lot of 00:21:24.650 --> 00:21:28.470 cows. Then I ran across this kamikaze chicken. 00:21:29.109 --> 00:21:33.589 This thing chased, went in front of me. It was 00:21:33.589 --> 00:21:37.269 missing like half its feathers. It was just an 00:21:37.269 --> 00:21:42.470 ugly chicken. And I think it just wanted to kill 00:21:42.470 --> 00:21:46.210 itself. But I got past the kamikaze chicken and 00:21:46.210 --> 00:21:48.950 continued going down. And then the road turns 00:21:48.950 --> 00:21:52.430 hard left. But Google says, keep going straight. 00:21:53.549 --> 00:21:57.609 There's definitely not a road there. There are 00:21:57.609 --> 00:22:03.869 tractor tread tracks. So I can see the finish 00:22:03.869 --> 00:22:07.089 line. I can see the lake. All right. I'm thinking, 00:22:07.910 --> 00:22:10.670 OK, I'll do it. But I'm going to stay in the 00:22:10.670 --> 00:22:13.740 tread, you know, in the track. So I don't, you 00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:18.319 know, if, you know, if I do hear dueling banjos, 00:22:18.819 --> 00:22:22.259 I can beg for mercy because I did not damage 00:22:22.259 --> 00:22:25.660 his property. So I start down this, you know, 00:22:25.859 --> 00:22:31.259 tractor tread path and I could just hear a little 00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:34.799 boy saying, Papa, Papa, there's a fat guy on 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:37.880 a bike in our field. And I'm thinking, Papa, 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.019 go grab his long, long gun. you know, zero in 00:22:42.019 --> 00:22:48.240 on me. I'm waiting for the dueling banjos. And 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.119 it was long. I mean, this is a couple miles. 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.200 And I'm going through this guy's party and I 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.789 finally found Dirt Road. And I turn right. Because 00:22:57.789 --> 00:23:00.269 that's what Google says. And I'm thinking, oh, 00:23:00.289 --> 00:23:02.509 finally a road. But it doesn't feel like a road. 00:23:02.710 --> 00:23:05.069 And then I notice I'm on somebody else's property. 00:23:05.509 --> 00:23:07.670 So I stop at the guy's gate. And I'm looking 00:23:07.670 --> 00:23:11.329 for, you know, trespassers will be killed signs. 00:23:11.390 --> 00:23:15.509 That's what I'm looking for. You know, we will 00:23:15.509 --> 00:23:18.589 shoot on sight. But I didn't see any signs like 00:23:18.589 --> 00:23:23.710 that. I said, OK. Deep breath. I see a dog. It 00:23:23.710 --> 00:23:28.509 looks like a nice dog. I go forward onto this 00:23:28.509 --> 00:23:31.069 guy's property, through his property, and the 00:23:31.069 --> 00:23:34.470 dog just looked at me while I drove by it. There's 00:23:34.470 --> 00:23:38.089 some horses on the left, and I'm not too afraid 00:23:38.089 --> 00:23:42.130 of horses. I keep going, get past that house, 00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:45.930 go by another house, and finally get to a road, 00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:51.049 Crystal Springs Road. So, all right, I made it. 00:23:51.109 --> 00:23:54.200 I made it. and I didn't get shot. So there's 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:57.779 a guy over on the fishing dock, you know, at 00:23:57.779 --> 00:24:00.240 the boat ramp. He was fishing. That really was 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.460 the spot I wanted, but that's all right. So I 00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:06.579 went up onto the overpass, the bridge, and it's 00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:12.519 got a wider area on the pedestrian walk in order 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:15.859 for you to fish. So I figure I'll just set up 00:24:15.859 --> 00:24:19.880 shop here, fish off the bridge. and the water 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:23.440 was really, really stained, really stained, almost 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.599 a rust color. It looked bad, but I've seen water 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:31.960 like this, and even though the water, you know, 00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:35.819 looks like rust, it actually isn't as dirty as 00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:39.819 you think it is. And remember, this is Lost River, 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:43.920 basically, and the reason it's white is because 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:48.289 of the denim. So, I don't want you guys to see, 00:24:48.430 --> 00:24:52.150 you know, necessarily see. There are places in 00:24:52.150 --> 00:24:54.690 Florida and those are, they have brown water, 00:24:54.930 --> 00:24:58.089 you know, and it's actually fine for fish to 00:24:58.089 --> 00:25:00.890 be pulled from it and be eaten. I'm not sure 00:25:00.890 --> 00:25:06.109 if that's the case here, but I've seen it. So 00:25:06.109 --> 00:25:09.369 I started casting, I was using a small little 00:25:09.369 --> 00:25:12.869 tube jig and threw that in there and it wasn't 00:25:12.869 --> 00:25:15.210 getting any hits and so I figure, okay, I'll 00:25:15.210 --> 00:25:18.690 throw a medium dive jig or bait out there. That 00:25:18.690 --> 00:25:22.150 didn't get anything. I did see a small fish break 00:25:22.150 --> 00:25:26.990 surface where there was an otter. And so I figured, 00:25:27.130 --> 00:25:29.450 okay, I didn't check the temperature of the water, 00:25:29.970 --> 00:25:32.309 but I figured, okay, I'll throw a frog over there. 00:25:32.410 --> 00:25:34.390 You know, it's all a bunch of vegetation and 00:25:34.390 --> 00:25:37.450 stuff. So I threw a frog over there and skipped 00:25:37.450 --> 00:25:41.269 the frog through this vegetation. and still nothing. 00:25:41.829 --> 00:25:43.690 I figure, okay, well, I'll go down to the dam, 00:25:43.809 --> 00:25:46.730 see if I can't get over to the dam. So I take 00:25:46.730 --> 00:25:49.950 Crystal Springs Road, some other road, and takes 00:25:49.950 --> 00:25:52.950 it all the way down, and found out what I thought 00:25:52.950 --> 00:25:56.789 was going to be there, a gate and a fence, because 00:25:56.789 --> 00:26:01.130 there's a hatchery there, too, at the dam. So 00:26:01.130 --> 00:26:05.609 I couldn't get in, I had to give it up, and I 00:26:05.609 --> 00:26:08.430 put in about 40 miles on my bike, believe it 00:26:08.430 --> 00:26:12.240 or not. I did. I put about 40 miles on it and 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.460 the bike did really, really well. It had about 00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:22.079 25 percent charge on the bike even coming home. 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.099 So 40 miles for a fat guy on a bike. That's pretty 00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:31.319 good. It's pretty good. So that was my fishing 00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:38.789 adventure this week. So let's look at our stocking 00:26:38.789 --> 00:26:45.049 schedules for our area. So, let's go to Southeast. 00:26:46.769 --> 00:26:49.390 There we go, Southeast. Let's see if we can't 00:26:49.390 --> 00:26:53.990 get this. Now, I backdated a little bit because 00:26:53.990 --> 00:26:56.750 you didn't hear me last week. So, the week of 00:26:56.750 --> 00:27:00.230 the 16th through the 20th, that was the Derby. 00:27:00.670 --> 00:27:07.190 They had 970 fish stocked that week. 670 at Lake 00:27:07.190 --> 00:27:11.009 of the Woods, 670 Legals, 300 trophies. Lake 00:27:11.009 --> 00:27:15.109 of the Woods then, on the 23rd through 27th, 00:27:15.109 --> 00:27:21.170 which is this week, they got 300 trophies. 300 00:27:21.170 --> 00:27:25.109 trophies this week. So again, these are probably 00:27:25.109 --> 00:27:28.089 stocked at the main ramp, although Aspen, I think, 00:27:28.089 --> 00:27:31.890 should be open, so they might have gone there. 00:27:32.410 --> 00:27:36.480 And Lake of the Woods, Next week, for 4th of 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:39.339 July weekend, they're going to have similar stockings 00:27:39.339 --> 00:27:45.579 they had for the children's event. It's 670 legals 00:27:45.579 --> 00:27:51.700 and 300 trophies for 970 fish. So that's next 00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:56.450 week. um there and then the following week they're 00:27:56.450 --> 00:27:59.390 getting a lot of fish Lake of the Woods the following 00:27:59.390 --> 00:28:02.609 week is going to have 300 trophies so that's 00:28:02.609 --> 00:28:06.069 the week after 4th of July so 300 trophies will 00:28:06.069 --> 00:28:08.690 be stocked they usually stock Thursday or Friday 00:28:08.690 --> 00:28:11.769 at Lake of the Woods but they did do it on a 00:28:11.769 --> 00:28:15.329 Wednesday too this year or this year this season 00:28:15.329 --> 00:28:20.720 so keep an eye out for that four mile lake The 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:25.759 week of the 16th got two thousand Put in there 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:30.619 one thousand Legals one thousand trophies they 00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:37.740 also this Next week next week They're going to 00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:41.200 get two thousand Legals. That's a lot for that 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.819 lake and 400 trophies so two thousand Legals 00:28:45.819 --> 00:28:52.029 next week 400 trophies. That's at Four Mile Lake. 00:28:52.849 --> 00:28:55.150 You really got to check out Four Mile Lake. The 00:28:55.150 --> 00:28:58.869 following week, which is the week after 4th of 00:28:58.869 --> 00:29:03.609 July, 1 ,000 legals and 400 trophies. A lot of 00:29:03.609 --> 00:29:06.750 stocking right now. This is a great time to hit 00:29:06.750 --> 00:29:13.470 the local lakes. Really good. Now there's Campbell 00:29:13.470 --> 00:29:18.150 Lake. They're getting 2 ,200 or they got 2 ,200 00:29:18.109 --> 00:29:22.029 actually this week, 2 ,200 Legals at Campbell. 00:29:22.890 --> 00:29:28.769 Anna Reservoir also 2 ,400 next week, 2 ,400 00:29:28.769 --> 00:29:33.029 Legals next week at Anna Reservoir. So there 00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:36.170 are some really good stuff. Fish Lake, let's 00:29:36.170 --> 00:29:41.890 look at Fish Lake. Fish Lake, the week of July 00:29:41.890 --> 00:29:46.250 4th, which is next week. They're getting 2 ,000 00:29:46.250 --> 00:29:49.769 legals and 500 trophies. So Fish Lake's getting 00:29:49.769 --> 00:29:53.549 2 ,000 legals and 500 trophies next week. So 00:29:53.549 --> 00:29:59.150 great fishing. Really, really, really good fishing. 00:29:59.789 --> 00:30:01.809 You guys gotta get out there. I wish I had a 00:30:01.809 --> 00:30:04.589 car I could get up there. I really do. I mean, 00:30:04.589 --> 00:30:07.589 I could catch fish. All right, Medco Pond. I 00:30:07.589 --> 00:30:09.569 keep telling you about this cute little pond 00:30:09.569 --> 00:30:13.250 to go to. Medco Pond is a great pond to go to. 00:30:13.470 --> 00:30:16.730 They just, a week and a half ago, got 1 ,100 00:30:16.730 --> 00:30:21.230 legals put in there. That's a great little pond. 00:30:21.809 --> 00:30:27.230 Great little pond. And this one right here's 00:30:27.230 --> 00:30:30.529 got Lost Creek Reservoir. Okay, big reservoir. 00:30:30.990 --> 00:30:33.250 They always get a whole bunch in it, and this 00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:36.750 is no joke. So, a week and a half ago, they got 00:30:36.750 --> 00:30:41.430 10 ,000 legals and 1 ,500 trophies put in it. 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.460 10 ,000 Legals and 1 ,500 Trophies a week and 00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:46.779 a half ago. You guys got to check some of these 00:30:46.779 --> 00:30:54.079 places out, because it is just fantastic. This 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:58.579 is the best time of year to go fishing. You've 00:30:58.579 --> 00:31:03.240 got to believe me. You just got to believe me. 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:06.859 All right, where am I going here? Let's go all 00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:13.720 zones and then... I always forget Willow Lake's 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:17.099 Willow Creek Reservoir. Or no, no, Willow Lake. 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:21.960 Formerly Willow Creek Reservoir. Whatever. And 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:26.339 let's see that because I love Willow Lake. And 00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:29.000 they're not getting any stocking. Alright, so 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:31.779 those are some of the best things about what's 00:31:31.779 --> 00:31:36.119 going on right now. And I've told you to follow 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:39.380 the stocking. I hope you enjoy fishing this time 00:31:39.380 --> 00:31:42.559 of year. I will see you guys around town because 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.180 I'll be fishing around town. Just look for my 00:31:45.180 --> 00:31:48.920 big bike flags. Take care and tight lines to 00:31:48.920 --> 00:32:02.680 each and every one of you. Tune in next week 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.940 for the next episode and more great fishing tips 00:32:05.940 --> 00:32:10.500 terrible and fishing Fridays at 7 p .m.. On Gold 00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.500 Country radio