WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 They're doing good. 00:01.000 --> 00:02.400 Yes, they are. 00:02.400 --> 00:03.400 All right. 00:03.400 --> 00:07.040 So give me a sense of how the fishing dynamic works. 00:07.040 --> 00:10.360 Obviously, this afternoon, we saw you with the pole 00:10.360 --> 00:12.560 and you with the comfy lawn chair. 00:12.560 --> 00:14.520 How do you guys work that out? 00:14.520 --> 00:16.000 Well, you summed it up perfect right there. 00:16.000 --> 00:17.360 For the last couple of days, that's 00:17.360 --> 00:23.040 what the dynamic has been with the sunlight and the high sky. 00:23.040 --> 00:25.720 And now it's been tough. 00:25.720 --> 00:29.200 So I got a lot of color. 00:29.200 --> 00:32.920 Caught a few fish here and there. 00:32.920 --> 00:33.880 He has the eye. 00:33.880 --> 00:35.360 He has the tables in and out. 00:35.360 --> 00:35.840 Yeah. 00:35.840 --> 00:36.640 I'll fish. 00:36.640 --> 00:41.080 And after a while, I'm like, OK, too many snacks. 00:41.080 --> 00:42.720 Lost too many jigs. 00:42.720 --> 00:43.920 I'm going to just sit here. 00:43.920 --> 00:44.760 Yeah. 00:44.760 --> 00:48.040 And after a long winter, this is lovely weather. 00:48.040 --> 00:50.560 If we were fishing with lures, it would be real expensive. 00:50.560 --> 00:52.080 It's just jigs. 00:52.080 --> 00:52.880 Jigging them in. 00:52.880 --> 00:55.960 Yeah, and jigging them in a crawler, whatever. 00:55.960 --> 01:01.160 So we hear a lot about the wives who lose husbands to fishing. 01:01.160 --> 01:04.080 What's your advice for the women who complain my husband's 01:04.080 --> 01:05.280 always gone? 01:05.280 --> 01:07.240 I mean, well, I just enjoy being outside. 01:07.240 --> 01:10.680 I mean, if I could just sit there and just watch them. 01:10.680 --> 01:13.920 If you don't like to fish, bring a book. 01:13.920 --> 01:16.600 There's so many things you could do. 01:16.600 --> 01:18.840 But just to be outside, and especially 01:18.840 --> 01:21.880 after a long winter, I mean, this is amazing. 01:21.880 --> 01:26.520 This weather, and he could fish in. 01:26.520 --> 01:29.080 I'll just enjoy the outside. 01:29.080 --> 01:30.120 I grew up fishing, though. 01:30.120 --> 01:31.440 Yeah, I use his menos worms. 01:31.440 --> 01:32.280 It doesn't make a difference. 01:32.280 --> 01:33.560 Yeah, I do my own bait. 01:33.560 --> 01:36.480 I take a mining off, unless they're really, they swallow it. 01:36.480 --> 01:41.040 But when you're raised from a little kid, you're fishing. 01:41.040 --> 01:47.760 It doesn't bother you, the worms, and I'm even up to leeches. 01:47.760 --> 01:48.320 That's good. 01:48.320 --> 01:49.200 That's good. 01:49.200 --> 01:50.880 So anyway, real quick, I'll tell you 01:50.880 --> 01:54.760 that we've both been coming up since the mid-'60s 01:54.760 --> 01:56.280 around there. 01:56.280 --> 01:59.560 I would come up to Woodruff to go to Brandy Lake 01:59.560 --> 02:02.520 with my family, and it's on our annual vacation. 02:02.520 --> 02:06.360 And Natalie was down in Lake Tamahawk area. 02:06.360 --> 02:10.680 Well, just had a bit of a resort, so a lot of fun. 02:10.680 --> 02:11.760 A lot of memories. 02:11.760 --> 02:15.160 So if you would compare the fishing from your youth 02:15.160 --> 02:18.080 or over the years to where it is now, especially with walleye, 02:18.080 --> 02:20.560 because that is one of the concerns up here, right? 02:20.560 --> 02:22.240 Right, right. 02:22.240 --> 02:27.640 Yeah, well, I had a real nice night, two nights ago, 02:27.640 --> 02:29.280 and it's a rarity. 02:29.280 --> 02:33.920 It was a rarity. 02:33.920 --> 02:34.960 But it was fun. 02:34.960 --> 02:41.320 So I think it was six all day, but three would have been keepers. 02:41.320 --> 02:44.160 They were legal. 02:44.160 --> 02:46.680 I know it's a concern, because it was overfished everywhere. 02:46.680 --> 02:48.360 Everyone was taking them. 02:48.360 --> 02:54.160 And they put limits on, hopefully, people abide by that. 02:54.160 --> 02:59.800 So the lakes are going to be plentiful, because it is. 02:59.800 --> 03:03.280 I mean, you hear even about panfish on different lakes 03:03.280 --> 03:05.720 that used to be unlimited, and now they're 03:05.720 --> 03:08.280 trying to, everything's being overfished. 03:08.280 --> 03:14.120 I mean, it's so popular up here, a lot of congestion. 03:14.120 --> 03:15.240 It's on the lakes, too, so. 03:15.240 --> 03:21.360 We were just talking to locals that live up here yesterday. 03:21.360 --> 03:23.120 We've run into them several times here, 03:23.120 --> 03:27.960 and they're not happy with the congestion up there. 03:27.960 --> 03:35.880 Yeah, it's we only deal with it a week or so at a time. 03:35.880 --> 03:39.720 But when you're living it, I guess, anyway. 03:39.720 --> 03:42.960 So another interesting thing is, obviously you guys 03:42.960 --> 03:44.720 are traveling from a long way, and a lot of people 03:44.720 --> 03:47.040 are coming up with $70,000 boats, 03:47.040 --> 03:48.520 and the whole fancy reel. 03:48.520 --> 03:51.520 And you're catching fish right from the shore. 03:51.520 --> 03:55.120 I mean, do you look out there and think of this laugh? 03:55.120 --> 03:56.880 Or you know, I'm sure there's people 03:56.880 --> 03:59.120 thinking, oh, you get stuck on shore. 03:59.120 --> 04:01.760 Well, it's hit or miss, and it's good and bad. 04:04.600 --> 04:07.240 I do have a friend up here that has a place in Woodruff. 04:07.240 --> 04:11.000 And on occasion, we'll drag that boat around 04:11.000 --> 04:12.680 and hit different lakes. 04:12.680 --> 04:17.880 But as far as Natalie and I, yeah, it's this dam here. 04:17.880 --> 04:20.400 It's accessible. 04:20.400 --> 04:23.560 I sound like an old man. 04:23.560 --> 04:29.560 I've had both of my knees replaced, and it's easy. 04:29.560 --> 04:33.360 It's not great, but it's accessible. 04:33.360 --> 04:36.400 Like I said, my siblings, my parents, 04:36.400 --> 04:37.880 I want his houses up here. 04:37.880 --> 04:39.640 Relatives live here. 04:39.640 --> 04:40.800 They're just not up here yet. 04:40.800 --> 04:45.160 But it's pulled the pontoon, a little spider lake. 04:45.160 --> 04:50.040 Or my siblings are on Hasbrooke in Lake Tamahawk. 04:50.040 --> 04:54.040 So we have an outboard, but just take out the fishing boat. 04:54.040 --> 04:54.880 But this is nice. 04:54.880 --> 04:55.720 I mean, this is nice. 04:55.720 --> 04:56.920 You can walk around. 04:56.920 --> 04:58.960 When you're on a boat, you're kind of stuck. 04:58.960 --> 04:59.800 But you know. 04:59.800 --> 05:01.800 You're going to go get something to eat now. 05:01.800 --> 05:03.400 So just one last thing. 05:03.400 --> 05:06.400 I want you to describe, what's the excitement for you 05:06.400 --> 05:08.160 when you catch a walleye? 05:08.160 --> 05:09.680 Oh, yeah. 05:09.680 --> 05:10.440 Oh my god. 05:10.440 --> 05:17.120 Well, I guess this harkens back to what you just asked me. 05:17.120 --> 05:18.680 It's a pretty rare occurrence. 05:18.680 --> 05:20.680 Yeah, but the other night was an exception. 05:20.680 --> 05:23.200 Like I said, it was five or six walleyes. 05:23.200 --> 05:25.000 But yeah, it's pretty cool. 05:25.000 --> 05:25.520 I like it. 05:25.520 --> 05:26.520 He's tickled pink. 05:26.520 --> 05:27.040 Yeah. 05:27.040 --> 05:31.240 He is so excited when it's a walleye. 05:31.240 --> 05:36.400 He gets the big other fish and a lot of bass and monster 05:36.400 --> 05:37.960 crappies or crappies. 05:38.680 --> 05:40.560 Always going for walleye, per se. 05:40.560 --> 05:44.000 But yeah, an occasional musky. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.080 Nice northern every once in a while. 05:46.080 --> 05:47.440 But the walleye's making me happy. 05:47.440 --> 05:48.280 Walleyes are, yeah. 05:48.280 --> 05:49.840 Walleyes are. 05:49.840 --> 05:50.360 Yeah. 05:50.360 --> 05:51.480 Good. 05:51.480 --> 05:54.000 Does he smile bigger when it's a walleye? 05:54.000 --> 05:55.400 Oh, gosh. 05:55.400 --> 05:57.040 Like I said, he can get the net. 05:57.040 --> 05:57.600 Get the net. 05:57.600 --> 05:59.040 I know. 05:59.040 --> 06:01.520 I got to be more patient. 06:01.520 --> 06:03.240 But it is exciting. 06:03.240 --> 06:03.680 Thank you. 06:03.680 --> 06:05.320 Can I get you to say and spell your name 06:05.320 --> 06:06.240 just so I have it correct? 06:06.240 --> 06:07.360 Sure. 06:07.360 --> 06:13.640 On Natalie, N-A-T-A-L-I-E, Jerick, J-U-R-E-K. 06:13.640 --> 06:17.720 And Richard, bake, R-I-C-H-A-R-D, B-A-K-E. 06:17.720 --> 06:18.080 All right. 06:18.080 --> 06:18.760 Thank you so much. 06:18.760 --> 06:19.760 Thank you. 06:19.760 --> 06:21.320 All right.