[speaker001:] what kind of fishing do you enjoy
[speaker002:] well uh normally I like to to go out fishing in a boat and uh rather than like bank fishing and just like you try and catch anything that's swimming because I've had such problems of trying to catch any type of fish that uh I just really enjoy doing the boat type fishing
[speaker001:] so you like fresh water
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh I've never tried like with deep uh sea water fishing
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] because you get I get sea sick but one of these days I'm going hoping they'll have some kind of medicine so I can go out and go uh deep sea fishing now that would be nice
[speaker001:] oh I see well I was raised on the Texas Gulf Coast in the summers and during the Christmas holidays we'd go down to our house on the coast
[speaker002:] have you uh um-hum
[speaker001:] and so I thought fish came out of the ocean
[speaker002:] oh my goodness
[speaker001:] and anything that was fresh water was muddy
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I didn't learn to fish in a lake until I was well into my twenties
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] so I had I had always been a a sea fisher type which is a lot of fun
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum oh I bet it is
[speaker001:] there's so many different ways to catch fish you know at night you can
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] go walking in the shallows and gig flounder and things like that which isn't technically fishing but it's a lot of fun
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I I grew up fishing
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] what area lakes do you like
[speaker002:] well uh now I haven't done much fishing here in Texas uh because I moved from Ohio
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] uh but uh we did a lot of fishing when we were up there but down here I have a brother that likes to go over on the east in East Texas and do fishing and I can't remember what the name of the lake is and he was just here this past weekend I could have I I think he mentioned it again but I couldn't remember what it was um I want to call it Salt Fork or Lake Fork I I can't remember but he said it's one of the best bass fishing places
[speaker001:] oh oh oh uh I think I know where uh Lake Caddo or something like that
[speaker002:] I you know that may be it that may be it and it
[speaker001:] if it's supposed to be one of the best bass fishing places they hold tournaments there and everything
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah and he said that he has never gone anywhere before and he's fished all over the United States in which they can catch the biggest bass that you've ever seen so I would love to go over there they were talking about going over there and some time this spring and I was thinking it would be great to go over there to go fishing and uh and catch some bass
[speaker001:] I would love to do that but they have snakes over there and I'm not too welcome around I don't I really don't want to share a boat with a snake
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] I just I I I don't see it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I just I don't I think that I perhaps would let them have the boat or something I'd make some quick arrangements
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] and I've heard so many stories about the snakes
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know when they pull in there's a snake instead of a fish and things like that that I'm just
[speaker002:] yeah oh
[speaker001:] I don't know what's the largest fish you ever caught
[speaker002:] yeah um gosh I think it was only like three and a half pounds and for me that's big that's why I'm saying I love to go fishing because I've never caught anything really really big um so because it's always been you know in the on a lake and uh I know they have bigger fish than that but you know three and a half pounds and that was huge for me
[speaker001:] on a lake yeah on a lake on a lake that's not a bad size fish
[speaker002:] yeah no that's a good size fish
[speaker001:] I I would be impressed I mean you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah so uh but yeah I'd love to go catch catch like the Marlins or whatever in the deep sea fishing
[speaker001:] I've never done that
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I've I've seen it uh and and I have no problem going out in a boat uh it's just so dreadfully expensive and there's just so many other ways you know when you live down there
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it's not a treat
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's what you do every day you know
[speaker002:] that's right that's right
[speaker001:] uh one of my favorite things was we were forever catching crab and steaming them
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know out on the on the beach
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and you know just uh pitching them out on uh on uh what am I trying to say newspaper
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and and breaking them up and sitting out there and eating them and then digging a hole and pitching the whole thing in it you know and and that's it
[speaker002:] wow uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] and uh the the other little creatures would take care of what was left
[speaker002:] that's right that's right
[speaker001:] so going out on a boat never did appeal to me simply because it you know there was so much else to do
[speaker002:] right right well do you live like along uh Houston
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] down there
[speaker001:] no no I live in Dallas
[speaker002:] well I meant when when you were when you were growing up I mean like Galveston
[speaker001:] I lived in Dallas
[speaker002:] oh okay but you uh
[speaker001:] we had a house in Port Aransas
[speaker002:] oh okay okay
[speaker001:] it's a little fishing village that is
[speaker002:] that's close to uh South Padre oh Corpus okay
[speaker001:] corpus well uh South Padre is on down the bend
[speaker002:] okay okay
[speaker001:] it's like if you drew a line from Austin straight down it would be in that region
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] small island
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I I've been to Port Aransas but it was when I was a child
[speaker001:] uh oh okay
[speaker002:] yes because I have relatives who live in Houston so when would go and we would go to Port Aransas or then on down to Corpus or further yeah like what your talking about because I was just wondering we went to Galveston this this summer even with all the oil spills and everything I mean I was
[speaker001:] was it bad
[speaker002:] oh it was horrible I well never ever go back I don't think uh and yeah and that that's true um
[speaker001:] oh I hate to hear that
[speaker002:] uh you know the the water was murky and I would hate to think about catching fish or anything there
[speaker001:] huh-uh
[speaker002:] huh-uh no I wouldn't want to eat them you know so yeah
[speaker001:] no no no you went to Galveston uh I have a favorite hotel that extends out over the water
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the uh what is it the Flagship
[speaker002:] yes uh-huh
[speaker001:] is it still there
[speaker002:] it sure is yeah yeah it most certainly is so uh so that it it was it was certain things that were enjoyable about it but uh I don't I think it's lost a lot of it's appeal
[speaker001:] I like that place
[speaker002:] that then because of all the oil spills that they have had and uh it always smelled the entire time we were there it was
[speaker001:] I didn't realize that had happened for some reason
[speaker002:] yeah we went swimming one time in the whole week that we were there and the rest of the time we stayed in the pool because the water was so awful and
[speaker001:] well of course being raised on the water I'd never swim in it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] huh-uh swimming is for swimming
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] pool that's why they call them swimming pools
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] that's where you swim you do not swim in the ocean
[speaker002:] no no not anymore
[speaker001:] no I've seen what comes out of the ocean and I have no desire to share any space with anything like that but really huge sharks are down there I mean
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] incredibly large sharks
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh some of the young dread naughty boys in my family would fish for them all night
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it was incredible the size of them that we would see on the the next morning they would have them strung up across the
[speaker002:] wow uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it you know so if strung up their tails would still hang on the bottom of the uh just
[speaker002:] wow wow yeah now I never knew they were that that big huh
[speaker001:] kind of kind of nothing I won't have anything to do with
[speaker002:] yeah yeah right well it was nice talking to you
[speaker001:] well it certainly was um maybe you can get how many have you had very many of these calls
[speaker002:] um yeah almost everyday
[speaker001:] how wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah almost almost every single day from when they started it
[speaker001:] how wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] maybe I'll be so lucky okay I enjoyed talking to you
[speaker002:] okay bye-bye
[speaker001:] bye-bye