Cincinnati, home of the best Bengals coverage and Joe Thomas, How in the
world are you my friend ship? I couldn't be better, brother. I'm
I'm Christmas is in the rear view mirror, and I am headed to Dale
Hollow to try to catch a small mouth bass. Well, I am happy.
I'm on, I'm on seventy five. If I speak, we pick
up or a cutout. You know what's going on? All right? Well?
Yeah, I know, I know what would have happened, you know,
yeah, over that cliff going over the mountain. I don't know any
anyway, Uh, I got it. I got This new deer call that
you came up with is just just it's just off the charts, dude.
I mean, how in the world are you going to? Uh Mark?
What is it? Is it going to be a recording? Is that?
And you got to play a recorder which would be illegal? Huh? Okay,
you know, I'm working through a lot of a lot of things,
Chip, but you know, I'm thinking about calling it the Hey Deer or
the ad Deer. I don't know, I'm not really sure. But do
you want me to give some people a little bit of background and what happened.
Yeah, definitely, because if they aren't one of the one million people
that has seen it so far on your Facebook page, Man, you're onto
something. I gotta tell you. Well, well, actually, Chip,
I hate to cut you off, and I don't want to brag, but
it's about two point two right now. Million. But that's okay. Well,
you know you looked at it yesterday. But anyway, I'm just kidding,
but it really did. It really has hit two million, and it
is the most ridiculous thing ever, But it really happened, and probably the
coolest of the coolest crap I've ever gotten on video. You know. Yeah,
we're filming, so three weeks ago, we're in Kansas and we're filming.
We're in a tree stand with my camera. Man, we're filming for
American Archer. Okay, and it's day four of the hunt. And you
know, you start hearing all this tree tree limbs popping and cracking and leaves
rustling and breaking, and you know what that is. That's a buck chasing
a dough and sure's heck, here was the dough bias going south to north
and he's got this big one hundred and sixty inch you know, mainframe buck
rail on her tail with two other bucks chasing him, you know, just
following along, and they go dead away, no opportunity for a shot,
and just as luck would have it, she decided, after about one hundred
yards, I'm gonna turn and go right back where I came from. Or
when she did, she ran right under my tree. Stands well, when
a buck is chasing a dough and he's a crazy over over, you know,
running, you can't they can't even hear you. If you go at,
you know the out at, you bleed or grunt. And they stopped
for the shot on TV. Well, that works when it's quiet and they're
just walking real slow. But when they're when they're like full tilt and they're
chasing, you got to do something radical. And when he got to what
I thought was a right about the place for the shot, he's probably thirty
yards out, I drew and I screamed at him, and he kind of
broke stride for a second, and then here he keeps coming. I went,
okay that it wasn't loud enough, so I went as loud as I
could yell, and he froze, and when he did, he filted his
head and he looked out at me, and I planned the arrow right in
the center of his chest and it did a pass through and he went My
cameraman was off and he stayed on him the whole way and he literally piled
up on camera. And you know, I never liked to tip my hands,
you know, and show a kill shot before the show airs next year,
but I thought that was so cool. I just wonder, you know,
I've never posted anything like that. I'm just gonna post it. And
it went through the roof. Yeah, everybody. And in my caption,
tip was I finally found because everybody's always jacking with me because my call sucks,
you know, on camera, right, And so I just said I
finally found a deer call that works for me, and it blew up.
And so that's been the big joke. I'm going to patent the call.
You know, I'm gonna I'm going to make a call HiT's a scream.
I don't know how we're gonna do it, but we got to do it.
Well. It sucked me right in, okay, And you know how
it sucked. I got sucked in because I didn't have my sound okay,
And I think and I'm thinking Joe's got a fancy new idea for a deer
call, and dumby me. Okay, I went back and played it.
I said, well, man, I'm I'm humiliated. Now. No,
you know what, I bet there's a lot of people that watch that without
happening. You just tapping the mute off, you know, did you're off?
Well? That was that was that was That was awesome because yeah,
all of the posts I've ever seen is the post kill. You know,
You've got here's the animal, here's the fish, whatever the case may be.
And uh, I think it was a good decision, you know,
Yeah, I don't see how. I don't see how it could have been
a bad decision. Really, you know, it's uh, people got to
see it, everybody, you know, for the most part. I mean
you had the haters, you know, the shot angle wasn't right, or
I was unethical or whatever, but you know, overall, it was just
like, man, super cool. You know, you got lucky and made
the right the right you know, right stopping at the right spot, made
the shot. Yeah. But at the end of the day, I screw
up a lot, but this time I didn't. Well, I haven't seen
a screw up Jack quite frankly, but I'm sure you've got plenty of them.
And you know I'm gonna leave you with that because we got to hit
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the best Begles coverage. Stick around It's a hell of a fun day here
at the Big One, as it always is. Take us with you in
your car, on your iHeartMedia app wherever you want to get us, But
take us with you, Joe. Oh I, I forgot to mention this
stick around Gary Jeff Walker is up at the bottom of the hour after the
news. Yeah, who who who? Who? Danny who who? And
after him the rams and raves of Michael k Allen taking you till noon,
or at least I think he is. I haven't checked the schedule. And
then you've got sports Gerbils out the Wazoo for the rest of the weekend.
And I got to tell you out the Wazoo, Joe Thomas is with us
and been out at a long time in the in the in the in the
filming industry with his programs and all of that. And so you're heading to
Dale Hollow and you didn't pack me in your bag. Dude, of course
I'm not the you know I'm not. You know you'd rather pack I would
take take you any day. But this this trip's kind of like we got
to we kind of got a double dual purpose. Okay, so you know
it's December and it's like super hard to catch fish just about anywhere right now.
But I got this young guy named Bailey. He's a local. He
lives in Cincinnati, right he's living in northern Kentucky. And he's like this
forward facing sonar guru. And we're gonna little letting show me, lame,
show me his stuff. Yeah, you look him up on Facebook or Instagram
or whatever. He's got a big following and he's got like he does a
lot of that forward facing sonar stuff. And and and I'm I'm kind of
new to it. You know, he's gonna be uh, We're gonna be
filming our first episode for next year of Steel's Reeling the Outdoors. You have
to watch it. We'll be filming out of a new boat brand, which
is pretty cool. We're gonna announce that tomorrow. Okay, actually okay,
so but but anyway, we're heading down there and gonna try to get our
first episode in the can for next year, and you know, the cycle
starts all over again and start filming now for the air in the fall next
year. Well, and I'm glad you brought that up, because I saw
I saw a story out in a couple of months ago. On this forward
facing sonar, and I really hadn't dug into it very much. I know
that what isn't bass kind of looking at it as to whether they want it
to be used in a tournament situation. And I may be wrong on that,
but so explain to people out there what this forward facing sonar is if
you even know, I mean you said you're new, You're new to it,
you know, Oh yeah, I say, I know. I don't
you know, you know, I'm actually I'm not. I'm not an authority
on it by anything. I have used it now for about two years.
Uh, you know, we use there's several brands. We use the Hummingbird
Mega Live and basically the transducer mounts on the shaft of the troll and motor
and instead of a traditional transder shafts, you turn your your h you know,
foot pedal left and right and it will scan in front of you.
So when you've got fish that are that are suspended, that are you know,
in open water and there, I mean there's a lot more applications in
this, but you know, you can see the cover that's down and you
can see boulders and things like that. You can also see individual fish,
and these guys are able to, particularly in the winter time or you know,
when they're in that winter pattern, to get out there and find those
schools that that we were wondering where they were all year lost in the day.
Well, now we know they're an open water and so that you find
them and then you use you know, like you know, they can use
an a rig or a damiki rig or something like that to target them,
and uh, you know, basically you can see what we're exactly where they
are. And these guys, even the good ones, which Bailey is that
they follow individual fish sometimes until they're able to catch them. And it's it's
pretty cool. Now you said something about b Thus you were dead right.
There's been a lot of controversy stirred up about it. There's a couple of
tournament organizations that won't allow it. Bass Master has decided to allow it,
to continue to allow it on their tournament trail. But uh, there was
a vote, I'm pretty sure that they had or you know, a board
that met about it. But overall, man, anything that helps you catch
more fish, have more fun. I mean, if you don't want to
use it, don't use it. But why why wouldn't you if you've got
another tool in your arsenal And sure, I'm excited to go down there and
spend a couple of days with this guy and learn learn about it. Really,
So is it actually new technology or is it just a different use of
your traditional uh you know, fish find your sonar? Well, you know,
it's you know, it's it's sound ways just like sonar has been forever.
But yeah, but yeah, definitely, it's it's it's you know,
they've tweaked it. You know, I'm sure they're each you know, there's
several companies that make it, different frequencies, different amounts of power, different
cone angles, things like that. But it's it's still you know, it's
still sonar at the end of the day, like we've used for years and
years and years. But they've you know, styled it in, tweaked it,
and they pointed it forward okay, and you know for a while that
you know, there was a three sixty that was pretty popular. It still
is due but that forward facing is pretty hard to beat. Well, you
know what it sounds like, you know, got people, if you don't
like the Christmas gift, you got go go turn it back in and go
get yourself a forward facing sonart system. What about that? I mean,
come on now, Joe Thomas, sit tight. We got to hit a
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should be committed, Danny, there's no question. But who else could hold
the day from uh from when I leave here till uh till Michael k Allen
comes in? The one and the only Joe Thomas. We've got to switch
to a little bit of hunting. I mean these days, I think there's
two animals I think that I can I can tackle, uh that I haven't.
Well, I did one that you know I can physically tackle. One's
a pronghorn Okay and the others the other is a as a moose sign.
Boy, I'd really love to uh to to kill a moose. I did
go up to Manitoba. Uh got to see one just too far away.
We couldn't get close enough. And and you know that's where you leave it.
But that's you know, that's hunting. But uh, I gotta tell
you, I got I gotta get on a path to a to to a
moose hunt. Where was I was looking through your Facebook page now the one
that that I saw on your Facebook page that was that this year? It
was this year, right, Yeah. Actually I went to northern Manitoba with
companies called Hunting North Okay and a guy named guy named Ken Gangler that's got
a big expansive lodge up there and you know a lot of lakes. I
think he had thirty some camps on different lakes and and uh he invited me
up. This is the second time I killed a fifty three inch moose there
with my boat last time, which was several years ago, and he invited
me back back up with a group of guys. I went there with a
couple of friends of mine, all bow hunting, and we went three for
four on really big moose, which is pretty amazing if you think about it,
because it's a tough it's you know, it's it's a tough one,
you know usually and and uh, it's just a great place and you're it's
so remote, not a lot of moose, but man, there's some big
ones. And the one thing is tip they respond to a call really well.
And and we called all all three of us, called our our moose
in there and killed them with the bow and it was it was pretty amazing.
Actually, Joe, Joe, that's where I went. But it wasn't
called Hunting North at the time. It was Ganglers. In fact, I
went after upon your recommendation, uh, to Ganglers and it was a fantastic
operation. It was just, uh, you know what, can I tell
you nothing? But I didn't know that they heat changed the name of it.
So that's why I had to ask you, because that for me is
a doable hunt and I can't boat, I can't bow hunt. But I
can rifle hunt, so well. Yeah, I would say, I'll say
a couple of things. Number one, Yes, they changed it to Hunting
North because he's got expansive fishing operation and and it was just better to kind
of separate the two. Yeah, okay. And so if you're gonna,
if you're go to google it, you can put hunting North or moose hunting
in Manitoba. It'll be the first thing that comes up. And uh,
it's I tell people all the time, it's probably the best. More people
come up to me than you would imagine to say that's the one animal that
I dream to go do some time in my life. It's the best value
in moose hunting for the dollar. Of course, they all keep going up.
But when you call moose now, you know our thirty grand you know
he's he's half of that, and you're still hunting really big moose with high,
high, high opportunity. You got your own lake, you got your
own boat, you got your own guide. You know, you're probably thirty
miles from the next hunter everywhere, you know, because that's how big expanse
of the area is. But yeah, look up hunting North if it's something
you really really wanted to do. He's poked out, you know, usually
a year or two. You want to know to get in, get in
the door. But it's it's just a cool pla. I don't expect to
go there and see fifty moose you would in Newfoundland. But the ones you
see when you get one to come to a call, they're usually good moose,
forty to fifty inch moose. And they've killed him as high as sixty
five there, which is on heard of for Northern Manitoba. They got some
of the biggest moose in Canada. Really yeah. Yeah, well he he
invited me, but he said bring a pocket full of cash. Okay,
yeah, yeah. But hey, well you know, everybody's in business,
right, I mean, you know, you get what you pay for,
right you know. Well, and that's the thing about what people don't realize
about any Canadian and Alaska hunts like that Yukon. You know, the infrastructure
costs so much to run float planes and to be able to you know,
beavers and otters and pilots and the infrastructure and the cabins they have to run
in boats and motors. Food yeah, I mean yeah, food, yeah,
and just you know, the guys up there are their top shelf and
they're not getting paid seventy five dollars a day. These guys are getting paid
well, So it's just what things cost. But again I'm all about the
value for the dollar, and I think your odds and the quality and and
the amount of money of yeah, the val for the dollars there there with
Honey North All right, all right, quickly and you can come back.
We'll bring you back after the break, so you can tell us where people
can find you, what the hell you're doing, and you know where everything's
airing. So Joe Thomas, sit tight, We'll be back in a moment.
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Police right, Joe, you would have stayed with me after the first
year or two of this program some twenty nine years ago, but you know
you couldn't even buy breakfast. So that's the way it is. You went
on to a great career. So where can people find you? On the
boob Tube and Facebook? Of course, Joe, look up Joe Thomas reel
in the outdoors. So where what's airing? Where's it airing? Yeah,
we'll start. We'll start with the social media stuff. You know you can
Facebook is Joe Thomas pro angler. You can pull that up. You want
to see that Crazy video. You haven't seen it, you can catch it
there, just scroll down a little ways. The real Joe Thomas R.
E. E. L is my Instagram. But then more importantly is the
TV shows. They're all on Outdoor Channel or World Fishing Network. We've got
reruns coming up this spring on World Fishing Network. But Pelican's Ultimate Match Fishing.
You just go to Outdoor Channel and you can search it or go on
the web and look for Ultimate Match Fishing. And then of course Steel's Reel
in the Outdoors, both of them in their twentieth season, and we're we're
filming now for next year. But like I said, the reruns are still
are available right now on World Fishing Network this next month. And then of
course we've got five years of archive on my Outdoor TV, the streaming service.
Okay, an American Archer and then American Archer. We can't forget it.
All the hunts we just talked about. American Archer is actually running right
now and it's going to run through the first through the through January through March.
All of our new our new episodes are running ja Anu way through March
on Outdoor Channel. Just just hit the Outdoor Channel guide look for American archer
running five times a week. Cool. Great, well, listen, Happy
New Year to you, Joe, and tell that. Tell Jimmy Kramer,
your wonderful videographer, to get a life for crying out loud? Okay,
all right, he's got a life. He hangs with me, I know,
but he never gets the Fisher hunt. He's got a film. You
doing it for crying out loud? All right, Thomas Week, we got
to get out of here. You'd be good and tell your family a happy
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