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They're doing good.

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Yes, they are.

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All right.

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So give me a sense of how the

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fishing dynamic works.

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Obviously, this afternoon we saw

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you with the pole and you with

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a comfy lawn chair.

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How do you guys work that out?

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We've summed it up perfect right

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there. For the last couple of days,

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that's what the dynamic has been

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with the sunlight and

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the high sky and it's

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been tough.

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So I got a lot of color,

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caught a few fish here and there.

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He has the eye, he has patience.

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She dabbles in and out, yeah.

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I'll fish and

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after a while I'm like okay, too

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many snacks,

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lost too many, you know, jigs.

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I'm gonna just sit here and

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have her a long winter, you know.

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This is lovely weather.

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If we were fishing with lures, it

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would be real expensive.

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It's just jigs.

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Jigging a minnow.

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Yeah, jigging a crawler.

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So we hear a lot about the

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wives who lose husbands to fishing.

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What's your advice for the women

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who complain my husband's always

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gone?

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Oh, I mean, well, I just enjoy being

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outside. I mean if

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I could just sit there and just

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watch them.

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If you don't like to fish, bring a

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book. You know, there's

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so many things you could do, but

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just to be outside, especially

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after a long winter.

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I mean this is amazing, this

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weather,

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and he could fish

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and I'll just enjoy the outside.

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She, uh...

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I grew up fishing though.

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Yeah, it uses minnows, worms, it

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doesn't make a difference.

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Yeah, I do my own bait.

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I take them on and off unless

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they're really, they swallow it,

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but you know when you're raised from

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a little kid, you know fishing,

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it doesn't bother you the worms

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and I'm even up to leeches.

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That's good, that's good.

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So anyway, real quick, I'll tell you

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that we've both been coming up since

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the mid-60s around

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there.

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I would come up to Woodroof to go to

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Brandy Lake with my family,

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and it's on our annual vacation.

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Natalie was down in Lake Tomahawk

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area.

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Ralph has had the Bydewee Resort,

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so a lot of fun,

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a lot of memories.

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So, if you would compare the

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fishing from your youth or over

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the years to where it is now,

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especially with walleye, because

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that is one of the concerns up here,

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right? Right.

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Right.

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Yeah. Well, um,

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I had a real nice night two

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nights ago and it's

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a rarity. It was, uh,

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Yeah, a rarity.

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But it was fun.

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So I think it was six all

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day.

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But three would have been keepers.

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You know, they were legal.

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So.

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I know it's a concern because it was

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overfished everywhere.

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Everyone was taking them.

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And, you know,

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they put limits on. Hopefully people

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abide by that.

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So the lakes are going to

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be plentiful.

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Because it is.

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I mean, you hear even about panfish

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on different lakes that

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used to be unlimited.

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Now they're trying to...

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Everything's being overfishing.

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I mean it's so popular up here.

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You know, a lot of congestion.

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On the lakes too, so...

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We were just talking to two locals

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that

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live up here yesterday.

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We've run into them several times

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here, and they're

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not happy with the congestion

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up here.

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We only deal with it a

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week or so at a time,

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but when

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you're living it, I guess.

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So, another interesting thing is,

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obviously you guys are traveling

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from a long way and a lot of people

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are coming up with $70,000

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boats and the whole fancy reel

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and you're catching fish right

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from the shore.

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Do you look out there and think,

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just laugh or, you know, I'm sure

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there's people thinking, oh, you get

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stuck on shore.

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Well, it's hit or miss, and

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it's good and bad.

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I do have a friend up here that has

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a place in Woodruff, and on occasion

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we'll drag that boat around

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and hit different lakes,

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but as far as Natalie and

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I, yeah,

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this dam here, it's accessible.

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I sound like an old man.

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I've had both of my knees replaced

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and it's...

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It's easy. It's not great, but

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Like I said,

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my siblings, my parents, everyone in

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this house is up here.

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Relatives live here.

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They're just not up here yet.

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But it's, you know,

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Pontoom, Little Spider Lake,

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or my siblings are

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on Cassbrook in Lake Tomahawk.

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So we have an outboard, but you

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know just take out the fishing boat.

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But this is nice.

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I mean, this is actually, you can

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walk around.

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You know, when you're on a boat,

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you're kind of stuck, but,

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you Google.

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Get something to eat now.

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Yeah.

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So, just one last thing, I want

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you to describe what's

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the excitement for you when you

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catch a walleye.

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Oh

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Oh my god.

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I guess this

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harkens back to what you just asked

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me. It's a pretty rare occurrence,

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yeah, but the other night was an

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exception, like I said, it was five

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or six walleyes.

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But yeah, it's pretty cool.

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He's tickled pink.

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He is so excited

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when it's a walleye,

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you know, he gets the big other fish

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and a lot of bass and

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you know monster crappies

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or crappie's but

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Always going for walleye per se,

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but yeah, an occasional musky,

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nice northern every once in a while.

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But the walleyes make you the

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happiest. Walleyes are, yeah,

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walleyies are.

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Does he smile bigger when it's

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a wall? Oh gosh!

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Like I said,

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Get the net, get the net!

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I know.

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I gotta be more patient.

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Oh.

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But it is exciting.

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Thank you. Can I get you to say and

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spell your name just so I have it

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correct?

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Natalie, N-A-T-A,

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L-I-E, Jurek,

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J-U-R-E-K.

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And Richard Bake, R-I-C-H-A-R-D-E-A

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K-E.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.