It's like having a boat tied up and then like doing the math on what each trip cost you based on how much you use it.

It's like you start thinking like that, you'd be an idiot to have a boat.

A lot of these guys, they forget where they came from.

Like these superstars that are online, they got their like handle name.

They introduce each other on the beach as like, you know, Striper 6479.

I mean, fights used to break out in those lines, wouldn't they?

I mean, like, it could get the biggest heated.

The biggest thing was if you sold before the doors open.

Come on, man.

Cut and retry that.

You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers, and people that surffish on crowded public beaches on summer Saturdays with that spinning reel that's got 15 wraps a chartreuse mono on it. And welcome to Cut and Retai, the

fishing podcast that sees you reeling in gobs of seaweed and laughs when you give it up after 20 minutes

to go play spike ball with the kids instead. All those little bits of bait just flapping in the

breeze on those croaker rigs for the rest of the day,

drying out, roasting in the sun. Anyway, happy Friday, everyone. I'm Joe Cermelli and I'm an asshole. That

wasn't very nice to start, was it? But hey, you know what? There's going to be more shit talk today.

So I figured, why not just jump right in? You know what I mean? I've actually been wanting to cover today's topic for a while. It's just been a matter of deciding who the right person to do it with was. Well, I've cleared

that hurdle and I'm pumped because I've actually had several requests for the topic. So what are we

doing? Well, we're taking a dive into the world of custom striper lores today. Now, I've had

glide bait makers on, pike decoy carvers on,

and I've been asked a few times when I'm going to talk striper lores. The thing is, though,

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