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Buck Martinez Loves Fishing | Fish'n Canada Live Interview
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Mar 26, 2025
Buck Martinez is well-known for his career as a Major League Baseball catcher and manager for the Toronto Blue Jays. Currently, he’s known as the voice of the Jays, providing the television play-by-play commentary. A lesser-known fact about this sports celebrity, however, is that he is an avid fisherman. Buck’s passion for the outdoors and, in particular, fishing, is explored at length in this enthusiastic hour-long conversation with the Fish’n Canada co-hosts. ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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our final guest for today um probably in my opinion in terms of a
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sports celebrity in this country not just in appearance but his voice probably one of the most recognized that
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we have and there are some very recognizable ones so for us to be saying that that means an awful lot
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he's a major league baseball uh catcher uh he played uh with i believe kansas
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city if i'm not mistaken yeah and another stop and then and then
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our blue jays he was catcher with the toronto bluegate he also managed the toronto blue jays
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went on to a a tremendous career in broadcast both in canada and the us and this still
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brewers milwaukee brewer thank you and uh is still broadcasting to this day i
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was listening to his lovely voice just two days ago uh his name is buck martinez good morning buck afternoon buck
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how you doing today fellas good to be with you um so first of all you make us look bad
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now you're wearing a shirt and tie so that's that's i got to go change the stuff and go to
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work he's got sports on underneath all that don't worry ann she's got all those cargo shorts on his underwear
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[Laughter] um let me just uh also tell folks that one of the one
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quality about you that we absolutely love not that the other things aren't important but you're a crazy totally addicted
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fanatical angler and we love you for that man that's awesome yeah i am i'm really into
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it and i just heard david talk about fishing on in northwest ontario and i've
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done that uh been up to sioux lookout a few times been to chamberlain arrows a few times and uh i love that kind of fishing and you
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know the guy who turned me onto that was jack morris oh right of course uh from minneapolis
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he would drive up through international falls and then go into sioux lookout
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and fish that great area and uh it's uh you know lak sewell's a pretty special place to fish and we
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we've had some great trips up there that's huge as the as the americans uh not just the
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athletes all americans driving through in that area the port francis area all that area they have such access to lake in the
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woods black sewell all these wubbagoon lakes all these fantastic fisheries and they can actually drive through it where it
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takes it's longer for us to drive to it from southern ontario than it's for a lot of americans to drive to yeah exactly uh one of our producers
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here at sportsnet is from the soup and he would drive up and take him about 20 hours to drive up
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and we'd fly to thunder bay and take uh bearskin airlines into the zoo and uh we were all set up it was pretty awesome
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exactly for any of the ball players who were avid anglers you know being either drafted or traded to the
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minnesota area it was a great great bonus right yeah for sure
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you know minnesota with their 10 000 likes uh it's just an extension of southern ontario up
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there in that great country it's pretty pretty awesome yeah yeah you're from california originally right
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yeah i'm from northern california i grew up uh salmon and steelhead fishing and trout fishing and
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bass fishing on shasta lake and then we moved to sacramento and i got
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into striper fishing in the sacramento river oh yeah you know a big striper uh
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hatchery out there and we have quite a striper fishery all the way from san francisco bay all the way up to uh
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reading on the sacramento river uh but before we get into all that stuff we want to talk to you about uh
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your background and fishing and some great stories i know you've shared with us on the radio show in the past so uh
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but before we get that let's just look at the present uh situation uh the the uh the uh season uh that is
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going on with baseball of course uh you are uh doing the color on this from a
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remote location here in canada to games that are taking place in for
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the most well not for the most part in the u.s and doing it in front of a screen and i
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got to tell you something uh and i'm not a huge uh baseball
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viewer although i will you know occasionally imagine but i got to tell you the job that you guys are doing being
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off location is blowing my mind i don't know how you do it so take a
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minute and just explain how you can make it feel live and that you're there on the field
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but you're not so yeah tell me about that well we uh we are in what is called the tim
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and sid studio and tim and sid have a show on sportsnet of course and they've been kind enough to let us work
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in their studio and we have a monitor that i would say is probably 80 inches wide and that's the one monitor but then we
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have several other monitors in the studio that we have the bullpens the field we have a
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simulation of where the defense is set up we probably have eight or nine different monitors we can
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look at at one time and uh we we do our game off the 80 inch
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monitor and then for anything that's moving around we have one or two cameras that we have control of
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our control in the director in our control room will have that camera so if i ask for somebody if i ask for some
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player they will give me that shot then we can talk about it but uh especially when we're on the road uh you
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know we're at the mercy of the home broadcast crew because they're the ones that are taking the pictures
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right now in this situation all across baseball all the tv crews have been encouraged to
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do a 50 50 broadcast so don't take pictures of a home team all the time
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you gotta have 50 50 mix with homemade visitors and it's actually worked pretty well right
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anybody who hasn't seen tim and sid you got to watch these two guys they are characters man they are funny guys just
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about just in case you know what are you on whatever you're talking about uh uh cameraman and cameras and
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uh producers and whatnot i think this would be a perfect time for us to tell folks what our connection
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is with you and how we go to uh be in touch with you is that we have a mutual friend but uh a co-worker
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uh our very first cameraman on the fishing canada show
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uh his name is todd monroe and you are very familiar with todd because he's been doing baseball for a number of
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years and uh he actually hooked us up so uh hurray for time yeah you know where
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todd and i have worked together for a number of years as you mentioned and he's our center field camera on a regular broadcast and i'm you know
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very good at what he does as you guys know i'm sure he did some great work for you over the years and uh
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but uh you know tom and i were sitting around one day uh having a beer after game somewhere and
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we started talking about fishing and he goes do you like the fish i so yeah i love the fish
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and that's how we got involved in that conversation he said well i gotta hook you up with pete and angelo because
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uh they were great guys to work with and they go fishing all over the place and it was pretty awesome
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yeah he's a great guy he was our very first official cameraman prior to him we had a camera producer
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slash producer uh in the show and then uh we uh hired a todd fresh out of school from the east
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coast it was so fun to work with hey daddy it doesn't matter where he went way up in northwest territories on great
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slave lake and the worst camp of the world and todd just had a great time with us he just brought our our spirits up fully you know what i
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mean good guy and a great shooter great shooter yeah he talked about great slave lake and uh you know
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bear lake slave lake those are lakes that i've always thought about fishing i've had the chance to fish out
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west at campbell river and uh i fished for the thaiy salmon out there and i've done it
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a few times i haven't fished on the east coast uh i fished in the east coast of jersey
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but i fished for tuna uh we caught some swordfish in white marlin about a hundred miles off the
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jersey shore out in the canyon so uh yeah i've been fortunate i've fished in costa rica
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venezuela puerto rico the bahamas bermuda i just caught some
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bermuda uh some wahoo in bermuda last all-star break nice pretty good trip yeah so how do you
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how does it work so you're you're let's talk about when you were when you were a player um how did you
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manage to to get away and go fishing and more importantly did you tell people that you were into
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fishing and uh because and i bring that question up because there's a lot of closet anglers and what i mean by that in their
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profession in their in their in their job they almost don't really want to tell folks that
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they're crazy about fishing were you in that in that category or did you just tell
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people hey i'm going fishing today when i'm not playing yeah no i told everybody and my nickname uh in milwaukee was tour guide
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because we always put up something to do when we had an off day and uh we've done um well a couple years
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ago let's see two years ago we were in miami and uh we took a bunch of our crew and
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went to fisher we caught a bunch of uh dolphin dolphin fish we uh we're off to
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miami about four or five miles and got a bunch of dolphin fish took them back to a restaurant and had a big feast for the entire tv
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crew so we've done a lot of things justin smoke and i two years ago in colorado had an off day we went fly
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fishing got some ground shot caught some rainbow trout and uh yeah i like to fish wherever i get a
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chance and i uh like i said i've had a great trip at los suenos in costa rica
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i've caught the billfish off the coast of venezuela puerto rico dominican so i've been very lucky who it's
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speaking to players buck who is uh in your mind is maybe the most avid or not more crazy about fishing of all
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of the big name players there's a few of them or do you know any that are just saying i'm just like you did i'm fishing on my
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time off that's it is there any player there were a lot of guys that i played with there were fishermen we used to go
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up to the lantern marine on the southern river and fish for bass and everybody thought
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we were crazy because everybody was fishing for pickerel but we would go up there and
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literally catch 200 300 bass in a day but we had a bunch of texans
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we had a bunch of people from louisiana and florida so everybody knew how to bass fish
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right we would get smallmouth and largemouth bass uh all up and down the seven river lantern
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marina was a great place for us but that was back in the 80s and i haven't been up there since and haven't
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done much of that kind of fishing but yeah jim acker jimmy key uh rance molonyx garth orange we all would go up
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there and uh we'd leave after a ball game stay overnight and uh get up the next morning in the dark and
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we knew the place like the back of our hands so we could dodge the rock piles and the streets and all that stuff that
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was pretty cool is anybody on the blue jays roster now that's a crazy fisherman is there anybody i understand that uh daniel vogelback
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who they just acquired is a big fisherman he grew up in fort myers florida right where we have a lot of snook and
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tarpon and redfish and sea trout and all of that so i'm sure he's a backwater uh backcountry
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uh snook fisherman because i don't know if you guys have ever caught a snook but that's to me bench foot that's the
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best fighting fish there is pound for pound i've heard i've heard that uh
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i got a lot of people just the same thing says nuts
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you know you know what you could use as their work under the mangroves and they'll blow it up it's uh
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they'll get to be 40 inches and uh we lost a bunch of them the last couple years with the red tide
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so there's a moratorium on catching them now we won't be able to catch them until september 21 and catch and keep
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everything's catching release right now but another thing not people don't know they are mighty fine-y they're right up
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there with the pickerel really yeah they're very good eating let me just
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stop you for a moment because you just said something that's been uh a word that we've had on our on our
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minds here for some time since we three weeks ago we we threw open the question walleye or pickerel
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and and uh we've had all kinds of uh folks weighing in on it you just said pickerel which is unusual for an
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american to call it i've been up here since 81 angelo so i'm a semi-canadian so yeah whenever we go
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up to the zoo and fish like sewell we all talk about pickerel but yeah we call them walleye of course
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i never fished for him before i came to canada well i never never knew anything about him but uh i tell you one thing there's there's
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no there's it's hard to beat a shore lunch with fresh pickerel yeah
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i've always said buck if somebody could figure out how they could bottle that how they
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could package that they'd make a fortune yeah because there is nothing like it
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on earth and what's beauty about shore lunch is that it doesn't matter whether you've ever eaten fish or not doesn't
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matter whether you like fish or not doesn't matter about any of that everybody who's ever
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sat down to a shore lunch has always had a big smile on their face when they were done and said this is the best
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i have ever had in terms of food oh yeah my son did not eat fish
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for lunch wow yeah he got into fish at that time and he wasn't a big fish eater
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and you know baked beans fried potatoes onions and uh some uh fresh pickles pretty good
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it's as good as it gets there's no epidemic it's converted a lot of people your son included is it converted a lot
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absolutely there's a question right there from rodney sherry lynn buck what is your favorite
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fish fish to fish and bait to use well it's it's uh the snook
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and down in florida and you know i just bought a boat in february so i'm just
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a new boat fisherman but i've always fished with a lot of friends and uh but we like to fish top water
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for uh a 25 30 in snook under the marine groves and you got to
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be quick because as soon as they hit it they're going right back into the mangroves but that and i haven't caught one and we
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just hung one last year or this spring earlier uh garth orage was fishing with me and he
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hung a big tarpon but we didn't we didn't hang it on very long but uh that's pretty exciting too when
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you see a school of eight or ten five six foot tarpon swinging through your back bait that's pretty awesome
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for folks who've never experienced that you have no idea uh the emotions that you go through from
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that very first split second that you make contact with that fish to the time that you release
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it or put it in the boat whatever the case says people have no idea the emotional
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um energy that that goes on inside of you especially on top water baits in the
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mangroves i mean oh god it's just incredible you know i know you know this name you guys have
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been in the fishing industry forever and uh i had a chance to fish with jose wajevi
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in costa rica yeah and we we caught 64 sailfish in three
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days we caught three or four of them on a fly and it was really really fun to watch he
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uh had the mate bring the teaser in bring the fish in close enough to get him into casting
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distance and then he threw out a big feather and and hung a big sailfish it was pretty awesome to
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watch how's he getting that back cast when he's when the boat's trolling that fast
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he's got to be like that back house was being said he was pretty good pete no kidding he was pretty good
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and uh he did a lot of roll casting in that and he could flip it out there pretty good but
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we had the uh the sailfish teased up so close it was probably about a 20-yard cast
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okay and yeah at that time you know they were in a feeding frenzy we literally free on at one time it was
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pretty awesome funny it's funny because i think every great story i hear about bill fishing
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takes place uh off of the uh west coast of costa rica yeah
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uh we we we did a similar thing to you we went out one day and um we
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had 21 uh correct me if i'm wrong pete we had 21 fish on camera that we actually hooked
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up with but there were more that we you know had and lost immediately but 21 that we actually had on
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camera and the camera man was todd monroe as a matter of fact yeah yeah yeah two of those were uh one
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was a black martial one was a striped marble as well now all the sailfish were on the top of that but that was insane
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you know they got rooster fish they got tarpon they got snook they got uh all the billfish offshore but uh the
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weather was incredible i mean it was a like a lake 40 miles offshore and we saw
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spinner dolphins and schools of tuna it was incredible nice but you guys speaking of
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rooster fish have you caught rooster fish on top water
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rooster fish they look great like that looks like a fun fish to go for right they just look insane
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like the snook like that but it's a crazy version pretty special fish yeah will wegman wants to know uh buck
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uh do you follow the bassmaster elite series or any of the other professional bass tournament series in
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the us not religiously but because we live in florida and of course there's so much
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great bass fishing in florida we uh we fish a bit uh garth orange's grandsons live on a nice
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little lake not far from our house so uh they've caught some eight and nine pounders and uh
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they they use a lot of rubber lures and a lot of rubber jerk baits and things like that but uh
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yeah i don't follow the bass fishing like i used to when i lived in kansas city because of course we got uh you know
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bull shoals and tanakomo and all these great arkansas white river area so there's a
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lot of bass fish in there too yeah i would have thought in florida you would have you would have been all over bass down
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there i mean it's just it's probably you know pound for pound uh your best
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shot at getting a 10 pound bass anywhere in the world i mean folks from texas might argue that
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maybe even folks from california might argue that but true in real fact the florida is still
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king when it comes to uh largemouth and california's got lake casitas just north
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of l.a that has a big history of big bass and uh you know okeechobee has got them uh
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they're everywhere down there but there's a lot of uh little we're we're not far from atlanta
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lakes north of tampa yeah all the way in the middle of that uh area there's a lot of
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smaller lakes that are just loaded with bats um pete wasn't that where our friend jimmy
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rogers lived that land of lakes area yeah and and there's just a tremendous
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number well every every pothole has has a bass in there yeah those pits those sulfate pits are
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where they were remember the strip mines and all the other strip pits that's over by lakeland yeah we went in
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there there yeah that's if you can get in there man you can have quite a day but
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the golf courses now and ruin some good fishing oh really is that right oh for sure if you ever
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want to get uh into some of those places i think we can hook you up we have a very good friend down there that you might be
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familiar with his name is roland martin oh yeah uh he um he could get you into
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some of those places so we'll have to uh you might have to get hooked up yeah for sure
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um what's the weirdest okay before we get to tim just hang on to tim leave him up on screen
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what's the weirdest situation that you've been in fishing wise where somebody has
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done a double take and said wait a minute aren't you
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it was uh without question it was in cabo san lucas mexico nice
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uh myself my wife gary carter and his wife were on a princess cruise
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and we got off in cabo and found a small wooden boat with two fishermen in
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it and hired them now you'll understand how improbable this is uh we went down probably two or three
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miles and gary caught a big sailfish like a big pacific sailfish like 125
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pounds uh just by chance got off the cruise ship walked down to the harbor
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found a boat said let's go fishing and these two guys took us out and it was they were really good
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fishermen it was like uh chumming for uh trout in a trout farm
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and they had a couple of sales around and they they chummed them up and they had the live bait and they drew a live
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bait and uh yeah and then we got back to the dock and somebody said aren't you gary carter
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you don't rebook martinez yeah that was a pretty cool moment
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oh that's hilarious by the way by the way we do that uh we have a fishery here on east coast
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of canada for bluefin and uh there's a time it's exciting
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there's a time of year where we do exactly what you just talked about and it coincides with the last day
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of the uh herring uh harvest uh the netting of herring right the very
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last day on the last day tuna opens and what happens is the tuna who have been conditioned to following
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these fleets of hairy boats around because there's free food every time they bring a net up thousands
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of pounds of herring fall overboard right out of the nets and so these two are eating them so there's a
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time of year where if you can you know work it out right you uh you fish adjacent to these these uh the
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last day of the harvest for hearing and you get a bucket of herring and you literally hand feed these fish
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and and see where the biggest fish is as they come up to the surface to eat incredible experience absolutely
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breathtaking um but um they're not small hey aunt
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like seven what uh 600 pounder would be a smart group who's like
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we've got we've got so many opportunities here as as you know they do south of the border um
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our biggest problem is is our window so short chair this part of the world we have to cram
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everything into into a short period of time um especially when it comes to the more northern areas if we talked to dave
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mclaughlin a few minutes ago from lodge 88 you know their window of opportunity is is
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basically four months and that that's if everything goes well you know if they if they have a a recent or a decent ice
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out early in the year uh if it prolongs you know into a week or two
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later they're their windows basically three months 90 days they have to do all of their business in nine days
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but having said that that's why our fishing is so outstanding right they're not pressured 12 months of the
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year exactly and uh even even things like uh and i don't know whether you've had this
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opportunity but i'll ask you having spent so much time in toronto did you ever think of or have you ever
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gone fishing in the toronto islands yes oh you got it okay yeah yeah
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and of course there's big pike around the center big pike yeah and i've fished
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i want to say i'm not sure which river it was it was out east maybe 15 20 miles and
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and caught a bunch of big trout in the spring big rainbows coming out of the uh
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lake yeah real light line two pound four pound line and leaders
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and uh you know little tiny egg balls and uh yeah exactly it's probably ganaraska or
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wilmot or the oshawa creek any of those rivers washable creek it wasn't far okay but boy we've been to them one day
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yeah they're all they're all pretty full of trout when you get nice rain oh yeah goes into the rivers and uh they
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run up that stream pretty good yeah that would have been freaky for somebody to be walking the duffins creek or
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joshua creek area minding their own business and all of a sudden this guy comes walking down the
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path and starts fishing beside you and you look over and you do a double take and say wait a
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minute there's no i look a lot different i got waders armor got a hat on i got sunglasses
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on and nobody recognizes me and now it's even better you can put a covered mask on nobody sees anything
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right there i'm going to give you a quick uh celebrity story that i experienced and
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it wasn't fishing but it was very similar to so i was in vegas a few years ago quite a few years ago
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and it's the wee hours of the morning i get up early and there's nobody in the in the casino
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i go downstairs to have a coffee and i'm sitting at this machine by myself nobody else around anywhere
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right and i'm you know mindlessly playing away and sipping my coffee and i'm cognizant of
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somebody had just come in and sat about you know six or maybe
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seven machines down from me and i'm not even looking and i'm playing and after a while i just glanced over
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and i did one of those and i said to myself my god that's mike
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holmes uh the famous tv uh uh do-it-yourself guy
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but i was too embarrassed and people don't think that celebrities see other celebrities that they don't know
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what to do right i'm too embarrassed to say anything so i continued playing and he continued playing and then at
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some point he walked off and i walked off and and never connected until about two years later
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we're at a charity function and we're at at the cocktail area having i'm having a drink
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and overcomes homes and he says how you doing angelo i said
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fine uh you know mike holmes well i know you are and why not he says you know
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he says there was a guy in vegas a couple of years ago that i almost went over and said hello to
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uh and he looked just like you and it was me so both of us had that same experience
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right but we're too embarrassed to come over and say oh i think most people that would recognize you on the stream or on a lake or
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whatever would probably be too embarrassed to come over and introduce themselves i think you know um i'm going to tell you a
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quick story it was a piece of irony because we were up on lac sewell fishing in a particular small
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arm of a lake uh with a guy that was a guide we've gone to his lodge
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and he was taking us up this one special place and we pulled around the guy and he had
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a kansas city chiefs hat on and i said hey you guys from kansas city he goes hey you're buck martinez
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he was a chiefs fan and a royals fan and he happened to be my dennis father
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yeah no way yeah it was pretty pretty freaky i'm up in the middle of a lake in lac
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sewell you know 1500 miles from kansas city yeah that's always up there it was a great story hey buck you uh do you ever
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go ice fishing uh have you ever tried ice cream do you enjoy ice fishing if you did
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what was that you ever go ice fishing you ever tried either i haven't okay now my friends tell me it's quite a
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quite a thrill pat clara who is our director's brother up in the sioux he sends me pictures all
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the time of him fishing in the winter with big lake trout and big northerns
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and big walleye yeah it looks like fun but it also looks real cold you know i live in florida now so i
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don't know if i could do that you got a good excuse buddy i think you
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want to do is leave florida to go ice fishing
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what did you get uh oh the boat my boat i got a 27 foot robalo center console
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with twin yamaha 200's oh that's a nice boat yeah it's a pretty slick boat and i uh
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got it parked in my backyard i got it on a lift and i can uh just go outside and jump in my boat
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and go down the river nice what river are you on buck where are you what are you what are you running and cloak river
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obviously attached to salt while you get into the ocean from there i'm assuming right but that bubble yeah there's there's snook under my dock we have manatees in
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the river and there's trout and everything and we've got eagles and everything it's beautiful very nice awesome and i'm only 16 miles
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from dunedin spring training oh nice convenient good work
29:47
speaking of spring training uh just just to get back into baseball for just a moment
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um how do you see the the season uh uh you are you confident that that
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the pandemic will not hold us back from having a full 60 game season or you have any concerns
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what's your views on that i think everybody has concerns you just never know what might strike next and it's been
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such a fluid situation of course with the cardinals in miami having their big outbreak and then there have been you
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know the blue jays were affected by the marlins outbreak and the yankees have been affected by the mets
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and you know you just keep your fingers crossed this last week there were no positive tests in major league baseball
30:29
so that's a good sign and i think most of teams are doing a great job and the blue jays have been phenomenal in what they've done
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from the moment they moved into rogers center for summer camp the players have been unified they
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developed their own code of conduct and everybody's following the protocol and uh knock on wood they haven't had
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any positive tests and they've been able to play whenever they have an opponent that is ready to play right
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are you surprised at that with you know being such a young team are you surprised the way that
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they've been able to in my opinion act so mature conditions because this is not easy
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no it's not angelo and they're they're a very mature young group of men and they're uh they're very dedicated to winning you
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know they went into minor leagues they want to win in the major leagues and they have done a great job of
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keeping everybody in line keeping everybody focused and you know i talked to charlie montoya
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every day and he always sings the praises of his players and how well they have done throughout
31:28
all of the adversity first of all not playing at rogers center secondly thought they were going to go to pittsburgh and that didn't
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happen then they thought they were going to go to baltimore that didn't happen so they had to end up in buffalo at salem field that the the blue jays
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front office the staff did a great job of making salem field
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as blue jay uh branded ballpark as they could make it and you
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know it's it's not a major league stadium but uh they have made it certainly feel like a matrix stadium
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you said about the young people on that there's a big difference between a professional athlete and young a young bum that's on a park
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drinking beer on the you know on the beach or something like that they don't really give a these athletes nowadays they're very smart
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people to get to that spot that they're at right now they're dedicated number one their whole lives are about that right i think
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every buck i'm sure included you're growing up you're a whole different person you are you are focused et cetera et cetera so
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to say okay here's the protocol you have to follow in order to keep your game going they're going to do it whereas the average kid
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out there i don't care let's party hugs kisses you know what i mean there's a big difference so
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you know i um for several years i used to speak to the
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canadian olympic team about making the transition from sports to the business world and i told them
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and they were all like well what are we going to do i've never been trained for anything but sports and i said
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you have an advantage over everybody else because you've always been goal oriented you've always been focused
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you've always been on time you have to have a schedule and you have to be dedicated in
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everything you do to perform at such a high level and all of that translates very well to
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the business world and you know it's very true i mean if you get an athlete that is performing on
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the high level and you want somebody in your company uh i would check on an athlete because they
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are all goal oriented motivated disciplined and time oriented they they know that they have a
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job to do and they're going to do it to conclusion hey buck how old were you when you knew
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you were going to be a professional not just a ball player but a professional ball player
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uh when i signed
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because i i didn't get drafted out of high school i went to junior college uh i never
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thought that i would be a major league player until i signed and that was that reality
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i just played because i loved to play and at that point i was pretty good and i
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signed with the philadelphia phillies in 1967 and that's the first time i ever thought
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wow i'm going to be a professional baseball player so when you were like 16 years old let's say you know early teens or whatever
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you're like obviously you're playing baseball back then not to brag or anything but did you know you had some god-given good talent right
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then and there and everybody else was saying oh my god this guy's a great player catcher whatever position you played et cetera did you know right
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there hey i might be not too bad at this game no i i really didn't pete i uh i went to eugene oregon and played my
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first season and uh at one point i i was in a little bit of a slump and i called my dad and i
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said i don't think i can do this this is uh this is harder than i thought and he said well
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what are you hitting i said i'm hitting 3 24. he said shut up and get back to play
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but yeah i have you know i had done so well as a high school and college player that i
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thought you know that wasn't good enough but my first year i hit 357 in uh rookie league oh yeah i never had
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another year like that obviously but i learned how to catch in the majors uh it took me about five or six years to
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really become a major league catcher and then i was fortunate to play for 17 years and i was on some pretty good teams for sure
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the word here in toronto in this market and you're familiar with it because you've played here you've managed here
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it's a difficult market to to um to keep your head on straight because
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of media because of the uh the uh rabid fans because because
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because it's a different and difficult market to play in how would you assess both as a former
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blue jay player and as a manager do you agree with that comment or not angelo i've never heard that before i've
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never heard that toronto is a difficult place for a baseball player it might be a difficult place for a hockey player
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because everybody is so uh rabid about the maple leaves but when i first came here in 1981 uh we
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weren't very good but uh i met uh peter witterington and uh peter hardy the presidents of la
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bat who owned the team at the time and they were very concerned about making the toronto blue jays a
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first class operation so players would want to play for the blue jays and
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they did it from day one and you know pat gillick was there paul beaston was there
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bobby cox became the manager in 82 and the fortunes turned around dramatically but i have never heard a player
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that has played here complain about toronto uh mark burley
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you remember he got traded from miami to toronto and he came kicking and screaming all
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right bring his dogs up remember that he had to gina's dogs he had a bunch of dogs he
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wanted to bring up but by the time he spent three months here mark burley was
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recruiting players to come to toronto because he played in chicago he was a st
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louis native and when he played for the white sox it took him an hour and a half to get home when he played for the blue jays he
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was on his couch in seven minutes that answers my next question you know
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as a manager of the blue jays how difficult was it recruiting players and it sounds like it was not an issue at all now when you
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think about the the great teams in 92 93
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they brought in free agents that you never would have thought of come here jack moore came after being the star of
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the world series in 91. yeah dave stewart came here dave winfield they had
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david cohen they had ricky henderson they had all those guys that were great stars in the states
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clamor to come to toronto and they loved it and then you remember back then uh the stadium was full every night 54
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people every night yep yeah it was a it was a rock concert every single night from the opener of 89
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until the players strike in 94. do you think we'll ever see another canadian baseball team in the majors
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again i i think the owners are anxious to uh expand
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and i think montreal is a team that everybody's talking about i know warren camardi is involved in the
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group over there that keeps raising awareness about exposed baseball and wants to bring an
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exposed team back to montreal but uh you know
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if you were to ask me today what do i think i don't know what's going to happen tomorrow angelo
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see it'd be
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i think the blue jays would be uh i guess they would be quasi-supportive
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because they are truly canada's team coast to coast right i don't know it's uh it's going to
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happen they're going to expand we'll probably have two more teams in another three or four years hey buck i wanted to ask you this
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earlier and i said no i'm not going to be the one somebody will ask and somebody just bailed me out uh philip landry wants to know he says
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please ask buck in the play which he had his leg broken and still threw out the runner at third base and
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did he know that his leg was in fact broken at the time yeah i appreciate the uh the question phillip
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but actually i threw the ball to left field i missed third base
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and while i i had tagged out the first runner and uh i was kind of dizzy and um but i
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knew i was hurt my leg was numb it didn't hurt it wasn't a painful injury but
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i knew i couldn't move my leg because my ankle was dislocated and i broke my leg but i had the ball on
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my glove and i was scooting around to get in position i threw the ball past garth orange and went down left field
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line into the mariners bullpen and george bell picked it up and threw it back
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and i caught it on one hop uh it was a 9-2
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7-2 double play wow jessie barfield threw it to me
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i threw it to george bell who threw it back to me wow and i was sitting on my butt on home
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plate and tagged out the second runner that is awesome oh my god so was that
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was that kind of the end of your career i know you i came back in one more year but at that
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time i was 36 years old i was near the end of my career uh what hurt about the injury that was
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in 1985 was the fact that i missed the playoffs with the blue jays right so that's the difficult part of it
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because i uh i was on that team and i would have been playing and they had three left-handed starters in the series and i would have
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played at least three of those games so that that bugs me yeah who was the catcher who filled in for you
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well ernie with was the defense he and i were doing he and i worked together but they brought up a couple more guys
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after i got hurt right um regrets in terms of
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your professional career yes i didn't manage like i knew i should
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have wow wow so you can actually think back
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and say yes had i done this really let me tell you the whole story
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please gordash hired me as he was my gm and hired me and i
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signed a four-year contract and then he got fired at the end of my first season in 2001.
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so a new general manager came in and uh you know he didn't uh he was uh of the
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moneyball era and he thought that everything should be different and uh i didn't carry out what
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i thought was the way to manage a team that's all
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then i went fishing all as well anyways okay yeah uh
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speaking of fishing um if you and you can but if i'll just put the if
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in front of it if you could put together the ultimate fishing trip and time and money was not an issue
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where would it be and what would it be
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it would be that's a great question there's so many
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things i'm thinking about now costa rica thinking about the marble mountains in northern california
42:59
what it's a wilderness area with uh one lake in there called the
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yukon lake 60 acre lake with brown shout rainbow trout and eastern brook trout
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and we used to pack horses in there and fish as a kid it was phenomenal but if i had
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my all-time favorite fishing trip it would probably be on the mayor
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machine with ted williams wow no kidding yeah i mean he was a
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phenomenal sportsman and i got to know him of course he was the manager of the senators when
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i first came up later went to the texas rangers but most importantly he was a teammate of
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bobby doors and bobby door was a coach with the blue jays when i first got here in 81
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and he was from southern oregon and he knew friends of my family that fished for
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salmon and steelhead on the rogue river and they would come down and fish on the klamath river and
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uh yeah bobby door and i had a lot of talks about ted williams i would have loved to go fishing with him yeah that would have
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been an experience i think for anybody uh yeah and and what a backdrop the mirror machine
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america's favorite place yeah yeah i don't know if you've ever been there or not but um you know even if you're not into fishing
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standing on on any of the the s bends on that river uh you feel
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like you're in a different part of the galaxy it runs through it right yeah yeah yeah
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you're right the thing about ted is ted was such a
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sportsman and you know you guys are probably old enough to remember he represented sears
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for so long yeah and he had a whole line of guns and baseball equipment fishing rods
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everything was ted williams and um he went up the rogue river to fish with bobby door
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and um bobby door always wanted ted to do a video on hitting
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and ted never wanted to take the time to do a video on hitting because he wanted to fish nice nice bobby bobby took him out in
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the drift boat on the rogue river and threw out an anchor and said we're not fishing until you
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tell me what you got a hitting on a video camera he pulled out a camera and videotaped ted williams in the middle of the rogue
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river yeah oh that's a great story
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if if you get back to normal in terms of baseball um
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if you were to get back to normal in terms of baseball next year because obviously nothing is going to
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happen this year but if you get back to normal baseball does that preclude you from going on
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fishing trips nothing stops me from going on fishing trips except my wife
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okay i'll tell you what i'm asking here's
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what i'd like to throw out to you and you don't have to answer it here but i i see about three or four people have
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already mentioned it on uh on this webcast uh the
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guest just before you david mclaughlin who owns one of the premier if not the premier
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operation in northern ontario um we're going to do a contest with him we're going to
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do a we're going to promote a contest with him to try and drum up business back into the north
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for next season obviously i would like to offer to you the opportunity to join us on a trip
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up there with the uh folks that uh we're gonna try and put
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together a trip call it a fam trip call it whatever you want we're both buy uh uh trips to this place
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the same time that we go and i'd like to explain to you if you're here anymore
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okay perfect just give me some notice when it's going to be and i'll take a week
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off and we'll do it perfect that's just sweet in the pot that's beautiful
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i noticed some people they're saying why don't you invite buck invite there you go that was awesome yeah
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i was listening today from talking about it i was writing on the name of this lodge
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first trip there buck we got uh we got a 10 pound walleye we got eights we got sevens we
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got it was like in our first trip there was insane it was like the best fishing we've had all the whole season was crazy
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i fished at uh laksu outfitters in chamberlain arrows and the folks are wonderful we had some
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great fishing my brothers came in from california they had never done that kind of fishing my brothers are big bow hunters and the
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outdoorsmen they understand and they fish like crazy my brother jeff
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my youngest brother has a jet boat and uh they fish on the klamath and uh they do a lot of
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red fishing and my other brother jerry's got a bass boat so they fish on this chester shastard
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and in sacramento river they came up and uh we had a great trip
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hey speaking of jet boats have you ever gone sturgeon fishing no but it's big in sacramento yeah
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it's big they they you know we do the same thing for tarpon when you're sturgeon fishing you put out
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your anchor line and you tie it with a release and a bottle right so when you hook up with a sturgeon or a
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tarpon you release your anchor and you have to chase them yeah yeah yeah so you do that with tarpon as
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well yeah we do that with tarpon too what's really cool about uh about these giant sturgeon
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uh that we have on the west coast is that it's more of a hunt than it is a fishery because uh since
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the uh electronics have become so sophisticated and high tech what uh what the uh
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operators are doing now they're looking for individual fish and actually being able to determine the size of
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these fish six footers and seven footers they're apt to just leave them alone and keep
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going up the river until they see that 10 or 11 or 12 footer and then they'll position the boat ahead of them drop the
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anchor but they know exactly how much rope they need to let out and then you feed the line back to where
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that fish right here and all hell breaks loose i've got the garmin set up in my boat
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and it's uh you know it's it's taken me several months to really utilize all of
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the tools that have yeah it's phenomenal and uh we do the same thing when we're looking for rock
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piles and grouper out in the gulf and yeah you know the gulf is pretty flat but if you
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find a wreck or a rock pile and it's got the side screen and you can check the bottom out on the
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side scan and all that stuff it's uh it's phenomenal what it does but yeah just a lot in the gulf too the uh
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the depth finders and the chart potters and all that stuff that we have and uh like i said i'm a computer nerd
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so it's taking me a little extra time to learn everything that it can offer but it's been great that's the one
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that's the key though to everybody watching is what buck just said there just like bach just like angela just like pete
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it takes time to learn this stuff they don't expect look at it and say there it is there it is but take the time put that screen on sit
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in your boat and look at it the salt water guys for sure they said it's so user friendly
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you touch the pad you touch a thing you expand it it's it's user friendly you just got a good time to use it yep
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you know we're always in such a rush to go fishing that's it if we don't take time to learn
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that you're going to help us fish exactly yeah and you know what's great about this technology is that you can
50:52
practice and learn it off the water if you don't want to take up your time on the water because people
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they're limited to how much time they can spend if you you spend an hour or so every couple of
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days in your garage or at home and wherever you want to do it these units are built to be worked
51:09
with off the water to to to so that you understand how it flows and you understand how to work himself
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my wife has hollered at me many times when i'm sitting up on my boat with the screens on and going what are
51:20
you doing out there i have to ask you does your wife fish
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she likes to fish okay she she grew up in new jersey and
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jersey shore so yeah she's been fishing her whole life yeah oh good good that always helps
51:37
right i absolutely am yeah my good friend garth orange and his wife patty they're always fishing
51:43
with us and garth's got a flats boat and i got the raballo so he's got a he's got a beaver tail flats boat with a 40
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horse suzuki on it so we uh we can go in six inches of water and chase the redfish in the
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in the snook or we can go out in the gulf so we got it covered down there in florida you sure do my friend you have got it
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all covered for sure when um so when when's your next game saturday or or is it tonight yeah
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oh you're up tonight i don't rest up oh well there you go there's an extra
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bonus i'm gonna have to i didn't even know there you go so we'll be watching tonight uh yeah we're doing a game every
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day until september 10th uh prediction for the jays i need to get the
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predictions i think they're going to be in the playoffs they're uh they're pretty good they're only two games behind the yankees right now right
52:33
yeah yeah he's right we know we know all about the yankees they play ten games starting on seventh
52:39
of september they play ten games against the yankees and that'll determine their fate right yeah they picked up a
52:46
little bit of relief in terms of pitching yesterday yeah yeah he's gonna be a
52:51
starting pitcher and uh he should be here he should be in buffalo tonight
52:57
okay so he might pitch in the next couple of days we might yeah wow very good well there you go you
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heard it here buck is saying that the jays are in okay i'm also saying
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that i'm going fishing with you guys next year that's the done deal that's the guaranteed one i'm not
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i'm gonna rule out this year by the way i wouldn't rule it out yet so uh we still might get out this year
53:20
if nothing else locally and spend a day on the bow of a boat i'd love to uh to
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to spend some day chasing down fish whatever it happens to be that'll be awesome perfect hey ants do we have time for a
53:32
lightning round with mr buck oh i think so
53:42
so buck you probably saw on that and last david's last year these little quick questions do you have one word answers or whatever like that as fast as
53:49
it can go okay i'll start it out which does buck martinez like better
53:54
fresh water fishing or salt water fishing uh salt water fishing you never know what you're gonna catch
54:01
very good it could be like i cut a seven foot dusky shark in uh february you could catch grouper
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you can catch macro king macro uh amberjack snappers every anything you
54:16
can catch anything on a given day in the in the ocean and saltwater fish fight like hell too that's for sure right they do quite so
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well let me throw this one before you because you just took away one of my questions by the way thank you mr bowman
54:30
you caught my fish okay if you could only use one of these
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presentations on whatever species you want to fish for fly or spin
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spin okay all right you know what it's um i'm about catching a lot of fish
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well that was really cool i got a two pound trout on a six pound line no i'm gonna get as many
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pictures as i can you're the man buddy you're hilarious i
55:06
agree with you 100 they they they're they're a different breed no fly fisher oh my brother my brother jim's a fly
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fisherman and my other brothers won't fish with him
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that is awesome okay but do you like catching sharks or are they a
55:24
nuisance when you're out in the ocean they're nuisance yeah they really are nuisance because we're fishing for
55:30
grouper and we're fishing for amberjack we're fishing down deep and uh they're everywhere uh in the gulf you
55:37
know gulf of florida they're everywhere we have a lot of bull sharks and dusky sharks and black tip sharks and there's a lot of
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sharks around yeah but you know they're not dangerous or anything you know you just
55:49
get into the boat and you snap the leader and you let them free and uh some of them are pretty good eating i
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would i would never eat a shark i would never kill a shark right but i've heard that of nuisances go ahead answering
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yeah for you then um [Music] if you could do it all over again if you
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could do it all over again broken leg notwithstanding if you will
56:13
um would you choose to be a catcher again or would you pick up another position in baseball no i'd be a catcher again uh when you
56:21
think about it everybody on the field is focused on the catching you get to talk to the battery talk to the umpire you understand that's why so
56:27
many catchers have been managers because they are involved in every aspect of the
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game you have a pitchers meeting the catcher is there you have a defensive meeting that catches there anything involving defense catcher's
56:40
always involved so yeah i think that's right so many catchers have been successful managers in their managerial careers because they
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were always involved in talking about every aspect of the game
56:52
peter beauty okay since you were good since buck was good at both of these i'm
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gonna make it a two-part question because he was a great hitter and a great catcher what
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baseball pitch is harder is hardest for the batter to hit and which baseball pitch is hardest
57:07
for the catcher to catch the first one is without question a
57:13
well-placed fastball really gets away from the fastball if
57:18
you throw a fastball consistently and juan marichelle was a great pitcher
57:23
for the giants and he was a hall of famer pat gillick asked him in cooperstown one time
57:29
he said juan how did you have such great control of five pitches he says no he said i had
57:34
about 11 pitches he goes 11 pitches he goes yeah fastball in fastball away fastball in
57:41
the middle fast focusing well there's six different pitches so if
57:47
you could master the fastball it's still the hardest pitch to hit and the down and away fastball
57:52
is the hardest because it's the furthest away from a batter's eyes right you have to make a judgment is
57:59
that ball good enough to hit or not and everybody wants to pitch up well when you think about it
58:04
the balls up or right in your eyesight so yeah you might not get to all of them but
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when you do you're going to have a lot of success so the hardest pitch to catch with a question
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a knuckle ball i was going to ask you that anyways it was like i had a knuckleball pitcher in anaheim
58:23
bruce del canton and bruce has passed away and bruce and i didn't weren't playing much
58:28
in 73 and and we got to start jack mckeon put us both in the game
58:33
against the angels bruce pitched seven innings i think he had four wild pitches
58:40
i had like four pass balls and they didn't score they never scored and about the sixth
58:48
inning don drivesdale's doing the game with dick enberg for the angels and i heard
58:53
later on that he said hey by about this time buck's going to know everybody's name in that front row
58:59
because he's been back to the backstop all day long
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that's good well i've got a question might not qualify for lighting will we ever see another great knuckleballer
59:15
it takes it takes an unusual set of circumstances first of all you have to be a failed
59:21
conventional pitcher right wow then you have to have enough
59:27
courage and patience to learn how to throw it
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and it just takes a combination and and teams aren't patient enough to allow a
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pitcher to learn how to throw it you know because first of all you don't have a guy that can catch it
59:45
when you start throwing a knuckleball you can't throw it over and it might move a lot but if it's not a strike it doesn't make any difference that's why
59:52
hoyt wilhelm and joe negro or phil necro and eddie fisher and you know
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wilbur wood all the great knuckleballers were pretty special because wilbur wood actually started a
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doubleheader one day in chicago for the white sox started both games wow
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wow did you catch uh did you catch dicky no never caught him ra had a good
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knuckleball too i didn't mean to admit him but he had a very good knuckleball yeah no i didn't that was well past my prime
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then oh you got we got one first yeah i'll go first edge what does a 100 mile an hour
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plus fastball feel like when it hits the catcher's mitt it's easy to catch doesn't hurt
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the harder pitch to catch is a 95 mile an hour sinker like dave steve used to throw
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because you have to turn your hand over and that ball would always land right on your thumb
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oh if you cut a 100 mile an hour fastball it's rising and it's like a
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feather it's light but sinker balls are much harder to catch wow okay last question we're gonna let you
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go i honest i'm not gonna go back on this but i have to ask you and be perfectly honest with us
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okay because it's impossible otherwise you're not even human you're a superhuman if you
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tell me that this is not the case you're known for having
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on the spot instant statistics from every single baseball player that you've
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ever done commentating in color on it's just amazing because because you'll
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come up with the most obscure little stat on everybody no questions are those just
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on the fly or is somebody writing this stuff for you no nobody's ever written anything for me
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so so so how do you know that this guy in 1993 through you know a no hitter or one one
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ball shy of a no hitter and the guy on first dropped the ball or you would have had a no hitter like how do you know this
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stuff angelo i like my job and i work hard at it
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but i have a i have a gift of recall there's no question about that uh louis rivera is our third base coach
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and he's from puerto rico and i played in puerto rico for four years and he always marvels at the people i
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can remember that i played with in 1971 and it's just a gift i have that i have
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recollection but if you talk to a lot of baseball players they can tell you what pitch they hit in
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the fourth inning of the yankee playoff game in 1976. wow and that just it's just part of what
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we do you know it's funny because pete and i are both known in this industry as having
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um well not in the industry in our company in our business here amongst our friends is having a poor memory we both have we
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will forget it by by the end of the day however however to a man and two
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a fish we can tell you of a particular fish that we caught
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many years ago on an obscure little lake and we could tell you what bait what size what depth
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what time of day we did it so i understand what you're saying it's just one of those things right your
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job and that's what we do we remember fish and present the three of us
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are pretty fortunate because we have jobs that we love so when you have jobs that you love
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everything is good about it and there's nothing to forget you remember every day that we're at the ballpark every day that you're in
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a boat every day that you're with your house fishing it's pretty special and it's a great way
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to throw this out and say we loved having you on today man awesome buddy awesome well i enjoyed it
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as well it's always great to talk to guys that love fishing that's for sure we we uh we look forward to our get
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together we look forward to getting you out uh on a boat here locally we look forward to
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perhaps getting together with you in northern ontario uh with a bunch of of the fans that are watching today and
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uh more importantly i look forward to watching tonight i'm sure great about that all right you
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guys uh i look forward to spending some time with you on the water that would be a fun experience for sure well that's
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wonderful take care my friend we'll talk about that thanks guys uh buck martinez does it get any better
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than that yeah that was a great little show just like we had all kinds of different aspects of fishing and you end up with buck
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martinez wow that was fantastic buddy and well done jordan and mike and sarah and everybody
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who set this show up too fantastic well done i am so excited
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about sharing a boat with buck oh yeah i think that is the only way it could be
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better and i'm already thinking about this okay the only way it could be better is to be
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on a boat with buck and roland martin that'd be a good one wouldn't it
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huh that would be a good one ah maybe that could that would be some fun
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fishing right there oh rolly entertaining us buck raiden maybe what we do we we build
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this contest that we're we're about to unveil uh we give away
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one of the trips to lodge 88 right
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but we we do a fan trip at the same time where people can buy into that trail and
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we we put celebrities like buck and navy roland there at the same time that's not bad we
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can work on that we can work on that and we'll throw you and me in just as a bonus how's that
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they don't even want us now you're just sweetie in the pot so well they could boom and viola stay home you're done
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