Better Fishing with 2 Bald Biologists
Hosted by Ben and Corey · Corey Oakley and Ben Ricks
5.0from 203 ratings
- 59
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 203
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 10M
- YouTube views
About Better Fishing with 2 Bald Biologists
Avid anglers Corey Oakley and Ben Ricks are North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologists. Listen in as they help anglers understand more about the fish and fisheries in North Carolina while promoting conservation of valuable natural resources. These monthly podcasts will link the research and surveys conducted by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to fishing in North Carolina. Our hope is to help anglers learn more about fish, so they can catch more fish. Our expert guests will include biologists, anglers, and fishing industry professionals to talk fish and fishing in North Carolina. Thank you for listening and please submit questions and feedback to twobaldbiologists@ncwildlife.org
- Publisher
- Corey Oakley and Ben Ricks
- Category
- education · leisure · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Apr 2022
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 59 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Gar Getting with Ben and Corey
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
NC Wildlife’s New Aquatic Plant Nursery and Aquatic Plant Program
11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roanoke Bass: A Native Sunfish
Inside a recent episode
Gar Getting with Ben and Corey
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If they're bigger than that right there, there's not much that's going to, Like be like, yeah, I want to eat that, especially after they've tried it one time. I mean, I think a shark could get through them with their teeth and there's probably birds that can eat them, you know, hawks and ospreys and stuff like that. But a largemouth bass or something like that trying to eat it, I think would struggle with it, to be honest with you. Right. And they get to such a large size, it takes a fairly large predator to eat something that's that big. And so I think that's one of the reasons why they are so abundant and easy to catch. […]
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- Danny Morrill
- Mark Fowlkes
- Powell Wheeler
- Ken
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- YouTube views
- 10,077,622
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 149 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 54 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts Better Fishing with 2 Bald Biologists?
Ben and Corey host the show. Published by Corey Oakley and Ben Ricks.
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