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It's the Terrible at 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 Terrible

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at Fishing, everybody. I hope you had a very

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good week. We've had pretty good weather this

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week. The ice on the lakes are a little... sketchy.

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We've had a little bit of snow this week but

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definitely take a spud bar out with you which

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is basically a metal stick that you know pull

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that you're able to punch in front of you to

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make sure that that ice is safe. Please be careful

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especially around the edges of the lake. I mean

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if you go out ice fishing right now you're probably...

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fall through the water in the shallow part before

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you get on some safe ice, but I don't know if

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I'm too big for what this is calling safe ice

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right at the moment, but the rivers are doing

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well, and if you want some warm water fishing,

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go over to Bonanza in the hot springs in the

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Springs Park there right in the middle of Bonanza.

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That water is nice and warm, so it is really

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a good place to catch some panfish and some bass

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right now. So that's over in Bonanza in the spring

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park. You'd be surprised. You really would be

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surprised. They've got a little dam right there

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that's got a deep part right there. You could

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probably pick up a few fish pretty easily over

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there. As for the other rivers, they're just

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not open yet. Not until next month, I think,

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but we'll get to it. We're going to be Don't

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forget about the fly -fishing meeting. Fly -fishing

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means second Tuesday every month over at the

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Waffle Hut at seven o 'clock in the evening.

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And it's a great club. You don't have to join

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to come to the meeting and check it out. But

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you'll like the people in it. And they've got

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a huge, you know how many we got in that club,

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maybe 75 people. I mean, it's pretty big. It

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is pretty big. We serve refreshments there. If

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you want to come a little early and order a meal,

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have at it. I was at the World of Arki this last

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week at the Reptiles. I think it's third Tuesday.

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Every month they bring in animals and it's free.

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the world of archi and it's over on main street

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11 11 main street and i just love this this this

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week i had this red tail boa really big guy i

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called him snoop because he was he liked to rap

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uh so snoop was i mean he was he even put my

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hat on i had a cap baseball cap and he got his

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head underneath my cap and then in my cap and

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then i took my cap off and it was around his

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body Snoop. Yeah, I didn't see a P. Diddy. Oh

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my goodness. All right, now I've been making

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baits. So that's been fun. Working on my spring

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collection and cribbage boards. You can buy my

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stuff over at World of Archive. I think, you

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know, my mom loved cribbage. I don't know how

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many people here, you know, listening likes cribbage,

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but cribbage is fun and making the boards is,

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well, it's addicting. It's all there is to it.

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Making a cribbage board is just very addicting.

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You could do it in so many shapes and sizes.

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I use hardwoods and it's just fun. It's just

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fun. I think I made 20. I know, it's crazy. I

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need to go to Cribbage Anonymous. Do they have

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such a thing? Alright, well, let's get on to

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fishing. The weather is improving, and that is

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really, really good. we'll be able to hit some

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of these rivers like, well, you know, like Lost

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River. Lost River does fish very well and it

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does, it's doing real good. Go to Bonanza. Give

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it a shot. I did it. Although I got frostbite,

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it was negative 10 degrees. So I suggest you

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do it when it's a little bit warmer. So, but

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we've got, I know it's raining today and tomorrow

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and... But Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, you know,

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we look like we've got really good weather coming

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around. Monday and Tuesday, no clouds, sunshine,

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high 60s, maybe even 70 degrees. We're talking

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a pretty nice two days there. And then, you know,

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we get some wind and some overcast in the middle

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of the week. But Monday and Tuesday look like

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really good days to go out there and start fishing

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again. So, hopefully, in your off -season, you've

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re -spooled your reels and you've cleaned everything

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up, organized your boxes. Yeah, that's what I

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should have done. These are things that we should

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do. We still have time. We still got time to

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do it. As for fishing line, you know, I prefer,

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you know, we all sort of have our favorites,

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you know, some people have, you know, they want

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to go with Berkeley and Berkeley can make some

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pretty good line. Me, I'm a P -line guy. I mean,

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P -line... has been very reliable for me and

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I love their fluorocarbon. So on my light rods,

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I use pure fluorocarbon on my light rods. And

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a light rod is what we use for trout, for light

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tackle fishing. And P -Line, it makes a really

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good fluorocarbon. Fluorocarbon, by the way,

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has very little, if any, stretch to it. So when

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you hook your fish, you can set the hook more

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reliably than you would with monofilament. Monofilament

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stretches. It's stretchy and the fish can actually

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pull on it and create slack and spit out the

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hook where fluorocarbon, as long as that relies

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upon us, as long as we keep that line tight,

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we got that fish on line and are able to land

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it. Another cool thing about fluorocarbon, fluorocarbon

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has the same refractive qualities as water. And

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so, when it enters the water, it disappears.

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It's like magic! It disappears! And that's the

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fun about Floral. Floral, in the water, is invisible.

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And so now your lure, or bait, or spinner, or

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whatever it is, looks like it's just sitting

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there, taunting the fish. Other lines, like monofilament

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or even braid, the fish see it. And they kind

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of learn. Fish do learn, especially bass. Bass

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are smart fish. Trout, not so much. Trout, not

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so much. Not too bright. But let's say I do use

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braid on my heavier rods, but I put a leader

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on it. Now, what's a leader? I didn't understand

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this when I started taking fishing seriously.

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You know, when you're a kid, you just throw on

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some monofilament and you throw it out there

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or whatever else. I mean, you're just happy to

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have a hook on a line. I mean, we'd put it on

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a braided rope and pretend we would catch something.

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But a leader is a line tied onto a line. This

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is something, it's a special knot I do have a

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video on my YouTube channel that shows you how

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to tie this knot, although if you just do a Google

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search on leader knots, you'll see several different

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types. But one's called a blood knot, I think

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it's called, and that's the one I use. Not because

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it makes you bloody. I don't know why they call

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it that, but you add this line, you tie it onto

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your other line, your braid line. Now, The reason

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you do that is that you're going to tie on fluorocarbon

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because we still want strength on our line, and

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we're going to tie on a thicker fluorocarbon,

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a higher test, onto our braid. Now, I have a

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50 pound, you know, braid on my heavy, my super

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heavy rod. And that extra heavy rod has that

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and 60 pound fluorocarbon as the leader. And

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don't worry, this knot is actually just a little

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bit thicker than the line itself, so it still

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flows through your guides. You'll hear it, though.

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You'll actually hear it go through your guides.

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You know, it's like, and you're like, ah, and

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it probably does inhibit cast a little bit. So

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put only about five feet of fluorocarbon on your

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line. This way you can have the knot outside

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of the end guide and you can still cast it a

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mile. And for five feet, the fish have an invisible

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connection. You have an invisible connection

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to your bait or your lure. And that's enough

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to not scare the fish away. And that's what a

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leader is. A leader If you use a liter on line

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that fish can see, now, obviously, if you're

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running pure fluorocarbon, you don't need that.

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But, I will tell you something, and you're probably

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asking yourself in a second, why don't you just

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use all -fluoro? Well, the reason being is that

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fluorocarbon has a memory to it, and I tried

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it once. And fluorocar, when you take it off

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the spool, it's like a spring. It just remembers

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the turn of the spool, and it just remembers

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that. So, it was so hard. So, somebody told me,

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heat it up. So, I took a hair dryer to it, and

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that didn't work. Then I saw somebody say, well,

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put it in hot water. So, I put it in hot water

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and I tried to spool my reel with it that way.

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It didn't work. The problem about heavy fluorocarbon,

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it is like a thick spring. Once the memory gets

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in it, the memory is in it. So, that's why you're

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only going to cut off five feet of it or six

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feet. Make a knot and voila. be good to go. And

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this way you don't have to worry about that kind

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of spring that is shrinking up on you like that

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and popping off your spool. As for the braided

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line, the braided line has zero stretch and actually

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holds a knot the best. Fluorocarbon holds a knot

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really well, too. So, Bray DeFluoro is Just,

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you know, that's just awesome. Braid line casts

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farther, too. It's a smaller diameter, so you're

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going to have a lot more on your reel than you

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would if you had monofilament or floral. Braid

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line has a much smaller diameter, and personally,

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you don't get anything more than four strands.

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I have used 8 strand, 12 strands, you know, and

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they make it sound like the more fibers within

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it, the stronger it is. Well, that's not what

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I have found out. I've used 12 strands and stuff

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like that and they just break and it drives you

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nuts because when you're throwing a heavy, expensive

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bait, some of my baits are 50 bucks. and you

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throw them out there. The last thing you wanted

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it to do is to fly away from you forever. It's

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like, wow, that was a good cast and then you

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notice that your line slack. It just flew away.

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P -Line makes a really good, well, quite a few

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companies make a very good four strand braid.

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and you'll see braid come in lots of different

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colors too. That's something interesting. So

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you're going to put a leader on it, so don't

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worry about it, but if you want to do a lot of

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sight fishing, you can get a bright chartreuse

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line and you can see where that line is landing

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and sort of keep an eye on it. I kind of use

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moss green almost all the time. Moss Green is,

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you know, I still see it a little bit, but it

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kind of sort of blends in with the water. And

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I kind of like that. So, but those, you know,

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those are some of the different fishing lines

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that we want to spool our reels with. Now, we're

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going to end this segment and we're going to

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go into how to put line on a reel properly. I

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know. I didn't know there was a good way and

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a bad way when I first started. So be right back

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locally and beyond. All right, welcome back to

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Terrible at Fishing. We're talking about fishing

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line and spooling, spooling. Alright. Now, most

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fishermen, they use a spinning reel. Yep, that's

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true. It's the easiest. Well, that and a spin

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caster. You put the line on a spin caster the

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same as you do a spinning reel. So, just FYI.

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The trick to putting line on a a fishing reel

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is to avoid line twist. Have you ever bought

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a, you know, a really, you know, a store bought

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setup and then when you cast it all that line

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just sort of got tangled up, you know, just fell

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off the spool? That was not done right. I have

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had fishing stores or tackle stores spool a reel

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for me. not often because I do it right. And

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what they'll do is they'll take a spool and they've

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got it on a big spool of line and it's facing

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your spinning reel. And they wind that spinning

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reel and it's pulling that line off of the spool.

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And yeah, it looks like it's working, but it's

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not. What ends up happening is that with the

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spool of line rolling towards the spinning reel.

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I hope this is making sense. It's tough to do

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it on the radio. It's coming off the spool and

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then it's winding onto your spinning reel differently.

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And so you're creating line twist. So when you

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cast it, it's going to just explode on you, and

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your line's gonna twist up, it's gonna knot up

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on you, it will not flow through your guides,

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you're gonna really impede your casting, and

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it probably just will frustrate you the proper

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way. Okay, so you're not gonna have the spool

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of line roll towards your spinning reel. Does

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that make sense? It's just not going to roll

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towards your spinning reel. You're going to take

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that spool and you're going to take the side

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of it is going to face your spinning reel. The

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side of it is going to face the spinning reel,

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like the face of it. And you want it to come

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off of that spool the same curvature you want

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it to go on to your spinning reel. So it's going

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to just, you know, it's going to come off, you

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know, sideways off of the spool and your spinning

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reel is going to spool it up. By doing this,

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you're going to maintain the memory and you're

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not going to have a line twist to it. So I hope

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this is making sense on the radio. So the flat

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side of the spool, or the spool of new fishing

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line, is going to face your spinning reel. And

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then you're going to put it on your spinning

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reel. It's going to fall off that new spool off

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the side of it. This is the way you do a spinning

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reel spooling. So if you do this, you will have

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probably the best cast that you will ever have.

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So if you put braided line on it, you're going

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to cast further. It's just the way it is. It

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just flies through your guides and flies off

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of it. And you put more line on it because it's

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smaller diameter. And if you use braid, then

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don't forget to put a leader on it. So you could

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do that. Now, I go pure fluorocarbon when I'm

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doing my lightweight stuff, which is four pounds,

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maybe six, but four pounds test or two pound

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test. And that casts really, really far. But

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I can go pure fluorocarbon without worrying about

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that memory on it. But if you do this, if you

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do your spinning reel this way, remember the...

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the flat side of that new spool of line is going

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to face your spinning reel and it's going to

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just come off of it and then as you reel it up,

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reel it onto your reel. Now, bait casters. Okay,

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I'm a big bait caster guy. I mean, nine out of

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ten of my rods are bait casters. So, a bait caster

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That one you're going to take off of a spool

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of line They you know it's going to roll towards

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your your bait caster so you've got two spools

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that are going to face each other and they're

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going to Just feed one off of the other. It's

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the easiest Okay, it's the easiest to to spool

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a bait caster It's really really really easy.

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You don't have to worry about it. It's sideways

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and whatnot When you do this you want to create

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a little bit of tension not a lot of tension

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Not a lot of tension a little bit of tension.

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All right, I Typically will feed it through the

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first guide on my rod I have some broken rods,

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so I have a broken rod and I'll put the line

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on the end of that rod through one guide and

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that allows that line to come onto my spool in

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a nice even way and I can pinch it. Just pinch

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it a little bit and I create a little bit of

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tension while it is feeding onto my reels. If

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you do that, you'll actually be able to get a

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really good feed onto it. You'll be able to use

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it reliably this year. That's the way you do

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it. Now, a lot of people, they don't know how

00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:26.460
to store their rods. They really do tighten it

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up and maybe even bow their rod. but you don't

00:23:29.619 --> 00:23:33.200
need to do that. If you notice on the side of

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a spinning reel, there's a little bit of a nipple

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on the side of it. When you store your stuff,

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:47.400
that line's not going to go through all your

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guides. It's just going to come all the way down

00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:53.940
to your reel and that little nipple that is on

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:57.680
the side of your spool, you're just going to

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put that string around it, and that holds your

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string. Now, there is something that this year,

00:24:06.849 --> 00:24:10.690
if you buy my bigger baits, you'll see that I'm

00:24:10.690 --> 00:24:16.089
giving away free with my baits. It is a bait

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cover. It's really thick vinyl with velcro. And

00:24:23.789 --> 00:24:27.009
when I'm fishing or even storing or putting it

00:24:27.009 --> 00:24:31.630
in my car or whatever, these things fold over

00:24:31.630 --> 00:24:36.670
the rod, you know, the shaft, or properly name

00:24:36.670 --> 00:24:42.769
the blank. And then it envelops the bait. If

00:24:42.769 --> 00:24:46.150
I keep a bait on my rod, which is fun to do,

00:24:46.829 --> 00:24:50.390
because it's all ready to go next time. I put,

00:24:50.630 --> 00:24:54.970
I fold it over and it velcros around it. It protects

00:24:54.970 --> 00:24:59.609
me and my, my bait and my other rods from being

00:24:59.609 --> 00:25:03.130
entangled with each other. And I just really

00:25:03.130 --> 00:25:05.849
stroke good hooks. I just touch it and it'll,

00:25:05.849 --> 00:25:11.490
it'll pierce me. So a bait envelope, I got a

00:25:11.490 --> 00:25:13.849
bait keeper. I think it's probably a bait keeper

00:25:13.849 --> 00:25:16.970
it's called. I don't know. It's just a big, it's

00:25:16.970 --> 00:25:21.269
just a plastic. a thick vinyl plastic envelope

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that is open and then closes with Velcro around

00:25:25.930 --> 00:25:30.509
it and boom you got yourself a pretty cool way

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of keeping your baits from, you know, sticking

00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:37.970
somebody and then tangling up with your other

00:25:37.970 --> 00:25:44.069
rods. I think I shared something with you guys

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one time where There's this app I use called

00:25:50.619 --> 00:25:58.099
Fishteki, and Fishteki, yeah, Fishteki, it's

00:25:58.099 --> 00:26:06.339
a free app, F -I -S -H -T -E -C -H -Y, and Fishteki

00:26:06.339 --> 00:26:12.119
will measure your fish, measure the girth of

00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.559
it, the length of it, and weigh it with a picture.

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This is probably the coolest form of AI I have

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:24.599
ever seen in my life. You buy these little balls

00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:30.759
and they're called proof balls and you get two

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of them and they're 1 .4 inch orange balls and

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I got these on Amazon and these are called Think

00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:50.319
you look it up under fly techie. I Don't know

00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:53.940
why it's different The apps called fish techie

00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:57.039
the proof ball is called fly techie and all you

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do if you came to the ice fishing Derby You saw

00:27:01.779 --> 00:27:05.440
me use it It was so much easier I just put the

00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.119
ball next to every fish took a picture and it

00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:10.839
and it weighed it measured it and boom boom boom

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I just put people's names on it and it was just

00:27:13.700 --> 00:27:19.960
so easy So easy to do. Fish techie is one of

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:24.319
the coolest things. It's about 96 % or so accurate.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:30.380
So for the most part, I mean, it's awesome. It

00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:33.440
really is a really cool thing. There's so many

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.480
different ways. I mean, normally we shock the

00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:40.099
fish. So typically, I always catch and release.

00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:44.559
So here I've got this big fish. And first I gotta

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.890
remove the hook. So he's out of the water while

00:27:46.890 --> 00:27:50.450
I'm removing the hook. Then I'm measuring it,

00:27:50.750 --> 00:27:53.569
and then I'm weighing it. There's a lot of shock

00:27:53.569 --> 00:27:56.789
to the fish. Well, this way, all I got to do

00:27:56.789 --> 00:27:58.869
is lay him down, put a ball next to him, take

00:27:58.869 --> 00:28:02.849
a picture, boom, done deal. And then I can put

00:28:02.849 --> 00:28:07.329
him back in the water. That is a very cool thing.

00:28:07.910 --> 00:28:11.450
It creates better survivorship for the fish.

00:28:12.210 --> 00:28:16.359
And then it also Well, it's just a lot easier

00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.059
and you got a picture of it and it's just cooler

00:28:19.059 --> 00:28:23.640
I just think fish techie is one of the cooler

00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:27.299
Gadgets, you know that I mean, it's a free app

00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:30.559
But I mean the ball costs, you know a few bucks,

00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.799
but you know, they give you two of them mine

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.220
I keep one on my keychain and then you know ones

00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:39.799
in the box above my head here, you know, and

00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:44.319
it's little proof ball box. It's fun to watch

00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:51.059
it do its job too. It really is. It's going to

00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:53.519
be fun to get back out on the water this year.

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:59.640
I was beached for pretty much the whole ice fishing

00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:04.819
season. I'm looking forward to getting back out

00:29:04.819 --> 00:29:07.799
on the water and doing some river fishing, learning

00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.140
how to fly fish. That's going to be exciting.

00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:16.039
Something I've only done once. It was like 1989.

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:22.599
It was a long time ago. I'm old. I'm old! Anyway,

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00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.859
big old boa was massaging my neck. I don't think

00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:55.259
it meant to massage my neck, but it felt pretty

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:59.579
good. Take care, everybody. Tight lines, and

00:29:59.579 --> 00:30:04.400
we'll see you guys out on the rivers. That was

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