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Yeah, you've got a bigger camera

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today.

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Oh, then the last guy, this time?

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Yeah.

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What camera did he have?

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A little smaller?

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It was a little smaller, we had him

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on the boat too.

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They missed some nice

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night work.

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I saw the video, it looked cool

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Yeah, we had good weather

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for it, not always happens.

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Alright, you can drive over

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too if you'd like, or walk, we're

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going to go too. We'll walk over

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there. Okay.

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I never thought I would make

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it on national television,

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man. Regional.

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Oh, regional. Yeah, we're...

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It's like PBS was...

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It's still pretty big.

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Yeah, no I think.

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He he he he

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Here we go, we'll get picked up, we

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can go nationwide.

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Yeah!

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Alright, these waders might be...

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Way too large or a little bit large

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for you.

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That's alright.

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As long as they don't leak, that's

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the best part.

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Genevieve made me

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go through something

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much sizeable

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before I was even born.

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It looked like rock,

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red, cold.

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You're not too bad.

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Alright, that one is

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your lobby.

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In that floating red

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thing or something.

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Oh, looks like we're going to get
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So this stuff is very powdery,

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so we're going to want to spread it

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close to the water.

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So with your bucket,

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when you're down there, you want to

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get close to water.

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And then you want

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see which way the wind's blowing.

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Once you start pouring it, you'll

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see which the wind is blowing.

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And you want try to face away from

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the wind, so it doesn't

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go in your face.

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Got that, Jose?

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It switches a lot.

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Last time I had

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trouble getting

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up on the line.

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Yep, that's why we start here,

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it's the least...

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Oh yeah, you're right, that stuff is

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powerful.

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So the wind is blowing in

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what direction?

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We'll call it North.

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All right guys,

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here you go, take your bucket down.

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All right, guys.

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Take your time walking down there.

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If I fall over, I'm going to be in

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trouble.

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Cut that out.

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Cut that. I got you.

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You can start spreading there.

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Let's just slowly putting it on and

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then let's kind of walk in like a

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zigzag so start straight across and

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then start coming down and keep

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going down towards the other end.

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Going to like, get into

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town like average.

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That works.

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Start pouring some and see how the

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wind goes.

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Kind of give it like a little shake

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too.

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There you go.

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Just like that Jose.

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Okay, can you sleep

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before this?

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Yep.

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Just a little bit.

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Yep, just like that.

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Right, hold on.

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This is their first time.

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I like that I don't have to do it

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every time.

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So we're slowly filling the ponds.

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We play to Mother Nature.

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And she's been pretty good to us

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this year, weather-wise.

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Because the water that we add is

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48 degrees, and

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right now we got it up to about 70.

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So with the black liner and

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the sun, heats it up nice.

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we'll be full all the way pretty

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much to the top.

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That's the funnest part is

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getting the fish out in the end.

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As far as timing on that, is that

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still late September, early October?

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I would say October for sure

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unless something happens

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and something always could happen.

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It could be anything,

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the minnow guys could run out of

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minnows for us to feed them so we'll

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have to get them out of the ponds.

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But if we're able to keep feeding

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them we'll go until the second

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week in October.

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Yeah, because right now I've got a

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videographer booked the week of

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October 6th

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to 10th or 7th to 11th.

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Does that sound like a good window?

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Actually, it's pretty much right

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when we did it last year, so

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we'll shoot for that.

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Alright, I will email you

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and everyone involved just so

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everyone can get,

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not that our schedule dictates

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yours, but...

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All things equal, if we can be here,

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that's...

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We can get at least one pond for

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sure in those days,

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because one pond takes a full day.

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So it would be three days here for

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us and then whatever they get across

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the street, because we help with

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theirs too.

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Yes, what he said, you try and time

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it so it's out of the same time for

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clipping fins and all that.

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And we have the stocking truck to

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do it.

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So can we actually see the middles

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or are they all just scurrying away?

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They are scurrying away.

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Most of them will actually stay down

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by the, we call it an apron.

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It's a concrete apron that goes out.

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And right in those, where the air

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is too, that's where they hang out.

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It was, uh...

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I think it was last week we

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actually ran a scene through here

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and caught some turrent

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for sure.

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It definitely keeps out a lot,

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but it's not 100 percent.

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To keep an otter out.

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Yeah, we'll keep an otter out, but

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once an otters gets in, they're

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really smart.

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Once they figure out they can climb

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over the flash and under a fence

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somewhere, they'll go as

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far as they can, but just try and

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get there.

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Alright, I'm gonna go talk to them.

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Did you get to see Walleye outdoors

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over there or?

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Uh, well, we saw the pond.

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We didn't see anything.

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Okay, yeah.

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Tyler thought it was a little too

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light. They must have been in the

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weeds.

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So their ponds look a lot different

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than these.

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Yeah they're much different yeah

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they do do water quality not

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sure what parameters exactly but

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Well, he mentioned trying to long

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apply for a right of grant for

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studying the plastic

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lining versus the clay lining on

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dimorphism to

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see what

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causes a higher percentage of

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females to have a stocking process,

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which sounds really interesting.

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For sure.

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It's another pretty easy one.

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You know, you just check in the end

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if they're females or males.

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So I just kind of

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lay out the setup here.

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How long have you had the ponds

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here?

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So we've had,

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these ponds have been here since

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1995, but

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we actually they were all

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plastic-lined.

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They were clay-lined for

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until probably

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six years ago.

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So six years now we've had the

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plastic-line ponds.

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And how does that in fact success

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versus the old Playline ones?

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It's made it a lot easier,

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for sure, on getting the

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final product, like getting the fish

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out.

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It drains a lot better,

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and you lose

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way less fish.

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When we had just the clay ponds, you

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would lose a lot of fish in the clay

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when you're trying to drain them.

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So it's definitely improved our

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success rate.

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And how many,

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obviously these are eggs that we saw

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you harvest from Nelakagan,

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and then you hatched them here

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or over at N8DS.

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So we did nemocogin

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for NADF.

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So we collect eggs from nemocoggins

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for them.

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And then we were actually at

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Upper St. Croix Lake this

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year. So that's the walleye we

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have in our ponds.

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So we collected them at the lake,

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and then we brought them to our

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facility, and we hatched from there

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into tanks.

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up to here.

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Okay, so these are destined for

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St. Croix.

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Yep, Upper St. Croix.

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Where they come from is where they

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go back

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Yep, that's what we try to do every

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year.

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And how many

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eggs do you think versus how many

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fry versus what do you expect at the

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end?

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Yeah, so we, when we collect

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eggs, we try to get at least

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three liters,

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maybe four, and it's roughly

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90,000 to 110,000

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per liter.

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So from there, once they hatch,

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we stock each pond with

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roughly 80,000

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fry at the time.

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And then by the end, we're looking

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at getting 15,000

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total.

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So It's not a

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very good success rate, but it's

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better than what they would do in

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the lake.

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In the lake it's less than one

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percent and we're pushing,

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you know, we're doing better than

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that here.

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So what impacts how the

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walleye survives?

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Obviously we're exposed to the

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elements here.

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So we check on them every

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day, and then we

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make sure they're being fed,

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and we try to keep the predators

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away, mainly the birds,

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and there's

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no other fish predators like

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in the lake.

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There's no big predators

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eating the fish, the only predators

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fish-wise is themselves.

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Does that come into play by the end

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of the season, some of the bigger

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ones?

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So it actually

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starts right away.

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While I am very cannibalistic,

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they'll eat each other. So that's

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why we're

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adding the fertilizer also to keep

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it turbid, keep the water darker

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so it keeps down the cannibalism.

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So you've got a couple of

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interns here walk me through how

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they came to to be here and what

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they're doing

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Yeah, I can do that.

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So they're from the Bayfield School.

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They applied.

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We usually get two

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to three interns from middle

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school to high school every year.

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And usually, so it's just for the

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summer since they're in school

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still.

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They get to help with

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all the natural resources.

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So I get them just

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once in a while.

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And we like to put them to work and

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do hands-on stuff.

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And then, I mean,

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they're only around for

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about eight weeks, usually,

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and we try to keep them busy.

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What's it like for you to be able to

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say all right? Here's what you gotta

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do get in there and just do it,

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right?

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Yeah. Oh yeah.

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It's great.

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I mean, I've put in my time doing it

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a lot and it's nice to see

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some kids here from Red Cliff

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actually interested in it and

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actually doing the work.

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And they've got a good attitude

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about it, right?

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Oh yeah, for sure.

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I mean, you find out real

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quick if you don't like it.

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And so, what is it that they're

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spreading here and what's the

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purpose, how does that play into it?

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So what they're spreading is alfalfa

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meal.

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So the purpose of alfelfa meal

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is to get the bugs going

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in the water and

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also keep it turbid, like I said.

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And so the walleye eat the bugs.

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It's the easiest way to explain it.

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And this is that, so while

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I start out eating algae, are they

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always going for bugs or what's that

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food?

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So they start out with algae too.

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Walleye will pretty much eat

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anything.

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They can get their moths to fit

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on.

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We do get problems with

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toads,

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but the walleye aren't quite big

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enough yet to be able to eat the

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tadpoles.

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But they'll eat anything they can

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get their malls on pretty much.

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And this does draw in enough bugs

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that they can

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Yeah, for sure.

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With the black clay lines,

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or black plastic line, we get

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the water heated up pretty nice and

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it gives a nice bloom.

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And just what kind of

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bugs, like everything imaginable?

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Yeah.

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Yeah pretty much anything you

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see in a lake it's it's

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getting in here we also get

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the whatever comes from the lake off

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the birds legs too we

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also put in here and then

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the wind i mean

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hopefully they eat the wood ticks

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too i'm hoping

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Be nice, right?

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Yeah

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So as far as the

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cycle for

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the walleye, are we about halfway

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or where are we in there?

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Yeah, so it's

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easiest to say we start in

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the end of April and we're

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done in

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the second week of October,

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so whatever that time frame is.

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And not quite six months.

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Yeah. Okay.

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So we're easily two

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months in.

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Yeah, maybe a third of the way.

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We're about a third of the way.

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Alright,

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um, looks like they need some more

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Glass bowl?

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Yup.

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Take your time.

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Then we're just going to want to

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spread it.

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Oh god.

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Like this?

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That's how the practice now is?

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Yup.

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Doing this?

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That's good.

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So this is our low water.

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Oh my god, I accidentally poured way

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too much.

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Ah.

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Oh my god.

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Oh, this is fun.

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That's raindrops?

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Yeah, I think it's rain, that could

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do a bunch on me.

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Oh, okay.

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Oh, Zach, you got a lot to learn,

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man. Yeah, well, I could

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call them bugs on screen.

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They wouldn't know a difference.

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You're not wrong.

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It looks like a nice sunny day to

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me. It does.

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It was like that one little gray

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cloud.

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Passage.

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I think we can sit on the belt right

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now.

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Ugh!

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Right over there.

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I'm going to blister 30 minutes

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right off the full name on here.

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Really?

457
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Oh, sure.

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You can see you have so much

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regenerated white pine,

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red pine, and oak.

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Technically not your land, but it's

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going to get killed anyway, so

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you're not harming it.

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I've been on my business for some

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time. Really?

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Yes.

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There we go, win-win.