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It's the Terribullet Fishing Radio Show on Gold

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Country Radio. Here's your fishing expert and

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host, Michael Ruffino. Welcome back to Terribullet

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Fishing, everybody. Oh, it's been a strange few

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weeks, hasn't it? Now, this last Tuesday was

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the... the meeting at the Waffle Hut for the

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Fly Fishing Club. There's one member, Mark, he

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passed away this last week, and condolences to

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him, or to his family, and he was an avid fly

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fisherman, and he just, we just don't live as

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long as we want to. condolences to his family.

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As for fishing right now, we still don't have

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the rivers open, so don't hit them just yet.

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We'll get there. I think it's next month. And

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we've got the lakes that are got ice on them.

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It's a little sketchy right now. I would not

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trust the ice at the moment. I think we're seeing

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the end of our ice fishing season. and we want

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to sort of now start planning, unless you want

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to do a little trip someplace, but start planning,

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you know, putting away our ice fishing gear and

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then working on our spring gear. Prep our boats,

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and if you've got a boat, and re -spool your

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reels and get good line on it and just get ready.

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Now I've been pretty much getting ready for um

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spring because i was i was beached because of

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my frostbite but uh and that's coming along really

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good by the way i think you know all's all's

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well so but we're going to uh see some good well

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we should have really good spring fishing this

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year got a good winter i mean it's snowing out

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and uh it's cold but uh We had a good winter

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an epic epic winter when it came to snow 32 years

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storm So very good Now I you know part of prepping

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for spring is Getting all my rods, you know and

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all my line and all my rails, you know serviced

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So this is something I do. I enjoy it and So

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when I remove all my line off of my reel, I take

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apart my reel and clean it, relubricate it, and

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put it back together. And you can get real oil

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and real grease for your reels over at the store.

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So you can get it over at Buy Mart and get it

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at Walmart and pretty much anywhere, Amazon,

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whatever. And get your reels working better than

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new. And that's what you can do right now. And

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then, as for your line, don't go cheap on line.

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I mean, I know we go through it every year, but

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I'm a big fluorocarbon fan. Fluorocarbon is invisible

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in the water. You know, it has the same refractive

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qualities as water. So as that line hits the

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water, it disappears. And that's perfect for

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fishing. Now I use fluorocarbon for just about

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everything, including my heavy rods. It's just

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heavier and it's the leader. So typically on

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my heavy rods, super heavy rods, I use a braid

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on the reel with a fluorocarbon leader. So a

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leader is usually about six feet five six feet

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long and you tie it to your regular line and

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then to the bait itself and That get gives the

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bait the illusion of you know to the fish of

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Suspended without anything attached Fish can

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be scared. It's not like they think they go.

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Oh look a fishing line. That must not be a real

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lure or it must be a lure. They don't really

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think, okay? They run off of instinct. So if

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you're using, let's say, braid line, which is

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awesome line, casts far and strong, doesn't stretch,

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and you do it directly to your bait, the fish

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can see that. Now they're not thinking, oh look,

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fishing line. They basically just have been hit.

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They've bitten that before and their instincts

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were trained not to do it again. That's what,

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you know, what I like about bass fishing. Bass,

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we give them intelligence because their instincts

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are constantly being modified when they bite

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a lure or a bait. So we think we call them smart

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fish, but they're not really. They're just trained.

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That's all. They're just trained. Now, there

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are some not too smart fish out there. You can

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catch them the same way over and over and over.

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Things like panfish and trout. You catch them

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over and over and over again, all the same way.

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These fish's brains are not modified. Now, mind

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you, I mean, there are some like the brown trout.

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Brown trouts are, that's kind of the smart trout,

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is a brown trout. You know, they can get modified.

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You know, their brains get modified and trained

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where a rainbow trout doesn't. Rainbow trout,

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you could throw a little rooster tail out there

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and catch them all day long. Same one, probably,

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if you could put them back. So, it's just the

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way it is for these fish. But, you know, next

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month the rivers are going to open up, some of

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them. I think the Klamath will. And the Klamath

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is getting very, very exciting, guys, and gals.

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The Klamath River, we're seeing salmon and steelhead

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up to Kino and probably past. That means they're

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in our front yard. So, Juana, I think, is named

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that because you want to catch a fish one day

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there. Well, you want to catch a steelhead or

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a salmon? It might happen this year. our front

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yards. I could see it, you know, on the Link

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River here. It's going to be an exciting, exciting

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time. They've seen the Klamath River, and if

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you've gone to my YouTube channel, Terrible at

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Fishing, then you've seen what I've done on the

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Reclamation. I was a skeptic. skeptic because

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everything was guesswork, you know, for the most

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part, hypothesis. The biologists that are monitoring

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this are dumbfounded. They thought it would take

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three years for the migration to come back to

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us and it's not even going to take a year. Well,

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it's been a year. It's been a little over a year.

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It's fast. It's really, really fast because our

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first dam was removed last year about this time.

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So they, yeah, so it's been about a year, less

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than a year really because other dams had to

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be removed. So it's faster than anybody would

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have thought. And we are living a pretty sweet

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spot for fishing. So this year I expect to do

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a lot of river fishing and then of course my

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lake fishing because you know I like bass. I

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love bass. My favorite pattern colors is a black

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lure with blue patterns on it. like a like a

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navy blue it's dark too and a yellow belly. Now

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Sixth Sense they call it their Black Magic and

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I love that bait and I paint it you know on different

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styles and if I got a four and a half inch square

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bill that actually does very very well I mean

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it'll catch a big old giant you know I put one

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odd hooks on it And it is just my big fish, big

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bait for spring. Square bales work really good

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for spring, as well as craws, soft plastics.

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Spring is one of those things where as the water

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warms up, the bass will come up. And they're

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hungry, because they've pretty much been dozing

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off. hibernating you know but they don't really

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hibernate but they they do eat but very very

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little because they don't move much they really

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don't so the bass will come up and they're ready

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they they gorge themselves and then they they

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make a bed they make a bed and you're thinking

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Mike why do fish make a bed when they've been

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sleeping all the time. Well, because they need

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to make, you know, I used to call it a nest,

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but people got confused. In fishing terms, we

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call it a bed. And they're going to lay their

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eggs. In the fish, fish eggs are very similar

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to any other egg. They have to be heated up in

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order to hatch. So, what ends up happening is,

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let's say a bass, they'll find an in -cove, you

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know, a little, you know, a cove out of any kind

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of current. And it's usually, it's a hard -packed

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bottom, rocky bottom, or even a log or something.

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usually within three feet, but on the sunny side,

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wherever that is. Because they don't want to

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go too deep because then the eggs don't get warm.

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They need sun in order to heat up the bed and

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the eggs. And they want to keep it out of the

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current so they don't wash away. That's pretty

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much a bass bed. That's pretty much a bass bed.

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Now, some people, they like to fish beds. Personally,

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I find that rude. Once you're in bed, you don't

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want to move. But, we want more bass. So, I don't

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fish beds at all. So, typically while the bass

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are bedding, I will fish other fish. and then

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they'll come off their beds and they're hungry,

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and the water is nice and warm. I'm diving shallow

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baits or topwater baits. That's actually the

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cool part about spring. And I do have some wonderful

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videos on the migration of fish because they

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actually are very predictable. As they come up

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from the deep, Where they're going to be hit,

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you know feeding and then where they're going

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to be bedding and then yeah So much fun in the

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summer But it's going to be a pretty exciting

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year for everybody do not forget if you you know,

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you're you're licensing please get a fishing

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license and please if you've got a motorized

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craft you're going and it's expired like mine

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did you kind of renew it these are just things

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that are very practical to do it's legal to do

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and the money goes to a good cause which is keeping

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the fisheries or the hatcheries or fisheries

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whatever um going we want to we want to not only

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protect our forest, but also sustain it so we

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can enjoy them more. But that's, you know, something

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I had to think about. Alright, we're going to

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take a break and we'll be right back with Terrible

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at Fishing and we'll talk more about the end

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of winter and the beginning of spring. Out in

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VR. Welcome back to Terrible at Fishing, everybody.

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All right, well, you know what? Let us happen

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this last week with me. I'll give you a little

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update. I was in the hospital last week, this

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time. So a little stroke So my usual self But

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today is my wedding anniversary. I know 38 years

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Wow 38 years married most people usually people

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that know me Have great admiration for my wife

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to put up with me for 38 years plus That's just

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what we've been married Some people think I'm

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rather obnoxious or way too sarcastic, but that's

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just the way it is. You get used to it. You must,

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because she's been with me that long. So, you

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know, we did a cooking class at the Wellness

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Center last night. And that was fun. It was,

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you know, healthy cooking and stuff. There's

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quite a few other people and we all made dishes,

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eight dishes. You get to eat them because that

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was delicious. That was fun. And so it's, you

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know, kind of a fun week, you know, recovering

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from last week, my health and then new medications.

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There's always new pills. There's always new

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pills. Um, and then you gotta get used to it.

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But, I did post a good video on what terrible

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at fishing on my favorite bait. And everybody's

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got a favorite bait. Don't you have a favorite

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bait? Everybody's got a favorite bait. It might

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be, you know, fly fishing, there's a certain

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fly that you like. At trout fishing, it might

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be a certain spinner that you like. You know,

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a certain color, a different, you know, a different,

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you know, with or without a feather on it. It

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might be soft baits. It might be live baits.

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It might be, you know, you just don't know. But

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everybody's got an opinion. But more than likely,

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it's a bait that you know how to fish. I mean,

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come down to it. You work that bait better than

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anybody else or most people. And that's what

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makes it your favorite bait because you've got

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down what we would call the presentation. the

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bait very, very well. You know how to cast it.

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You know how fast it sinks. You know the way

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it looks in the water when you retrieve it. You

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understand the motion and movement of that bait

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so well that you manipulate it in such a way

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that, well, you catch fish better than other

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baits that you use. And that really is why you

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have a favorite bait. Because it works. Because

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you know how to work it. Now, my favorite bait,

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depending on water temperature, I have two. I

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love wake baits for topwater fishing and I like

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squarebill baits. Both of them are easy. Now

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the cool thing about topwater baits, wake baits,

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is that you get to see it. it's always in front

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of you it's on top of the water so you can manipulate

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you know its presentation its action better than

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anything else because you're seeing it and you

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can you can present it differently now a square

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bill dives about three to six feet this is a

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pretty easy bait they have their own motion And

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once you understand the speed of the bait, you

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know, how fast you want to retrieve it, just

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toss it out there and retrieve at that speed

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and you'll catch fish. It's just a very simple

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thing. Now, I mentioned my favorite color for

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big fish, which is black. You know, black baits.

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And you're thinking, Mike, why a black bait?

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Well, I talk about this, you know, black. is

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good for all water clarities, whether there's

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stained water, which has no visibility, or clear

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water, because the fish actually see the profile,

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the outline of the bait better, and it just works

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more. Now it's good to have a little bit of color

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on it, but not real bright color for the most

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part. Now I do have a yellow underbelly on on

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these black baits, but on the bait itself Blue

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is seen by bass in a different spectrum and You

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put a little bit of blue on the sides of it You

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get yourself a pretty killer bait I just absolutely

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love this color and That it is just beautiful

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beautiful bait. So, I'm kind of addicted to it.

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And that's what's so neat, too. Baits, too, color

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-wise can change in their effectiveness by water.

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I mean, the water bodies. So, what would work

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in one lake something else will work in the other

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lake. And a lot of that, too, is clarity, water

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clarity, but black does well. Don't underestimate

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a black bait. If you've never used one, try it.

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Try using a black bait. It works really, really

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well. It works really well. Black worms, you

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know? I mean, it's just... You know, use a soft

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plastic that's black. The fish see profiles really

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good. Even though they may see color differently,

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they see profiles really, really good. Now, the

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nice thing about blue, too, is if there are German

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browns, you know, brown trout in the water, trout

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sees blue better than any other color blue is

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their favorite color and you're thinking well

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why do i use red and yellow well because you

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got your stuff with it but people don't think

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about these darker colors i love i love purple

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purple is a really good color too again darker

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colors um and my favorite power bait in the winter

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is tequila sunrise power bait, and it's black

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and purple, and it works really well in cold

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water. So, coffee. I'm a coffee addict. It has

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absolutely no nutritional value, but it has no

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negative value. So, I mean, it's fat free, sugar

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free, because I don't put nothing in it. It's

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just like a good bean. And evidently, it's not

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really a bean, because beans have protein. I

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had a talk about this last night at the cooking

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class. They go, what's your favorite protein?

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I go, coffee beans. That's not a protein. They

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go, what is my favorite? But that's the I mean

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when it comes to colors on your baits You'll

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probably end up going with your favorite now

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six cents actually had a really has a really

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good clearance sale right now So it kind of went

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nuts You know you can get based for two and a

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half bucks. You know the black magics. Oh my

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goodness Always get the swanks A swank bait has

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sort of an L -bill on it. You know, instead of

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a downturn bill, it goes down and then straight

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out in front of it. It cuts through the grass

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really, really well. And swanks have incredible

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action. Really, really fast shakers, like a baby

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rattle or a castanet. I mean, they just make

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noise and they zip right through the water, breaking

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through weeds. It's a great bait and they had

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a lot of swanks on clearance. I don't know if

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they still do, but check them out. SixCentsFishing

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.com, I think, or something like that. Something

00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.680
like that. But that's a really good deal. I mean,

00:25:12.859 --> 00:25:17.380
two or four bucks for one of their baits. I put

00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:21.000
$2 hooks on mine, and they have really good hooks,

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by the way, so you won't have to refit it. Like

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you would, you know cheaper bait, you know cheap

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lures Also, you know we've the Here in here in

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town, you know, we're Yeah, I've been out and

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about a little bit this last couple weeks and

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the I always hit the clearance sections on by

00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:55.500
Martin and a Walmart I hate going to Walmart.

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I don't know if you guys feel the same way about

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me. That store, but I hate going in there, but

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I go straight to the fishing section and look

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on the bottom shelf and see if anything's down

00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:09.900
there for a buck. This is a really good time

00:26:09.900 --> 00:26:14.220
to stock up and then break out your tackle boxes.

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Resort them, more than likely. If you haven't

00:26:18.619 --> 00:26:20.519
resorted them from last year, they're a mess.

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So, re -sort your tackle boxes. Make sure that,

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you know, I have lots of Plano boxes. So I've

00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:31.240
got my Topwater Planos, I've got my Shoutin'

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:35.440
My Squarebills, my Lipless, my Jerk Baits, my

00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:38.500
Soft Baits, you know, I was just, it's just,

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I've got a lot of boxes. And then I make one

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box, sort of all my one -shot box. You know,

00:26:49.509 --> 00:26:54.369
that one's got my favorite baits in it, and it

00:26:54.369 --> 00:26:58.650
has a variety in the one box. So, typically,

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this is one of those boxes that people would

00:27:01.470 --> 00:27:03.150
probably think, well, that's your tackle box.

00:27:03.690 --> 00:27:09.349
You know, look in my boat and you'll see about

00:27:09.349 --> 00:27:16.890
15 tackle boxes. It's just, you know, I got five

00:27:16.890 --> 00:27:20.319
or six rods. they all use different stuff. It's

00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:24.660
just the way it is. But I love big baits and

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:28.920
I like finesse baits. So really tiny baits. My

00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:34.240
favorite rod that I fish with is a Cajun Trigger

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and it's seven and a half feet and it's got the

00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:44.119
Shimano Aldebaran on it and that's my favorite.

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Rod to use so I can't use anything more than

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a quarter ounce on it So I'm really working finesse

00:27:51.589 --> 00:27:55.589
baits on that now I do have heavy and extra heavy

00:27:55.589 --> 00:27:59.670
rods for the bigger baits so I kind of vacillate

00:27:59.670 --> 00:28:04.029
between those the two extremes but Typically

00:28:04.029 --> 00:28:07.190
if you see me out there fishing, I'm really you

00:28:07.190 --> 00:28:12.250
know It's one of the two but I love my Aldebaran

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I saved up a long time for that and had to manipulate

00:28:18.619 --> 00:28:23.880
some funds, but the Shimano Aldebaran bait caster

00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:31.660
is considered the world's best BFS. And it's

00:28:31.660 --> 00:28:35.640
the litmus test for all other BFS or bait finesse

00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:41.380
system reels. And that's the fun part about it.

00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:44.380
It really is good. You don't have to be too bright

00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:47.279
to use one, and I ain't too bright. I mean, this

00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.960
is terrible at fishing, by the way. But that's

00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:55.180
the beauty of it. I have other rods in the middle.

00:28:55.299 --> 00:28:59.059
I do always put a spinning rod on my boat in

00:28:59.059 --> 00:29:01.759
case it's windy and I need to, you know, toss

00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:08.480
it out there. you're going to have to redo everything

00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:13.519
before spring hits. So expect to get on the lake

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:19.079
water in about six weeks. In six weeks we're

00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.960
going to be out on the lakes on our boats. So

00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.200
if you have to renew your registration or you

00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.670
got a You know, prep your boats, you know, things

00:29:30.670 --> 00:29:33.309
like that. Those are all things. There are some

00:29:33.309 --> 00:29:37.150
things I want to do to my boat this year. I bought

00:29:37.150 --> 00:29:41.109
it. It's there. It's just a matter of doing it.

00:29:41.690 --> 00:29:44.930
So, April is pretty much boat month. You know,

00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:51.250
to get the boat out and ready and done for May.

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:55.500
And so April is the boat month. This month is,

00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:58.299
you know, this month's busy because of our anniversary,

00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:03.740
but, you know, this is fishing rods and reels.

00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:07.059
This is a fishing rod and reel month. And then

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:09.880
you're also going to have to, next month also

00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:14.000
is sort of my tackle box month, too. Lots of

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:18.960
tackle boxes. And, you know, I want to get on

00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:23.200
the river. Next month, so I'll be doing some

00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:27.400
fishing next month out on the rivers so go to

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:31.440
my YouTube channel terrible at fishing and Stay

00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:34.140
up to date on all these things But I want to

00:30:34.140 --> 00:30:36.940
thank you for tuning in this week, and we will

00:30:36.940 --> 00:30:41.940
see you guys Well out on the water Happy anniversary

00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:47.559
to anybody else take care That was terrible at

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.420
fishing the radio show with fishing expert Michael

00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:55.019
Ruffino Check out terrible at fishing on YouTube

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