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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 fishing dynamic works.

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Obviously, this afternoon, we saw you with the pole

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and you with the comfy lawn chair.

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How do you guys work that out?

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Well, you summed it up perfect right there.

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For the last couple of days, that's

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what the dynamic has been with the sunlight and the high sky.

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And now it's 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.

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He has the tables in and out.

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Yeah.

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I'll fish.

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And after a while, I'm like, OK, too many snacks.

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Lost too many jigs.

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I'm going to just sit here.

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Yeah.

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And after a long winter, this is lovely weather.

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If we were fishing with lures, it would be real expensive.

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It's just jigs.

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Jigging them in.

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Yeah, and jigging them in a crawler, whatever.

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So we hear a lot about the wives who lose husbands to fishing.

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What's your advice for the women who complain my husband's

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always gone?

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I mean, well, I just enjoy being outside.

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I mean, if I could just sit there and just watch them.

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If you don't like to fish, bring a book.

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There's so many things you could do.

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But just to be outside, and especially

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after a long winter, I mean, this is amazing.

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This weather, and he could fish in.

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I'll just enjoy the outside.

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I grew up fishing, though.

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Yeah, I use his menos worms.

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It doesn't make a difference.

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Yeah, I do my own bait.

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I take a mining off, unless they're really, they swallow it.

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But when you're raised from a little kid, you're fishing.

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It doesn't bother you, the worms, and I'm even up to leeches.

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That's good.

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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 the mid-'60s

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around there.

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I would come up to Woodruff to go to Brandy Lake

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with my family, and it's on our annual vacation.

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And Natalie was down in Lake Tamahawk area.

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Well, just had a bit of a resort, so a lot of fun.

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A lot of memories.

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So if you would compare the fishing from your youth

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or over the years to where it is now, especially with walleye,

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because that is one of the concerns up here, right?

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Right, right.

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Yeah, well, I had a real nice night, two nights ago,

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and it's a rarity.

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It was a rarity.

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But it was fun.

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So I think it was six all day, but three would have been keepers.

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They were legal.

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I know it's a concern, because it was overfished everywhere.

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Everyone was taking them.

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And they put limits on, hopefully, people abide by that.

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So the lakes are going to be plentiful, because it is.

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I mean, you hear even about panfish on different lakes

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that used to be unlimited, and now they're

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trying to, everything's being overfished.

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I mean, it's so popular up here, a lot of congestion.

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It's on the lakes, too, so.

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We were just talking to locals that live up here yesterday.

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We've run into them several times here,

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and they're not happy with the congestion up there.

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Yeah, it's we only deal with it a week or so at a time.

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But when you're living it, I guess, anyway.

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So another interesting thing is, obviously you guys

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are traveling from a long way, and a lot of people

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are coming up with $70,000 boats,

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and the whole fancy reel.

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And you're catching fish right from the shore.

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I mean, do you look out there and think of this laugh?

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Or you know, I'm sure there's people

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thinking, oh, you get stuck on shore.

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Well, it's hit or miss, and it's good and bad.

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I do have a friend up here that has a place in Woodruff.

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And on occasion, we'll drag that boat around

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and hit different lakes.

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But as far as Natalie and I, yeah, it's this dam here.

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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, and it's easy.

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It's not great, but it's accessible.

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Like I said, my siblings, my parents,

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I want his houses 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 pulled the pontoon, a little spider lake.

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Or my siblings are on Hasbrooke in Lake Tamahawk.

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So we have an outboard, but just take out the fishing boat.

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But this is nice.

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I mean, this is nice.

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You can walk around.

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When you're on a boat, you're kind of stuck.

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But you know.

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You're going to go get something to eat now.

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So just one last thing.

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I want you to describe, what's the excitement for you

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when you catch a walleye?

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh my god.

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Well, I guess this harkens back to what you just asked me.

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It's a pretty rare occurrence.

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Yeah, but the other night was an exception.

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Like I said, it was five or six walleyes.

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But yeah, it's pretty cool.

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I like it.

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He's tickled pink.

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Yeah.

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He is so excited when it's a walleye.

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He gets the big other fish and a lot of bass and monster

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crappies or crappies.

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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 walleye's making me happy.

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Walleyes are, yeah.

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Walleyes are.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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Does he smile bigger when it's a walleye?

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Oh, gosh.

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Like I said, he can get the net.

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Get the net.

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I know.

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I got to be more patient.

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But it is exciting.

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Thank you.

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Can I get you to say and spell your name

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just so I have it correct?

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Sure.

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On Natalie, N-A-T-A-L-I-E, Jerick, J-U-R-E-K.

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And Richard, bake, R-I-C-H-A-R-D, B-A-K-E.

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All right.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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All right.