Texas Fisheries Biologist (The Bilge Podcast)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Chris and Trait of The Bilge podcast sit down with Texas Parks and Wildlife Fisheries Biologist, Tom Hungerford, to discuss all the questions bass anglers have about growing big bass, the effects of all the tournaments nowadays on bodies of water, killing off vegetation, livewelling fish vs catch & release, etc. in this Episode of The Bilge x Battle Born Batteries.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this and your guest. I met you late September on lake Fork just before a storm brewed up. I am with the Kemp high school fishing team and you took time to take a picture with me. I appreciated that. Wishing you success on the lakes. Fish on!
I have loved every episode, but I was not ready for this one to end!!! I was glued to every second of this one. Future second appearance officially requested!!!!
Thanks Joe!
Texas Parks & Wildlife is the best! Another good one Chris & Trait
Thanks Dave!
These are the kind of interviews I love. Maybe you can bring him back after some of the new studies publish. Thank you for posting
Yes, we actually already have that in motion. He will definitely be a reoccurring guest
What a great piece, loved the change up. Thoroughly enjoyed the science behind it. Thank you for the great work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So interesting! Tom is right about Florida lakes. Mostly shallow bowls with little to no structure and TONS of vegetation. I wish I had been an angler while living in Dallas for 24 years. So many nice, deep, rocky lakes and reservoirs to choose from. Ivie has been on my bucket list forever. One day! Thanks for this awesome podcast!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This deserves waay more likes that that considering how many watched it...good stuff zaldains as usual..these guys got great info...
These are the best info pod casts I love the information. 46:50
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You guys are killing it on these podcasts keep em coming!!
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Best one yet! Love to hear what our Parks and Wildlife are working on here in the Great State of TX
Very informative. Love the pod cast. Keep the real content coming! 🤟 You all probably don't read these but me and my fellow MFers would love to see Ben on the podcast.
Trait’s comments and questions are the best.
I love the information from these kind of interviews. I want to fish some of the lakes around Fort Worth when I visit my daughter this spring.
Hope you catch a few!
This is one of the most interesting fishing podcasts I've ever heard.
Thank you for watching/listening 🙏
@@Zaldaingerous thanks to you guys. I've been enjoying all of these. You had me at Clunn, but this angle is fascinating. It makes me want to learn more about what's going on up here in Arkansas.
Great episode! Packed full of information!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Zaldaingerous some nuggets for us west coast guys for sure 👍
love when fishing podcasts have biologists on as the guest! Science 🤝Fishermen great job!
Glad you enjoy it!
excellent content with a fresh transparent discussion.
Thank you 🙏
Man this is good information. It’s crazy the difference in management between states. Here in the Carolinas we used to say “you are really chasing pressured fish” however I don’t think you can find a great Largemouth lake that isn’t pressured in the US.
Oh yeah ya can, PLENTY of Menderchucks out there and they will always exist so long as dumbasses don’t blow up the spot
This is phenomenal content. Thank you all for the quality information. BtW… Is that a Bud “Heavy” in a Koe Wetzel koozie? 😂
I hate to disappoint you, but that's a Watermelon Waterloo (L O L) in that Koe koozie
Great job a lot of information really makes you think.
To answer your question about the negatives of spraying aquatic vegetation. One of the herbicides that is popular for Hydrilla is Diquat Bromide. Within the last few years research has been conducted that connects the bromide portion of the herbicide to a algal species that can create a neurotoxin. This neurotoxin has been shown to cause the deaths of birds and most notably, eagles. If you’re curious about the algae it is called Aetokhtonous hydrilicola.
This chemical affects the bird itself and not like DDT did to the egg shells, right?
@@TheFishdoctor1952 the chemical itself does not affect birds, however when the algal species is present along with herbicide, the algae itself creates a neurotoxin that is then eaten by smaller fish. Birds then eat the smaller fish and are killed. The neurotoxin creates vacuolar myleinopathy which is essentially holes in the brain.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 the chemical itself does not affect birds, however when the algal species is present along with herbicide, the algae itself creates a neurotoxin that is then eaten by smaller fish. Birds then eat the smaller fish and are killed. The neurotoxin creates vacuolar myleinopathy which is essentially holes in the brain.
Love the pod cast, look forward to each one. 👍👍
Awesome, thank you!
Great information! I wish Alabama would get on a program like that.
Being a senior about to graduate in fisheries and wildlife. I’d love to explore this topic for masters work
Great info and really enjoyed the detail. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was fortunate enough to witness, live, a salmon fly hatch on the Yellowstone River 10 miles from Gardner and the number of giant trout I saw actually frightened me for a bit. Yankee Jim Canyon is a known place.
Wow, that’s very cool.
Chris is my dude! I love this podcast deal. I wish I could fish with you for a day🙏
I'm a top Zalamander!🤙🇺🇸
I would love to hear his opinion on tournament release, If the bass travel back to the area they were caught or relocate.
Great video
Search it. There is a multiple video interview on exactly that by another RUclipsr. Can’t remember dudes name tho
They mentioned the biologists name in the beginning that was interviewed his name was Driscoll
Todd Driscoll - he’s over the SE Texas TPWD region (Toledo Bend, etc)
Great interview - really enjoyed it
Thanks for listening
Many thanks to the TPWD biologist and fisheries personnel who do great things with our fisheries...
Very interesting! I could listen to fish statistics all day.
Same
Very good and interesting information. Great job.
Thank you!
Great show! Very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I wish I knew this was happening. I’ve got tons of questions about bank erosion, blue green algae, and “ich”, that I’ve noticed occurring in the small private lake I live on.
Love the show man!!
#1 podcast hands down. Great adult conversation and points. please keep these coming.yoir a lucky man like me to have a spouse serious about fishing kudos ripsumlipz
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Opened up Apple Podcasts and all the episodes were, it like Christmas came early!!!!!!
Lots of good info here. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
"We just sunk a bunch of PVC artificial habitats.."
Chris: "Where at????"
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The mud hole outside of Nashville is old hickory
I can't figure out how the fish adapt after spraying. It's prevalent here on our natural northern lakes in the late summer/early fall. I can't find anything other than super scattered single fish. Any tips?
Dr Martin Vennemem a doctorate of biology and founder of the oxygen meter spent two summers with a crew that implanted transmitters in both largemouth and small mouth bass and followed them around every day from spring until freeze up on pool 8 of the upper Mississippi River in the late 1980’s. I fished with Marty and told me that what they found out was largemouths were like Gypsy’s and moved great distances sometimes up to 15 miles in one day. Smallmouth lived in huge schools on bare sandbars and only left their 30:15 home area once a year for about two weeks then returned to their home area after what he termed it was their vacation. The sad part of these studies were all of the bass that had implants put in them did not survive. The interesting info he gave me on small mouth bass was generally they fed as a school every 2.8 days. He indicated this was a hard fast rule as the group of researchers fished in the school of smallmouth that the telemetry fight were part of and caught lots of smallmouth on the 2.8 day schedule and very few in between.
This video made a subscriber out of me. Great content
Thank you 🙏
Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?
Every other week rn but in 2023 it will be the 2nd & 4th Tuesday’s
great show!
Thank you!
I don’t know why it took so long to sub. My bad! Big fan and been watching you fish for awhile. Awesome content! Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks
Thanks for the sub!
I caught a 8.6lber just down the road from his office at the bottom of the spillway off the waterfall
How many are not dealing with Share-A-Lunker for myriad reasons, as a fisherman of 40 years bass fishing in Texas. I'd say 50% don't get involved in it and just kiss and release. I caught a 15/7 off Falcon, but because my recirculating pump was out on my live well, I had 20 miles back to ramp and another 30 miles into town to deposit it. He'd have never lived. And I say he because the taxedermy at Fork made me a fiberglass replica. From the pictures I provided and the fact that the fish was 29 1/2" long, they told me they thought it very likely was a male. If we kept records by sex - he might have been a top runner for world record male black bass. Enjoy your shows, do keep 'em up!
Good stuff!
Not true on Toledo. There are large pockets of grass coming back to include hydrilla. In a few years it be back up at the top. I'm talking large areas have grass now. But not near like 2016.
Cool podcasts
Great episode! Do you think you could include timestamps?
It’s possible but it’s more work to log the chapter times and slows the whole editing flow down, so at the moment no promises, but possibly in the future when there’s a little more help.
Great episode. Sprinkled with a Koe Wetzel koozie.
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Yeah those Lone Star bass are like the Coosa Spots they just look different than the other from the same species
Killer podcast. I typically catch a d release fish bass and musky. However, I do like a fish fry from time to time when i take the family out. I teach my kids selective harvest... bluegill, crappie, perch, bass, walleye, etc. All fair game if harvesting and I also teach them to not always keep the jumbo but also not all the babies. Take a variety of species and size and nature will recoup. That's my take at least. And also, don't take more than you need, no need to stock the freezer.
I’m a nerd. And this was awesome.
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Thank you for saying Sunfish and not perch. They are sunfish. Great podcast Zaldaingerous.
Thank you!
water temp
cool well systems works great
water temp at top is 91 I try to see what temp it at 3 to 5 feet then set my system to 10 below that so say it's 83 at 5 feet I set it at 70 are close to it
no dead fish at all
set it and it does all the work
only thing u lose one back storage with ice for the system..
oooo yea one bag works for around 8 to 10 hours cause after u get it cool off then it's just maintain the temp at say 70 all day
F that fly haha, got to me too when watching this. 🤣
Ayo! Is there any video you aren't watching lol
@@pittsburghangler nope haha always wfh so i watch everything 🤣
My two cents from west Tx. That FFS technology is an awesome step forward in sonar technology. BUT, it will be the ultimate downfall to fisheries world wide if it’s not managed properly. The wrong people with that technology in hand will be a detrimental combo.. I expect fish populations to plummet in the oceans, and lakes mainly, from over fishing commercially& guided trips with FFS tech. When an average joe with 0 experience can clear out a school of crappie, striper, white bass, hybrids, etc because of the sonar tech bought for their boat.. that’s going to be a huge problem that generations ahead will have to grapple with in more than one aspect.
-tight lines db
It was interesting to hear Tom’s two cents on the effects of FFS on crappie. It’s pretty late in the podcast episode, but eye opening for me.
Commercial rigs in saltwater have been using live sonar for a long time now. Trawlers do more ocean depletion than any bait/line commercial or recreational fishermen could. I could see some vulnerable freshwater species like sturgeon having stricter limits but I doubt it makes much impact on fast reproducing fish like bass/crappie. If anything, they’ll become just harder to fool because they’re being educated in areas where they had been “safe” before.
TPW is actually going to put in a rock pile in at Fork according to the local biologist.
I let my kid keep a feeder goldish. That was 13 years ago and it's still swimming upstairs right now. I've changed that water more times than I care to remember.
I LOVE TPW.
Awesome.
Awesome
I just had a conversation about watching fish swim off on my graph. Crappie, perch, and any type of pan fish will follow a lure to the boat. As soon as you mark a bass, you just slowly see it move to the bottom.
they need to re-introduce big smallies to lake whitney. At one time they were booming and nearly had a 8 lb. lake record by a old friend of mine Ron Gardner. Now Striper have flooded the texas parks and wildlife's resources because of revenue.
We need a law that says, wakeboarding on main lake ONLY!
I wish Montana had this kind of fish and game. Ours is good, but could be better.
Check out Ken Smith fishing channel and search for Todd Driscoll Tracking Study
Smallies are mighty fine on a plate, too. Texas has a good fish and game dept.
I'd really enjoy watching this if Chris wasn't hosting
Poor Brandon, life must be so bad 😞
@@Zaldaingerous make it so I like you more man. You're arrogant. I tell you what I will try to like you more, if you try to be more likeable lol. And who knows maybe I have you misread, you did take the time to respond to me.
You want me to change my personality for YOU? But I’m the arrogant one? Yikes.
@@Zaldaingerous lol this how friendships start 🤣 anyway man I appreciate you responding I will watch the video for sure because I do believe these issues are effecting our fisheries and even how we have to adapt
Don’t be talking down on lady Lewisville now! 😂
L O L hi Lance 👋
Of course there are way too many tournaments! Ban livescope too!!!
Not a fan of people tanking there fish all day just to show they can catch a fish to share on show you media
Trait isn’t either.
This government employee just milks a payday. Its simple
Did you even watch the podcast?
@@Zaldaingerous great podcast I watch every episode
Effort? not Indiana! such a joke
Excellent podcast and interview!! I learned some things for sure. Thanks!
Great to hear!
Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?
Awesome episode… how often will y’all be putting out shows? Weekly? Monthly?