283: 2025 Tumble LureNament

Episode Transcript

[0:00:04 – 0:00:10] SPEAKER_01: It’s a far north one that’s a callin’ me away, as take I with my pack sack to the road.
[0:00:11 – 0:00:18] SPEAKER_01: It’s a call on me of the forest in the north, as step I with the sunlight o’er my load.
[0:00:18 – 0:00:26] SPEAKER_01: From Lake Agnes by Louisa to Caniffy I will go, where you see the loon and hear his plaintive wail.
[0:00:26 – 0:00:33] SPEAKER_01: If you’re thinkin’ in your inner heart to swagger in my step, then you’ve never been along the border trail.
[0:00:34 – 0:00:41] SPEAKER_01: It’s the flash of paddle blades a gleaming in the sun of canoes softly skimming by the shore.
[0:00:41 – 0:00:48] SPEAKER_01: It’s the tang of pine and bracken coming on the breeze that calls me to the waterway once more.
[0:00:49 – 0:00:56] SPEAKER_01: From Lake Agnes by Louisa to Canipi I will go where you see the loon and hear its plaintive wail.
[0:00:56 – 0:01:00] SPEAKER_01: If you think you can hear in your heart the swagger in my step,
[0:01:00 – 0:01:03] SPEAKER_01: Then you’ve never been along the border trail.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:13] Adam: Welcome to the learn-a-ment.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:19] Adam: My name is Terry Davenport.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:25] Adam: Joining me here in Studio B with The View for Tumble Home Sports Network is my dear friend, Jim Sofa.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:26] Adam: Hello, Jim.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:27] Erik: Hello.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:29] Erik: The excitement is palpable.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:32] Erik: Thank you to the Atacocan A&M Boys Choir for that intro.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:33] Erik: Very lovely stuff.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:36] Erik: They got the voices of an angel, Jim.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:38] Erik: Voices of just one angel.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:40] Erik: For all one of them.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:42] Adam: They got to share the angel.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:43] Erik: Yes.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:45] Erik: It’s selection…
[0:01:46 – 0:01:48] Erik: Thursday to us, Sunday to you.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:53] Erik: I’ve been feverishly sweating over Hall of Fame.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:57] Erik: Lure lists, your comments.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:02] Adam: We watched every Antiques Roadshow that included an old lure.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:03] Erik: Oh, you were doing that?
[0:02:03 – 0:02:06] Erik: I was just watching them in hopes a lure would show up.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:07] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:09] Adam: Many episodes, no lures.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:12] Adam: Yeah, every other one, usually you get an antique lure on there.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:16] Adam: And we are back with the big bracket.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:17] Adam: Yeah, it’s been a while.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:21] Adam: And the committee has reached its final decisions today.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:24] Adam: And, boy, we had a lot of help on the committee this year.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:29] Adam: The biggest committee we’ve ever had for a Tumble Home Sports Network tournament.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:34] Erik: Yeah, it takes a village to put together a tournament of this size and magnitude.
[0:02:36 – 0:02:42] Adam: We’re going back to 64 teams in this year’s tournament for the March Madness here on Tumble Home.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:44] Erik: Yes, the Tumble-lurnament.
[0:02:45 – 0:02:48] Erik: You’ve all been just clamoring for this.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:56] Adam: That Boy Scout troop’s sure going to thank us all for hosting this entire tournament to answer their very simple question.
[0:02:56 – 0:03:04] Erik: A one-sentence question that we are going to spread out and slowly suckle content from for at least a month.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:14] Adam: We’re going to let out 15,000 yards of monofilament and drag this thing behind the boat for the next month until something bites.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:27] Erik: You might as well just start a mine on the outskirts of the whole boundary waters at this point because of all of the historic lead-laden mercury-riddled lures we’re going to be pitching this week.
[0:03:29 – 0:03:38] Erik: Some of these things haven’t seen the light of day since your grandpa was flicking a bamboo rod back and forth on the shores of Okeechobee.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:39] Adam: That’s right.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:41] Erik: And that makes sense to you.
[0:03:41 – 0:03:42] Erik: I know it does.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:44] Adam: It makes sense to us all, Jim.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:46] Adam: I am mighty thirsty.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:48] Adam: I’m thirsty like a fish over here, Jim.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:55] Adam: And the only lure that’s going to quench this thirst is sitting right in front of us on the table.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:58] Adam: And we got to pop into these bad boys.
[0:03:58 – 0:03:59] Erik: Pop into that.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:06] Adam: We got ourselves a really nice postcard with some taxidermy of the Judge Wolf, as you can see there.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:11] Adam: Rendering his verdict against the raccoon, it looks like.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:12] Adam: This does not look good.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Adam: The raccoon’s in cuffs.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:14] Adam: Oh, no, always.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:21] Adam: The attorney is a bobcat, and the plaintiff is a woodchuck.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:25] Adam: This is from, oh, this is great.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:30] Adam: This is from Northwood’s Kangaroo Court from the Moccasin Bar in Hayward, Wisconsin.
[0:04:30 – 0:04:33] Adam: Home to the Fishing Hall of Fame.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:34] Adam: The Big Muskie.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:35] Adam: Big Muskie.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:38] Adam: Anybody listening been up in the Big Muskie?
[0:04:38 – 0:04:41] Adam: Has anybody been to the Moccasin Bar and seen this Kangaroo Court?
[0:04:42 – 0:04:44] Adam: Please enjoy these art supplies from Chicago.
[0:04:45 – 0:04:49] Adam: The beer is a collab with a local Chicago band.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:52] Adam: I’ve never heard of them and have no idea if they are good.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:53] Adam: Thanks for the show.
[0:04:54 – 0:04:55] Adam: Boundary Waters Barbie.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:56] Adam: Thank you very much.
[0:04:58 – 0:04:58] Adam: And family.
[0:04:59 – 0:05:01] Adam: Did you get back up for a ski on that icy trail?
[0:05:01 – 0:05:05] Adam: I think you were on the Discord asking about, are the trails any good?
[0:05:05 – 0:05:07] Adam: There is still snow, but they are all ice.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:09] Adam: Mostly ice with a little bit of snow.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:11] Adam: What do we got here?
[0:05:11 – 0:05:12] Erik: Skis have been stored.
[0:05:13 – 0:05:13] Adam: You going in?
[0:05:14 – 0:05:14] Erik: On my end.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:16] Adam: They are stored.
[0:05:16 – 0:05:17] Erik: Fully put away.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:19] Adam: They could always be brought back out.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:21] Erik: You can always grab them.
[0:05:21 – 0:05:27] Adam: This snowmobile is also basically half stored with the cover on it, but there’s still some gas in that tank.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:30] Adam: If we get a foot of snow next week, Jim, we might have to go back out.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:42] Adam: We got ourselves a Begin by Gathering Supplies Sheck Dark Lager made in collaboration with Chicago’s Begin by Gathering Supplies store.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:46] Adam: What is this?
[0:05:46 – 0:05:49] Adam: It’s brewed to celebrate the end of all things.
[0:05:49 – 0:05:50] Adam: What is this?
[0:05:50 – 0:05:52] Adam: This is from Illuminated Brew Works.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:56] Erik: It’s maybe some of the best can artwork I’ve seen in a long time.
[0:05:56 – 0:05:57] Erik: I agree.
[0:05:57 – 0:06:03] Erik: This feels like new can artwork print technology too.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:05] Erik: It feels like kind of matte.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:14] Erik: It feels very nicely printed and also left with just as many questions as I went into.
[0:06:15 – 0:06:37] Erik: uh looking at this beer is that monkey on the right smoking a pipe or playing a flute i don’t know it’s a hot spring scenario yeah i love it begin by gathering supplies pure stereo begin by gathering up all of your according to the state of california will cause cancer
[0:06:41 – 0:06:41] Erik: Lurs.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:42] Erik: Lurs.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:45] Adam: Riddled with mysteries.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:49] Adam: I was good, and I did remember to put these in the fridge this morning.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:53] Adam: They’re pretty cold.
[0:06:53 – 0:07:00] Adam: We have two art supplies here, and we also have been given a modern mule.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:27] Adam: thc beverage oh no this is floral on here from chicago it says what do we got you going bang bang not yet farm to fridge made in the midwest floral is the name of the company i guess try floral and uh i think they said it was made in the chicagoland area
[0:07:29 – 0:07:32] Adam: Water-stable hemp botanicals from Heartland Harvest.
[0:07:32 – 0:07:33] Adam: All right.
[0:07:33 – 0:07:36] Adam: It’s a Moscow mule-looking thing here from Floral.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:39] Adam: Served chilled and chill.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:40] Adam: I like that.
[0:07:42 – 0:07:43] Adam: Perhaps.
[0:07:43 – 0:07:44] Adam: Yeah, get them back in the fridge maybe.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:45] Adam: Outside?
[0:07:45 – 0:07:46] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:07:46 – 0:07:48] Erik: Outside used to be like a guarantee.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:49] Erik: It’s not really anymore.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:51] Adam: I think it’s perfect temperature out there for this, Jim.
[0:07:53 – 0:07:56] Adam: And, yeah, I may get into one of these modern mules later.
[0:07:57 – 0:08:02] Adam: Later on in the show here on Selection Sunday, it’s a big-time tournament.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:09] Adam: The last time we all got together and voted to determine the champion, it was the Coglins Cup.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:16] Adam: But it’s been some time since we’ve had the full 64-team field, and we are about to unveil them.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:25] Adam: Of course, this is mostly based on your comments on the question of the week concerning which would be the number one lure you would bring.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:28] Adam: If you were only allowed to bring one lure, that is all.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:31] Adam: I thought this was based on pure science.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:33] Adam: And pure science.
[0:08:33 – 0:08:34] Erik: Pure science.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:38] Adam: And this is all going to help out Boy Scout Troop 096.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:41] Erik: I should go back and reread that email.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:42] Erik: I don’t even know if it was Boy Scouts.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:47] Erik: It might just be some youngsters from Indiana who I just assume are all in the scouting program.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:50] Adam: They are, and they’re going to really appreciate it.
[0:08:50 – 0:09:00] Adam: So you can basically, Boy Scouts, if you’re listening, you’re going to take the final four, and then whichever one of the other lures that didn’t make the final four that really spoke to you, and that’s the answer.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:01] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:02] Adam: For your top five lures.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:09] Erik: We couldn’t just answer it in a simple 20 minutes at the beginning of an episode.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:09] Erik: No.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:11] Erik: We need to have some fun.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:17] Erik: It’s going to be an early spring, but winter is definitely not over.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:22] Erik: It’s a three steps forward, two steps back.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:25] Erik: Maybe there will be some late April paddling.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:26] Erik: Wouldn’t be surprised.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:27] Erik: I wouldn’t be surprised.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:33] Erik: But I also wouldn’t block off any dates for a trip either.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:35] Erik: There’s a ton of ice out there.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:36] Erik: Haven’t really lost ice.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:36] Erik: Oh, my gosh.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:37] Erik: Lost a lot of snow.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:40] Erik: But there’s still a lot of snow in the Northland.
[0:09:40 – 0:09:47] Erik: Maybe not on the shore of Lake Superior, but up in the borderlands, up on Conippy and Agnes.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:48] Erik: Oh, yes.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:49] Erik: She’s still socked in.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:53] Adam: I’ve been out ice fishing the last two weekends, and there’s over two feet of ice still.
[0:09:54 – 0:09:58] Adam: Then I see a post on Reddit, and they’re like, is there any ice left up north?
[0:09:58 – 0:10:03] Erik: Thinking about holding a paddle at Lac La Croix next week.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:04] Adam: No.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:08] Adam: There’s plenty of ice, especially if the hand auger is being used.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:12] Adam: You definitely can tell there’s a lot of ice left and fish being caught.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:14] Adam: And there’s still two weekends of ice fishing remaining.
[0:10:14 – 0:10:19] Adam: But I will just take this moment to say that we didn’t really include ice fishing lures.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:21] Adam: You’re not going to see the Swedish pimple in this year’s tournament.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:26] Adam: This is an open water canoe fishing lure tournament.
[0:10:26 – 0:10:26] Erik: Yes.
[0:10:27 – 0:10:34] Adam: And so while there is a lot of great ice fishing, and honestly, you could probably catch a fish on a Swedish pimple open water.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: I guarantee I could, actually.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:36] Adam: Sure.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:41] Adam: But it’s an ice fishing lure, and that’s the only real rule.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:46] Adam: That’s the only lure rule in this year here’s tournament.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:49] Adam: Tumble Learnament.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:52] Adam: The committee is committed to that distinction.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:53] Erik: Yes.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:59] Erik: And if you’re new to this, it’s been close to a year since we’ve done anything close to this.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:02] Erik: We’re opening all the voting.
[0:11:02 – 0:11:03] Erik: Who’s going to win?
[0:11:03 – 0:11:03] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:11:03 – 0:11:04] Erik: It’s up to you.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:06] Erik: We’re going to try and do our best.
[0:11:06 – 0:11:11] Adam: Go over to poll tab where the link will be in the show notes.
[0:11:11 – 0:11:14] Adam: And you’re only allowed to vote, though, if you are a real human.
[0:11:15 – 0:11:15] Erik: Exactly.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:19] Adam: We’re going to make you capture every single vote.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:21] Adam: Be prepared to work for these votes.
[0:11:22 – 0:11:24] Adam: Be prepared for it to take four times as long as you thought it was going to take.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:27] Adam: This is the lure of 10,000 casts.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:35] Adam: You’re going to have to really set aside at least two to five minutes to do your voting this week, especially for this week.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:37] Adam: We’ve got 32 matchups to get through.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:39] Adam: We’ve got some hot ones.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:43] Adam: The committee worked their butts off to make sure that these are fair and
[0:11:44 – 0:11:50] Adam: And like we said earlier, the top seeds were determined by the upvotes on the subreddit.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:56] Adam: So thank you, Tumble Homies, for taking time to suggest your favorite lures and vote on them.
[0:11:57 – 0:12:01] Adam: The committee put a lot of weight behind those actions.
[0:12:01 – 0:12:01] Adam: So thank you very much.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:07] Adam: We’ll take this moment, too, to special shout-out to our patrons for your continued support.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:10] Adam: I hope you enjoyed the Alone series.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:21] Adam: One of my favorite kinds of lure is a ballistic nuclear submarine, and excellent in all aspects underwater.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:30] Adam: And, of course, this is sub-month coming up here in April, so we’re going to be starting off with Crimson Tide, for those of you in the Patreon community.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:34] Adam: That will be going on side-by-side with the Learnament will be some month.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:57] Erik: It’s just a match made, a natural match made where, you know, before somebody happened to take a huge spoonful of peanut butter and then a large bite of a crisp, cold whole, entire whole kosher dill pickle and chewed it together in their mouth.
[0:12:58 – 0:13:00] Erik: It’s like this was meant to be.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:03] Erik: Same thing goes for the lournament and sub month.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:07] Adam: That’s also the number one dessert served on subs.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:08] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:11] Erik: Just mouth mixing peanut butter and dill pickles.
[0:13:12 – 0:13:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:14] Erik: There’s no time.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:15] Erik: There’s no time to be sitting down.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:17] Erik: There’s no room to be sitting down.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:18] Adam: That’s all they ate in Das Boot.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:20] Erik: Pickles and peanut butter.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:21] Adam: That’s all you need to eat.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:22] Adam: German delicacy.
[0:13:23 – 0:13:24] Adam: Kind of like this Czech lager.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:26] Erik: It’s pretty good.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:27] Erik: Not as dark as it tastes.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:29] Erik: Not as dark as it sounds.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:30] Erik: That makes more sense.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:31] Erik: Right?
[0:13:31 – 0:13:31] Adam: Right.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:34] Adam: These monkeys are in a warm spring.
[0:13:36 – 0:13:37] Adam: Hot springs, Adam.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:39] Erik: Hot.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:41] Erik: Where that artwork comes from, but it’s good.
[0:13:41 – 0:13:41] Erik: It’s great.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:42] Erik: I like it.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:45] Erik: I want to see more of that kind of artwork on beer cans.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Adam: Thank you, Boundary Waters Barbie.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:48] Adam: These are great.
[0:13:49 – 0:13:50] Adam: We sure appreciate it.
[0:13:52 – 0:13:53] Adam: All right.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:55] Adam: Are we ready to unveil?
[0:13:55 – 0:13:56] Adam: Where are we going to start?
[0:13:58 – 0:14:01] Adam: Well, I think we should start in the east.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:03] Adam: As we always do, Jim.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:04] Erik: We always do.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:06] Erik: It’s our home court.
[0:14:06 – 0:14:07] Adam: Our home bracket.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:11] Adam: I can’t wait to see these matchups live right here in Grand Marais.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:14] Erik: Yes, the Beaver House, Grand Marais.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:22] Adam: Whoever wins this side of the bracket gets the tail of the walleye that’s been missing for over a year now.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:32] Erik: I thought they were going to get all of the leftover miscellaneous niche boozes that the liquor store forgets to transfer over to the new.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:40] Adam: I am very excited that the liquor store is moving into its new home at the brand new City Hall this month, but also very excited that we’re going to get the Beaver House back.
[0:14:41 – 0:14:41] Adam: Sure, yeah.
[0:14:41 – 0:14:43] Adam: As a bait shop probably, right?
[0:14:43 – 0:14:47] Erik: But I am also going to be somewhat disappointed that the… Yeah, right.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:49] Erik: I always go there for my finest of baits.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:49] Erik: Yes.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:51] Erik: We’re losing something.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:55] Erik: It’s another step in a small town’s…
[0:14:56 – 0:14:59] Erik: slower progression towards gentrification.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:06] Erik: Most of the other people I’m sure listening to this, anybody who lives in a city, it kind of comes breakneck speed.
[0:15:07 – 0:15:19] Erik: All of a sudden your favorite mom and pop joint, it’s got the corrugated steel, it’s got that like brown inoffensive cladding and it looks like every other government building.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:19] Erik: Backlit signage.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:25] Erik: And yeah, there is a part of me that’s been kind of like
[0:15:26 – 0:15:41] Erik: Oh, it shouldn’t really be an entire case of wine with the furnace blowing directly at it for six months straight, but I just love the vibes.
[0:15:42 – 0:15:46] Adam: Either it’s going to go back to being a bait shop or it’s going to become a dispensary at some point.
[0:15:47 – 0:15:49] Adam: Or a dive bar would be great.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:50] Adam: We were talking about it last weekend.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:53] Adam: Maybe we should rent it and try and turn it into a dive bar called Tumble Home.
[0:15:54 – 0:15:55] Erik: Tumble home the bar.
[0:15:55 – 0:15:57] Adam: Yes.
[0:15:57 – 0:16:00] Adam: And podcasting headquarters would be a write-off.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:01] Adam: Yeah, back in the beer cooler.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Adam: Trevor, can you check into this?
[0:16:03 – 0:16:03] Adam: He’s nodding.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:04] Adam: He’s nodding.
[0:16:04 – 0:16:06] Adam: Yeah, he’s already looked into it, I think.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:07] Adam: He’s nodding no.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:10] Adam: Let’s turn that frown upside down, kid.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:11] Adam: Get positive, Trevor.
[0:16:12 – 0:16:12] Adam: God.
[0:16:12 – 0:16:18] Erik: Your days in the Eastern Front have worn you down to a nub of anti-positivity.
[0:16:19 – 0:16:22] Adam: Yeah, you’re not going to be catching anything on your wibbly nibblies with that kind of attitude.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:28] Erik: What was the basement, the speakeasy in the basement where you just constantly had to be hunched over?
[0:16:29 – 0:16:31] Adam: You got to be hunched over and gambling.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:36] Erik: Yeah, just craps in a clawfoot tub.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:40] Adam: Yeah, the still is in the tub that used to host the leeches.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Adam: Now we got that out of the way.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:44] Adam: It’s going to be a hell of a tournament.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:46] Erik: It’s going to be a hell of a tournament.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:49] Erik: The Beaver House is sponsoring.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:51] Erik: The eastern region.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:52] Erik: Let’s start at the top.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:55] Erik: These are based on comments we have received.
[0:16:56 – 0:17:04] Erik: And, obviously, the clandestine, hooded, 12-member committee.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:06] Erik: They will never be outed.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:12] Adam: Smoke was rising from the sauna as I drove up to Studio V. Many different colors.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:13] Adam: A lot of decisions had been made.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:14 – 0:17:15] Erik: Yeah, many decisions have been made.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:17] Erik: A lot of wisdom had been realized.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:18] Erik: As always.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:22] Erik: Just wanted to start from the top and go to the bottom.
[0:17:22 – 0:17:23] Adam: That’s how we’re going to do it.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:25] Adam: Does anybody have any questions?
[0:17:25 – 0:17:29] Adam: Just go on the thread on the subreddit and read the whole thread.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:31] Adam: Pause right now and read the thread and then come back.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:38] Adam: Then you’ll understand why the top seeds, as we said earlier, are directly pulled from the comments and upvotes from that thread.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:40] Erik: Yeah, these are the top lures, Barnswater’s.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:43] Erik: Desert island lure.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:45] Erik: There’s many different ways to phrase this.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:48] Erik: One lure to rule them all?
[0:17:48 – 0:17:50] Adam: Rule them all.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:54] Erik: We’re going to Mordor, and we need to take one lure.
[0:17:56 – 0:17:59] Adam: Yeah, we’re going to catch Sauron and push him off that cliff.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:02] Adam: What’s that rat boy’s name?
[0:18:02 – 0:18:04] Adam: We’re pushing him off, too.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:05] Adam: Smeagol?
[0:18:06 – 0:18:07] Adam: No, the whisperer.
[0:18:10 – 0:18:13] Erik: All I can think of is Peter Pettigrew.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:14] SPEAKER_01: No.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] SPEAKER_01: He’s the little rat boy.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:16] Adam: He’s the rat boy, too.
[0:18:17 – 0:18:21] Adam: As we’ve already established, Harry Potter is directly ripping off Lord of the Rings in every way.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:23] Erik: Whoa, no.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:23] Erik: Come on.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:24] Erik: In all the good ways.
[0:18:25 – 0:18:26] Erik: We got a one seed.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:29] Erik: The one seed.
[0:18:29 – 0:18:30] Erik: The one of ones.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:31] Erik: That’s why we’re starting here.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:32] Adam: The learnament.
[0:18:33 – 0:18:37] Erik: Based on our experiences as experts, based on the…
[0:18:38 – 0:18:40] Erik: Hooded committee.
[0:18:40 – 0:18:43] Erik: And based on you, we’re going with the X-Rap.
[0:18:43 – 0:18:44] Erik: It’s the X-Rap.
[0:18:45 – 0:18:47] Erik: It’s a number one seed without question.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:53] Erik: It’s been a main player anytime we talk fishing, anytime we actually fish.
[0:18:53 – 0:18:56] Erik: And probably one of the more…
[0:18:57 – 0:19:12] Erik: commented and represented lures on the subreddit so overall number one seed we didn’t necessarily talk about this too much leading up to getting into the teams in this tournament but we’re not going to get too fancy
[0:19:13 – 0:19:16] Erik: With colors, sizes.
[0:19:16 – 0:19:19] Adam: We’ve had a lot of fun with the colors of the Rapala over the years.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:23] Erik: Yeah, it gets a little crazy.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:30] Erik: You could probably just do four different lures in all their different colors and fill out an entire tournament.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:32] Erik: There’s jointed X-Raps.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:41] Adam: You could just have Meps’ and Little Cleo’s and Rappala’s and then just the different colors and sizes, and that would be a fun tournament.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:47] Erik: Yeah, and if you’re worried about the legitimacy of this, just let it be known.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:53] Erik: We’ve thought it all through, and this is the best possible tournament that could possibly be created.
[0:19:53 – 0:19:55] Adam: Thank you, committee, for your wisdom.
[0:19:55 – 0:19:56] Erik: No questions.
[0:19:57 – 0:20:21] Adam: asked uh the x-rap i went undefeated in the wibbly wobbly conference this year as well so yeah uh strong rpi plays excellent defense aggressive offense uh has a real nice all-around game well-rounded question number one seed it floats it sinks it slashes it doesn’t get snagged it’s got a feather does have a feather some of the best color combinations around
[0:20:23 – 0:20:28] Erik: Going up against the last team in, the plain barbless hook.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:30] UNKNOWN: What?
[0:20:31 – 0:20:33] Adam: With a little bit of rust and no barb.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:34] Erik: Just a little bit of rust.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:37] Adam: How long has that thing been in the bottom of the tackle box?
[0:20:37 – 0:20:41] Erik: It once had a barb, but a Quetico paddler printed it.
[0:20:41 – 0:20:43] Adam: You’d use another hook to open up the eyelet on it.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:46] Erik: Yeah, if you really want to, you can open up the eyelet on it a little bit.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:54] Adam: and throw it on there, and you can probably find a pine cone in camp and throw that out, and you’d probably catch something.
[0:20:54 – 0:20:59] Erik: Yeah, this is also a luredament, not a live bait rig-ament.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:00] Erik: That’s true.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:01] Erik: No live bait allowed.
[0:21:02 – 0:21:04] Erik: I think the most you could do is get one of those.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:11] Erik: You remember those little tiny, like, binaca-sized spray bottles where you could, like, spray your, like, soft plastics with, like, fish scent?
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:13] Erik: That’s all world.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:15] Erik: I think that’s the most.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:20] Adam: Yeah, you can put a little habanero hot sauce on the hook.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:22] Erik: Yeah, you can put whatever you want.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:24] Adam: Imbue it with any kind of flavor you please.
[0:21:24 – 0:21:32] Erik: Yeah, if little mini artificial fish scent spray bottle comes off the bench, that’s the only hope for the plain barbless hook.
[0:21:32 – 0:21:39] Adam: I think that plain hook is technically a member of the tickle bugs conference, but we’re not sure where they even came from.
[0:21:39 – 0:21:41] Adam: They might be a rogue independent.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:44] Erik: Well, we’re predicting domination.
[0:21:45 – 0:21:46] Adam: It’s up to the voters, though.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:48] Adam: It’s all up to the voters.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:49] Erik: It’s all up to the voters.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:50] Erik: Down to the 8-9 matchup.
[0:21:50 – 0:21:54] Adam: Coming up in the pivotal 8-9 matchup for who gets to go up against the X-Rap in round two.
[0:21:55 – 0:21:58] Adam: We got ourselves, with the 8 seed, the top walker.
[0:21:58 – 0:22:00] Adam: Oh, my.
[0:22:01 – 0:22:03] Adam: That’s a pretty tough draw for the top walker.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:11] Adam: I personally have caught my biggest open water pike and my biggest open water muskie on a top walker in the baby loon pattern.
[0:22:12 – 0:22:18] Adam: I was looking through my lures before I came over here, and that lure is still in there.
[0:22:19 – 0:22:24] Adam: It’s covered in teeth marks, and it throws up a lot of spray and wake behind it.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:26] Adam: That’s a hell of an eight seed there.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:48] Adam: and damn this just in it’s going up against the nine seed suic musky thriller so it looks like we have two technical uh musky lures here in the eight nine matchup here in grammar a uh that is uh pretty nuts that they make those in all sizes obviously and it would uh i would love to be on a boundary waters trip with either of those lures
[0:22:51 – 0:22:57] Adam: But yeah, you’re not going to go with the 14-inch muskie thriller probably, but you could get away with doing that in the boundary waters.
[0:22:57 – 0:23:07] Adam: I think people are often too scared to fish with really big lures out of a canoe, but you can definitely catch reasonable fish with a very big lure.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:08] Adam: Fish are greedy.
[0:23:09 – 0:23:10] Erik: We all know it.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:13] Erik: We have some shockingly large lures coming up in this tournament.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:14] Adam: Yeah, there’s a lot of big lures in here.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:16] Adam: Some big, big lures.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:18] Adam: And there’s also some tiny ones.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:20] Erik: There’s also some baby ones.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:24] Erik: Yeah, excited to see any 8-9 matchup.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:29] Erik: Usually, as it goes, should be a close matchup.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:31] Erik: But you never know.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] Adam: I think that Top Walker…
[0:23:33 – 0:23:39] Adam: I almost won the conference tournament, too, for the Splashin’ Sass conference, but just came up a little bit short.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:42] Adam: So they’re coming into the tournament red hot.
[0:23:43 – 0:23:51] Adam: But the Suik Muskie Thriller held the World Muskie Championships, the world record for 40-plus years at one point there.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:53] Adam: So an all-time classic, too.
[0:23:54 – 0:23:59] Adam: If you’re going up in the mouth of the big muskie in Hayward, Wisconsin, you’re probably going to find a Suik Muskie Thriller up there.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:01] Adam: Just dangling.
[0:24:01 – 0:24:02] Adam: Right off the big tooth.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:04] Erik: Dangling from the palate.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:07] Erik: Down to the 5-12 matchup.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:08] Erik: Nothing so far.
[0:24:08 – 0:24:19] Erik: Can’t wait to get to the bottom of this and see if we have any thoughts on who could potentially take out the one seed in this Beaver House section of the tournament.
[0:24:19 – 0:24:21] Erik: We’ve got the number five seed, though, coming in.
[0:24:21 – 0:24:23] Erik: The maps are going to be a few of these.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:27] Erik: The maps number five, the Double Blade.
[0:24:27 – 0:24:28] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:24:28 – 0:24:29] Erik: It’s not just one blade.
[0:24:29 – 0:24:30] Adam: It’s not three blades.
[0:24:31 – 0:24:32] Adam: Just the perfect amount of blades.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:36] Adam: The meps got with it and made a double-bladed five.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:42] Erik: Still kind of technically in the, I would say, big fish category here with the five and the double blade.
[0:24:42 – 0:24:43] Adam: No doubt.
[0:24:43 – 0:24:52] Adam: Yeah, I was looking through my box, and I thought I was always leaning towards the three, but I do have a lot of fours and some fives in my tackle box.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:59] Adam: The five is not out of line for a Boundary Waters approach at all, and the double blade can really be effective.
[0:24:59 – 0:24:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:00] Erik: We’re talking big.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:03] Erik: I think we’re still in the, you know, bass.
[0:25:03 – 0:25:04] Erik: They’ll go after anything.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:04] Erik: They’re idiots.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:06] Adam: Double fives in the five seed.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:07] Adam: Interesting.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:08] Erik: Double five in the five seed.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:13] Erik: Twelve seed going up against the MEP’s number five double blade.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:16] Erik: It’s the Hedden Magnum Hellbender.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:17] Erik: Hellbender.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:20] Erik: He’s bending hell.
[0:25:20 – 0:25:21] Adam: What does that even mean?
[0:25:22 – 0:25:23] Erik: Going to have to wait and find out.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:25] Erik: It sounds like it’s going to go deep, Eric.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:26] Erik: It could be.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:30] Erik: It’s always a 12 over a 5.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:31] Erik: Almost every year there’s one.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:32] Erik: Bet on it.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:36] Erik: Is this the year for the hidden magnum hellbender?
[0:25:36 – 0:25:37] Erik: Could be.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:39] Erik: I can picture it right now, bending hell.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:43] Adam: That’s scary, Eric.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:46] Adam: I wouldn’t want to be in hell if it was being bent.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:47] Adam: Not by a head.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:49] Adam: Oh, my gosh.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:58] Adam: Coming up here in the 413 out of the Beaver House is the Rebel Popper.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:01] Adam: Going to the top waters again.
[0:26:01 – 0:26:02] Adam: Back to the top water.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:04] Adam: Rebel Popper.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:10] Adam: It’s just a P-O-P-R as the four seed, and it’s going against an all-time classic.
[0:26:11 – 0:26:12] Adam: Had a rough season.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:17] Adam: And this one’s on the tiny side, a 13 seed Panther Martin Classic Spinner.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:17] Erik: Ah.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:29] Adam: It’s got that offset willow blade, which gyrates and will always spin, even if you’re pulling it with the current.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:31] Adam: That Panther Martin will always spin.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:32] Adam: You can always count on that.
[0:26:32 – 0:26:37] Adam: But two different approaches here in the 413. Who knows how that’s going to go.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:40] Erik: Yeah, and also something about the popper.
[0:26:40 – 0:26:46] Erik: Even if you’re not catching fish, you’re still kind of having a little bit of fun making that popper make the little pops.
[0:26:46 – 0:26:48] Adam: Yeah, that is always a good time.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:54] Adam: I think you’re going to see a lot of topwater lures in this year’s field, and it’s because they’re fun.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:58] Adam: It’s not a conference, but it’s more of a state of mind.
[0:26:58 – 0:27:01] Erik: We got to just be having a little bit of fun more often.
[0:27:02 – 0:27:05] Erik: Down to the 6’11 matchup in the Beaver House East.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:07] Erik: Grand Marais.
[0:27:07 – 0:27:10] Erik: The sixth seed, the Clouser Minnow.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:21] Erik: I’m not familiar with this team, but we did get a suggestion from a non-typical lure fisher person on the subreddit.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:24] Erik: More of a fisher, a fly fisher person.
[0:27:24 – 0:27:36] Adam: Yeah, neither Eric or I are as familiar with the teams and players out of the Tickle Bug Conference, but this one apparently has been dominating over there this season.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:40] Erik: It looks like a thin jig head with a lot of hair on it.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:43] Erik: It does strike me as… You want to go with sparse feathering.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:47] Erik: About as close to a fly fishing lure that you could find.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:50] Adam: It sounds like you can fish it down the column too, though.
[0:27:50 – 0:27:51] Adam: I think so.
[0:27:51 – 0:27:51] Adam: Very versatile.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:52] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:27:53 – 0:27:55] Adam: These tickle bugs, they’re not just on the surface.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:27:56 – 0:28:02] Erik: Going up against the 11 seed, one of my favorite all-time found lures, the red-eye wiggler.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:07] Adam: That is the one with the beaded red eyes in a spoon.
[0:28:08 – 0:28:23] Erik: Yeah, the beaded red eyes in the Daredevil-ish-esque spoon that looks like they kind of got tied in by Callie by hand out on the slopes of Great Slave Lake.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:35] Erik: She had a little bit of… She found some beads and then used a little trapping wire to tie in some jiggly Lisa Frank…
[0:28:36 – 0:28:47] Erik: ask like ruby red eyes onto this thing and i don’t know it doesn’t seem like a lure it seems like a lure from a bygone age but it’s it’s still out there it’s still working
[0:28:48 – 0:28:48] Adam: It’s still wiggling.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:49] Adam: It’s still wiggling.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:50] Adam: That’s right.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:54] Erik: It should be an interesting matchup for sure.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:56] Erik: Down to the 314.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:58] Erik: Oh, boy.
[0:28:58 – 0:29:02] Adam: We got the 314, and this is a real powerhouse here.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:04] Adam: Coming in at the three seed, the Meps Cyclops.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:08] Adam: And Meps, they’re not just making spinners.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:11] Adam: No Sir Jim.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:14] Adam: They also make the big old World Spoon.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:16] Adam: Speaking of big red eyes.
[0:29:16 – 0:29:17] Adam: Yeah, no doubt.
[0:29:17 – 0:29:19] Adam: That’s a Cyclops.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:19] Adam: Just one.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:21] Adam: Staring right at you.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:25] Adam: I was like, what is this, 14 seed?
[0:29:25 – 0:29:27] Erik: It’s the Zulu rig.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:35] Erik: The mysterious Zulu rig that we do a little pre-selection show research under the Zulu rig.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:43] Adam: This was mentioned on the thread, and both us and half the committee was at a loss for what a Zulu rig could be.
[0:29:44 – 0:29:50] Adam: But we were convinced their resume was very impressive, and it’s due to the amount of snap swivels involved.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:50] Erik: Yes.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:53] Adam: They have a deep bench, and it’s full of snap swivels.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:58] Adam: Yeah, a deep bench full of snap swivels, snag.
[0:29:58 – 0:30:03] Adam: If you love snags and snarls and getting absolutely boondogging.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:04] Adam: And maybe breaking the law.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:07] Erik: Possibly also breaking the law.
[0:30:07 – 0:30:08] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:09] Adam: If you’re in international waters…
[0:30:11 – 0:30:13] Erik: The Zulu rig is for you.
[0:30:13 – 0:30:22] Adam: Just, yeah, hug the borderline, the invisible line in the middle of the lake, and then veer wildly if you are rigging Zulus out there.
[0:30:23 – 0:30:24] Adam: That’s why they’re a 14 seed.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:27] Adam: They have a lot of potential.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:30] Adam: but also very volatile and possibly illegal.
[0:30:30 – 0:30:31] Adam: A lot of potential.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:33] Erik: It’s also one of those things you throw it out there.
[0:30:33 – 0:30:33] Adam: It’s a wild card.
[0:30:33 – 0:30:38] Erik: Yeah, you think you’re all set up, and then like two hours later you pull it in and it just looks like a toupee.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:42] Adam: How long have I been dragging this?
[0:30:42 – 0:30:46] Erik: How long has it been snarled dragging like a pound of weeds?
[0:30:47 – 0:30:49] Adam: Not again, Zulu.
[0:30:49 – 0:30:50] Erik: Not again, Zulu.
[0:30:50 – 0:30:51] Erik: Curse ye.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:52] Erik: Down to the 710.
[0:30:53 – 0:30:54] Erik: Got the Skerritt’s Nymph.
[0:30:55 – 0:30:56] Adam: Mythical lure.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:58] Adam: I am pleased.
[0:30:58 – 0:31:00] Adam: We are all pleased with the Skerritt’s Nymph.
[0:31:01 – 0:31:03] Adam: Another one from the Ticklebugs Conference.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:06] Adam: Going around and shadow casting there on the Bigfoot.
[0:31:07 – 0:31:08] Erik: Do not underestimate the Skerritt’s Nymph.
[0:31:08 – 0:31:12] Erik: Going up against the 10. Who makes the Rattletrap?
[0:31:14 – 0:31:18] Adam: This is Rat L Trap.
[0:31:18 – 0:31:19] Erik: Rat L Trap.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:22] Adam: That’s just the name of the company and the lure.
[0:31:22 – 0:31:23] Erik: Rat brought to you by Rat.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:24] Adam: Rat Lure.
[0:31:24 – 0:31:25] Erik: Rat Lure.
[0:31:26 – 0:31:26] Erik: The Rattle Trap.
[0:31:27 – 0:31:30] Erik: By Gale Rats.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:33] Erik: By just simply annoying the fish.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:34] Erik: You can catch them sometimes.
[0:31:35 – 0:31:37] Adam: Get off my lawn!
[0:31:37 – 0:31:38] Adam: Get off my lawn, yeah.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:42] Adam: This is the get off my lawn Clint Eastwood kind of lure.
[0:31:42 – 0:31:43] Erik: Just to catch nimby fish?
[0:31:44 – 0:31:45] Erik: Yep.
[0:31:45 – 0:31:47] Erik: Toss a rattle trap over their house?
[0:31:47 – 0:31:48] Erik: Don’t even think about it.
[0:31:52 – 0:31:53] Erik: Just getting scowled at?
[0:31:53 – 0:31:54] Erik: Yep.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:55] Erik: Until it’s too late.
[0:31:55 – 0:31:56] Erik: Until the third act.
[0:31:57 – 0:32:03] Adam: That’s when you see a fish, they put up a really tall fence around their harse.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:08] Adam: The rat L-trap.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:13] Adam: I’ve caught some bass on a rat L-trap, but it’s been a long time since I’ve used one.
[0:32:13 – 0:32:15] Erik: Again, it’s more…
[0:32:15 – 0:32:17] Adam: They got a 10, huh?
[0:32:17 – 0:32:18] Adam: For the Rat L Trap.
[0:32:18 – 0:32:22] Erik: Do not question the 30 of the Sages.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:27] Adam: Coming in on the 215, the final matchup in Grand Marais here at the Beaver House.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:30] Adam: These games are starting this weekend.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:31] Adam: They’re starting right now.
[0:32:31 – 0:32:35] Adam: As we’re listening to this, they’ve already started fishing each other in the harbor.
[0:32:35 – 0:32:39] Adam: We got the Gary Yamamoto Senko Worm Rig.
[0:32:39 – 0:32:40] Adam: Did I say that correctly?
[0:32:41 – 0:32:41] Erik: I think so.
[0:32:42 – 0:32:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:42 – 0:32:43] Adam: As the two seed.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:51] Adam: This one came highly touted by the subreddit committee, and the voters have spoken.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:57] Adam: Well, they’re about to, because it’s going up against the 15, which is a bobber stop bead.
[0:32:58 – 0:33:00] Adam: How did this team get in the tournament?
[0:33:00 – 0:33:09] Adam: This is one of those teams that went 4-19 in the regular season but somehow won the Terminal Tackle Conference Championship and got in on a bead and a prayer.
[0:33:09 – 0:33:12] Erik: Beat out the barrel swivels.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:14] Erik: Oh, no, the barrel swivels.
[0:33:14 – 0:33:15] Erik: They were 500.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:19] Adam: They were dominating, and they had a wire malfunction.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:19] Adam: Oh, God.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:24] Adam: And they lost that big fish in the finals, and that was all she wrote.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:30] Erik: Yeah, I mean, who knows that the Senkos are going to be coming in Texas style, weedless, wacky.
[0:33:31 – 0:33:32] Adam: A lot of versatility there.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:34] Erik: A lot of versatility, but hey, at the end of the day.
[0:33:34 – 0:33:36] Adam: They can match up with you any which way you want to go, brother.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:47] Erik: Honestly, if you need a fish on the line and you’ve got a hungry family of seven to six to eight.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:48] Erik: That’s all you’re allowed to have.
[0:33:49 – 0:33:49] Erik: Back at camp.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:58] Erik: If I just absolutely need to catch meat, meat on hook, Senko wacky might just be the play.
[0:33:58 – 0:34:06] Erik: I don’t care if I’m spending $15 per very easily lost lure.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:11] Erik: If I need to provide for the family, I might be going with the Senko.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Adam: Bass for days.
[0:34:14 – 0:34:14] Adam: Just saying.
[0:34:14 – 0:34:16] Erik: Anything else that swims…
[0:34:16 – 0:34:19] Erik: Let’s start on the Ely.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:21] Erik: It somehow got the Southern.
[0:34:23 – 0:34:47] Erik: designation but that’s just the way it goes the committee works in strange ways yeah and we’re uh we’re we’re opening back up scoobies bait and tackle in ely and i’ll let’s start from the bottom i’ll do the 215 is back scoobies back in a big way they’re well stocked well stocked they’ve got everything on this list and more all at great prices really great prices yeah don’t go to shop go
[0:34:49 – 0:34:50] Adam: Go to Scoobies.
[0:34:50 – 0:34:51] Erik: If you can find a shop, go.
[0:34:52 – 0:34:53] Erik: Do not go.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:54] Erik: Their lures are ass.
[0:34:56 – 0:34:58] Erik: You want to start from the bottom and work back up to the one?
[0:34:58 – 0:34:58] Erik: Okay.
[0:34:58 – 0:34:59] Erik: Sounds great.
[0:34:59 – 0:34:59] Erik: Okay.
[0:34:59 – 0:35:04] Erik: The two and the 15 in the Ely South at Scoobies.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Erik: The two.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:08] Erik: Just a classic husky jerk.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:10] Erik: I mean, come on.
[0:35:10 – 0:35:13] Erik: Going up against the 15 spotted porcupine liver.
[0:35:14 – 0:35:14] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:35:15 – 0:35:18] Erik: Seems close to alive slash.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:21] Adam: It’s not quite alive and it’s not quite dead.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:22] Erik: It’s somewhere in between.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Erik: Some sort of prion.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:25] Erik: Yeah, again.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:28] Erik: Big questions as to how they made it in.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] Erik: But, you know.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:31] Adam: They should have met up with that rusty hook.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:35] Adam: Unfortunately, they cannot merge into one team.
[0:35:35 – 0:35:39] Adam: So I don’t know how you’re going to rig this diseased liver.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:42] Erik: We’ve got to take a year off if they’re going to transfer schools at this point.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:49] Adam: You may not want to eat it, and you probably should wash your hands in some sort of high concentration of bleach after handling that.
[0:35:50 – 0:35:55] Adam: The Husky Jerk seems to have a pretty reasonable path forward there as the two seed.
[0:35:56 – 0:36:03] Adam: Coming up in the 7-10 matchup, we’ve got an oldie but a goodie here as the seven seed with the head-on frog bait.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:05] Adam: This is, and it’s official now,
[0:36:06 – 0:36:07] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:09] Adam: The cutest lure in the learnament.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:10] Adam: Cutest lure.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:12] Adam: Cutest lure award.
[0:36:12 – 0:36:16] Adam: It’s nice, but it ain’t going to even get you a free pass to the sweet 16.
[0:36:16 – 0:36:19] Adam: You’re going to have to earn it with every cast.
[0:36:19 – 0:36:22] Adam: Going up against the frog bait, there is the 10 seed.
[0:36:23 – 0:36:24] Adam: It’s a crazy Ike.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:25] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:27] Erik: Ow, ow, ow.
[0:36:27 – 0:36:28] Adam: We had to look this one up.
[0:36:29 – 0:36:38] Adam: It was suggested by the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a classic lure, and we did look it up, and it does look like it would work great.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:42] Adam: Sort of like a crankbait wiggler lure.
[0:36:42 – 0:36:46] Erik: It’s one of those lures that you always see in, like, the discount bin.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:36:47 – 0:36:50] Erik: It’s kind of like that, like, sharp upside-down, like, U. Yeah.
[0:36:50 – 0:36:54] Erik: And you’re like, I don’t know what I would ever even do with that.
[0:36:54 – 0:36:55] Adam: You could troll it, for sure.
[0:36:55 – 0:36:56] Erik: You could troll it, yeah.
[0:36:57 – 0:36:59] Erik: It’s an outdated lure, but, you know…
[0:36:59 – 0:37:00] Erik: They’re hanging in there.
[0:37:00 – 0:37:02] Erik: It’s like Princeton in the backdoor game.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:03] Erik: That’s right.
[0:37:03 – 0:37:06] Erik: Sometimes if you just put it all together, you can, by all accounts…
[0:37:07 – 0:37:08] Erik: Pick and trap.
[0:37:08 – 0:37:09] Erik: It’s been the same game.
[0:37:10 – 0:37:11] Erik: Spin and box them out.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:15] Erik: For 150 years, the same tricks still work.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:17] Adam: They always have.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Erik: Moving up to the 314.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:22] Erik: We get one of my favorite names.
[0:37:22 – 0:37:24] Erik: One of my favorite team names in the whole tourney.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:26] Erik: The Blue Fox Vibrax.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:26] Erik: His spinner.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:28] Erik: A little bit of a spinner.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:32] Adam: Yeah, spinning is not just for mepsin.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:35] Erik: Yeah, it’s not just the meps.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:38] Adam: They’re in the tin tinglers conference.
[0:37:39 – 0:37:41] Adam: It’s not just all meps in there.
[0:37:41 – 0:37:42] Erik: Yeah, it’s not just all meps.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:45] Adam: There’s a lot of tin tinglers, and they’re a pretty good crew.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:49] Adam: It does make a vibrating action that is irresistible.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:54] Erik: Yeah, going up against a very interesting opponent here.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:56] Erik: Not really sure how they snuck in also.
[0:37:56 – 0:38:01] Erik: Maybe took advantage of some rules or sign-up dates or…
[0:38:01 – 0:38:02] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:07] Erik: Maybe there was just some hard, long stares into the eyes of the committee.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:09] Erik: The MODOK hand technique.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:15] Erik: Coming in at the 14th seed here, going up against an actual lure.
[0:38:16 – 0:38:16] Adam: Not sure…
[0:38:18 – 0:38:21] Erik: Who is on the bench or who will be playing for this team?
[0:38:22 – 0:38:25] Erik: I think they’ve got to hope for a lot of double technicals.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:29] Adam: I’m pretty sure Kevin Bacon just mailed an envelope of cash to the committee.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:34] Erik: Bacon’s just going to be the one fan up in like a skybox somewhere.
[0:38:34 – 0:38:34] Adam: Yes.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:37] Erik: Just solo clapping.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:39] Adam: There we go.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:41] Erik: But as he’s up there, nobody’s on the court.
[0:38:41 – 0:38:43] Erik: Who’s actually going to be catching the fish?
[0:38:43 – 0:38:44] Erik: It’s a contradiction.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:44] Erik: We’re going to see.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:46] Erik: Can’t wait to see how that all plays out.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:47] Adam: Player, coach, and fan?
[0:38:48 – 0:38:49] Erik: Player, coach, fan.
[0:38:51 – 0:38:52] Adam: Total package.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:54] Adam: It’s the total package.
[0:38:55 – 0:39:01] Adam: All right, coming up in the 6-11 matchup, we have the Berkeley Chapo.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:03] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:39:03 – 0:39:06] Adam: Chapo going up against the 11 seed.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:07] Adam: Oh, my gosh.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:10] Adam: I’m glad I got to announce this one, Jim.
[0:39:10 – 0:39:12] Adam: It’s the triple D pattern 43.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:17] Adam: And I do happen, I have caught fish on that lure.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:19] Adam: We have a lot of good memories together.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:22] Adam: I don’t understand how that’s the 11 seed.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:27] Adam: But, you know, the committee has to make some, you know, accommodations here and there for fair matchups.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:30] Adam: That’s going to be a really good matchup, though.
[0:39:30 – 0:39:34] Adam: A Chapo versus a Triple D. Triple D versus a Chapo.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:36] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:40] Adam: I was fishing with a triple D up on Namakan Lake.
[0:39:41 – 0:39:44] Adam: Caught a pike that will never be forgotten.
[0:39:45 – 0:39:50] Adam: And that lure is still in my box and has the tooth marks to prove it.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:54] Adam: Electric fire tiger pattern.
[0:39:56 – 0:39:57] Adam: Oh, my gosh.
[0:39:57 – 0:39:59] Adam: You’ve got a real fun one coming up here.
[0:39:59 – 0:39:59] Adam: It looks like Jim.
[0:39:59 – 0:40:07] Erik: Yeah, we got the 413 in the Scoobies, Ely, Minnesota side of the bracket here.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:10] Erik: It’s a contest of minnows.
[0:40:11 – 0:40:14] Erik: The Johnson silver minnow coming in at four.
[0:40:14 – 0:40:18] Erik: A legitimate perennial powerhouse.
[0:40:18 – 0:40:23] Erik: Maybe a little bit lower this year than they’ve typically, you know, been excited to see themselves.
[0:40:23 – 0:40:25] Erik: But, you know, you get in, see what happens.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:27] Erik: Anything can happen.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:31] Adam: Yeah, especially when you’re weedless, single hook can take you a long way.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:37] Erik: Yeah, and then there’s the going up against the 13 seed, the braggadocious, obnoxious.
[0:40:38 – 0:40:46] Erik: There was a time and period where you just couldn’t walk two feet through your house with a TV on without hearing about these guys, the banjo minnows.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:46] Erik: They’re still around.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:49] Erik: Still around, somehow hanging around.
[0:40:50 – 0:40:55] Adam: I’m hearing in my ear the theme song for Super Black Bass on the Super Nintendo.
[0:41:03 – 0:41:11] Erik: Oh, yeah, well, I mean, also the, I mean, one of the other games that comes to mind, the handheld bass fishing.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:12] Erik: Yeah, with the crank.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:13] Erik: The little hand crank.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:15] Erik: You got to set that hook just right.
[0:41:15 – 0:41:17] Adam: Banjo minnow, so lifelike.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:18] Erik: So lifelike.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:23] Adam: We’re going to throw in 128 free banjo minnows with this next order if you order in the next 10 minutes.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:31] Erik: Yeah, it’s a screaming deal in 1995 for 586 pieces of shit that are going to come to your house and you’re going to have to try and deal with.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:33] Erik: You’re going to have to.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:35] Adam: That’s how they’re going to flood the zone.
[0:41:36 – 0:41:37] Adam: Banjo Minnows, plural.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:38] Erik: Yeah, flood the zone.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:43] Erik: Be prepared to lose a lot of the, I mean, their bench is 100 to 300 deep.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:43] Adam: Unlimited.
[0:41:44 – 0:41:45] Erik: Unlimited deep.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:51] Adam: They’re going to throw minnows at you and just overwhelm you with sheer numbers.
[0:41:51 – 0:41:54] Erik: If one color doesn’t work after one cast, switch it up.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:55] Erik: Put another color on immediately.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:57] Adam: If that color doesn’t work, another color.
[0:41:57 – 0:41:59] Adam: Go with holographic transcendental.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:02] Erik: Holographic, bounce it off a tree, get it in there.
[0:42:02 – 0:42:04] Erik: It’s all about numbers with the banjo minnows.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:06] Erik: They’re going to come at you hard and fast.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:11] Adam: Wow, that is a classic lure that a lot of people probably forgot about and wish they hadn’t remembered.
[0:42:12 – 0:42:12] Adam: Come on.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:18] Adam: Coming up next on the Ely, oh, my, the 5-12 matchup.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:21] Adam: We have one of my all-time favorites here.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:22] Adam: I love this team.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:25] Adam: Number five seed, the jointed shad wrap.
[0:42:26 – 0:42:28] Adam: You can get this one in all sorts of fun colors.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:30] Adam: I like the electric crawdad.
[0:42:31 – 0:42:32] Adam: And that’s going up.
[0:42:32 – 0:42:33] Adam: Oh, my goodness.
[0:42:33 – 0:42:34] Adam: They’re back, Eric.
[0:42:35 – 0:42:37] Adam: Oh, the Smithwick’s devil horse.
[0:42:37 – 0:42:38] Adam: Wow, I thought they were gone too.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:42] Erik: Is that a spinner on the front and a spinner on the back?
[0:42:42 – 0:42:44] Adam: There’s too many spinners on this horse.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:45] Adam: Too many spinners.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:49] Adam: This son of a bitch will take a bite out of your own shoulder and kick you in the teeth.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:52] Adam: Yeah, get the kids out of the lake while you’re casting that thing.
[0:42:52 – 0:42:54] Adam: This is a rough and tumble matchup.
[0:42:54 – 0:42:57] Adam: I cannot wait to find out how the voters come down on this one.
[0:42:58 – 0:43:03] Erik: I feel like this team isn’t in the tournament, but this one might end up being a real slobber knocker.
[0:43:03 – 0:43:04] Adam: It’s a slobber knocker.
[0:43:04 – 0:43:05] Adam: Guaranteed.
[0:43:05 – 0:43:06] Adam: Certified.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:07] Erik: Certified slobber knocker.
[0:43:08 – 0:43:10] Erik: That’s your lock of the week slobber knocker.
[0:43:10 – 0:43:11] Adam: That’s your lock of the week.
[0:43:13 – 0:43:14] Adam: It’s about time we got the lock out.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:16] Adam: All we’re locking is it’s going to be a slobber knocker.
[0:43:17 – 0:43:18] Adam: We have no idea who’s going to win.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:19] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:43:20 – 0:43:21] Adam: But the lock is back.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:22] Adam: The lock is back.
[0:43:23 – 0:43:26] Adam: Man, I don’t know where we got this huge lock, Jim, but I’m glad we have it.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:29] Erik: Yeah, it doesn’t take up any room in the storage unit.
[0:43:29 – 0:43:29] Erik: Don’t worry.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:31] Erik: We have the 8-9 matchup.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:35] Erik: We get the bulldog with a W. Bulldog.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:39] Erik: This is a big musky lure going up against the beetle spin.
[0:43:40 – 0:43:42] Adam: Wow, it’s a big versus a small.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:44] Adam: A big versus a small.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:45] Adam: Speed versus beef.
[0:43:45 – 0:43:46] Erik: Slice and dice.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:47] Erik: Yeah, speed versus beef.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:51] Erik: And eight versus nine, that’s a toss-up.
[0:43:51 – 0:43:52] Erik: You never know how it’s going to go.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:55] Erik: Very interested to get to our last matchup here.
[0:43:55 – 0:44:09] Erik: And maybe once we finish up this last one versus 16, we can maybe just stop and make a couple light predictions as who we think we might be seeing a little bit farther down the line here in the tournament.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:10] Adam: I love it.
[0:44:12 – 0:44:12] Adam: Right on.
[0:44:12 – 0:44:16] Adam: And we got the one versus the 16 coming up here.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:19] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:44:20 – 0:44:25] Adam: The number one seed in Ely and probably the number one seed in a lot of our hearts.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:27] Adam: It’s the little Cleo.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:31] Adam: And it’s the lure my grandfather taught me how to fish with.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:34] Adam: And I have a lot of fond memories from the little Cleo.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:56] Adam: and they’re going up against the 16 seed it’s amos’s hand hammered tin spoon lure from season seven of alone which of course almost hooked and caught a fish which may have allowed him to stay for a couple more days but ultimately was a failure like amos himself
[0:44:56 – 0:45:02] Erik: Still on a Cinderella run somehow, even though it has never been really quite that successful.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:07] Adam: Maybe it would have been better if you would have put a little bit of the crunchies on that.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:09] Adam: You need to spice that thing up.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:11] Adam: A little blessing from the crunchies.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:18] Adam: But, you know, as far as handmade lures go, probably one of the best ones in this tournament.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:22] Erik: Handmade lures, not too many of them represented, that’s for sure.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:26] Erik: So full half of the bracket here gone by.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:28] Adam: Yeah, this is big time.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:29] Adam: We’re getting into it.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:42] Erik: Obviously, you know, we’ve got the X-Wrap, the little Cleo, your Gary Yamamoto Senko setup, however you want it, however you want to put it on that way too big of a hook.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:48] Erik: And the Husky jerk, you know, those are your two ones, your two twos.
[0:45:49 – 0:45:52] Erik: Do you see a lot of chalk coming here?
[0:45:52 – 0:45:58] Erik: Do you have any big potential upsets?
[0:45:59 – 0:46:06] Erik: I don’t see too many teams in the beaver house side of the tourney taking out X-Rap.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:10] Erik: That’s almost a for sure lock to the final four for me.
[0:46:11 – 0:46:34] Erik: feel like the the scoobies section of the tournament in ely is a little bit more muddied um definitely uh have to commend the the committee for putting together a very interesting uh section of the tournament here um obviously the little cleo’s so well-rounded almost a an annual team at this point always around
[0:46:35 – 0:46:39] Adam: Yeah, the spoon’s very versatile.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:40] Adam: You control them.
[0:46:41 – 0:46:41] Adam: You can cast them.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:44] Adam: And hell, if you have to, you can jig them.
[0:46:45 – 0:46:48] Adam: And they work as well in a lake as they do in a river.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:51] Adam: A spoon is always a great choice in the Boundary Waters.
[0:46:53 – 0:46:58] Adam: I will go out on a limb and my upset pick…
[0:46:58 – 0:47:00] Adam: For these two brackets will be…
[0:47:00 – 0:47:03] Adam: I’m going with the Hedden’s Hell… What is it?
[0:47:03 – 0:47:04] Erik: Wow, you’re very confident.
[0:47:04 – 0:47:07] Adam: I’m very confident in the Magnum Hellbender.
[0:47:08 – 0:47:08] Adam: Wow.
[0:47:08 – 0:47:09] Adam: From Hedden.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:13] Adam: As a 12 seed, looking at the Meps number five double blade.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:20] Adam: Everybody loves the Meps, but I don’t know how many people out here listening or voting on this tournament have ever…
[0:47:21 – 0:47:43] Adam: have ever dabbled in the double-bladed meps sure and uh i could see it being overlooked although it is a hell of a lure and when chinwhisker charles came up and fished with me on uh on swan lake he did very well with that double blade but uh i just think maybe it’s going to be overlooked as far as the meps go there’s a lot of meps to choose from and i could see the allure of the the hell diver
[0:47:45 – 0:47:47] Adam: That’s your slam dunk lock of the week upset?
[0:47:47 – 0:47:48] Adam: That’s just my upset pick.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:51] Adam: I am not putting a lock on that.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:59] Adam: It’s a 5-12 matchup, and I would definitely not be surprised at all if the voters were called to the depths, as they say.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:09] Erik: Well, yeah, I don’t know if I necessarily have any major upsets, although I do have a, you know, there’s just something about that Johnson silver minnow going up against the banjo minnow.
[0:48:10 – 0:48:13] Adam: So it’s a, I mean, minnow versus minnow.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:17] Adam: Modern versus proven as far as the minnows go.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:22] Erik: The numbers, again, the banjo minnow nostalgia, pretty hot these days.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:23] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:26] Erik: Many people probably forgotten that it was even a thing.
[0:48:26 – 0:48:27] Erik: Get out your neons.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:28] Erik: Get out your turquoises.
[0:48:28 – 0:48:31] Erik: Get out your starter jackets and Lisa Frack notebooks.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:32] Erik: We’re going.
[0:48:32 – 0:48:33] Erik: I’m on board.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:34] Erik: I’m on team banjo minnow.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:35] Adam: There’s something to be said.
[0:48:36 – 0:48:37] Adam: They’re still around.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:38] Adam: They’re still doing things.
[0:48:38 – 0:48:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:42] Adam: And it’s not that they’re continuing to manufacture banjo minnows.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:45] Adam: It’s just that they made so many of them to begin with.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:49] Erik: Yeah, they’re not still making them, but they’re around forever.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:55] Adam: People are still finding them in their grandparents’ closets and being given them by their uncles still to this day.
[0:48:55 – 0:49:02] Erik: Large swaths of lost banjo minnows clogging the natural foraging of many animals.
[0:49:04 – 0:49:33] Erik: privileged and special species of lakes in iowa and and uh and beyond i am curious to see how the voters deal with the modak hand technique making and i don’t think they really have a chance against the the blue fox i don’t really think they do either especially when you see it you know listening at home sitting in your uh easy chair or sitting in your uh your big rig truck driving down uh i fill in the blank that’s right you know maybe not but you see a picture
[0:49:34 – 0:49:36] Erik: Love that Blue Fox Vibrax.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:42] Adam: But I also see a picture of Kevin Bacon shirtless in a cold river.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:43] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:44] Erik: Well, yeah.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:51] Erik: I guess, yeah, if you do side by side, end of the day, dollars to donuts.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:54] Erik: Is it a hand technique or is it a Vibrax?
[0:49:55 – 0:49:55] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:49:55 – 0:50:10] Adam: That one’s a very intriguing matchup, but I think this would be a good time to step outside and grab the second half of my Czech dark loggers, and then we’re going to get into the North Bracket coming up next.
[0:50:13 – 0:50:16] Erik: All right, we’re back with the other half of the tournament.
[0:50:16 – 0:50:17] Erik: True North.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:21] Erik: Moving over to the Voyager North.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:23] Erik: Bait and Tackle.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:28] Erik: In Anacokon, Ontario.
[0:50:29 – 0:50:30] Adam: How’s she going up there?
[0:50:31 – 0:50:31] Adam: How’s she going?
[0:50:31 – 0:50:32] Erik: Bye.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:35] Erik: One versus 16, going back down.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:40] Erik: Hard to argue with this number one seed here.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:44] Erik: Another entry from the Meps family.
[0:50:45 – 0:50:51] Erik: It’s a long, large, wide-spanning family of lures here.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:53] Erik: A lot of blades and tinglers.
[0:50:53 – 0:50:54] Erik: Lots of blades.
[0:50:54 – 0:50:55] Erik: This is number three.
[0:50:55 – 0:50:56] Erik: Map’s number three.
[0:50:57 – 0:50:58] Erik: Aglia?
[0:50:58 – 0:50:59] Erik: Who knows what it means?
[0:50:59 – 0:51:01] Erik: Who knows where it came from?
[0:51:01 – 0:51:03] Erik: We’re not here to answer that question.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:04] Adam: It’s French for agitation.
[0:51:05 – 0:51:05] Erik: There we go.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:07] Erik: Going up against the 16th seed.
[0:51:08 – 0:51:09] Erik: Just floated in.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:11] Erik: Out of nowhere.
[0:51:12 – 0:51:13] Erik: The clubbing stick.
[0:51:15 – 0:51:17] Adam: Just in case.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:22] Adam: If their hand isn’t quick enough for the MODOK hand technique, you may succeed with a clubbing stick.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:29] Erik: Yeah, just in case you’re in some kind of a sucker… Yeah, shallows of moving water.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:36] Erik: Early spring sucker breeding grounds, and you got the clubbing stick out, that might be the play.
[0:51:37 – 0:51:39] Erik: Not sure how they’re going to match up long term.
[0:51:39 – 0:51:41] Adam: It’s a desperation play for sure.
[0:51:41 – 0:51:43] Erik: Yeah, it’s going to be a full…
[0:51:45 – 0:51:47] Erik: How many minutes do they play in college?
[0:51:47 – 0:51:48] Erik: 60 minutes.
[0:51:48 – 0:51:49] Erik: College learnament games.
[0:51:49 – 0:51:50] Adam: Yeah, learnament.
[0:51:50 – 0:51:53] Adam: You get 60 minutes to catch as many fish as you can catch.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:51:54 – 0:51:57] Erik: It’s going to be a mad, desperate game for the clubbing sticks out there.
[0:51:58 – 0:51:59] Erik: Going up against the MAPS number threes.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:03] Adam: I one time caught 50 smallmouth bass in one afternoon on a MAPS number three.
[0:52:03 – 0:52:07] Adam: Man, I’ve never caught nothing with a clubbing stick.
[0:52:07 – 0:52:11] Erik: I don’t think I’ve ever clubbed a fish to death that I hadn’t already caught.
[0:52:11 – 0:52:11] Erik: That’s for sure.
[0:52:11 – 0:52:12] Adam: That’s true.
[0:52:12 – 0:52:18] Adam: Yeah, I’ve whacked a bunch of whitefish to death that I’ve caught in a net.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:19] Adam: But I still had a net.
[0:52:20 – 0:52:22] Adam: And netting is not allowed in the learnament.
[0:52:22 – 0:52:23] Erik: Not in this one.
[0:52:23 – 0:52:24] Adam: Nets ain’t lures.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:26] Adam: Nets ain’t lures.
[0:52:26 – 0:52:32] Adam: Next up out of VBT in Atacocan, we got the 8 versus 9.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:39] Adam: We got the classic two-tone crappie tube as the eighth seed and probably the smallest lure in the tournament.
[0:52:40 – 0:52:42] Adam: And that’s going up against the nine.
[0:52:42 – 0:52:45] Adam: It’s the Haskell’s giant copper minnow.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:47] Adam: Another big versus little.
[0:52:48 – 0:52:50] Adam: This is about as big versus little as you’re going to see.
[0:52:50 – 0:52:57] Adam: Yeah, I’ve seen so many different variations on the little two-tone crappie jig.
[0:52:57 – 0:53:03] Adam: That’s one of my, again, one of Grandpa’s favorite lures for going after the panfish.
[0:53:03 – 0:53:04] Adam: I always liked red and white.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:34] Adam: uh green and gold black and yellow i think is what uh dear friend of the show warden had recommended if you’re going with crappie tube and i can’t say i’ve used it a lot in the boundary waters but i can totally see it working exciting to see what happens there i’ve never ever used a haskins giant copper minnow and uh it may not be legal and and it may not even be legal in the province of ontario so i don’t know how the i don’t know how that’s all gonna work eric
[0:53:34 – 0:53:36] Erik: Well, we’re going to find out after they play the game.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:41] Erik: 5-12 matchup in the Voyager North bait and tackle out of Atikokan.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:45] Erik: Bustling Atikokan.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:50] Adam: We got the Rebel Wee Craw.
[0:53:51 – 0:53:52] Adam: Oh, the Wee Craw.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:55] Adam: This is a… Two E’s on that Wee.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:58] Adam: Two E’s in that wee.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:02] Erik: Yes, we can.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:03] Erik: Oh, man.
[0:54:03 – 0:54:04] Erik: Could you imagine the stands at the wee craw game?
[0:54:05 – 0:54:07] Adam: Oh, those wee craw fans are nuts.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:08] Adam: I can’t wait.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:13] Erik: Just instead of big number one fingers, just like huge like arm length craws.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:15] Erik: And you don’t clack.
[0:54:15 – 0:54:17] Erik: You just kind of like make soft clacking.
[0:54:18 – 0:54:18] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:18 – 0:54:19] SPEAKER_00: Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:22] Erik: We want points.
[0:54:22 – 0:54:23] Adam: We want points.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:24] Adam: We will craw them.
[0:54:26 – 0:54:46] Erik: going up against the number 12 seed the hog wobbler hog spelled the usual way well yeah hawg it’s the only way i spell my hog and it wobbles not much else to say about that matchup but i could see that one going either way that one’s uh that one’s not so clear-cut to me the 512 that one’s close to an 8-9 to me
[0:54:48 – 0:54:50] Erik: Maybe it’s because I can’t picture either lure.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:54] Adam: Yeah, who knows.
[0:54:55 – 0:54:58] Adam: Coming up here next in the 4-13 matchup.
[0:54:58 – 0:54:59] Adam: Wow.
[0:54:59 – 0:55:05] Adam: And, you know, the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame has this lure ranked best.
[0:55:05 – 0:55:07] Adam: Number one overall for life.
[0:55:08 – 0:55:09] Adam: They’re coming in here as a four seed.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:13] Adam: And they’re a pretty strong four seed.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:16] Adam: The original OG floating Rapala.
[0:55:17 – 0:55:22] Adam: And we’re not naming colors, but you can picture it in the old silver and black colors.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:26] Adam: And that thing will catch your fish anywhere you go.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:28] Adam: It’s going up against the 13 seed.
[0:55:28 – 0:55:33] Adam: It’s the Chautauqua Minnow, which is no longer in production.
[0:55:33 – 0:55:38] Adam: And we have found one to participate in the tournament, though.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:45] Adam: And we had to beat up that guy with the funny ties and vests from Antiques Roadshow to get our hands on the Chautauqua Minnow.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:52] Adam: And it is all metal, and even the little scales on there are metal, and it weighs 19 pounds.
[0:55:52 – 0:55:53] Erik: Yeah, too heavy.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:54] Adam: Too heavy to cast.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:57] Adam: It’s too heavy to leave at home, though.
[0:55:57 – 0:55:58] Adam: You can’t rule them out.
[0:55:58 – 0:56:04] Erik: I feel like the OG wrap is still on billboards.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:05] Adam: It sure is.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:10] Adam: There’s no question that the… That’s the OG wrap that’s made of balsam wood still.
[0:56:10 – 0:56:15] Erik: Yeah, if there’s any for sure mega lock of the week.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:16] Adam: Let’s just put it on there.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:20] Adam: That’s the lock of the week.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:22] Erik: We’ll see you in round two, OG.
[0:56:23 – 0:56:25] Adam: Nobody’s voting for the Chautauqua minnow.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:29] Adam: That thing’s made with pure poison.
[0:56:29 – 0:56:31] Adam: That’s how you get Mad Hatter’s disease.
[0:56:31 – 0:56:32] Erik: Casting one of them things.
[0:56:32 – 0:56:35] Erik: Yeah, that’s how you die as Gene Hackman’s wife.
[0:56:37 – 0:56:38] SPEAKER_01: Is that what happened?
[0:56:39 – 0:56:42] Erik: Yeah, well, haunt a virus, but… Oh, my.
[0:56:42 – 0:56:48] Erik: Brought on by having too many Chautauqua minnows in the woodshed out back.
[0:56:49 – 0:56:49] Erik: Six seed.
[0:56:50 – 0:56:52] Erik: Going up against the 11 seed.
[0:56:52 – 0:56:53] Erik: Six is the Zara.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:56] Erik: First appearance from the Zaras.
[0:56:57 – 0:56:57] Erik: This is a spook.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:01] Adam: Is it the regular spook or the super spook?
[0:57:02 – 0:57:03] Adam: Just the spook.
[0:57:03 – 0:57:04] Adam: Regular spook.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:06] Adam: Super spook had some controversy, I think.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:08] Adam: They may have been banned for two years.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:09] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:10] Erik: That’s right.
[0:57:12 – 0:57:13] Adam: Being too spooky.
[0:57:13 – 0:57:14] Erik: Too super spooky.
[0:57:16 – 0:57:17] Adam: Again.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:19] Adam: Frightened a few members of the committee very badly.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:21] Adam: Yeah, it wasn’t funny.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:22] Erik: Not funny.
[0:57:24 – 0:57:25] Erik: It was pretty funny, though.
[0:57:25 – 0:57:27] Erik: More top water action, though.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:29] Erik: Going up against the 11 seed.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:34] Erik: Oh, this is a very high, very high seed for this crew here.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:36] Erik: The Savage Gear 4D Pike.
[0:57:37 – 0:57:38] Erik: This is a 20-inch lure.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:41] Erik: Double jointed.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:42] Erik: It weighs two pounds.
[0:57:43 – 0:57:44] Erik: It does weigh two pounds.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:46] Adam: What’s up with these heavy lures?
[0:57:47 – 0:57:49] Erik: Anacokin’s got all the big heavies.
[0:57:49 – 0:58:00] Erik: This has got to be for your specific boat in adjacent 15 horsepower limit sag or basswood lakes.
[0:58:00 – 0:58:06] Erik: You’re not packing in the 4D ultra realistic 3D printed rubbery pike.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:13] Adam: Jim, I have one of these, and I just learned that you’re actually supposed to take them out of their plastic packaging.
[0:58:13 – 0:58:18] Adam: I’ve been casting it in the packaging this whole time, which is why I’ve never caught anything on it.
[0:58:19 – 0:58:20] Adam: Yeah, that’s too much packaging.
[0:58:20 – 0:58:25] Adam: The packaging is there to protect you from the 16 treble hooks on this 25-inch lure.
[0:58:25 – 0:58:29] Erik: Trip-ending trebles with the largest gauge.
[0:58:30 – 0:58:31] Erik: Talk about barbless.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:35] Erik: That barbless hook team could learn a thing or two from the 4D pike barbs.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:39] Adam: This lure also has by far the most dimensions.
[0:58:40 – 0:58:40] Adam: Four of them.
[0:58:40 – 0:58:41] Adam: I’m scared.
[0:58:42 – 0:58:43] Erik: Yeah, I think…
[0:58:44 – 0:58:46] Erik: We do have another Dimensioned lure coming up here.
[0:58:47 – 0:58:48] Adam: Oh, it’s coming up right next here.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:49] Adam: This is interesting.
[0:58:49 – 0:58:54] Adam: In the 3 versus 14 matchup, we got the classic Shadrap.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:55] Erik: Classic is a 3?
[0:58:55 – 0:59:00] Adam: We’re going to go with the Shadrap 9 in whatever flavor you like.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:02] Adam: You can catch literally anything on that lure.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:08] Adam: Very versatile, big-bodied crankbait from Rappala.
[0:59:08 – 0:59:12] Adam: And that’s going up against the 3D Duck from Savage.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:15] Adam: Another one from the Lifelike Lure Conference.
[0:59:16 – 0:59:19] Erik: What is the fourth dimension of the pike, then?
[0:59:20 – 0:59:20] Adam: Time.
[0:59:21 – 0:59:21] Erik: Time?
[0:59:21 – 0:59:23] Erik: Wow.
[0:59:23 – 0:59:24] Erik: Shifts time?
[0:59:25 – 0:59:25] Erik: Yes.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:26] Adam: When you use it?
[0:59:27 – 0:59:27] Adam: Be careful.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:30] Adam: That’s why you actually should never remove them from their packaging.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:31] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:59:31 – 0:59:34] Adam: Your cabinets might go into a black hole.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:38] Erik: Yeah, just everything in your house ages faster than you.
[0:59:38 – 0:59:40] Adam: Hun, what happened to the laundry room?
[0:59:40 – 0:59:41] Adam: I’m sorry.
[0:59:41 – 0:59:42] Adam: I unleashed the 4D pike.
[0:59:43 – 0:59:44] Adam: I’m sorry.
[0:59:44 – 0:59:52] Erik: I opened up my Savage Gear 4D pike lure to see how it was looking, and I aged the laundry room 100 years.
[0:59:52 – 0:59:53] Erik: I’m sorry.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:57] Adam: This is the entire plot of Interstellar.
[0:59:57 – 0:59:58] Erik: These things are bound to happen.
[0:59:58 – 0:59:59] Erik: This is what happens.
[0:59:59 – 1:00:00] Erik: This is what happens.
[1:00:00 – 1:00:11] Adam: When your MODOK hand fishing technique fails you on the water planet in which time is expanded by one one-hundredth of the second times the power of 12.
[1:00:11 – 1:00:12] Erik: Exactly.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:13] Adam: That’s not a wave.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:15] Adam: Those aren’t mountains.
[1:00:15 – 1:00:15] Adam: That’s mountains.
[1:00:18 – 1:00:18] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:00:18 – 1:00:19] Adam: You got it.
[1:00:19 – 1:00:22] Adam: Oh, he’s got the real classic here.
[1:00:22 – 1:00:26] Erik: No, you didn’t go… Did we do who the Shadrap is going up against?
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Adam: Yeah, the 3D duck.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:27] Erik: Oh, the 3D duck?
[1:00:27 – 1:00:29] Adam: Yeah, it’s only 3D, though.
[1:00:29 – 1:00:30] Adam: But, like, what is it?
[1:00:30 – 1:00:35] Adam: It’s just like the pike, except for it’s 40 inches long, and it’s shaped like a baby duck.
[1:00:35 – 1:00:36] Erik: It’s just a duck.
[1:00:36 – 1:00:37] Erik: Is it a diving duck?
[1:00:38 – 1:00:41] Adam: It looks like it’s just going to frolic on the surface.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:46] Erik: I’ve seen a floating, frolicking, almost feather-covered topwater baby duck.
[1:00:46 – 1:00:48] Adam: Yeah, this looks rubberized.
[1:00:48 – 1:00:51] Erik: I think this is like a rubberized sinking, diving.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:54] Erik: There was one that was the color of the loon.
[1:00:54 – 1:00:56] Erik: It would be sacrilegious.
[1:00:56 – 1:01:06] Erik: If you are on a trip with anybody who is fishing with an artificial loon, 3D loon from Savage Gear, you need to cut them out of your life.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:13] Adam: I did use the Baby Loon top marker, though, so what does that say about me, Jim?
[1:01:15 – 1:01:17] Adam: I mean… At least it’s not 3D.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:19] Erik: Look yourself in the mirror tonight when you get home, maybe.
[1:01:21 – 1:01:24] Adam: I will, and I look very handsome in this blazer.
[1:01:24 – 1:01:31] Adam: Yeah, you just look yourself in the mirror and kind of tighten the… Yeah, it’s okay that I used a Baby Loon to catch a fish.
[1:01:32 – 1:01:33] Erik: I mean, it was a fake Baby Loon.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:34] Erik: I’m a man.
[1:01:34 – 1:01:35] Erik: I’m not hurting anybody.
[1:01:36 – 1:01:38] Erik: Down to the 710.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:38] Erik: Getting down there.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:40] Erik: Classic.
[1:01:40 – 1:01:41] Erik: One of the all-time classics.
[1:01:41 – 1:01:42] Erik: What is this?
[1:01:43 – 1:01:45] Erik: The Moonlight Dreadnought?
[1:01:45 – 1:01:46] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:01:46 – 1:01:47] Erik: What is that?
[1:01:47 – 1:01:48] Erik: The Ace of Spades?
[1:01:48 – 1:01:52] Adam: That’s the Ace of Spades on the Classic Lure deck of cards.
[1:01:52 – 1:01:54] Adam: The Moonlight Dreadnought.
[1:01:54 – 1:02:00] Adam: It’s got two knobs with three squeabies and 18 treble hooks and several blades.
[1:02:00 – 1:02:01] Adam: A couple of knots.
[1:02:02 – 1:02:03] Erik: And the Moonlight Dreadnought.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:10] Erik: N-A-U-G-H-T. That’s Dreadnought going up against the Ten Seed.
[1:02:10 – 1:02:11] Erik: That’s your Hula Poppers.
[1:02:12 – 1:02:12] Erik: They’re coming in.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:14] Erik: They don’t know what’s going on.
[1:02:14 – 1:02:17] Adam: Hula Poppers got a lot of support amongst the Tumble Homies.
[1:02:17 – 1:02:18] Erik: They do have a lot of support.
[1:02:18 – 1:02:19] Erik: They’re going to get thrashed, though.
[1:02:20 – 1:02:20] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:02:21 – 1:02:22] Adam: That’s going to be a tough matchup.
[1:02:22 – 1:02:29] Adam: I could see that one going for the Hula Poppers, but the Moonlight Dreadnought is a very powerful lure with a lot of gravity.
[1:02:32 – 1:02:33] Adam: The power of the moon.
[1:02:33 – 1:02:40] Adam: Yeah, the moon is one-sixth the density of Earth, and the backside, it’s all magma.
[1:02:41 – 1:02:42] Adam: That’s what they don’t want you to know.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:52] Adam: We got the hula popper as the ten seed, and right down here below it as the two seed, it’s the whopper plopper.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:54] Adam: And this one had a lot of comments on the thread.
[1:02:55 – 1:02:56] Erik: People are clamoring for the whopper plopper.
[1:02:57 – 1:03:00] Adam: Yeah, sometimes they don’t throw them in the trees and they do catch fish.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:03] Adam: Yeah, sometimes if it doesn’t end up in a tree.
[1:03:03 – 1:03:07] Adam: If you manage to throw this whopper plopper into the sea, you’re probably catching a bass.
[1:03:07 – 1:03:14] Erik: If it doesn’t end up in the water with said tree debris attached to it, yeah, most likely fish.
[1:03:17 – 1:03:21] Adam: And it is going up against a real feisty bunch here in the 15 seed.
[1:03:22 – 1:03:24] Adam: This is the Bass Professor’s fishing snake.
[1:03:25 – 1:03:26] Adam: Oh, yes.
[1:03:26 – 1:03:27] Adam: The fishing snake.
[1:03:27 – 1:03:29] Adam: Watch out for those fishing snakes.
[1:03:30 – 1:03:34] Adam: If you’re trying to cross a river in Texas with a herd of cattle, you don’t want to do that.
[1:03:34 – 1:03:35] Erik: Real.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:35] Erik: Live.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:37] Adam: They’re going to probably murder your Irish boy.
[1:03:37 – 1:03:39] Adam: Snake action.
[1:03:39 – 1:03:40] Adam: My Irish boy.
[1:03:41 – 1:03:43] Adam: Who’s going to sing to the cattle tonight, Sean?
[1:03:43 – 1:03:45] Adam: Oh, God.
[1:03:45 – 1:03:47] Adam: Bass Professor, we’re scared.
[1:03:48 – 1:03:50] Adam: Whopper Plopper, do your thing.
[1:03:50 – 1:03:51] Erik: Whopper Plopper?
[1:03:51 – 1:03:54] Erik: Yeah, please do put the Bass Professor.
[1:03:54 – 1:03:55] Adam: We are all scared.
[1:03:55 – 1:03:56] Adam: Please, voters.
[1:03:57 – 1:04:00] Adam: Please, whatever you do, don’t vote for the fishing snake.
[1:04:00 – 1:04:00] Erik: No.
[1:04:01 – 1:04:02] Adam: Oh, God.
[1:04:02 – 1:04:03] Adam: Does it make noise?
[1:04:04 – 1:04:05] Adam: It’s making noise.
[1:04:05 – 1:04:14] Adam: The last time I was this scared of a snake in Atikokan was the riddle snake, which we watched on a cathode ray television at the outdoorsman.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:15] Erik: Yeah.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:17] Erik: You could hear that it was on from outside.
[1:04:18 – 1:04:18] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:04:19 – 1:04:24] Adam: And that does wrap it up from the north region here, from VBT in Atikokan.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:32] Adam: I see that MEPs 3 doing just fine over here, and I hope nobody’s fooled by the snake.
[1:04:33 – 1:04:38] Adam: And I don’t know what’s going to happen with all these dimensional critters in this conference.
[1:04:40 – 1:04:41] Adam: I’m alarmed.
[1:04:42 – 1:04:42] Adam: You should be.
[1:04:42 – 1:04:43] Adam: But I’m also…
[1:04:44 – 1:04:45] Adam: Slightly aroused.
[1:04:47 – 1:04:47] Erik: Okay.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:49] Erik: Moving on.
[1:04:49 – 1:04:49] Erik: Okay.
[1:04:49 – 1:04:50] Adam: Moving on.
[1:04:51 – 1:04:52] Adam: Maybe it’s the dark Czech beer.
[1:04:53 – 1:04:53] Adam: Maybe.
[1:04:53 – 1:04:54] Adam: Yeah.
[1:04:55 – 1:04:56] Adam: It is after dark, after all.
[1:04:56 – 1:05:00] Erik: It’s filled with aphrodisiacs.
[1:05:01 – 1:05:02] Erik: Oh, no.
[1:05:02 – 1:05:03] Erik: Moving back up.
[1:05:04 – 1:05:05] Erik: The final…
[1:05:06 – 1:05:08] Erik: Unit, section, quadrant.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:11] Erik: Quadrant sounds most appropriate.
[1:05:11 – 1:05:12] Erik: We’re experts.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:13] Erik: We know what we’re talking about.
[1:05:13 – 1:05:16] Erik: Right here on Tumble Home Sports Network.
[1:05:16 – 1:05:23] Erik: Coming to you from Northwoods Bait and Tackle in Cook, Minnesota.
[1:05:24 – 1:05:24] Adam: Cook.
[1:05:25 – 1:05:28] Adam: For you over there on the western side, you may be going for crab.
[1:05:28 – 1:05:30] Adam: You may want to stop here.
[1:05:32 – 1:05:39] Adam: I will note that this location was chosen because of the controversy surrounding Norman’s Motel and One Stop in Ore, Minnesota.
[1:05:40 – 1:05:47] Adam: They had made a bid, a very compelling bid, to host some of these games, but ultimately the committee ruled it was inappropriate.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:49] Adam: Oh, wow.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:50] Adam: Inappropriate.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:51] Adam: Enough said.
[1:05:53 – 1:05:53] Erik: Enough said.
[1:05:53 – 1:05:54] Erik: We got a 215.
[1:05:54 – 1:05:55] Erik: We’re going back up.
[1:05:55 – 1:05:58] Erik: We’re going to finish with the 116.
[1:05:58 – 1:06:01] Erik: You guys, you’re following along at home.
[1:06:01 – 1:06:02] Erik: They’re nodding.
[1:06:02 – 1:06:04] Erik: Nodding, nodding.
[1:06:04 – 1:06:05] Erik: We got your classic.
[1:06:05 – 1:06:07] Erik: We’re back into spoon territory here.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:11] Erik: Two seed every day.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:17] Erik: You say run of the mill like it’s a bad thing, but it’s an everyday lure.
[1:06:17 – 1:06:19] Erik: It belongs in everybody’s tackle box.
[1:06:19 – 1:06:20] Erik: We’re going with the two seed.
[1:06:20 – 1:06:21] Erik: It’s the daredevils.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:24] Erik: Pick your colors.
[1:06:26 – 1:06:26] Erik: Red and white.
[1:06:27 – 1:06:27] Erik: Five a diamond.
[1:06:28 – 1:06:29] Erik: Five a diamond.
[1:06:31 – 1:06:35] Erik: I could see this tournament ending up to be a battle of spoons.
[1:06:37 – 1:06:43] Erik: But they first have to get by the 15 seed Dr. Juice’s helicopter lure.
[1:06:45 – 1:06:45] Erik: It jigs.
[1:06:46 – 1:06:46] Erik: It trolls.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:48] Erik: It cuts through weeds.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:50] Adam: It looks horrible.
[1:06:50 – 1:06:51] Erik: If you need to see…
[1:06:52 – 1:06:55] Erik: Didn’t Bill Dance try and buy this lure from Dr. Juice?
[1:06:55 – 1:06:56] Erik: Yeah, didn’t want to sell.
[1:06:56 – 1:06:58] Erik: He knew the value was too high.
[1:06:58 – 1:07:00] Adam: You’ll fall out of your boat, you idiot.
[1:07:00 – 1:07:01] Adam: You’re not buying this.
[1:07:01 – 1:07:05] Erik: Yeah, Bill Dance should have bought that fishing snake.
[1:07:06 – 1:07:10] Adam: He would have made a few bucks on the snake, but not on this helicopter lure.
[1:07:10 – 1:07:14] Adam: Bamboozled by the fake cruise snakes that he was getting.
[1:07:14 – 1:07:18] Adam: How many Dr. Juice helicopter lures could you buy for $400 on Timu?
[1:07:19 – 1:07:26] Erik: Well, we’re going to find out, but if anybody isn’t aware of Dr. Juice’s helicopter lure, you should probably go and just check it out.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:29] Adam: Definitely don’t look that up on the internet.
[1:07:29 – 1:07:30] Erik: It will change your life.
[1:07:31 – 1:07:32] Adam: All right.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Adam: We got ourselves a 10-7 matchup here.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:40] Adam: And in the 7 seed, it’s an all-time classic.
[1:07:40 – 1:07:43] Adam: The Fred Arbogast Jitterbug.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:45] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[1:07:46 – 1:07:48] Adam: And, oh, this is a crazy matchup.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:50] Adam: This just in.
[1:07:50 – 1:07:52] Adam: They’re going up against the 10 seed.
[1:07:52 – 1:07:53] Adam: It’s the Booker Depth Raider.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:55] Adam: Oh, the Depth Raiders.
[1:07:55 – 1:07:55] Adam: Wow.
[1:07:56 – 1:07:57] Adam: That’s a tough one.
[1:07:57 – 1:07:59] Adam: A depth raider versus a jitterbug.
[1:07:59 – 1:08:01] Adam: Again, a matter of contrast here.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:06] Adam: Working the top of the water column versus getting way down there near the thermocline.
[1:08:07 – 1:08:09] Adam: Jim, I’m frightened again.
[1:08:09 – 1:08:11] Erik: I’m going depth raider all day on that matchup.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:13] Erik: Just my style.
[1:08:13 – 1:08:21] Adam: I’ve never used a jitterbug, and I’m not allowed to either due to the… That incident back in 1996.
[1:08:21 – 1:08:22] Adam: Due to the incident.
[1:08:23 – 1:08:28] Adam: So I am too also going to call for the upset and call with Booker’s depth rater.
[1:08:28 – 1:08:30] Erik: Yeah, you don’t seem as confident.
[1:08:30 – 1:08:31] Erik: It’s mostly a legal thing.
[1:08:31 – 1:08:31] Adam: It is.
[1:08:31 – 1:08:34] Adam: I’m mostly being told I have to say this.
[1:08:35 – 1:08:35] Adam: Nod.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:36] Adam: All right.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:37] Erik: You said too much.
[1:08:37 – 1:08:39] Erik: Trevor’s just doing the Jonah Hill cut.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:41] Adam: That red phone’s ringing again.
[1:08:41 – 1:08:42] Adam: Oh, shit.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:43] Adam: Not the red phone.
[1:08:43 – 1:08:43] Adam: Not the red phone.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:47] Erik: Up to the 3-14 matchup.
[1:08:48 – 1:08:49] Erik: We’ve got a Flickr Shad.
[1:08:49 – 1:08:51] Erik: This one’s from Berkeley.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:56] Erik: Comments on the subreddit are supporting the Flickr Shad.
[1:08:56 – 1:09:00] Adam: They’re apparently cheaper than the Rapala and just as good, if not better.
[1:09:01 – 1:09:05] Erik: Yeah, that’s another aspect you have to take into account in this whole tournament.
[1:09:05 – 1:09:06] Erik: Value.
[1:09:06 – 1:09:06] Erik: Value.
[1:09:07 – 1:09:08] Adam: Yeah, this is an ABV.
[1:09:09 – 1:09:10] Adam: Absolute best value.
[1:09:10 – 1:09:12] Adam: Yeah, I mean… With the Berkeley.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:14] Erik: You know, Senko’s a two seed.
[1:09:14 – 1:09:16] Erik: High turnover.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:20] Erik: High turnover, high success rate, but high turnover.
[1:09:21 – 1:09:21] Erik: Banjo Minnow.
[1:09:22 – 1:09:23] Erik: Unlimited turnover.
[1:09:24 – 1:09:26] Erik: Low success rate, but unlimited.
[1:09:27 – 1:09:28] Adam: It’s a matter of numbers.
[1:09:28 – 1:09:30] Erik: Stop talking about the Banjo Minnow!
[1:09:30 – 1:09:32] Adam: This guy is on the…
[1:09:32 – 1:09:34] Adam: He may be on the coaching staff for Banjo Minnow.
[1:09:34 – 1:09:35] Adam: I might be.
[1:09:35 – 1:09:36] Erik: The Flickers…
[1:09:37 – 1:09:40] Erik: From Berkeley, going up against the 14 seed.
[1:09:41 – 1:09:44] Erik: I don’t even remember what the hell this is, but it’s Uncle Josh’s pork fry.
[1:09:46 – 1:09:47] Adam: Another frog.
[1:09:47 – 1:09:49] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:09:49 – 1:09:50] Erik: This one’s made with real pork.
[1:09:50 – 1:09:55] Erik: This one seems like it was made with real meat, and if I remember correctly, had one bad review.
[1:09:55 – 1:09:56] Adam: One star reviews.
[1:09:57 – 1:10:01] Erik: Yeah, like you needed to add meat tenderizer to it somehow.
[1:10:01 – 1:10:05] Adam: You may want to put this one in your crock pot for seven to nine hours before fishing.
[1:10:05 – 1:10:11] Erik: Yeah, and also maybe take Uncle Josh out back and ask him, what the hell are you doing?
[1:10:11 – 1:10:14] Adam: What are you putting in them jars, Uncle Josh?
[1:10:14 – 1:10:15] Erik: You get three of them in a jar?
[1:10:16 – 1:10:18] Erik: Is this a lure or is this a meal?
[1:10:18 – 1:10:20] Erik: Is it live bait?
[1:10:21 – 1:10:21] Erik: It’s questionable.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:22] Erik: It might be one of those.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:25] Adam: You don’t want to check your regulations before voting in this matchup.
[1:10:26 – 1:10:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:26 – 1:10:28] Erik: Do we need a little PED check on these guys?
[1:10:28 – 1:10:32] Erik: Performance enhancing pork frogs?
[1:10:33 – 1:10:33] Erik: I’m thinking so.
[1:10:36 – 1:10:41] Adam: I’m just glad the pork frog didn’t get matched up against the porcupine liver.
[1:10:41 – 1:10:41] Adam: No.
[1:10:41 – 1:10:44] Adam: Or we may actually rip a hole in space time.
[1:10:44 – 1:10:50] Erik: Yeah, we had a potential cheat into the second round.
[1:10:50 – 1:10:57] Adam: We got two wild-ass topwater baits here in the 6-11 matchup.
[1:10:57 – 1:10:59] Erik: Yeah, if you’re in for a show, tune into this matchup.
[1:10:59 – 1:11:02] Adam: This one’s going to be a lot of splashing and a lot of sassing.
[1:11:03 – 1:11:05] Adam: And these two came out of the same conference.
[1:11:05 – 1:11:06] Adam: They hate each other.
[1:11:07 – 1:11:14] Adam: They will be going to do battle over here at the Northwoods Bait and Tackle in Cook, Minnesota.
[1:11:14 – 1:11:22] Adam: As the sixth seed, we have the Moss Boss, a friend of the show, actually, a dear friend, the Moss Boss.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:22] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:27] Adam: And it’s going up against its hated rival, the Seagull Wobbler.
[1:11:27 – 1:11:28] Adam: Hated rival.
[1:11:28 – 1:11:28] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:11:29 – 1:11:30] Erik: There was a stabbing on the court.
[1:11:31 – 1:11:36] Adam: Yeah, and there will probably be additional blood spilled in this matchup.
[1:11:37 – 1:11:38] Adam: Be careful out there.
[1:11:39 – 1:11:41] Adam: Tread carefully if you’re over there on the west side of the park.
[1:11:41 – 1:11:46] Erik: Yeah, if you’re out on Boscatong or Knight.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:55] Adam: If you’re over there in the meat chain, be careful for pork frogs and moss bosses for sure, but definitely be very wary of the seagull wobbler.
[1:11:56 – 1:12:19] Erik: try your luck out on rat lake you know you’re looking at a you know two to three foot max depth choked with weeds that’s when you want to bust out the moss boss or the seagull warbler up to the 413 matchup in the cook minnesota northwoods bait and tackle sponsored slash location number four seed
[1:12:22 – 1:12:23] Erik: One of my co-host’s favorites.
[1:12:24 – 1:12:26] Erik: We got the FZ Slim coming in.
[1:12:27 – 1:12:33] Adam: I got that thing at the Ugly Baby, which was also trying to bid to host some games, maybe next year.
[1:12:34 – 1:12:42] Adam: But I bought one of them from the Ugly Baby up on the Gumblin Trail, and I pretty much used it the entirety of our 30-day trip in Quetico.
[1:12:42 – 1:12:44] Adam: And I caught a Grand Slam on it.
[1:12:44 – 1:12:44] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:45 – 1:12:46] Adam: Legally or illegally.
[1:12:46 – 1:12:53] Erik: And I caught a Grand Slam all at once on the team coming in here at the 13th seed going up against the FZ Slims.
[1:12:53 – 1:12:54] Erik: Stick of dynamite.
[1:12:54 – 1:12:56] Adam: Damn, that lure is explosive.
[1:12:56 – 1:12:57] Adam: It is.
[1:12:57 – 1:12:58] Adam: And effective.
[1:12:59 – 1:13:03] Erik: Effective, one-time charm, and you better be prepared to be hungry.
[1:13:08 – 1:13:11] Adam: Yeah, and that’s the official favorite lure of Norman.
[1:13:12 – 1:13:13] Erik: No question as to its legality.
[1:13:13 – 1:13:22] Adam: I believe they should be here just as much as the— Stick a dynamite, earn their keep, and they always show up and perform.
[1:13:22 – 1:13:22] Erik: Always do.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:23] Erik: Never fail.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:24] Adam: Unless they get moist.
[1:13:25 – 1:13:27] Erik: Don’t get them too excited too early.
[1:13:27 – 1:13:29] Adam: Make sure you light the fuse early.
[1:13:29 – 1:13:29] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:29 – 1:13:35] Adam: You’re going to light that fuse in the locker room before you do the jumping of the ball.
[1:13:36 – 1:13:36] Erik: Exactly.
[1:13:37 – 1:13:45] Adam: Coming up next in the 5-12 matchup, our final 5-12 matchup of the learn-ament, we got another entry from Head On.
[1:13:45 – 1:13:47] Adam: It’s the classic torpedo.
[1:13:49 – 1:13:49] Adam: As the 5-seed…
[1:13:51 – 1:13:54] Adam: And they’re going up against the 12 seed.
[1:13:54 – 1:13:56] Adam: It’s the Radke Pike Minnow.
[1:13:57 – 1:14:02] Adam: I don’t know how many people out here have ever fished with a Radke Pike Minnow or know what it’s about.
[1:14:03 – 1:14:11] Adam: But it was invented by dear friend of Tumble Home, Gail Radke on Little Green Lake in southern Wisconsin.
[1:14:12 – 1:14:14] Adam: And it’s an all-time classic.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:35] Adam: overlooked for sure and uh maybe has no place in the modern world but gail is a real nice fellow and uh a dear friend of the show but as a 12 seed i don’t know can he hold up against that torpedo i know the the torpedo has quite a rabid fan base and the tumble homies do love their top water
[1:14:35 – 1:14:36] Erik: Topwater’s fun.
[1:14:37 – 1:14:39] Erik: Even if you’re not catching fish, Topwater’s always fun.
[1:14:39 – 1:14:40] Erik: It’s a lot of fun.
[1:14:41 – 1:14:42] Erik: Down to the last 8-9 seed here.
[1:14:42 – 1:14:44] Erik: We’re getting down to the last two matchups.
[1:14:44 – 1:14:46] Erik: Cannot wait for action to commence.
[1:14:48 – 1:14:49] Adam: The 8 seed.
[1:14:49 – 1:14:52] Erik: Look at the luminous, flying Helgramites.
[1:14:52 – 1:14:53] Adam: Oh, my God.
[1:14:54 – 1:14:55] Erik: Just based on the name.
[1:14:57 – 1:14:57] Erik: Team mascot.
[1:14:58 – 1:14:59] Erik: Insane.
[1:14:59 – 1:15:02] Adam: Yeah, this thing is like what the Zulu rig wanted to be.
[1:15:02 – 1:15:06] Erik: Yes, except without as many snags or headaches.
[1:15:07 – 1:15:10] Erik: Going up against the nine seed, the Wally Divers.
[1:15:11 – 1:15:12] Adam: Oh, the Wally Divers.
[1:15:13 – 1:15:16] Erik: Everybody always forgets about the Wally Divers.
[1:15:17 – 1:15:18] Erik: They’re coming in.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:19] Erik: Should be a close matchup.
[1:15:20 – 1:15:21] Adam: Nobody knows.
[1:15:21 – 1:15:25] Adam: I had my first encounter with a muskie back in the day while throwing a Wally Diver.
[1:15:25 – 1:15:27] Adam: I did not expect to see that there.
[1:15:27 – 1:15:28] Adam: I was not fishing for muskies.
[1:15:30 – 1:15:31] Adam: I was not.
[1:15:31 – 1:15:32] Erik: That’s how it goes.
[1:15:32 – 1:15:33] Erik: There it is.
[1:15:34 – 1:15:34] Erik: Yeah.
[1:15:34 – 1:15:35] Adam: I was hooked immediately.
[1:15:36 – 1:15:40] Erik: Any of my massive pike have been with walleye rigs on.
[1:15:41 – 1:15:41] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:41 – 1:15:46] Adam: I saved that walleye diver, actually, and I turned it into a Christmas lure.
[1:15:47 – 1:15:48] Adam: It hangs on the tree now.
[1:15:49 – 1:15:50] Adam: It’s not a lure.
[1:15:50 – 1:15:51] Adam: It’s an urnament.
[1:15:51 – 1:15:52] Erik: Urnament.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:55] Adam: Next year, the urnament tournament.
[1:15:55 – 1:15:55] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:00] Adam: That is not going to happen.
[1:16:01 – 1:16:03] Erik: Come Home Sports Network says hell no.
[1:16:04 – 1:16:05] Erik: Well, for now, we say no.
[1:16:06 – 1:16:07] Erik: Yeah, maybe by next winter.
[1:16:07 – 1:16:08] Erik: Yeah.
[1:16:09 – 1:16:12] Adam: Top 64 ornaments.
[1:16:15 – 1:16:16] Adam: That is a true story.
[1:16:16 – 1:16:23] Adam: Our last matchup here in Cook, Minnesota, and we got a one seed versus a severely overmatched 16 seed.
[1:16:24 – 1:16:31] Adam: In the one seed slot, we have the classic quarter ounce jig head with a curly tail, twister tail combo.
[1:16:31 – 1:16:37] Adam: This is probably the most versatile lure in the bucket and a well-deserved one seed.
[1:16:37 – 1:16:45] Adam: There are many different versions of this and you can mix and match the jig head color with the kind of twisty tail you prefer.
[1:16:45 – 1:16:46] Adam: And weight.
[1:16:46 – 1:16:47] Adam: And weight.
[1:16:47 – 1:16:49] Adam: We’re allowing for a changing of weight.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:52] Erik: There’s a good, some people have their weight specifications.
[1:16:52 – 1:16:56] Adam: Or specific kind of jig head shape that you need.
[1:16:56 – 1:16:59] Erik: The bench includes the quarter rounds, the three eighths.
[1:16:59 – 1:17:01] Adam: Yeah, they got them all on the team.
[1:17:01 – 1:17:21] Adam: all on the team the jig head and the soft plastic combo and they all come with the little the little hole pre-punched out you don’t even have to mess with it yeah you may want to use that 16 seed rusty hook to punch out the hole on himself but you don’t need to do that here with these these beautiful jig heads and curly tails it would have been an interesting matchup those two
[1:17:21 – 1:17:26] Adam: Yeah, the twister tail, though, can catch anything on any day of the week.
[1:17:26 – 1:17:27] Adam: Year-round, really.
[1:17:28 – 1:17:34] Adam: That’s the one seed out there in the Western Conference, and they are going up against a sad 16 seed.
[1:17:35 – 1:17:36] Adam: It’s a cooked bratwurst.
[1:17:37 – 1:17:47] Adam: I don’t understand how this team made it in, but our field correspondent does tell us that this was found in the belly of a pike that was caught this winter.
[1:17:47 – 1:18:12] Adam: partially digested chunk of cooked bratwurst and we’re all wondering uh not can the cooked bratwurst win in this matchup because it cannot but we are wondering would you eat the bratwurst jim uh i wouldn’t i’ll pass i would need to see uh i gotta see the brat i would need to see the color and does it have wild rice in it
[1:18:13 – 1:18:14] Adam: That wouldn’t help.
[1:18:14 – 1:18:15] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:18:16 – 1:18:17] Adam: It might help.
[1:18:18 – 1:18:21] Adam: I think I could if it was…
[1:18:21 – 1:18:22] Adam: If you were on alone.
[1:18:23 – 1:18:25] Erik: Fully, like, you know, the full alone treatment.
[1:18:25 – 1:18:26] Erik: If you were on alone.
[1:18:26 – 1:18:31] Erik: I’m going to boil it for about 40 hours just to make sure I don’t get, like, strichinosis.
[1:18:31 – 1:18:32] Adam: Put it in with the hooves.
[1:18:32 – 1:18:33] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[1:18:33 – 1:18:37] Erik: Put it in with the musk ox fourth stomach innards.
[1:18:38 – 1:18:38] Adam: There we go.
[1:18:39 – 1:18:40] Adam: If you’re hungry enough, you’d eat it.
[1:18:41 – 1:18:43] Adam: Everybody just needs to admit that to themselves.
[1:18:43 – 1:18:45] Erik: If you’re hungry enough, you’re going to want it.
[1:18:45 – 1:18:47] Erik: Maybe that’s the… You don’t even need it.
[1:18:47 – 1:18:48] Adam: You want it.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:49] Adam: The cooked bratwursts.
[1:18:50 – 1:18:54] Adam: Did the pike eat the bratwurst cooked off of a hook?
[1:18:54 – 1:18:58] Erik: Or was somebody fishing with the bratwurst to begin with?
[1:18:58 – 1:19:03] Erik: Or did it find a piece of raw bratwurst and cook it on its own?
[1:19:03 – 1:19:08] Adam: Or did somebody just accidentally drop a cooked bratwurst in the lake and then the pike got it?
[1:19:09 – 1:19:09] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:10 – 1:19:11] Adam: Now we’re talking four dimensions.
[1:19:12 – 1:19:13] Erik: 4D cooked bratwurst.
[1:19:14 – 1:19:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:15 – 1:19:16] Adam: From Savage Gear.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:20] Adam: 5D brat.
[1:19:20 – 1:19:23] Erik: That’s the lure that Savage Gear needs to make.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:25] Adam: Just an entire brat with a hook in it.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:28 – 1:19:30] Adam: The brat’s just filled with hooks.
[1:19:30 – 1:19:31] Adam: Forget the wild rice.
[1:19:32 – 1:19:38] Erik: Yeah, and it comes with a little, what was the other lure that we were looking at that came with a little scent?
[1:19:38 – 1:19:39] Erik: Injured fish scent?
[1:19:39 – 1:19:43] Adam: Yeah, the wounded minnow with a blood light.
[1:19:43 – 1:19:46] Erik: Yeah, you just put in a little bratwurst.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:46] Erik: A scent tube.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:50] Erik: A little brat scent juice packet that squirts out juices.
[1:19:52 – 1:19:54] Erik: Brat, like a little burnt and crinkly at the end.
[1:19:56 – 1:20:04] Adam: I was talking with some people today about the idea of using like tiny little party shrimp, party platter shrimps for like ice fishing.
[1:20:05 – 1:20:06] Adam: Apparently it works.
[1:20:06 – 1:20:10] Adam: I remember trying it once for like catfish way back in the day and it didn’t work at all.
[1:20:10 – 1:20:12] Erik: They’re already hook shaped.
[1:20:12 – 1:20:15] Adam: Yeah, they thread right on that circle hook.
[1:20:15 – 1:20:15] Adam: Beautiful.
[1:20:17 – 1:20:21] Adam: But now we’re talking, again, we’re blurring the lines between live bait and lure.
[1:20:21 – 1:20:22] Erik: It’s a different tournament.
[1:20:22 – 1:20:23] Erik: That’s the NIT.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:24] Erik: We’re not going to get into that.
[1:20:24 – 1:20:25] Adam: We’re not going to get into it.
[1:20:25 – 1:20:27] Adam: We won’t discuss it any further.
[1:20:27 – 1:20:28] Adam: It wouldn’t be proper.
[1:20:28 – 1:20:30] Erik: Yeah, they let anybody into that tournament.
[1:20:30 – 1:20:32] Adam: Anybody, and I mean anybody.
[1:20:32 – 1:20:34] Erik: Yeah, I mean, we get cooked bratwurst.
[1:20:34 – 1:20:34] Erik: We’re not…
[1:20:36 – 1:20:37] Erik: We’re not savages.
[1:20:37 – 1:20:38] Erik: We’re not savages.
[1:20:38 – 1:20:38] Erik: No.
[1:20:39 – 1:20:39] Adam: All right.
[1:20:39 – 1:20:41] Adam: Well, that’s your field.
[1:20:42 – 1:20:50] Adam: Thank you to anybody that contributed in the subreddit and helping the committee make these very wise decisions.
[1:20:51 – 1:20:59] Adam: Again, the voting will be open on poll tab, and be prepared to prove your humanity for each and every vote.
[1:21:00 – 1:21:02] Adam: We will be posting it, 32 matchups going live.
[1:21:03 – 1:21:04] Adam: They will be live when you hear this.
[1:21:05 – 1:21:10] Adam: And the link will be in the show notes and on the subreddit and definitely on the Discord.
[1:21:11 – 1:21:15] Adam: Don your blazers, Tumble Homies, and vote wisely.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:16] Adam: I can’t wait.
[1:21:16 – 1:21:19] Erik: Don your blazers and doff your…
[1:21:20 – 1:21:23] Erik: Common sense, because it’s going to be a wild ride.
[1:21:24 – 1:21:26] Adam: What do you think of that?
[1:21:26 – 1:21:31] Adam: The Tickle Bug Conference only got two entries into this tournament.
[1:21:31 – 1:21:43] Adam: Not a lot of fly fishing aficionados up here in the Boundary Waters, but it does work, and I think that’s going to be something we’re going to see more and more of going forward.
[1:21:44 – 1:21:44] Erik: Sure.
[1:21:44 – 1:21:45] Erik: I mean, they’re in there.
[1:21:45 – 1:21:48] Erik: They could still make some noise.
[1:21:49 – 1:21:52] Erik: It’s a Boundary Waters lurement.
[1:21:52 – 1:22:01] Erik: The people have spoken for the most part, and it’s up to you now.
[1:22:02 – 1:22:04] Erik: It’s up to them, but it’s up to you.
[1:22:05 – 1:22:09] Adam: I’ll tell you what, this Western bracket’s got a lot of weirdos in it.
[1:22:12 – 1:22:13] Erik: Which one?
[1:22:13 – 1:22:15] Adam: The last one we just went through?
[1:22:15 – 1:22:17] Adam: We got Dr. Juice’s Helicopter Lure.
[1:22:18 – 1:22:19] Erik: Oh, the 15 seed, yes.
[1:22:20 – 1:22:22] Adam: We got the Uncle Josh’s Pork Frog.
[1:22:23 – 1:22:23] Adam: Yes.
[1:22:23 – 1:22:25] Adam: We got the Seagull Wobbler.
[1:22:26 – 1:22:27] Erik: Yes, the Arbogast Jitterbug.
[1:22:28 – 1:22:29] Adam: Uh-huh.
[1:22:29 – 1:22:32] Adam: And the Luminous Flying Helgermite, which isn’t weird.
[1:22:32 – 1:22:33] Adam: That one’s just amazing.
[1:22:33 – 1:22:42] Adam: And then, of course, the Cooked Bratwurst, one of the most puzzling entries ever into the learnament and the deep history of this wonderful, wonderful event.
[1:22:42 – 1:22:44] Adam: Yeah.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:47] Adam: But that’s how we’ve always done it.
[1:22:48 – 1:22:50] Erik: We’ve always done it this way.
[1:22:50 – 1:22:51] Adam: Do not question us.
[1:22:51 – 1:22:54] Adam: The committee is wise and the committee is right.
[1:22:54 – 1:22:56] Adam: But now it is up to the voters.
[1:22:57 – 1:22:59] Adam: And that is the magic of the tumble tournament.
[1:23:00 – 1:23:02] Adam: So it is 2025.
[1:23:02 – 1:23:04] Adam: Join us on this strange journey.
[1:23:04 – 1:23:08] Adam: Please help these khaki scouts figure out what lures to bring.
[1:23:09 – 1:23:14] Adam: Of these 64, we will whittle it down to a final four in four or five weeks from now.
[1:23:14 – 1:23:16] Adam: We will find out the champion.
[1:23:17 – 1:23:25] Adam: And these poor youth will be forced to throw luminous flying hellgrammates, which go on eBay for upwards of $4,000 each.
[1:23:25 – 1:23:26] Adam: So please don’t vote for those.
[1:23:27 – 1:23:41] Erik: yeah i at least not to the finals i’ve got my work cut out for me i’ve got to build this entire tournament and hopefully uh i can try and find pictures for every single one i did send you a picture of the moonlight dreadnought already so that one’s covered okay well i only have
[1:23:41 – 1:23:42] Erik: 63 to do.
[1:23:42 – 1:23:42] Erik: Perfect.
[1:23:42 – 1:23:48] Erik: You can go home and please get me pictures of the spotted porcupine liver.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:49] Erik: I will.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:52] Erik: And Amos’ handmade lure.
[1:23:52 – 1:23:55] Adam: I’ll go back and re-watch those episodes and screen grab them for you.
[1:23:55 – 1:23:56] Erik: Those ones would be helpful for me.
[1:23:56 – 1:24:01] Erik: Otherwise, I should be able to pretty much bop out a little Google search for all the rest.
[1:24:02 – 1:24:03] Adam: Absolutely.
[1:24:03 – 1:24:03] Erik: Cannot wait.
[1:24:03 – 1:24:06] Erik: We’re back into the Magic of Tourney time.
[1:24:07 – 1:24:08] Erik: Multiple other tournaments are happening.
[1:24:08 – 1:24:14] Erik: Long gone are the days when the Tumble Tourney was the standalone tournament.
[1:24:15 – 1:24:16] Erik: My God.
[1:24:16 – 1:24:17] Adam: A lot of imitators.
[1:24:17 – 1:24:19] Adam: A lot of imitators.
[1:24:19 – 1:24:20] Adam: Only one original.
[1:24:21 – 1:24:28] Erik: We’re just here mixed in with the rest of them like a couple of schlubs, but we’re having a good time with all of y’all that are here with us.
[1:24:28 – 1:24:29] Erik: All y’all.
[1:24:29 – 1:24:29] Adam: Cannot wait.
[1:24:31 – 1:24:45] Adam: For Tumble Home Sports Network, joining me here in Studio V has been Jim Sofa, the legend, and, of course, our pilot, who definitely did not crash the team of the helicopter.
[1:24:46 – 1:24:47] Adam: It was safely put down.
[1:24:48 – 1:24:52] Adam: in a clearing and is totally fine.
[1:24:52 – 1:24:53] Adam: Thank you, Jim.
[1:24:54 – 1:25:00] Erik: Safely put down and safely taken apart and packed into eight different cardboard boxes.
[1:25:01 – 1:25:03] Adam: I like that it comes in cardboard boxes.
[1:25:03 – 1:25:04] Adam: It’s convenient.
[1:25:04 – 1:25:05] Erik: Yeah.
[1:25:05 – 1:25:17] Adam: My name is Terry Davenport, and thank you all for listening to this episode of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast and the proud home of Tumble Home Sports Network.
[1:25:18 – 1:25:21] Adam: Please vote, and thank you for being a part of the magic.
[1:25:25 – 1:25:32] SPEAKER_00: It was Pierre Radisson, an explorer of the 1600s, who first attempted to put words to his feelings about canoe country.
[1:25:33 – 1:25:38] SPEAKER_00: Out there we were kings, the richest men in all the world.
[1:25:39 – 1:25:41] SPEAKER_00: What was true then is true now.
[1:25:42 – 1:25:47] SPEAKER_00: What greater wealth than days filled with high adventure on the water and across portages?
[1:25:48 – 1:25:56] SPEAKER_00: with providing our supper with rod and reel, with cooking on an open fire and enjoying a meal fit for a king.
[1:26:25 – 1:26:28] SPEAKER_00: Inevitably, day comes to an end.
[1:26:29 – 1:26:41] SPEAKER_00: The sun slides into the western horizon and night slowly moves across the lakes and forests of canoe country as taps is sounded by a solitary loon heading home to a distant roost.