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though the ones here that don’t know me
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I’m Stacey Gaston I got my wife over
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here in the end I bet I can’t get her to
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stand up but this is her on the end
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right here her name is doll if you watch
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me on videos sometimes you see her
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fishing with me and trying to pull in
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some big catfish and so uh it’s just
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been on it’s an honor of mine to be here
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today and to be a part of this we’re
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gonna cover some things today and I’m
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gonna try my best in the next 40 minutes
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to cover some stuff and before I close
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I’m gonna need somebody like probably
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9:40 that when I get ready to say hey
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I’m gonna put you in charge say hey
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before you close you had something you
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wanted to tell us about all right so
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make sure that one of y’all does not let
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me forget that off I want to say this if
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y’all don’t know me and don’t keep up
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with me I have I’m a pastor I’ve been
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preaching for 20 years so you may see me
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start to throw some stuff in about the
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Lord because the Lord has reminded me he
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says seek ye first the kingdom of God
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and His righteousness and all these
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other things shall be added to you so
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I’ve learned about putting priorities in
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order and making sure that he’s first
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and foremost in my life and my wife is
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right behind that and my kids are behind
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that right there I know some people
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think well that might not be the right
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order it is for me because my wife and
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my kids probably wouldn’t want to put up
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with me if the Lord Jesus Christ wasn’t
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in my life so I want to thank you all
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today and we’re going to get it started
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some couple things I want to uh to cover
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and I gotta find my glasses
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y’all ever watch me on YouTube and you
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always see me looking for these don’t
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you I can see we’re in the back but I
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can’t see up close I want to share this
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story before I even get started because
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I’m more sure some stories along the way
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and I love flathead catfishing I just
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love catfishing you know catching blues
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and everything but I had a good buddy of
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mine by the name of Jesse Kilpatrick
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used to fish for me all the time and we
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fish show station the river called the
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Alabama River Miller’s farrier reservoir
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and that’s where we efficient we was off
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one day and we was hell ever seen
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they’re all running so shelled Turtles
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you know y’all see what color they are
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if you don’t know I’m to describe
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this to you they have a color resembling
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like the color of a flathead catfish
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y’all notice that and so we have throw
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over there and Jesse’s got his pole in
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the pole starts to ease from boy he
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rares into him I said Jesse you home he
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said no Stacey’s pulling I get to Denton
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that boy and I’m back on the back of the
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boat and if you watch me at all I’m just
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pumping him up come on Jess you bring
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him up here baby and that thing he’s got
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him coming to the boat he’s a lot of
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pressure because just this turtle is
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about 35 pounds
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he’s big he’s got this big around and
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I’m sitting back there and that thing
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comes in sight you know how you want
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about 3 or 4 foot up on the water and
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you barely can’t see it I look around at
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Jess it’s his good gosh almighty his
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head’s that wide and he went back down
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and my heart is pumping him I’m jumping
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and Jesse sitting back I said oh man I’m
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telling you his head was that wide we
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pull him up and he was that wide big old
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flathead Soccio turtle I want to cover
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fortune will be dealing with can’t fish
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in the first thing I want to tell you I
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don’t know I those are probably a lot of
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people here that has got experience
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catching big fish and maybe some here
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that doesn’t I deal with a lot of people
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especially where I’m from they want to
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know how in the world do you catch these
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big fish well I want to say this and
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foremost because I believe this one that
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I believe it’s the most important thing
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that you can possibly do is making sure
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you prepared to catch a big fish what
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good is it to get get one on the hook in
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line because how many of y’all have got
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the story man when I come home I had him
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on had him almost to the boat and it
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broke my line I mean y’all heard that
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how many at times does that ever
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happened to you
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cuz it happened to me year after year
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and I began to learn how and you know
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what I got to do I got to prepare myself
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to catch big fish and if you out here
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catching some small ones you can
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probably with real a man with a little
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bit of nothing I carried a guy off one
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day he wanted to go fishing with me he
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said what I need to bring I said just
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bring yourself bring you something
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eat and drink but I’m furnishing the rod
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and reels he said no my granddaddy left
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me a rod will I want to catch one on it
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I just prefer you to use my stuff no I
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want to use mine and so he had his heart
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set on catching a catfish over twenty or
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thirty pounds we fish all he’s got his
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rod and reel out and I’m telling one guy
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call it free training you don’t know man
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he nailed it he reached and grabbed it I
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don’t even know me that much pressure
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was put on it
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and he broke the line I said how long
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when does your granddad to give you that
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rod and reel he said probably about 10
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years ago I said where’s it been that he
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said has been I timed my shed I actually
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took the line I took it and you could
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just pop it I said are you telling me
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that we spent all day fishing for this
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fish and you was not prepared to catch
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it you know how hard it is to get hooked
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up with one anyhow don’t you and the
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last thing I want to do is get hooked up
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with one and my line break one of the
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key things is making sure that you’ve
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got some good knots and you’ve got some
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good line and probably one of the most
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important things to me is this section
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the line that’s right here they call it
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the leader how many of y’all catch four
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or five fish and you’re in a hurry
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especially when they’re biting it and
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you grab a piece of bait and you chunk
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it back out there and you never check
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there probably if you’ve seen any kind
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of videos you see just pull them flat
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and big catfish here and your hands are
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just tore up and maybe it’s like 80 grit
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sandpaper if this line is coming past
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that fish’s mouth you know what he’s
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gonna do he’s gonna cut it he’s gonna
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he’s gonna Nick it up he’s gonna damage
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it even if you get him in a boat you
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need to always check so if I feel
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something on this line right here I’m
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gonna take my time I’m gonna go back I’m
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gonna cut this leader off I’m gonna make
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sure that this reporter here is good and
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I’m gonna read tie me a new hook and a
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new line on here that’s what I’m gonna
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do now for years we fish with Jay hooks
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my dad did raised me fishing with Jay
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hooks and I also found out that I would
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have my line breaking out you know if
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you ever have been out and you got your
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line
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and I’m pulling on it and pulling on it
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and we have pulled the anchor up trying
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to break it I mean 40 pound mono is
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pretty tough and I’ve done that and you
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hang into a fish and a little bit of
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pressure put on it and your line break
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and you wonder how did that happen I
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just pulled the boat off of anchor how
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did that happen well I will tell you a
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lot of times what happens is that fish
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gets his hook inside of his mouth where
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this leader line has to come pass his
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teeth and if that’s a catfish is 15
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pounds or so and if he shakes his head
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twice you know what it’s gonna do to
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that he’s gonna cut it that’s what he’s
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gonna do I called he didn’t break your
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line he just cut your line and so I went
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with a hook this right here is a mad cat
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er xhd and the circle hooks are designed
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to grab that fish in the corner of his
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mouth or somewhere like that so that
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hook does not get down in his throat and
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you eliminate that possibility of that
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leader line come and pass his mouth and
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I tell people all the time if I get him
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hooked up with his TWC rod and I get him
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whoo I’m like hey guys if the hook set
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good he don’t know unless he hangs me in
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the top he’s coming to the boat take
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your time make sure that you are
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prepared to catch a big fish all right
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because I’m you know what man 2530
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pounder can put some pressure on you
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make sure you prepare to do that here’s
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one of the rig’s that I use now this is
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this is probably my favorite rig for
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flathead fishing now if you’re noticing
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I fished on the Alabama River most of
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the time they are they run they open
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generators up there and that’s how they
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control the flow and they move open run
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to three generators sometimes producing
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a current and so here on this weight I
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have something called a got a three
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ounce no roll I don’t use something
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that’s seven eight ounces I don’t
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particularly like that I will use that
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if this current is really really bad
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I want this right here to like get they
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want it to be able to get my bait to the
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bottom
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but I don’t want to be able to throw out
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your store out there and it just stay in
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one spot I don’t like that I’d like to
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take it I’d like to put me a big old
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brim on it throw it out and I want the
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current to move drag my lid around and
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you know what I say it’s doing it’s
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looking for that little hole to get in
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because I feel like if this lid ever
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pops down inside of a little hole and it
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kind of a cover there and then it kind
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of looked dip it in the water it’s gonna
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settle down and you know where you know
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where that fish is going to be at he’s
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gonna be right where that lid has tried
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to sell that because it’s right there
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looking for the path of least resistance
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so that’s just my preference when I come
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to fishing I do like this right here
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slip lid and if you don’t use something
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like this I do have some secret sliders
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and then if you notice the us I do not
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have my lid that’s what we see connected
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to my line
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you know permanently in one place it’s
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able to slide and that’s there for a
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reason and I’ll tell you about that
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reason in a minute go ahead
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can y’all can y’all hear there’s a
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little bit more room in here if y’all
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can push in is what are you saying and
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maybe make a little bit more room for
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folks because there is some more room in
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here I don’t want you to leave on me
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because you get tired am I making any
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sense so far
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so we’ve shared the start with about the
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tackle and how important the tackle is
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and that right there is pretty simple
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stuff but it’s some stuff so many times
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I am very guilty of it getting in a
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hurry
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throwing back out I don’t feel like
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rereading something and but I’ve learned
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man that I have fished all day the last
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thing that I want to do is get a big one
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hooked up and lose see now I don’t know
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about you it makes me sick you ever had
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your moments when you sit down in the
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boat maybe y’all never had that and I’m
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like man how did he get off this close
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the next thing I want to deal with
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flathead catfishing we got our rigs
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making sure that we got the equipment
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that it takes to get one in the boat and
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I’m going to say the thing is just to
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make sure that your line and stuff
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you’re not just tied correctly and you
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don’t have no phrase in your line now
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the next thing that I am a firm believer
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and this is number two things
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it’s the bait I firmly in this I don’t
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use but three things I either use bring
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them and if I know what that bluegills
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and I don’t use them nothing but live I
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don’t cut them up I use them live that’s
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my preference are you shed but I also
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use them two different ways
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now I know some people are firm
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believers in live bait and I’m a firm
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believer in live bait but I have
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discovered then I probably call it just
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as many flat heads on shed that have
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been that are dead then there that are
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alive now but I will also
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tell you this if you go fishing women
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and we go out a flathead catfishing I’m
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gonna have some RAM in the tank when I
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leave the house but I’m not gonna have
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not one shot on me none
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I got a cast net a guy asked me when we
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went out he says what we’re going to
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fish with I said we don’t get no share
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we won’t be fishing because the way I
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looked at it if we can’t catch fresh air
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– flathead catfish there’s probably no
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need for us to even be here I’ve tried a
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lot of different ways I’ve tried stuff
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that’s been frozen and I’ve caught blue
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cats on them but I’m telling you I’ve
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never caught a flathead on it but with
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this shed I do two things with them I do
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use them especially if I can find on the
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river I fish on if we can get some
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that’s probably six or seven inches long
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then we’re a big ones from where I’m
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from I will take them I’ll put them in
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my live well and I keep water running
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over them all the time I want to keep
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them as lively as I can if I get some of
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them I also catch me some and I keep me
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a bag like an ice bag or a ziploc bag it
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boat
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I keep icing my cougar I will catch some
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of them and as soon as I pick them up I
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put them in that bag and put them down
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in that eyes I do not want them sitting
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there soaking in that ice or in that
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water I’ve been off with guys fishing
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and I’ll say what would they know they’d
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come by and pick me up I want to kill
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you fishing we get out there and we open
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the bait cooler up and it is watered
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down eyes we share that’s been there for
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four hours no slime on them
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nothing you seen them some people call
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him Millie just washed out I don’t want
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that live shed and I would take that
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live shed and most time I hooked him
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right between the bottom lip and the top
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lip or something like that or sometimes
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I’ll take my time and go right through
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his eye socket I want to get in sort of
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that hard that bony structure of his
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head take him out there he will stay
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alive a little bit better especially in
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deep water than that bream will if I’m
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in some deep if I’m in some current I
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would take their brim and hook him
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between the bottle bottom and top real
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the same way I’ve also found out that if
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i hook him in the doors
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man and there’s much current there it’s
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turned around backwards and when I
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really am in he’s dead
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y’all ever seen that so if it’s a little
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bitter if it’s much current hooking for
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the bottom little top lip and fish with
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him that way that’s what he can just
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swim in the current so he’s not talking
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around in the water falling back through
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his gills and I’ve noticed that it kills
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him that way
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now with the ones that are dead I take
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them and I’m telling you I have had good
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success with this I take that bog shad
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and some of y’all have fillet Tobias or
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crappie or something like that I take my
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book Shann I take my knife and lay out
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his tail and I go right up his backbone
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all the way back to his deal plate and I
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just taken the knife out you’ve exposed
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the belly but it’s also let that extra
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side there you’ll sit down and flapping
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the current out to me I just think it
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gives a little bit of action when you
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sit incurrent and that old piece of meat
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sitting out flapping plus I feel like I
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got all them guts going down through
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there you know and I feel confident if I
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have fresh shed and if I have me some
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live bream before the days over we’re
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gonna put a hit in the back and
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hopefully we’re gonna put one in our
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30-plus pounds because catching one over
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30 pounds sometimes can be a pretty good
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task and when you get a hold to one like
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that it can be fun cuz then boys will
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pull won’t they I mean y’all ever cut a
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flathead I mean you ever caught one over
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30 pounds they I mean they put me yeah
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they’ll put the smackdown on it you know
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me they hit it boy and you grab it and
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man I’m telling you now I fish with them
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like this I will also use another rig
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that if I am up in water that’s probably
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less than 20 foot deep
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I will slow in some rocks I will slow
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drift and I just suspend some rigs and I
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also spin them just like I have this one
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set up over here and I just want to drop
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it then I’ll have live briam and I would
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take them and if you’ll notice here on
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this rig here now this right here is
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stationary and how you
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use that my my hooking line does not
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slide through this y’all see the
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difference and I’ll hook the PI meson
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suspend drill I will take this and I
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will hook sometimes five six ounces on
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here with this snap I can put as many in
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there as I need to so if I needed 10
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ounces or 11 ounces I want to be able to
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hold that bait straight down
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I don’t irritate Smee to see my bait
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starting to slide backwards because I’m
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like I put it on the bottom I felt this
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lid when it hit the bottom and I know
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that my leader line is so I’m gonna reel
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it up pick it up and put it in a rod
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holder and so I’m thinking to myself
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it’s probably about 2 foot off the
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bottom and that little brim just sitting
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there just fluttering the whole time and
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you easing down through there and all of
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us see that till start to load up you
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know what that is don’t you but that
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right there is a 2 privat that’s a
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onliest way I’ll fish for him I incur
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and I do do some slow drifting in some
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shallower water and I carried a guy out
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not long ago we was out there and we
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were sitting there fishing and when we
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was we was down the river anchored up in
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40 foot of water and we were sitting
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there talking and carry on a hoe and we
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moved up in some water that was around
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12 to 15-foot deep lot of rocks and I
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quit talking whether my wife can believe
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that or not I stopped and that was with
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me because he’s probably he’s used to me
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firstly he’s we sit over and he says
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what’s wrong with you he said I said
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what nothing’s wrong
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he said well you ain’t talking near as
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much as you was I said we in 1215 foot
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of water I said them fishes right up
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under us
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now we’ve gone over the top of them said
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do not bang your feet on the bottom of
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this boat say very little bit and don’t
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move none because I’m going to tell you
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I don’t know if you know 10 or 12 15
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foot it’s really not that deep now I
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don’t want to jump out the boat and see
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how deep it is but I’m telling you it’s
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really not that deep
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and my foot yes he’s right up under us
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these fish all right up under us
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and all the times people never look at
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this they jump they walking around the
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boat and if you’re the old woman um boat
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like I had beaten around you’re making
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noise you’re sitting there talking and
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and me whooping and hollering I said
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hold we got to stop this for right now
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we’ll go back when we hook up with one
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but we need to be really really quiet
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because you know if anybody haunts
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anybody’s after wild game or something
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is what is the thing you want to be able
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to sneak up on him is that not what you
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want to do you want to be able to just
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sort of ease and I worry is that now you
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own his territory you know you don’t go
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turkey hunting and you don’t go deer
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hunting with a cowbell to them you know
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hey we here to catch you we’re here to
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kill you do you know what’s gonna happen
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they’re not used to you being there and
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the first thing they’re gonna do man
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they’ve gone so we want to be really
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really quiet especially when we get into
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shallow water I have a bad habit I want
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to listen to the radio but when I get
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serious about fishing I even cut it off
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I don’t know if they can hear it but I’m
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thinking I don’t want to give them a
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choice on this I don’t really want them
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to know that I’m here
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once I get set up all right so live
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breathe and shed either live or cut and
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I don’t use them it’s cut pieces I use
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them as a whole shed just sort of sliced
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up the side and just sit there and let
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it flop just let it go in the current
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all right now the next thing there’s a
20:27
couple things that I’m looking for me
20:30
and my wife was all we like to go bream
20:32
fishing every year around April end of
20:35
April with you it’s a trip up and man we
20:38
go after them big old bream like that
20:40
and so we over here I don’t never go
20:43
fishing that ain’t got my rods and reels
20:45
with me we come out of a little old
20:47
Creek we’re sitting there and caught
20:49
some bream balm I live where we probably
20:51
got 50 or 60 in it and on the side the
20:53
bank there was our old wood yard that
20:55
was that where they loaded stuff and
20:57
they had come in and I had brought some
20:59
slabs of concrete and dumped them all as
21:02
erosion control as I come out and I seen
21:05
that concrete there Don said what’s you
21:08
fixing to do I set my anchor down right
21:10
here and we’re gonna catch this flathead
21:12
that’s in them holes right there because
21:14
if you ever look when you see Don
21:16
Bank you start seeing that concrete
21:18
that’s laid up instead
21:20
can you see all them hoses in there you
21:22
know what I can’t fish it done got
21:24
dumped in one oh that’s where he’s that
21:27
and sure enough we pulled up there and
21:29
it wasn’t but it wasn’t but a few
21:31
minutes and we pulled one out of there I
21:33
like to look for something like that
21:35
boulders you know some big rocks and
21:37
stuff I found out then that then
21:39
flatheads love to hang around back one
21:42
of my favorite places to fish is when
21:45
I’m going somewhere new and I’m for
21:47
something I goldmine avionics or well
21:51
the chart you can get on it on your
21:52
computer and begin to look around and
21:54
I’m looking for some specific things I
21:57
love the mouth of creeks I’m addicted to
22:01
them things creeks and sloughs if you
22:07
see where somebody is up in a creek or
22:09
somebody is in some backwater
22:11
where I come from we call them sloughs
22:13
is that what y’all call them and I see a
22:15
lot of people that’s in these things
22:17
that’s catching crappie and catching
22:20
brim
22:20
I might this is the place we needed
22:23
Flathead fishing cuz you know what
22:25
flathead eat they eat crappie and they
22:29
eat bream I will watch as I’m going up
22:31
and down the river if I come fisherman
22:35
and he is over our crappie fishing he’s
22:37
been sitting there for to two or three
22:39
hours well I’m going to tell you let me
22:41
just tell you a secret
22:42
he ain’t sitting in one spot for nothing
22:45
for two or three hours
22:46
you know why he’s there the possibility
22:48
him there he’s catching some fish there
22:50
every time you come by he’s in that
22:52
always when I go by and I look at him I
22:55
reach up on my graph and I just mark a
22:57
waypoint I’m like there’s a top over
23:00
there up on that water somewhere I come
23:02
back later and check this when he’s gone
23:04
and you know what I’m gonna do I’m gonna
23:06
fish that spot because you know why
23:09
because if there’s a top there and
23:11
there’s crappie in it I promise you
23:13
they’re the Flathead he’s not from it
23:16
you know as well as I do
23:18
when it comes suppertime I can find you
23:20
Cana I don’t know if I can find you but
23:23
you can find me when mama gets ready to
23:27
supper cooked I told him one time daddy
23:28
called me says suppers
23:30
we’ll be ready about five o’clock are
23:32
you gonna be able to be here we’re weak
23:34
momma’s got a big old evil hose about
23:37
eight people you know and I got my spot
23:39
on it and that is on the other hands
23:42
what we always said I told daddy I said
23:44
daddy when you don’t look at the other
23:46
in the table I’ll be there
23:49
Mama’s cooking collard greens and she’s
23:51
got some hog neck in now get in there
23:54
and we’re gonna have us some dressing I
23:57
said I’ll be there
23:58
why because I’m gonna be there when it’s
24:00
feeding time and I’m gonna tell you the
24:03
reason that flathead is in a certain
24:04
place why is because there’s a food
24:07
source that is there so I’m looking for
24:10
them places like that if I can find a
24:12
major Creek and a lot of times where
24:14
something is like 15 or 12 foot deep
24:17
that goes up into a slough and it may go
24:18
about getting in there and it may be 10
24:21
it may be 10-foot a lot of brims in
24:25
there blood up by our bass a lot of
24:27
crappie I don’t go up in that Slough and
24:29
fish I don’t fish up in there
24:30
a lot of times then things will come out
24:32
and dump into the river
24:34
and when they dump in it comes in and
24:36
just comes up on a Ledge I don’t know if
24:39
there’s anything to this but somehow
24:40
another I got this in my mind that he
24:43
stages out here if he eats in that have
24:47
you ever thought about that I’m like he
24:49
leaves out of here eats in there and so
24:53
I get out there and I’ve looked on these
24:56
ledges that let lovers to come out of
24:59
ten life is come out of five full of
25:01
water and when it comes that you’re sort
25:03
of drop salt and may drop into 35-foot
25:05
if you ever look right there on that
25:07
edge on that ledge you’re gonna start to
25:09
see some fish in there I’m looking for a
25:12
spot like that another thing that I look
25:15
for is driving down the river
25:18
I’m it have y’all ever seen when you’re
25:20
going down the river and you see an
25:21
inset in the bank currents flowing and
25:24
all of a sudden you see it where it hits
25:26
a pocket and it begins to cause a swirl
25:29
a reverse flow I’m like we need to fish
25:32
this spot right here I always looked at
25:35
that because I’m like something has
25:36
happened here to change the the course
25:39
of the water now a fish is doing one
25:43
thing he’s eating
25:43
to surviving that’s what he does so he’s
25:46
doing one thing he needs to conserve
25:48
energy and he needs to eat that’s what
25:51
he’s after and so I’m looking for places
25:53
that he can get behind that he ain’t
25:55
gotta sit there and swim all day to try
25:57
to waste all of his energy I’m looking
25:59
for little places that he can get over
26:00
here and yet be an ambush spot so if
26:03
there’s a little indention in the bank a
26:05
little hole that’s in sent in and set
26:08
into that Bank I’m looking for things
26:10
like that
26:10
and all the times I will go past it and
26:13
anchor up so I can fish right off in
26:15
that hole right there
26:16
now the next thing that I do that’s
26:18
there’s two spots the mouth of creeks
26:20
and get on that ledge and mouth the
26:22
sloughs and going that ledge look for
26:24
little pockets and oh well I got a
26:27
couple more spots yeah y’all ever seen
26:29
them crazy South Alabama hell I’m from
26:32
South Alabama can’t you hopefully by now
26:35
hello
26:35
we helped some you coming into Alabama
26:37
River we have some clay banks and you
26:41
know I for some reason in my mind when I
26:44
see that clay bank I have identified
26:46
that every time I fish a clay bank was
26:49
it was intentionally or attentionally
26:51
that I called flatheads bound but I also
26:55
know to see us you riding down the road
26:57
and you see clay banks what do you see
26:59
you gonna see some holes in where some
27:01
little incense in it I’m tell you if you
27:04
see a clay bank a lot of times a clay
27:07
Bank is formed because the trees have it
27:10
the washed over there it’s gonna cause a
27:11
little bit of structure to be there but
27:14
it also I believe that clay Bank has got
27:16
some holes stuff that are there I love
27:18
to fish a spot like that and so if I see
27:21
a clay Bank we’re gonna fish it the
27:23
mouth of a creek or mouth of a slough
27:25
I’m gonna fish it if we see some
27:29
structure here we’re gonna fish it now
27:31
one of the things that use it that I’ve
27:34
learned over the years now my dad is a
27:36
little bit old-fashioned he tells me I’m
27:39
cheating all the time and so I’ve got I
27:42
got my electronics and I’ll put some
27:46
pictures on Facebook the other day I
27:48
don’t know if y’all seen it but I run a
27:49
hummingbird I run a humming
27:51
I run a hummingbird 12 both of them have
27:54
mega when I’m he’s gotta make a push on
27:56
it and I actually got a picture of a
28:00
Spoonbill cat Spoonbill on that I don’t
28:03
know if y’all seen that but you can see
28:04
them just as good and so I come home I
28:06
seize it
28:08
sawing that right there is pure cheating
28:10
I said what that everybody else is using
28:13
in my mind as well you so he said what
28:17
do you do just drop your hook over and
28:19
snatch him up I said no it ain’t that
28:20
easy now I wish it was but it has made
28:26
me I do not fish in a top I don’t I
28:30
don’t do it and this is the reason why
28:33
now I will fish around that top and I
28:35
know some people that pull up man I have
28:37
seen them they will pull up they will
28:39
spotlight and have the back of that boat
28:41
sitting right at the back of a log jam
28:43
with the rods just right off in it and
28:45
every time you see him you know what
28:47
they tell me
28:48
man we hung a big one today but we
28:50
couldn’t get him out of there and this
28:53
is my mindset I use my side imaging
28:56
anybody familiar with side imaging let
28:59
me tell you that what I use this for
29:02
them tops is that and I will go up
29:04
through there and if I’m looking at
29:06
talks on my side imaging and I’m seeing
29:08
them on both sides of the boat I know
29:10
they everywhere
29:11
I keep moving my pulled out a little bit
29:13
and all I want to do is find them tops
29:15
it’s on my right-hand side and none on
29:18
my left
29:19
you know what that lets me know I’m
29:21
right here at it end of them you saw him
29:24
coming from I’m right out here at the
29:26
end of them and so I will pull my boat
29:28
up and I will try to anchor out here on
29:31
the end of this talk and my ideology is
29:35
I’m not going to go in that top after
29:37
him I’m hoping I can entice him to come
29:41
out here and grab my bait in this clean
29:44
water because I feel like if I get him
29:46
hooked up out here we’re gonna bring
29:48
into the boat
29:49
you don’t mean does that make sense and
29:51
so it eliminates me just having my bait
29:54
right there in the top and everything
29:55
I’ve got being tangled up now I’ll tell
29:57
you nearly they don’t get hung up
29:59
because I get hung up a lot but I’m
30:01
trying to find that little spot they get
30:03
that bait right out
30:04
on the edge of it and maybe pull him out
30:06
of that top right there I mention one
30:11
more thing about bait I didn’t know this
30:14
– a couple of years ago matter of fact
30:16
last year I was all trying to get some
30:19
shed and I was catching something just
30:21
once in a blue moon we would catch
30:24
something I didn’t have a clue it was
30:26
and I told somebody on Facebook I had
30:29
one and I’m telling you if you see me
30:31
fishing with live bait I have fish with
30:33
some stuff this big it don’t get too big
30:36
I mean man listen twelve inches long
30:39
hooking right through the middle of the
30:40
live I was over there buddy of mine says
30:42
what you got I said look what I got from
30:44
me he says you’ll never catch anything
30:46
on that I said you’d be surprised what I
30:48
can tell you what else you’ll be
30:49
surprised you’ll be surprised how small
30:51
a fish our kid with that big of a bait
30:55
I took a bait this big and catch a 15
30:57
pounder I’m telling you ever seen him
30:59
play heads mouth 15 pounder man you got
31:02
a mouth that big on him they put it I
31:05
said you ever get one of these I mean
31:07
they’re like gold to me I would bomb
31:09
today if I knew where to buy oh man
31:11
and so I put this last I don’t know what
31:12
they are but if you got one of these
31:14
things hook em on your line I’m telling
31:16
you a flathead fish came resisting and a
31:19
guy who responded bang said that is a
31:20
quilt back sucker I hope you ever seen
31:24
one of them and I thought then I’ve been
31:26
on the internet looking to somebody’s –
31:28
sale live will buy suckers to help me
31:32
take of them and put him on her I need I
31:38
need me a spot to raise them things in
31:41
tell you get something like that right
31:44
there
31:44
and sometimes we was down in Florida
31:47
and there was one he’s one of these
31:48
incidents that my wife was right about
31:51
yes don’t y’all tell her I said that all
31:53
right but I preached this on oh my oh my
31:57
oh my videos and stuff I get to a big
32:00
fish like this I will use two hooks I
32:03
will hook one three sleep and I will use
32:05
another hook to put back there in his
32:07
back because I have seen that then I
32:10
don’t know just what they’re doing but
32:12
in my mind he’s coming up grabbing that
32:14
bait starting to pull it off
32:17
then he will pull your rod over like
32:20
this and you would think you got him
32:22
I’ve seen it where they put some
32:24
pressure on it
32:25
and you pick it up and all of a sudden
32:26
now nothing
32:28
he’s got the back of that bait we was
32:31
down in Florida we had a we had someone
32:33
at this big if we’re gonna pull us a big
32:36
one out and sure enough we was there and
32:38
as we was there man
32:40
that old raw tip kept loading up and it
32:43
loaded and doubled over and when it did
32:46
I tied into it
32:47
got him all the way to the boat I’m done
32:52
got the net I’m sitting there ready my
32:54
heart is just beating like this right
32:56
here probably always don’t do that
32:58
you know man but mine does and I’m
33:01
sitting in I’m just waiting the scene
33:03
and all of a sudden man the Lord Ryan’s
33:06
boat and it just comes loose that was
33:09
one of them times and I’m sitting down I
33:14
got my hand on my head and my wife says
33:18
you should have put two hooks on it she
33:27
says even I’ve watched your videos so
33:34
every time I get enough reads but they
33:37
don’t always fish with the two hook
33:38
system I think I reach in and grab one
33:41
of them big ones out unhook him through
33:42
the lip and I hear her voice even I
33:45
watched your videos I’m like we’ll take
33:48
Andrea tie this and we’ll put us two
33:50
hooks on here because I don’t want to
33:52
have the opportunity to having a 30-plus
33:56
flathead on my hook and him not having
34:00
in his mouth so I feel like if he’d come
34:02
and grab the back of it and he started
34:04
to pull off with it I’ve got that hook
34:06
in the back and bound I’m like you
34:09
didn’t know that was there did you let
34:12
me share one other thing y’all still
34:16
with me don’t let me bore you all right
34:19
now this is another thing but and some
34:22
on the house and one of the things that
34:24
I want to do I love catching big fish
34:28
but I want you just
34:30
you catch on if you wanted to get your
34:32
kids involved if you want to get all
34:35
involved in catfishing man you want to
34:37
catch big fish and you catching them on
34:40
rod and reel I mean that right there is
34:42
adrenaline rush then I still have not
34:45
got over I’m addicted to watching the
34:48
end of that pole load up I’m out you sit
34:50
there all day and just watch the
34:52
internet pole load up I’m like that’s
34:53
what I’m here for
34:54
unless I’ve been sitting out all day
34:57
y’all probably don’t do this but I do
34:58
you sit there all day and you preach
35:02
this and you teach this don’t touch that
35:04
rod let him let him load it up let him
35:08
pull it down and you fish all day long
35:11
and your rod tip it look just like that
35:13
right there all day and if you’ve been
35:16
out eight hours fishing and all of a
35:18
sudden you see it go and I go oh I get
35:24
up out of my seat and he loads up on it
35:29
a little bit more and pulls it down
35:31
right there and one of the things I
35:33
constantly teach is somebody’s in the
35:35
book and I might do not touch it and
35:39
what do I do after sitting a two-hour
35:41
load my gosh I ain’t taking no more
35:45
chances with you I’m grabbing it and I’m
35:49
setting the hook and you and he’s not
35:53
there I’m right well I’ve waited eight
35:55
hours I got too excited and I’ll let him
35:58
get away now there were some guys around
36:02
the house had never caught big fish and
36:05
he said Stacey we want to know how to
36:07
catch him like how do we catch these big
36:09
ones and this is what he time I said go
36:10
get you some wine brim just what I’ve
36:12
told you I said make sure you got you
36:14
some equipment to hold something this
36:17
bear flathead man will pull and he’s
36:19
gonna pull you down some stuff just hang
36:20
get some out of something and every time
36:23
he would come back he says well every
36:25
time we get over there he said Stacey
36:26
they just get my rod and they pulled
36:29
over a little bit and daddy grabs it and
36:31
he sets the hook and we missed them
36:33
he said all there is those little ones
36:36
over there I know now I’ve seen this on
36:40
Facebook
36:41
there was somebody new video or seminar
36:44
somebody asked the Pacific question does
36:47
in flatheads every bite real funny and I
36:50
want to the guy that lands he said
36:52
no let your shoes just slam it down I’m
36:53
like no no no no where I’m from they
36:56
don’t I haven’t seen them do this right
36:58
here and I have watch the flat I’m
37:00
talking about something thirty or forty
37:02
pounds this is why I broke this rod with
37:05
me have you ever seen it start to load
37:08
up and pull right there and stop and
37:12
he’s back up and he’s it back down and
37:17
he’s sitting down is just holding that
37:19
and I’m thinking to myself you need to
37:21
hurry up I’m gonna snatch it out of your
37:23
mouth and he eases back down a little
37:25
bit I’ve had it sit right there and hold
37:27
and let back up most people will grab it
37:31
and think there’s a little one messing
37:33
with it I’m tell you don’t touch it if
37:36
you can fight your willpower off don’t
37:39
touch it
37:41
y’all see what my problem’s that don’t
37:43
you maybe I need more wheel cuz eight
37:48
hours of him not doing nothing to it
37:49
I get do gonna let see don’t let don’t
37:53
touch that thing I like to get it and
37:55
when it starts doing that I’m like I got
37:57
him now
37:58
but I have a sit there as much as 15 or
38:01
20 minutes and see him sit there
38:03
pull it over let it back up boarding the
38:07
boat with me said he’s just a little
38:09
bitty when I said no I said a little bit
38:11
when stepside does that’s right here to
38:13
it all the time
38:13
I said if they ever go to pull it over
38:16
like this and hold and I said he’s not
38:17
no little bitty one we got ourselves
38:20
something just hang on if you got the
38:21
patience here we’re going to be able to
38:24
catch this fish so then little details
38:27
right there and this guy come back he
38:30
was a student of mine in my welding
38:31
class he coming out every week picked my
38:34
mind went gave him some Roger sent me a
38:38
picture he’s got one put up over the
38:40
side of the boat he says me and my daddy
38:42
got him he was 40 pounds I said what’d
38:44
you do he said I didn’t touch that rod
38:46
to the tilt was in the water I said my
38:49
favorite said every guy who said is I
38:51
said don’t miss it
38:52
don’t touch it too it goes for eyes deep
38:54
[Laughter]
38:58
then right there is just some keys
39:00
that’s going to be able to increase your
39:03
hookup rate and catching some big fish
39:07
now I’m gonna give you a chance to
39:08
answer the question but we’ll do one
39:10
more thing cuz also I’m going on time I
39:13
know and my wife asked me she said can
39:16
you speak for two hours and yes she
39:17
looked at me she even asked there was
39:22
there were some guys that’s fishing
39:24
there with me it lives out my
39:26
neighborhood and one of the things they
39:28
want to do they want to catch some
39:29
bigger fishes and Stacy said the biggest
39:31
thing we’ve ever caught is 10 or 12
39:33
pounds and you know what I told them I
39:36
said next time you go
39:39
don’t you fish where you been fishing go
39:43
somewhere else and then they don’t dare
39:45
tell me uncle we we’re creatures of
39:47
habit I mean you know that we want to
39:51
fish for what granddaddy fished that and
39:54
my daddy fish there and he taught me how
39:56
to fish there and we’ve been that we did
39:58
catch him our years ago but what you
40:01
don’t understand is flooded and things
40:03
have filled in and things have changed
40:04
and they no longer that you’ve been
40:07
fishing over the last two years I had
40:09
called nothing I told this guy he said
40:11
all we catches him alone squealers he
40:14
said Stacy I want to catch one a big one
40:17
1020 pounds
40:18
I said well the next time you go you go
40:21
the opposite direction of where you’ve
40:23
been going he said we’re not here to go
40:26
I said just don’t go where you’ve been
40:27
going I said wherever you think that
40:30
they ain’t try that just go try
40:33
something different
40:35
because for years it pulled up we always
40:40
fish in the same boat and then I’m
40:42
telling you there was some there’s a lot
40:43
of good fishermen out there you never
40:45
see of them you never hear about them
40:47
there are old man that’s I can’t say
40:49
that my dad is I get mad at me we
40:52
pretend he won’t see their old man
40:54
that’s about 75 years old and they come
40:57
in and they always got them you ever
41:00
seen that you don’t hear about them on
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Facebook you don’t see I buy them in
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social media you don’t know that but
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every time they come in
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and the old man below the house he
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always dipped snuff he was a level ahead
41:13
and spell I ever seen him alive
41:15
cuz just as much snuff round the one
41:17
sided it did the other but he’d always
41:20
come in he had that old dental Suites
41:22
know that stuff that looks like powder I
41:25
went all fishing winning one time I told
41:27
mr. Carson whatever you do he was in a
41:29
stick steer boat was going on the river
41:31
said don’t you spit and don’t you try to
41:33
take a dip of that mess as we going in
41:35
this river
41:35
that’s tough done got all up in my eyes
41:39
he was a white perch fisherman everybody
41:42
else around the house going Carson
41:45
coming in thumb let me tell you what I
41:46
got
41:47
look at this cool box but I’m telling
41:49
him but he’d have slabs up in there and
41:51
I got to watching these older guys
41:53
because there was an older guy Jimmy P
41:56
B’s a mine where I live at hey always
41:58
catching these catfish and you know you
42:01
young boy and you ain’t you ain’t paying
42:03
them for old kitchen and all of a sudden
42:06
you know I’m like I’d like to catch
42:07
something like they catching them I
42:08
notice he fishing the same pots I’m
42:11
fishing in maybe I need just change the
42:14
way I’m fishing and start fishing like
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he’s fishing I notice I’m over here tied
42:19
up in a top over here and he’s out there
42:21
in the river on that ledge maybe I need
42:23
to move out there once things like that
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right there I promise you it will
42:28
improve your hookup rate it’s going to
42:30
improve the quality of fish that you’re
42:33
catching anybody got any questions
42:47
with a lot more hook up when I let that
42:51
fish load that rod up
42:53
yes I do and let let him let’s pull it
42:59
on down and I’m tell you it was a habit
43:01
I had to break because we grew up
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fishing with hooks and you know what my
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dad would always say Shawn across his
43:07
eyes that’s what he would tell him I
43:10
don’t Rob it – this right here
43:11
get in your hand saw him get in your
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hand next time he pulls it down try to
43:14
cross his eyes
43:15
we broke boat seats well I’m telling you
43:22
that rod go down I’m and you told me to
43:26
get everything I got that old plastic
43:29
boat see just wouldn’t prepare for this
43:33
so if your hookup rate is going to
43:37
improve when you let him load that rod
43:41
up and let him do that right there any
43:43
more questions I know I don’t I don’t
43:49
use go I’m not saying that I’m not no
43:51
good he asked do I use goldfish or bait
43:54
don’t I just bring quite a brim bluegill
44:01
shed and then what I tell you earlier
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them quill back suckers
44:12
I use the same thing that I used for
44:15
this room right here I snail both of
44:19
them as a matter of fact when I get
44:21
through we’ll get a few minutes I will
44:23
show you just how to the ice nail both
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hooks in the same line I take the first
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hook and I’ll hook it in the lip and I
44:32
run the next one back and I put it on
44:33
his back and I’ll hook it in where it
44:35
sticks sort of straight up off of his
44:38
back right behind the dorsal fin is
44:40
sticking up so if he comes up and gets
44:42
the back end he’s getting that hook yeah
44:51
yes i hook them two different ways i
44:54
hook him through the lips if there’s a
44:56
offensive current there my preference is
44:59
to hook him behind the dorsal fin well
45:02
he can sit there he likes the flutter
45:04
you ever seen them they’ll be swimming
45:05
sideways but if we get into some current
45:08
that could if his current strong enough
45:10
it won’t pull him around and then it
45:13
wants to kill him
45:14
that that water is going to come back
45:15
through his deals and it wants to kill
45:17
him
45:17
so if you get into some little bits
45:19
whipper bring him take him and look him
45:23
through the lip so he can sit there and
45:24
swim in the current a little bit easier
45:26
on him Lots no sir
45:31
I don’t use no kind of lights the matter
45:33
of fact if I’m out fishing I’m just a
45:36
little bit old school I really don’t
45:38
want him to even know that I’m there oh
45:41
all the lights up on my boat and once I
45:44
come to a place if I fish it night I
45:47
don’t like to move a lot that’s just me
45:48
preference Lee you may not have a
45:50
problem with it but I like to find me
45:52
about three or four places and I’m like
45:54
we’re going to just fish these spots
45:56
tonight and I want to anchor up on once
45:58
we get anchored up I might we’re gonna
46:00
sit here for two hours or hour and a
46:03
half or two hours something like that
46:05
and I will turn actually all the lights
46:07
hoping my boat just enough this I got
46:09
some points up on my rod so I can see
46:12
them get leaves a little glow there but
46:13
I’m like I don’t want him looking up and
46:15
knowing that looks like a baseball field
46:18
lit up
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I don’t use a beat let me share this
46:25
with you oh this is this is one of my
46:27
little tricks so if I don’t use a bead
46:31
if you go by the parts house you can
46:34
purchase something called vacuum hose
46:39
y’all got me and you can buy the stuff
46:42
in 10-foot section and buy the one that
46:44
has the littlest hole in it and I just
46:46
take them and bring them to the house
46:48
and cut them about one-inch sections the
46:51
reason I do this this is my thoughts if
46:54
this hood and I know people talking
46:56
about well I put a glass bead on it
46:58
well that glass bead is just as hard as
47:01
that lid so I don’t see no difference in
47:04
that glass bead beating against them I
47:05
not then that led beating against it I
47:07
don’t use that so I put this on there
47:10
and it is it’s just a cushion it rides
47:14
right down the edge of that swivel
47:16
nothing’s on my Knock my knot is
47:19
actually up inside or back and nothing
47:23
gets to my not that way back in hose you
47:27
can find it at and you know a lot of
47:29
time there’s some people around here
47:30
that sell what they call bumper a little
47:34
bit of things but get you some of there
47:36
because you can buy a whole roll over
47:37
10-foot for like three dollars and cut
47:40
them in one-inch sections and put them
47:42
on there and I’m telling you have more
47:44
than you fish within a year anybody else
47:52
but yes sir
47:54
what pound test do I use on my reel
47:57
itself I have 40 pound mono on my leader
48:01
I’ve got 50 and the reason why though
48:04
some people think well I’ve got it
48:07
because I won’t this line a little bit
48:08
thicker that is the reason I’ve got that
48:11
I know forty pounds on this leader would
48:13
hold a big fish but I’m looking for that
48:16
diameter that’s the way if it does get
48:19
nicked some my minds thinking well I got
48:22
a little bit more beat there that he can
48:24
Nick it and not cut it all the way in
48:26
half you said coming from so that’s what
48:29
I use I dog forty and fifty forty and
48:34
fifty my lines were lined with forty
48:36
more of that leader there’s fifty it’s
48:44
gonna have to be something about this
48:47
nature if it’s just a big brim I don’t
48:50
use I just use that one hook but when I
48:52
get into something like them while I
48:53
call them quill back suckers where they
48:55
some about ten to twelve inches long
48:58
that’s when I go to that double hook
49:00
vein one mono the brand made made model
49:09
I got I got some slime line and I used
49:13
some line that Bass Pro Shop sales you
49:16
can find it over there
49:17
let’s call old short angler I’m always
49:21
looking for a little bargains and always
49:23
short angler is in Bass Pro Shop and you
49:26
can buy like 700 and something yards of
49:28
it for fourteen bucks or something or
49:31
you slam line I used both of them right
49:34
there my leader on this right here is
49:36
fifty pound
49:37
slam line is what I got on here and I
49:39
found that both of them is sort of good
49:42
abrasion resistance you know I’d rather
49:45
have something good raishin is
49:47
resistance then real real soft type
49:49
stuff I’m looking for something that’s
49:51
going to be able to handle some Nicks
49:55
then right there is our yeah then right
49:58
there is our Abu Garcia 6500 C threes
50:03
this right here is a tangling with
50:05
catfish extreme rod that I fish with and
50:08
I let me cover one more thing about run
50:12
out of time
50:20
I do it’s about timing to wrap up here
50:22
let me do this before I do this there
50:25
was a reason I use a hook a lid that
50:28
slides the same reason that you said
50:33
that catfish put that rod over and let
50:35
it bite
50:36
I don’t want him I feel like if my hook
50:40
my latest on the bottom and if it’s sort
50:43
of buried out in the mud
50:45
I don’t want when he goes to pull it to
50:48
him to feel the resistance of this lid I
50:50
want that line and I have had it before
50:54
they pull it over like that and hold it
50:56
I will actually reach up and take this
51:00
real hit that it hit my foot because I’m
51:05
like next time he started to pull it
51:06
over
51:07
he’s not going to feel even that much
51:09
tension he’s going to start to think
51:12
then when it starts to go so much him
51:14
his own reach I’m flip Cup in the Rogers
51:17
loads on up and bam
51:19
I got him any more questions
51:28
I just filleted one side of him I just
51:30
filleted one side and sit there and just
51:32
let that flower I would say if I’ve been
51:40
sitting in a place for 30 or 45 minutes
51:43
I’m gonna reel it back up if I go to a
51:46
new plate if I reel my bloom in and he’s
51:48
sitting in there swimming I’m gonna put
51:51
him back in my bait tank you know if I’m
51:53
moving and I’m just gonna be pouring
51:56
water over the top of them trying to
51:57
revive him but someday that shed that
52:01
we’ve cut once I really mean and if I
52:04
got if I if I’ve got plenty of it
52:08
if I’ve got plenty of it I’m going
52:10
through it now if I don’t you just got
52:12
to do what you got to do but if you got
52:14
plenty of bait I’m telling you about 30
52:16
or 40 minutes if you want to change I
52:18
don’t I’m like let’s put some fresh
52:20
stuff on there
52:21
cuz you’ve seen probably when you pull
52:22
that shed out that tank he’s slimy he’s
52:25
got a look to him he’s shiny he’s got a
52:28
smell to him he sitting out water for 45
52:31
minutes or hour he no longer has that
52:34
look to him
52:39
no I sit right there now what I do have
52:44
a 10 especially where’s the water if
52:46
it’s cold temperature I’ll have a
52:48
tendency to sit there longer than I
52:52
would if the temperature was up to 70
52:54
degrees I will pull and I said I’m going
52:56
to fish it a spot and I will literally
52:58
look at my watch and say it’s 9:00 I’m
53:02
like it around 10 or 10 10 10 we roll it
53:05
up and moving now if it’s cold
53:08
I might we may sit here 2 hours because
53:12
I’m time if I haven’t seen them fish on
53:14
my graph and know that they there I’m
53:17
like we’re just gonna sit here and give
53:18
them I noticed they slower biting and
53:21
I’m really when it gets down to that
53:22
cold I’m just out fishing and I’m like
53:25
I’m just after you and I’ll come with
53:28
the mind and say it I will sit here and
53:30
wait you out and that’s the way I think
53:32
about it
53:35
I like it back at home when water to
53:40
different time of the year
53:42
I want a tempered tear around
53:44
Thanksgiving and it starts dropping and
53:47
I will fish for them real hard and heavy
53:50
too it gets slow down to around 50
53:52
degrees when it gets down to by is you
53:55
know I so give up on a little bit or if
53:58
I do go and then since then around 48 I
54:01
will pull I have pulled up to a hole and
54:04
sit down all day and catch two fish but
54:07
you know you catch two good ones out of
54:09
it I’m like well that’s what I come here
54:10
for I come to catch a big fish out of it
54:13
I would look I would look for some kind
54:22
of cover that’s what I would look for
54:24
some kind of lock some kind of structure
54:28
beaver dam anything like that it’s going
54:31
to produce a place for him to get I’m
54:36
going to close with this don’t walk off
54:39
on that need about five minutes of your
54:41
attention don’t you go no for Terry in
54:44
2008 there were America put together an
54:49
Olympic track team they had the fastest
54:55
guys at the time on this track team his
54:57
name was Tyson Gay one time he was the
55:01
world’s fastest man
55:02
he’s an America’s Team had always been
55:06
known for having some of the fastest
55:09
athletes in the onliest other team that
55:12
even could come compared to the American
55:15
track team was probably you know who
55:18
they are the Jamaicans they had this guy
55:21
you probably never heard of him his name
55:23
is Usain Bolt America now has been put
55:28
into this competition and everybody is
55:31
looking everybody is excited about the
55:36
Olympic four by 100 the competition USA
55:44
is in the semi-finals not even made it
55:47
to the finals
55:49
no competition for the closest thing
55:52
they had to semifinals was a team by the
55:54
name of France and they wouldn’t even
55:55
hold it on the track with them so
55:57
everybody has built this race up that
56:00
man Jamaica in the US nobody can even
56:02
run there was no competition for them
56:04
and they sounded the gun and the man
56:08
that had to baton in his hand began to
56:10
run if you know anything about racing or
56:15
staying in their hand called a baton and
56:18
he’ll run one leg and when he gets to a
56:20
place he hands it to another man
56:22
and the other man takes off running and
56:25
he runs so far and he gives it to
56:28
another man and he takes off running and
56:30
he gets to the last minute he hands it
56:32
to him and he runs the final leg the
56:36
running part wasn’t the problem
56:38
it was the exchanging of the baton
56:44
and somehow another in the middle of it
56:46
all the unit lost their focus they have
56:52
the lead and it’s not even close and
56:55
they go to exchange it to a man that the
56:59
time was the world he was America’s
57:02
fastest man Tyson Gay they went to try
57:07
to get in his hand and guess what he
57:08
died he dropped the baton now let me
57:15
share this with you they give me an
57:17
opportunity to share a little bit of
57:19
spiritual stuff because we’re meaning
57:22
here today and God has placed something
57:24
in your hand you have a spiritual baton
57:27
if you like me I had sons and daughters
57:30
and you know what job mine was to be the
57:34
stricter of my house to make sure that I
57:38
pass on what’s in me and place it into
57:42
them
57:43
matter of fact Paul said this about
57:45
Timothy he said Timothy I can see the
57:49
faith that abides in you but it is not
57:51
with you it started with your grandmama
57:54
and you know what his grandmama done
57:56
she passed what she had on to her
58:00
daughter you know what her daughter done
58:02
she passed what she had on to her son
58:05
you have a spiritual obligation men as
58:10
spiritual leaders of your home to be the
58:13
man that’s passing the time from one
58:15
generation to the next take it seriously
58:20
play sheep have a great afternoon
58:27
[Applause]
Catfish Conference 2019 Seminar: Stacy Gaston
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