9-3-2025 ROCK 108 Morning Show - Ballard's Trip Recap

It's latest from set it off called rotten rock 108 morning show Brian Marshall and Russ sitting together again.

Looks like you have a fishing tan Probably yeah,

you got a lot of Sun over the weekend

on the face sun on some of the hands But not on the arms not on the legs.

Why because they were covered up

Really you didn't wear shorts or short sleeves.

No.

No interesting purpose to not get some you got it

You're so

white.

Yes, very.

And, you know, heading northbound, you're like, okay, the water, you're going to reflect the sun off the water.

But the first day, we're heading out to boat zero.

Boat zero is what we were assigned.

They have a boat zero?

Yes.

I would find out an unlucky number.

It wasn't unlucky for me.

I was like, this is

kind of rockstar.

Okay.

But we get out there and the first question we're asked, okay, you boys ready to go?

Yes, sir.

One of the, one of our mates that was out there on the boat and then says, uh, did you pack yourself a rain suit?

I got a raincoat.

Look of disappointment is shot my way.

A rain suit.

Yes.

Oh my God.

Because it was cloudy that day and could have rained and could have caused some issue.

Did you think to bring a raincoat, you said?

Oh, I did.

Yes.

You did.

Yes.

Did they tell you that in the warm up articles?

Yes.

Okay.

They did.

Okay.

But I didn't pack the rain suit.

I don't

even know what a rain suit is.

It's essentially a raincoat with pants.

Okay.

That fisherman wear?

Yes.

Because you would have been out fishing even for rain?

Uh-huh.

Oh, wow.

And it's better

when it rains.

Okay.

It's what I've learned.

Okay.

The one, it was the third day.

I was just wearing this hat or something very close to it, the ball cap.

And Ken, who was also in the boat, says, your neck's looking a little red there.

You want to borrow one of my hats?

It was the wide brim fisherman hat.

Right.

Mikey was the one that took the brown hat that was in the picture that we used.

Oh, the

bucket

hat I got you for the- It looked better on him.

It sure did.

Okay.

He looked like the dude from Cake.

Yes.

Rock and roll lifestyle.

But I did something, not only catching 20 fish, which we revealed

this morning.

I

can't believe you caught 20 fish.

Yeah, I caught my first

one.

Were they all

walleyes?

No.

No.

There was another one called a Sager.

And one that the guys on the boat, this was day three.

that I caught a 13 inch crappie.

Now a 13 inch crappie in 30 foot of water is something that doesn't happen often.

And the guys on the boat were like, I've never seen that before.

So because it was a fish story, I decided to record Len.

Len was joining me, so I've got some audio that the Len can confirm my fish story.

So here's Len.

Well, glad to be here.

I just feel honored to be with you.

Now Len, you said

You're from Marion.

What do you do for a living?

I'm retired now, but I used to work for Alliant Energy.

And now that you're retired, you've been coming up to ballet for how long now?

14 years.

One of the things that you provided to myself and my friend Mike, we haven't been fishing a bunch, but you gave us some tips and tricks.

But there was one thing that you saw today that you said you've never seen before.

I pulled a 13 inch crappie out of the water, correct?

That's correct.

And I've never seen anything like that.

And we had a couple of other guys that was in our boat also.

They've never seen it either.

It's really a once in a lifetime thing.

Oh, come on.

So do you accept Venmo for me to pay you because you said that this happened or?

No, I mean to see a crappie in Lakewater and we're talking 30 feet deep at this point.

You just don't see that.

We're mostly pulling out walleye and some of the other, the other fish, a sauger and stuff like that, right?

That's right.

That's right.

I wouldn't charge you anything for pulling that copy in.

That's your copy and you don't need to share it with anybody.

That's a fair statement.

So you've seen some of the trophy fish that were pulled off on boat zero.

One of our other guys, Ken, he pulled out.

What was that?

That was a 24

and a half inch walleye.

There's some other big ones that some people were pulling down, what they call a slotfish, something that I learned on this trip.

we can keep up to 19 and a half inch walleyes and they have a what they call a slot area you can take one home between a 20 and a 20 inch walleye and a 24 inch walleye and that's the slot that you can take only one home and if you want to

Hang it on your wall, or if you want to eat it, you're entitled to do that.

If we were to come back next year, Lynn, and they said, you got to be on the boat with Brian Marshall from Rock 108 one more time, would you do it?

You better believe I would.

It's not all work, you know, it's fun.

And we had a good bunch of people on there that we could have fun with everybody.

Len from Marion.

Thank you for the time.

You bet.

Thanks.

I have two observations Yes, sir first Len does not sound like a young stuff or P1 to the radio station I didn't ask him his age, but I heard that Len was north of 80.

Really?

Yes And he took the bus up with you.

Yes.

All right those those Marion people are sturdy people Well,

he says he goes dancing twice a week.

Oh my

god dancing twice a week to keep himself active.

He goes up there.

He's done this for

14, 15 years.

And then another guy on the boat, his name was Jim, Jim was from Burlington, has been doing this for 25 seasons.

Okay, so why was your fish so special?

I don't understand that.

Because supposedly in that far out, you usually catch crappie in the water is what they were telling me.

In the water?

Back in the river, sorry.

Oh, in the rivers, okay.

And to have it that far out, I mean, we were 20 miles out.

And to have that fish sitting along the bottom, they said that that was something pretty special.

So there you go 20 miles out.

Yeah Huge lake.

Yes.

It takes an hour to get to where you're going.

Oh my god So, I mean, I think the boat it's correct me if I'm wrong somebody but you're the 25 30 miles an hour heading on out

Okay,

I guess that's not but I don't know what the conversion

is

So did you eat the crappy not yet you brought it home.

Yes.

Really?

Yeah, how does that work?

Well, they they fillet it up for you

Okay, and then they freeze it and then you get to bring it home

So I have

my limit my Minnesota limit the first time I've had a license since I was in high school in Minnesota.

What's the limit?

Four walleye two-saugar, and then I got the extra the crappie To bring home yes, but that's not the limit of what you could catch You caught more per that license.

Yeah, I can only catch the four walleye the two-saugar,

but you

caught 20.

Well, but I threw some back

Because

some of them were some of them were a

little guys.

Oh Okay, yeah, all right.

I didn't keep all of them if I would I would have been in trouble

So the boat how many people around the boat?

Six plus the captain so six times three 18 fish a day is the most you can bring

back to the we had 30 first day And so there's a picture that's going up now at rock 108's Facebook page

where you'll see our first days catch.

And it's hung up on the ballard sign.

So this was a lot of effort for you.

This was a lot of pre-promotion.

This was a long ride up on a bus.

How was that, by the way?

I was prepared for it.

In my head, somebody was, oh, this is going to be nine to 10 hours.

I was like, that's in a car.

This is a bus.

You know, I think I sent you messages just to keep you occupied while you're on the bus.

Yeah, that's correct.

And then you had three or four three days fishing three.

Yeah.

Did you get seasick?

No, you didn't.

Remember the boning that I told you about took it with breakfast was fine the rest of the day.

No kidding.

The only problem I had, it was day number two.

You got the sea legs on shore.

I was standing ready.

I was going to the bathroom and suddenly it felt like I was hit by a three-foot roller wave.

I went, whoa.

Oh, so number one, you were standing up.

Correct.

Yeah.

It would have been awful if you started rolling the other way.

It was the worst because I was just like,

what is this?

Yeah.

And there was a couple of times where I'd kind of walk and I'd kind of

be weevil wobble back and forth because I didn't have my land legs back yet.

So how many people that actually signed up for the bus were Rock 108 or Brian Marshall listeners?

We had, as far as I could tell, three to four different batches of groups that were Rock.

Okay, that's

cool.

Some that will actually pull off and wait to go to their first job so they can hear the answer to the brain buster.

So are you

going to do it again next year?

if they ask me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Things are built on tradition.

Wow.

And if Len's going, I got to go.

That's true.

That's true.

I don't want to get on Len's bad side.

Len, I hope you're listening.

So thanks again to Boat Zero or Captain Brian, who spelled it with a Y. I did not point out that he spelled it wrong to

him.

Is he

Canadian?

No, he's lived over in international falls.

Okay.

So a lot of A's and, you know, Saugers and, you know, Wallis, they're A, you know.

But he also owned a lot of guns, so I didn't want to tick him off either.

Did you eat Wally?

Ah, yeah.

Is that all they had was fish?

Could you get a burger?

No.

First day was ribs.

Okay.

Second day was the fish.

Then we had the chicken.

And then the last one was a t-bone steak.

Oh, nice.

No, ribeye, ribeye.

Nice.

Okay.

Yeah, that's good.

So there was a little variety in the meals.

I was afraid it was going to be all fish all the time.

I didn't bother me.

How does Wally taste?

Like fish?

White

fish?

I guess.

Fishy?

I don't know what a blackfish tastes like.

Fishy?

Fishy, yes.

Fishy, no.

It was all right.

It was good.

It was fishy.

Yeah, it wasn't anything where I was like, see

you later.

Country fried steak on one of the breakfasts, too.

Oh, yum.

Oh, so good.

I love that.

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