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I’d rather fire a frog with a slingshot than to try it with any rod or reel.

Haha my Man.. as soon as I saw that rainbow and before I scrolled down I was thinking please tell me you filleted that dude and then.. lo and behold! I like them! I’ll eat them broiled, fried or blackened.. rainbow trout is very good.

Thank you A-Jay. This has been a season of great change.. Zona is a special guy that I truly enjoyed. I often watch/ have watched him on the tube. Too much change. Congratulations to Cory Johnston. He earned it for sure. 8 foot seas today and yesterday he puked a few times. The Man is tough. Hats off to him.

Huh? What I miss

A-Jay.. I was close to this picture in about 2005 2010.. but I’m running really lean these days. But I’m feeling some pressure here, because I’m in a yard sale kinda mood as a buyer, I’d offer $50 for both those old school Stradics on the far left. 😁 come on ole buddy help a brother out! 🤣😂 As an aside, from right moving left, are those Avid rods (spinning) with a Fuji handle? Loomis uses that style on its GLX Models (some) I’m curious because like you I’m not at all a fan of split grips.. PS. I’d throw in 3$ for shipping 🤣😂🤣 PSS. That offer on 4 legend rods the other day, wow, I pondered that for 15minutes then realized the bait monkey was in the house.. I ran him off though haha.

Hack was sayin that Palaniuks boat was extremely fast. Do you know why?

Trey in the lead

I've never seen these before, how you like them and why did you start using them?

Once again there are no OG guys in the top 10..that is rather disappointing to me. These guys have the opportunity to learn FFS, watching Gee and his screen, I’m not sure why it’s so hard to learn. Well, they can’t cry foul, they have the same tech..

Congratulations to Chris Johnston Angler of the Year

Congratulations to Trey McKinney. Rookie of the Year.

That is the truth! I mean they DQ one guy for a waypoint issue but you d**n well know those two share all the time.. I saw them down on Harris yelling at each other hey there’s a big fish over here etc etc. idk, maybe it’s just me, but it feels wrong. I can say there isn’t to many that seem to like those two. I’m one haha

Well he’s just released his latest video about honor and integrity concerning the elite series aforementioned issue (earlier in this thread) someone called him out on when HE broke the rules years ago lmao. The dude is one way 💩starter I swear.. he couldn’t even do a brief about RC. I hope the elite series puts torpedoes and depth charges on the boats next year 🤣

I have everything Shimano, although was an avid Daiwa user in the 90’s. I had a fleet of TDX then original Zillion but when they went all in on Twing I went all in on Shimano. I tried a Daiwa this spring, a Tatula 100 with SV braking, not knowing exactly what that meant I spooled up some line and started to flip with it, hmm, turned brakes down to zero and still wasn’t even close to what I expected, turns out the reel design is such that it’s grossly overbraked . No worries, I returned it and bought another Shimano. I probably tried the wrong spool design.. oh well.

Gee just reports he has a dying fish… hmm, wonder why? 😉

Trey has lost 4 fish already. Wonder why?

Gee is embarrassing to watch trying to fizz these Smallmouths.. Sheesh. It will be sad if he kills a fish or two over this .

Definitely sounded like outer space 🤣

Day 3 starting.. Cory Johnston & Robert Gee are tied @ 1st place. Trey McKinney is in 5th Jacob Foutz is 9th Justin Hamner is out of the tournament.

Sheesh, I didn’t realize that rule had been established and particularly enforced via lie detection devices. I remember pros talking about fishermen (local to water being fished) offering up info on the lakes. This was late 90’s into 2000..usually in tackle shops on the lakes. Denny Brauer used to say he would just ignore it anyway and find his own fish via his own patterns. Rules are rules though.

Man. I just saw him at the weigh in on YouTube.. I definitely shed a few tears. I'm 61, and as long as I can remember Rick Clunn has always been in my mind. I began this Journey in 75 or 76.. Anyway. It’s just a reminder of our mortality. I’m sure grateful I was around and involved in this sport. God bless Rick Clunn.

Clunn had Florida fishing pretty much figured out.. he is definitely a legend.

Did Rick announce that at weigh in? d**n I missed that..

Gee should leave now and he’s gotta stop and fuel and I think I heard them say he’s around 26 pounds..no point in fishing for unlikely culls imo. It’s simple time management but these youngsters haven’t learned this. Trey knows about that lol

The guy is pretty special