The annual Pacific Northwest
Sportsman show starts today
and runs through the weekend.
Yep, Drew Carney is out there right now.
He's at the Portland Expo Center
with a little preview for us.
Good morning, drew.
Hey, good morning there.
Christine and Brenda,
I am so confident that we are going
to catch trout during the segment.
I didn't want to drop my bait in
too early so I'm kind of hovering
above the water real quickly.
Pacific Northwest Sportsman show
is what we're talking about.
Ashley Nicole Lewis with the show is
my guest for this particular segment.
Should we go ahead and drop in?
Alright, dropping in the kids free
trout pond is a long time element
here at the Pacific Northwest.
Horseman show.
It was not a part of the show
though the last two years for
pandemic reasons as you can imagine.
I want to ask you. Why is this important?
Why is this so key to have this
back at the show this year?
Ashley,
this
is a generational treasure.
A lot of people who caught their
first trout are now bringing their
kids back to bring their catch.
Their first child, just like this.
Are you answering a question and
catching a fish at the same time?
Is that what you just did
on the show this morning?
This isn't my first trout rodeo, my friends.
This isn't this isn't the first one.
I am still without a fish,
so I will go back in.
Switch. Second question,
yeah, there are some rules.
We call it the kids free trout pond.
And I remember my kids literally
10 years ago when they were five,
stood right where you and I are this
morning and caught trout and we took it
home and we cooked it up for dinner.
That's exactly what happened.
But there has to be a limit on
how much one kid can take home.
Yeah, so kids 12 and under can
take 2 fish home if they want,
but they can also catch and
release if they would like to.
So they can catch a handful
of fish while they're here.
While I am still without a fish on my line,
I will ask you a third and final.
Are you about to give me a tip?
I was gonna give you a tip.
Just keep flopping it
over the pellet bellies.
Like to see it move. Ohh yeah.
Mike, you literally gave
me a tip and a half.
Second after you did that,
I caught a fish.
I am liking Ashley Nicole Lewis this morning.
Last question I'm going to ask you behind us.
I don't know if you can see that. Eric.
Behind us is another indoor body of water.
What is that all about?
This is like maybe my
favorite attraction right now.
This is the kayak.
Funded by Old Town kayaks, and they have,
we have kayaks actually in the pond.
We're going to be doing seminars.
I'm going to be doing a seminar on Saturday.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
People can actually see
these kayaks in motion.
It's one of the fastest growing
sports and fishing right now,
kayak fishing in the northwest.
So it'll be really cool to see.
We will actually do some kayak
fishing coming up at 5:45.
So that is it for now from the kids
free trout pond back this year at the
Pacific Northwest Sportsman show,
which starts today by the way,
runs through the weekend
there on your screen.
You see all the days, all the hours.
The website For more information.
And we're going to end this segment,
rod, with Ashley Nicole proudly
holding up her fish with her
beautifully manicured nails,
I might add
now to an annual winter event
right here in Portland.
It is all about fishing and
hunting and camping and lots
of other outdoor sports. Yeah.
And Drew has been there all morning long,
like dressed up in camouflage. He was
fishing and now he's kayaking. Hey, drew.
Yes, demonstrating my kayaking
skills are just real quickly here.
Christine and Brenda's got a little forward
action going here for you. If need be.
You can of course apply the brakes
and then if you really
need to, yes, you can pull off
the reversal going backwards
on this Wednesday morning by way
of kayak and we are right smack
dab in the middle of the sheer
Pacific Northwest sportsman show.
Hopefully I can hit the park button OK,
so I can stop next to my guest
pulling it back forward Brandon
Brandon Wah represents.
Next adventure. He himself is
also a bass tournament angler,
so you know what you're doing
when it comes to fishing, Brandon.
That's what that title suggests.
I tell myself that I do,
but that's debatable.
Here we are right in the middle
of this year's sportsman show,
inside of a large pool,
and we're demonstrating kayak fishing
because if I read this correctly,
it is the fastest growing
segment of the outdoor industry.
Kayak fishing.
That is correct.
What makes the kayak fishing
experience a little bit different
than what people may be used
to? Yeah, so I mean.
Innovation of kayaks over the years
is just grown just significantly.
You know, like having graphs on it,
having pedals instead of using paddles.
There's a lot of that that goes
into it and a lot of things is
not everybody has a real estate
to have a boat and store it.
So that's why kayaks is such a
great thing for a lot of people
and it's just easy to tow around.
You don't have to burn any gas,
take the family out and
that's the best thing about
it. May I state the obvious this morning,
do you mind if I state the obvious?
Yeah, there are no fish in this water.
I know you will not be catching any
fish during this segment because again
there is a lack of fish in this water.
Well, we can always throw these
kayaks into the child pond.
That always works as well.
The reason we don't need fish
here is because that's not necessary
to actually explain how to do it.
Correct. Absolutely.
So during these seminars,
during these demonstrations,
what are some of the techniques
or at least one that you might
explain to someone so they can have
a better kayak fishing experience?
Yeah. So like one of the things is,
you know, a lot of us out here
like to do some bass fishing.
So we'll have a lot of bass baits
such as this giant swimbait.
And this may seem kind of big,
but a lot of bass eat it.
So this year we're going to
have a lot of different baits,
a lot of different types of seminars.
Covering certain categories of fishing.
You know we'll have fly fishing.
Well, people teaching you like
beginners and how to get in the kayak,
fishing and things such as that.
So there's opportunities are endless.
When you cast a moment ago I
noticed you almost hit Eric
Patterson right on the camera.
Do you think if I gave you one more
shot you could actually hit his lens?
From our distance here?
I probably could. Probably don't
want to do that. Why not? No,
it's great TV. That is good TV.
Give it a whirl this morning,
Brandon Brandon going after
the camera lens with his Lord.
Here we go. No.
And here's the standing behind the
camera with a big smile on his face.
I'll just wrap it up
with the details real quickly.
Brandon, you are the man.
Pacific Northwest Sportsman
show starts today.
It runs through Sunday.
You see all the days.
You see all the hours.
And that again is the website on
your screen For more information
if you want to check it out for
yourself all weekend long here
at the Portland Expo Center.
Guys, back to you, our guest.
This segment is an expert in
the art of calling wild game.
He is Jason Phelps.
If you want to look him up online,
look for Phelps game calls.
Uh, so a moment ago,
we saw you bugling just
before the commercial break,
and a lot of people would assume that
this is what you're using to make that call,
but it's actually the small
tool in your hand.
Explain,
please.
Yeah. So this is literally a piece of
latex that's stretched between A-frame.
And so we stretch that latex
to a specific specification,
and then that gives us our
cow sounds or bowel sounds.
We can, you know,
sound like a herd of elk with one little
diaphragm that's fits in your mouth.
So that in your hand is what
you would use to call elk.
Can I hear the demonstration again?
And then we. My goodness,
Eric, would you turn around?
We actually have an elk coming into the.
I'm kidding. I'm sorry, that wasn't sorry.
You can go right from your cow
sounds and your bowel sounds. Right.
The cows being the female, of course.
The Bulls being the males. Yep.
Both elk calls we just heard.
Yep. Can you give me another
animal this morning, Jason?
Yes. We've got some Turkey diaphragms here.
Looks the same, same thing.
But this has multiple layers and we want
to create the rasp of a Turkey call.
So we stack multiple pieces of latex
in there and stretch them a little bit.
Same man 2 very different
animal sounds this morning.
This is the kind of question I would
want to ask before the segment.
So I know the answer is yes,
but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Are you doing some sort of game calling
demonstrations during the course
of the of the Sportsman show? We
actually don't.
We usually do this year.
We don't have an A demonstration,
but you can swing by the booth
and we will give you one-on-one
demonstration if you want
the booth again. Yelled
out by name so people know
Phelps game calls. Booth 1300
here at the Pacific Northwest
Sportsman show Phelp game calls.
Do you have one more call
the while so to speak?
We do so Black Tail, native
here to the northwest and the
deal we've got new deer calls.
Right.
That's a deer call.
That is a little grunt.
Brenda. Christine. Rod, any of you,
did you know that was the call of the deer?
No, I thought it was wrong call. Yeah.
Yeah. Goofy little sound that sounded
like a rose like a bell real quickly.
I'll give you this show details.
Can I give you guys the show details
one more time? It starts today.
It runs through Sunday.
We're going to throw that all up on
the screen there for you so you can
see the hours as well because they do
change once we get to the weekend.
And there you see the main website
For more information on this year's
Pacific Northwest Sportsman show.
So let me introduce Brett Stoffel.
He is the outdoor survival expert that
has been at this Pacific Northwest
Sportsman show for years now.
Brett, you put on seminars every
day starting today,
simply talking about how to survive,
if need be, in the outdoors.
So again, explain this lesson and how
this is practical in everyday life.
Well, starting a fire is,
is really important.
It kind of enhances shelter.
It makes you feel better,
warm, dry, all of that.
So common household items that work really,
really well for starting a fire.
It's just a kind of a common tip that
we give people that are here at the
show cotton and Vaseline as we showed
just before the commercial break as it
goes through basic household cotton ball.
And all I do is I just kind of
expand that cotton ball out,
get it nice and exposed and then
I'm going to take a little bit.
Of petroleum Jelly and get
a good finger full. Yes.
Carefully measured, of course.
I could tell.
Yeah, and I put this together and
I just mix all of that petroleum
Jelly and cotton together.
As
you continue to do that,
I just want to point out,
obviously you can't do this unless
you bring these two items with
you on your outdoor adventure.
But that is also part of your seminar,
in fact, that you need to bring certain
things in order to give your chance.
Give yourself a chance to survive if need
be. Absolutely.
So now that I've got this,
that's my kind of waterproof cotton ball.
Fire starting extraordinaire.
So I grab ahold of this thing,
tear it right in half.
Yes, and that exposes all of
these little dry cotton fibers.
Put that down. You get your
fire starting stick.
And an instant warmth, instant fire.
Very nicely done this morning.
Brett Stoffel, we have time for one
more lesson because we talked about the
fact that when and rod, by the way,
is loving my outfit this morning.
Maybe we should stand up for this one.
Absolutely. Rod is loving the camo.
And this is something someone might be
wearing while adventuring in the outdoors.
Absolutely.
But this would not protect you if
you got stuck somewhere overnight.
If it starts to rain,
if the temperature dropped,
you would need more.
And all you really need is that.
Yeah, this is a big plastic bag.
Wait a minute. Hold on a minute.
It, it's it comes in this little package.
It does, absolutely. But what it is
exactly is it's a big plastic bag
that has something in it. Well,
it's going to have you in it.
And so we go in.
It's immediate action shelter.
So really once we take the
bag out of the package,
open this thing out,
I'm going to put this
right over the top of you.
Please do. We apologize in
advance for the crinkling
sound on my microphone. It will happen.
The trick here, Brett, can you find my face?
It's a challenge. Ohh, here comes.
There we go.
And now you're protected,
windproof, waterproof.
Your body heat starts to warm
up the air on the inside
and you're good to go. Now
you can see me though, Rod.
Before you couldn't see me.
Now you can protect it.
And feeling warm and dry.
This morning inside the Portland
Expo Center, he is Brett's.
Check out his seminars throughout
the course of this year's Pacific
Northwest Sportsman show.
There you see the days and the hours
and the website For more information.