[speaker001:] Okay, what kind of fishing do you do?
[speaker002:] Well, mostly, uh, a, a little fresh water fish, but mostly lake fishing like rainbow trout and stuff because I used to live in Utah.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] But, uh, down here I haven't fished much in Texas.
[speaker001:] That's one of the few things I've ever fished for is rainbow trout.
[speaker002:] Oh, they're really not, I think they're good to eat.
[speaker001:] What, what kind of bait do you use to catch them?
[speaker002:] Oh, just, usually worms, night crawlers. Sometimes fish eggs.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] Sometimes [faint].
[speaker001:] Fish eggs?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Oh, I didn't know that. Huh.
[speaker002:] Just little, just little fish eggs.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, uh, [lipsmack] there's this one kind of cheese that you can put on the end of a hook and it will stay relatively well [breathing].
[speaker001:] Oh, I didn't know that.
[speaker002:] Yeah
[speaker001:] That's a great way.
[speaker002:] and, and they really like that.
[speaker001:] I think that would probably be a good way to catch catfish, also.
[speaker002:] Now I have never caught catfish.
[speaker001:] Oh, look, catfish, uh, personally I like to catch large mouth bass
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and catfish because they fight the best [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Because [breathing] they fight the best [mumbling] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] But a, [LAUGHTER] a catfish will really just tear into anything like that, like liver
[speaker002:] Oh, is that right?
[speaker001:] or, uh, cheese or anything that smells terrible [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Now in Amarillo did you fish any of this?
[speaker001:] Uh, no. Actually I always used to go to my grandparents' in Oklahoma
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] and they have the, uh, Lake Texoma right next to them.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] So the, we used to catch some, uh, sand bass off Lake, there's a Roosevelt Bridge and what we'd do is let the line all the way to the bottom and crank up, you know
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] turns on the
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] reel about six to twelve times and the fish would be sitting at different levels.
[speaker002:] Oh, how about that.
[speaker001:] So, yeah, you just leave it at that level and in no time something would hit it and you could pull them up two and three times in a row, but you had to find out what level, how many cranks they were off the bottom. And if you left it on the bottom, there was a good chance that you'd catch catfish.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, of course, depending on how big your bait was, uh, you know, would be depending on what you caught.
[speaker002:] Oh, I think that is really interesting.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that was a lot of fun. My grandfather used to do that and we used to have a light at the top of the water.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] He'd really spoiled me in that respect.
[speaker002:] I think they're, see, and I wish I could go fishing here because I don't really know much about the fishing here. I guess it would, if you did it like you were just, uh, saying, that's pretty much like rainbow trout.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] You bait the hook, you throw it in, you troll it
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] a little bit and then you wait
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and they troll it a little bit.
[speaker001:] Well, if you, do you have any friends with ponds?
[speaker002:] No. I don't [faint].
[speaker001:] I, uh, well, if you can fi-, well, or even a lake. If, uh, seems like every time somebody's on the bank, all they want to do is throw it out just as far as they can
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and, uh, bring it in to you. But it's the opposite when you're fishing from a boat. You, you want to l-, make it land right on the shore and then drag like a plastic worm
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and just have it come into the water like a, a regular animal or, or fish
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] uh, well, you know, something coming off from the bank like they usually do [breathing]. So you don't have to really get, uh, fish from a boat, you know, because they're actually right there at the shore.
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] But, I didn't used to be sold on plastic worms, but, uh, if, I am now [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] You are [LAUGHTER] now.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah [breathing].
[speaker002:] I've never used those. That's really interesting.
[speaker001:] Yeah. It just, uh, just a slow reel and then let it sit on the bottom, but the key is to always have your line tight.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] And that way you can feel when they're hitting it, and believe me you'll know the difference.
[speaker002:] Uh, what kind of fish do you like the best to eat?
[speaker001:] Oh, crappie actually.
[speaker002:] Oh, do you [LAUGHTER]?
[speaker001:] Yeah [LAUGHTER]. I've been fishing in the, the ocean. We're about three hours from the ocean. And I also like Spanish mackerel.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] And you catch blues and, uh, that's a different kind of fishing off the pier, too. Have you ever fished off the pier?
[speaker002:] Yes, I've done fishing like that but, but, uh, tell me what, uh, [lipsmack] where you'd catch crappie. My, my neighbor has gone before
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and, and done that, but,
[speaker001:] Oh, the best thing for crappie is those little spinner baits and, and jigs. Uh, they have like yellow, uh, fuzz on a hook, you know, that kind of comes out.
[speaker002:] Oh, oh, I know.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Uh, they're sort of like, well, I want to say flies, but not exactly like,
[speaker001:] Yeah, get, but they're a little heavier and they're bigger.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Get the yellow ones.
[speaker002:] The yellow.
[speaker001:] Those are the ticket [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Okay [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [Breathing] And let them drop to the bottom and maybe do a, a kind of a slow reel. You don't even have to have a good rod or anything. Just, just even a regular line
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and you throw it out and, uh, the, the other thing that's real good is small, uh, it's a real small rapalla. It's about an inch and a half long and they're pure sil-, all silver, something real shiny about that long.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] They'll go after that in a heartbeat also. Just anything that really shines or spins.
[speaker002:] Yeah, my mom, she just loves to fish and she has a lot of those, those little, uh, they almost look neon. You know, they're just real color-, colorful
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah, yeah.
[speaker002:] things on, onto her end.
[speaker001:] That's it.
[speaker002:] Yeah. And she d-, she's really a good fisher woman.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] That's neat.
[speaker002:] Well, you sound like you're a good fisher woman, too.