Speaker 1: Even if you've never fished for bass, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: what we're about to tell you kind of interesting because
Speaker 1: it involves a cheater taking cheating to a whole new level.
Speaker 1: All right, stick around. That's coming up in just a second.
Speaker 1: But first, JB, if you ever like, how do I
Speaker 1: put this? Your wife would tell you don't do that,
Speaker 1: But you really want to do it anyway, because like,
Speaker 1: let me give you an example. I found something. I've
Speaker 1: had something for quite a while. I just found it again,
Speaker 1: and I want to use it. But I know Trisha's
Speaker 1: going to say, don't you do that because you'll lose it.
Speaker 1: Right I found I was going through some old stuff
Speaker 1: and I found a money clip. Okay, that was my
Speaker 1: grandfather's money clip, and it's got a eighteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: silver dollar in it. See it showing it to you.
Speaker 1: It's a money clip, and I so badly want to
Speaker 1: start carrying this money clip up around, but I know
Speaker 1: Trisha's going to say, you're going to lose it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna and it's an heirloom.
Speaker 1: Right yes.
Speaker 3: In fact, I don't think you should even have it
Speaker 3: in your possession. I think I should be holding on
Speaker 3: to it. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put it in the safe that you
Speaker 1: don't have the combination to.
Speaker 3: The same and you probably gave JB the combination to
Speaker 3: the safe, and I don't even know we had a safe.
Speaker 1: JB knows the combo. Yeah, he knows. I should just
Speaker 1: give this money clip to JB to hang on to.
Speaker 1: Then it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: But you know, it wants you to use it though,
Speaker 2: he would yeah, not just stare at it.
Speaker 3: He'd wants you to use it and not lose it
Speaker 3: a tracker on his wallet right now because he loses
Speaker 3: it all the time.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing I would. I would pull
Speaker 2: out for special occasions, like if you're going to a
Speaker 2: nice event or a nice dinner, a gala. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you know sometimes you put on cuff links. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: like your pinky ring. Yeah, it's like you know, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna dress it up.
Speaker 1: You know what you're right clip? And I also have
Speaker 1: his old gold pocket watch. You know, remember the old
Speaker 1: pocket watch is they put to a chain on your suit,
Speaker 1: put in your pocket. So I'll just do that. I'll
Speaker 1: have the money clip and the pocket watch. I'll be
Speaker 1: like a I might even bring back the zoot suit.
Speaker 3: If you're not Carus, say what you be like a
Speaker 3: nineteen forties gangster where your pinky ring with the diamond
Speaker 3: in it that he also gave you.
Speaker 1: Uh, Okay, So I'm just gonna put this away and
Speaker 1: take it out on special occasions. That's cool though, problem solved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is kind of cool the stories this money. Knowing
Speaker 1: my grandfather, there wasn't money in it for very long.
Speaker 3: I feel like there was a lot in it and
Speaker 3: then none in it all the time.
Speaker 1: All right, bass fishing with you may not and people
Speaker 1: may not know this, but Austin Lake, Austin has quite
Speaker 1: the scene for bass fishing. I mean, is it Wednesday
Speaker 1: nights JB.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. I assume they still do them, you know,
Speaker 2: because we're on the lake all the time. And I'd
Speaker 2: always assu him on Wednesday nights in the summer at
Speaker 2: City Park. They'd stayed at City Park and as a
Speaker 2: tournament every week. But that's big business.
Speaker 1: Huge.
Speaker 2: Professional fishing is huge, big money, like big prize money.
Speaker 1: Yep. Even salt water bass fishing whatever, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you can catch it out of the water, there's money in.
Speaker 2: It, and it makes sense, you know, it's like does
Speaker 2: everyone fish know? But but you know, I mean, look
Speaker 2: at the amount of people that do and the money
Speaker 2: that's in it. Once they are in, you can sell
Speaker 2: them a million things. It's like golf yep, exactly. That's
Speaker 2: why it's such an enterprise, right. But I was, I
Speaker 2: was saw this story pop up on Instagram where they
Speaker 2: busted what they call the biggest cheater in bass fishing ever.
Speaker 2: I love this stuff, and I thought, oh, this is
Speaker 2: the story of the guy that was putting weights in there,
Speaker 2: in there in the fish after they caught him like
Speaker 2: the little Yeah, they'd catch them in you know, the
Speaker 2: little fishing weights. They'd start dumping them in the fish
Speaker 2: and so when it weighs and it would it would
Speaker 2: be a little bit more and that that's a very
Speaker 2: famous one. But the one I saw was including a
Speaker 2: fisherman named Tony Christian and he worked with another guy,
Speaker 2: Curtis sand Not that it matters, but anyhow, here's what
Speaker 2: they devised to cheat bass fishing.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: For one, it was sort of a people were raising
Speaker 2: an eyebrow because he would use like very bright fluorescent lures.
Speaker 2: No one else was doing that. Okay, everything else looked
Speaker 2: very natural. So we're like, huh. And this guy started
Speaker 2: winning tournaments. He won like his big mistake, he won
Speaker 2: like three in a row. Oh, got greedy, got greedy,
Speaker 2: got greedy. He used to work for a guy that
Speaker 2: got greedy in that regard.
Speaker 1: Pigs, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.
Speaker 2: And here's what he was doing. The reason the lures were.
Speaker 2: The bait was like fluorescent. He would they would hire
Speaker 2: a scuba diver to be in the lake. He cast
Speaker 2: over by a dock where he knew the scuba diver
Speaker 2: would be hanging out, and they already had a large
Speaker 2: bass that had they just had just died. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: they would put it on the hook. Oh my, the
Speaker 2: scuba diver would put it on the hook. And at
Speaker 2: the other place where people started raising eyebrows is like,
Speaker 2: you know, they could tell when they were bringing it
Speaker 2: to weigh and people were like, that fish looks like
Speaker 2: it's maybe been dead a little bit longer, right, They
Speaker 2: start to lean out in their eyes start to bulge. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he got popped on this. It's like, oh my,
Speaker 2: that is an unbelievable level of cheating.
Speaker 3: No God forbid, you just keep practicing it get really
Speaker 3: good to win all that lot of money.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the Instagram video of the guy that
Speaker 1: got caught cheating at the way in like Ye and
Speaker 1: they were pool in the weights the old school way
Speaker 1: of dropping weights into the fish, and I thought they
Speaker 1: were going to kill him. Yes, I did, Yes, and
Speaker 1: they probably should have. I've been the leader of the packle.
Speaker 1: I hate a cheater. God, I hate a cheater, and
Speaker 1: I hate a cheater, and I hate a thief. And
Speaker 1: but yeah, cheating in the old bass game, it's big
Speaker 1: money to waig big money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a My daughter's twenty three, and you know,
Speaker 2: we were always on the lake because my daughter's a
Speaker 2: wake surfer. We're always on the lake. And every time
Speaker 2: we'd go, this kid that she went to school with
Speaker 2: was always out there fishing off the docks, you know,
Speaker 2: Terrytown kid. And he's on the pro tour now yeah,
Speaker 2: wow sponsored pro tour fishermen.
Speaker 1: I see kids all the time at the Brushy Creek
Speaker 1: trail that are walking over with their fishing poles and
Speaker 1: fishing in Brushy Creek, and I'm always asking, I go,
Speaker 1: how's the fishing? Do you love it?
Speaker 2: When you see young kids fishing on their own.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just see kids playing outside. I get excited right.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's a wholesome, like it's just a
Speaker 2: lost thing.
Speaker 1: Right. My my godson, you know, my buddy more mcdonneh
Speaker 1: his son is on a professional deep sea team. Like
Speaker 1: they go out Like he's fishing right now in big
Speaker 1: time tournament in the Bahamas. And I mean they're fishing
Speaker 1: for millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they win millions of.
Speaker 1: Dollars and they've done it.
Speaker 2: And there sometimes the fish is worth more than you realize,
Speaker 2: like a big tuna or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what they'll fish for everything. But I
Speaker 1: think they're in a tuna tournament right now. But they'll
Speaker 1: spend you know, four or five days out there fishing
Speaker 1: and just having the time of his life doing it's kind.
Speaker 3: Of making a ton of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my daughter loves to fish.
Speaker 1: Oh I do too, So does mine. In fact, she
Speaker 1: told me, she goes, you got to do two things
Speaker 1: with me this summer. One take me to a butler
Speaker 1: pitching putt, and two take me fishing. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I can make those two things happen.
Speaker 2: I keep telling my daughter, you're not a kid anymore.
Speaker 2: You need to go to academy and get a license.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get you're gonna get in trouble. You don't
Speaker 2: want to mess with a game warden.
Speaker 1: One of the most powerful people in Texas, the game warden.
Speaker 3: They can take all your stuff anywhere they want, into
Speaker 3: anything they want.
Speaker 1: And you know this very well, JB. That if you're
Speaker 1: on like Lake Austin or Lake Travis, Bucan, wherever you are,
Speaker 1: if the authority get on your boat, you're screwed. You're done.
Speaker 2: Your APD or Sheriff's department have to have probable cause,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Yeah, just because they feel like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they throw.
Speaker 2: It around the boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. They got a lot of power, man.
Speaker 1: So I wonder what did they do? You know any
Speaker 1: what the I guess this guy is going to be
Speaker 1: banned for scuba cheating with his bass. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: banned for life.
Speaker 2: They should have to pay back all those winnings absolutely,
Speaker 2: look at you know, or pay it to the whoever
Speaker 2: got seck.
Speaker 1: How did this idea get hatched? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I got an idea. Guys, we're not doing so good
Speaker 1: in this bass fishing I know a guy that can
Speaker 1: scuba DIVEE.
Speaker 2: I don't want to give up pro bass fishing because
Speaker 2: it's a lot of time away from my wife. So
Speaker 2: I will go to extreme measures to keep this career going.
Speaker 1: Well. His bass fishing days are over.
Speaker 2: You know who was a great bass fisherman and this
Speaker 2: might surprise you. You may know this Sandy, and he just
Speaker 2: passed away last year. Chuck Wollery the game two and
Speaker 2: two and two. He he and I became friends because
Speaker 2: he had an airstream at pe Congrove RV Park for years,
Speaker 2: and I went out to his place in Horseshoe Bay,
Speaker 2: which he ended up living there because he was an
Speaker 2: LA guy, still doing the game shows and all that.
Speaker 2: And he was as he was aging, he was hot,
Speaker 2: he was older than you think like, he just looked great.
Speaker 2: And he was hired to do endorsements to pitch a
Speaker 2: development in Horseshoe Bay for retirees sense and he fell
Speaker 2: went out there and fell in love with it. And
Speaker 2: his place was on LBJ. It was a town home
Speaker 2: where on the bottom level you'd go down the stairs
Speaker 2: and you were in a garage with his bass boat
Speaker 2: race on the water, and he would go out fishing
Speaker 2: every morning. First thing.
Speaker 1: That was his thing, that was his piece.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine that going downstairs and getting in a
Speaker 2: bass boat.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty cool. I mean, chuck. He could hook
Speaker 1: a bass with one hand and light a cigarette with
Speaker 1: the other.
Speaker 2: He had his own line of lures and stuff.
Speaker 1: Really him, It's a good life. It's The JB and
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