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Oh there everyone, I am Jeff, and thanks for joining
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me on history and factories about today. Today is April
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the tenth. Now I used to love to fish, but
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I haven't done it for a few years, not because
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I didn't want to, but yeah, yeah, sometimes his life happens.
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But now I'm able to get back into it. So
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I thought I'd knocked the rust off. So I went
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ahead and hooked up with a total expert fisherman and
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a podcaster, Jay, Why don't you go and introduce yourself.
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Well, there, my name is Jay Angel. I do a
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podcast called Let's Talk Fishing. Let's Talk Fishing was just
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a natural progression. I've been a lifelong fisherman. I entered
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the professional fishing world in eight not eighteen, jeez, No,
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nineteen ninety seven when I began writing for a local
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newspaper and that and I'm morphed into guiding and tournament fishing.
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And then I had a radio show, I talk radio show,
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of course about fishing. And then now, you know, radio
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shows just aren't that pop larn anymore. So now I
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do a podcast.
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That's cool. So I'm assuming you started young.
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I started fishing at about four years old.
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Yeah, so and now you're in Louisiana.
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Yes, I'm in Louisiana, and southern Louisiana is a great
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place to be a fisherman because if you fish where
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I live, which is about ninety miles north of the coast,
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there are baths, there are crappies, and you know, if
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I go to the coast, there are all kinds of
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cool fish, like speckled trout and redfish. If you go
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further out there, tarpin, and I don't catch many tarpa,
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but you know, there's a lot of There's a lot
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of tuna and grouper and wahoo, and of course the dolphin,
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which is a called dorado, right, But all kinds of
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meat things down there.
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So do you have a preference whether you like salt
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water or fresh water? Is it just they're both kind
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of different, though, aren't they?
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They're both different. They both have their things that I
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love about them. I like saltwater because I don't have
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fifty years of experience for that like I did with freshwater.
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So it's all just I'm still, you know, finding new
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horizons out there.
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Well, you grew up up north, didn't you, Yes, I.
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Grew up in northern Illinois, and I fished Wisconsin, Illinois
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and Michigan and of course Minnesota and Canada too. So
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I did most of that with my dad. And then
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you know, when I got out on my own, I
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started fishing tournaments up in Wisconsin and Michigan and just
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I had a great time.
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So bass and walleye up there.
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Bas and walleye and of course crappy too. And you
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know in the Great Lakes you have salmon.
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Sure, Okay, do you have any brothers and sisters?
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I have one sister. She lives in Saint Louis. She
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has three kids. I have two kids on my own.
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They're both in grad school. My son's currently pursuing a PhD.
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And my daughter's pursuing a master's degree.
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Oh cool, Well they're going to have to keep it
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test because today is National Siblings Day. Success all right, Now,
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who knows you better than your siblings? Your brothers and sisters.
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Now they can be your best friends, your worst antagonists.
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Now they can help motivate you, encourage you. They can
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actually kind of pish you off to that'll meet your relationship.
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It's stragadah where you know you know you'll always be
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there for each other today. So today is all about
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letting your siblings, let you know how much you appreciate
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and love them. Now, if you drifting away used today
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to reconnect, you know, don't be shy hook back up
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with them. So just enjoy your siblings today. Just remember
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it's only one day, all right. What's the biggest fish
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you ever caught?
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Geez? Probably the biggest fish I ever caught was a
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ninety pound halib it up in Alaska, which is we
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went out of the port of Homer, Alaska, and we
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were fishing for hell of it, I caught one that
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was ninety pounds, and it was kind of like trying
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to pull ninety pound weight up off the bottom. I
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really didn't enjoy it that much.
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I've actually heard that about howib They said, it's just yeah,
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ninety pound waight, And they say it's kind of like
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just pulling in a log or something.
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Yeah, it wasn't really that much fun. I'd much rather
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catch a twenty pounds red fish done on the coast,
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or catch a or catch even a five pound bass.
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It's just there's more skill involved. They actually fight better
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pound for pounds.
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This is gonna sound really stupid. In Colorado, we don't
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have all the big fish, but I mean we can
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catch walleye and tro out and all that kind of stuff.
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I think one of the most fighting fish, kind of
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like pound for pound, is a little blue gill, and
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they really fuck.
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If bluegills got the ten pounds, I wouldn't fish for
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anything else exactly.
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All right, let's just going on entertainment. On April tenth,
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let's go there. Two thousand and three, the number one
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album was Get Rich or Die Try Him a fifty fifty.
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He had the number one song with in the club.
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Sopepepe Goat show this Shimerday.
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We gonna he left, this shumard, we gonna sit.
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He's this ship birthday.
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And you know we don't douse. That's the work. You
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come in the cloth, bottle full of book.
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I got what you need if you need the phillip balls,
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I haven't fix.
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Ain't going to make it loose.
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They're worthy. Had then one country song with have you Forgotten?
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Have you forgot.
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How it felt that day to see you home land
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underby and her people away? Have you forgot.
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When those towers filled?
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We had neighbors still inside going through Living him.
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The number one book was that Da Vinci Code by
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Dan brown Top movie was Inger Management. A businessman. He
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is wrongly sentenced to go to Inger Management classes. Now
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his instructor, he's a total nut job. That was Jack
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Nicholson with Adam Sandler and Marissa Toney. All right, now,
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I haven't gotten I haven't fished in like five years
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or something. I'm going back for all these young parents
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who are coming up, what would you think the easiest
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way is to start encouraging their kids in to get
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into fishing.
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Well, if your city has has a local pond, a
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small pond that's stocked with bluegills, just buy them a
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little snoopy or a little Mickey mouse, or you know,
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some kind of small rod that they can handle. Take
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them down there and get some small little get some worms,
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cut them into small pieces, get a small hook and
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a bobber and cast it out there. Blue gills are
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more than willing to bite. I have hosted so many
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events like this where we get the kids out there,
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we give them the rock ods. We're obsessed with fishy
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walking around, and we bait the hooks for them. We
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will even cast them out and sit there and watch
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the rod, watch their bobbers for them. Okay, okay, real
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this in. They row it in and when they see
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that there's something on the end of there and they
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did that, they are thrilled. And you you know, that's
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how my dad started meeting. And he says he taught
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me how to fish it at age four and at
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by ege seven, I was teaching him things because we
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live right on a small lake like that. Every day
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when I got home from school, you know, grab my
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fish and not go to leak.
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Okay, what about if they're older. Let's say they're in
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their twenties or thirties and they're looking for a hobby
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and this sounds good. What do you think their first
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step would be?
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Hire a guide.
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That's the key.
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I guided for seventeen years, and I taught a lot
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of people from sixteen all the way up to seventy
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years old. I taught them how to fish. I took
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them out there and I said, okay, let's let's talk
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about your fishing. How much do you know how many
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times have you gone? I don't care either way. This
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is just going to judge how I'm going to approach
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this trip. And you know, if they were honest with me.
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I sit there and I start at the very beginning,
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and you know, and we would work our way up
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to bass and you know even you know, Walleyes or
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stuff like that.
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Okay, guys, you heard it. Don't start off on YouTube.
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Go ahead and get yourself a guide.
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Yeah, get yourself a guide, because you know you're gonna
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pay on a small inland lake like I got it.
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I charged two hundred and fifty dollars for a four
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hour trip in the evening on a Tuesday or Wednesday
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or Thursday, you know, and there weren't that many people
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out there, so we had the whole lake to ourselves.
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I could just go out there and go to my
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favorite spots and put you on fish all night long.
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And you know, when you think about how much money
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you're going to spend trying to figure this out on
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your own over the course of years, you're going to
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be frustrated so many times because people think, well, how
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hard can it be. Well, I'll take you out there,
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I'll show you how hard it can be exactly. You know,
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I'm not a guide anymore, you know, I retired from that. Now.
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I fished for you know, my own pleasure. But you know,
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I did that for so many years, and I taught
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dozens of people over the years on fish. In fact,
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one of my guide planes became a tournament partner of mine.
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Well that's really cool. Yeah, Oh, go ahead.
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We started fishing tournaments together. We start traveling all over
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to Midwestern you know. Actually we won quite a few
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We won quite a bit of money together. And he
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started out knowing nothing, and I taught him from square one,
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and I told him that's the way I like to
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do it. You know, then you don't have any bad habits.
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Well exactly. That's about the hardest part about guidance. No, no, no,
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I know you saw that guy on the TV. You
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do that, but knowing that's wrong.
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Yeah, he's been doing that for sixty years. You know,
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he knows what he's doing. He can cast that way.
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I'm going to show you how to do it the
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way that you should when you're when you're just starting out,
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all right.
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This seit happened on April tenth in eighteen fifteen on
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the island of Sambawa in over in Indonesia, volcano Mount
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Timbura erupted. Now it's the largest, one of the largest
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volcano eruptions during human history. Now, people they heard that
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eruption a hunting are twelve hundred miles away. About twelve
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thousand people were just killed instantly. Now, it threw so
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much stuff into the atmosphere that it was actually felt globally.
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In the year eighteen sixteen, it's known as the Year
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without the Summer. Now it caused massive crop failures all
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across Asia. Over seventy thousand people died from famine here
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in the United States, and even snowed up in New
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England and the Great Lakes and the June and July.
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So yeah, in the North America and England and Europe
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all it was called the Year without the Summer.
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Wow, that's interesting.
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What else happened on April the tenth, Well, you might not.
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Think about this as being a major invention. The year
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was eighteen forty nine. The place was New York City.
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Walter Hunt invented a safety pin. This was way before
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zippers and though curl. He started making them, and then
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he sold the patent for four hundred dollars. You know,
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safety pins nowadays you can make a lot more than
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four hundred dollars on that. In eighteen seventy two, the
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arbor Day was the first Arbor Day was celebrated. This
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took place in Nebraska. The date was changed later, but
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that's why we celebrated every April twenty seconds.
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Nineteen oh hteen twelve. They ship backed the Titanic. It
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set off on his maiden voyage and left sound tapped
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in England, or I guess you could say the Titanic
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set off on his final voyage too. Now, all those
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years on the water, you had to see a lot
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of bad boat, theoptains or boat just recreational pus I have.
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But you think the biggest problem is just inconsistent and inconsiderate.
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Inconsiderate people get on the people get on the water
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and they think that they don't have any rules. They
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get out there and they drink like they were at
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a bar standing there. And you know the thing about
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boating is danger can come at you from three hundred
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and sixty degrees and you can't just just look at
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the one plane, because you know there can be dangerous
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underneath the water, you know, like dead logs and float
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a foot under the water. There could be there could