Good morning everyone. Welcome to Cafferoo Cast. I'm your host, Aaron Snyder. And I've got my co-host partner in crime Frank the tank. Cross up the office from me. And we have our first ever guest on Cafferoo cast long time friend of mine.

Park comedian part hunter sometimes works occasionally at a real job James Harry Petker. His last name is actually Petker. What's going on man? What an honor man. I'm the first guest. Huh? Yeah, you are. Well, we had enough history. I knew there would be a lot of shit talking and hunting stories. So I thought it was a good idea. Yeah, we've got a few stories. Tony. A few will not be told on Cafferoo cast. Forever.

Yeah. Well, we met several what five years ago, six years ago with a Cafferoo rendezvous in Washington, right? Yeah, upon we're up Stevens past it a little backpack trip into a high mountain lake. Right. Patrick was there. He about died on the hike in because Alan Ernst, good friend Alan Ernst picked probably the best route known to man.

To get into that lake, if I remember correctly, there was absolutely no trail triple canopy forest. I can't I can't remember anything. We after we finished that pony cake of a high neck and the whole trip of blur.

I can't remember what we had in our packs, but I know I had I don't even drink and I had whiskey. Patrick had a pony cake in his pack. You had one in your pack, too. Did you know we had beer in there? Yeah, I was packing for Patrick.

I suppose he he's got a problem. Maybe I don't know. It was pretty funny because Patrick was 70 at the time. And I don't know how much gear he had, but I know he had beer.

Beer and gear. Yes, sir. Now Patrick, he did good. There was a tough it was a tough high fit in there though. You know, it was typical Washington brush.

We get some rain on that trip. The first part of the trip as well. Yeah, we did.

Yeah, then setting up some big TPs in a small area. It was an interesting trip. Yeah, it was.

There was a fair amount of competition in that trip as well. Remember, uh, height to the top of the mountain. I remember certain certain individual. I don't mind saying his name. Um, Cody.

What's his name? Yeah. Cody. Cody wanted to race to the top of the. Yes, he did. Now, if I remember correctly. Um, but yeah, that's that's when you you had told me you got the governor's tag for

a while. Goad or you want it in a or no, you ought you got it in an auction. You wanted the auction. Yeah, I got it in an auction. Yeah, it's quite the story. We don't have a ton of time to talk about, but actually we do laid on.

I basically I was at the SDI banquet in Linwood, Washington. And that's where they auction the governor's goat tag off, which allows you to hunt statewide any unit with at least two,

two tags in it for mountain goat. And I bought a $100 raffle ticket through the Wild Cheap Foundation and just happened to win the $5,000 grand prize that night right before the auction started.

And stipulation was I had to spend the $5,000 at the show. So he always been a dream of mine to kill a mountain goat and a mountain goat in my own home state of Washington. So it was kind of an opportunity at the time with a little bit of extra cash in my pocket to try to purchase that tag at the auction. And kind of set my bench mark at the auction.

The number that is comparable to hunting goat in Canada, only the differences as I can hunt for three months, hunt my backyard and hunt with friends. And I wrote that particular number down on on my bidders card. And this was all

premeditated, you know, just like this podcast on the up that blue here now I'm shooting from the hip.

Yeah, it was all I had no clue how it was going to be bidding on a governor's tag ever in my life, you know, and luckily at that point in time I kind of

settled out and was financially stable. So I had a little bit extra money in the bank where I could I could throw in on something like that and shoot it. It's crazy how stars align sometimes and

put that number down on my bidders card and

that's where the bidding stops was crazy. I threw a bit up and I mean we'll just throw it out there. It was 10 grand. And

which I pretty much want to get up with you and I because it went from 10 grand up, 37,000

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