Drew almost got into an altercation with a man in a New Jersey bagel store today. And you were like, is this just what people are like here? I'm like, yeah, every bagel store is full of assholes in New Jersey. He looked like a career ass-beater. Gabe walked up to him and he opened his box and he said, take two. Yeah. And the kid's like, you're kidding. And then you came back and you gave him some. And then I told him, shut up.

Not everything's free. And the kid's like, you're kidding. And then you came back and you gave him some. Yeah.

And then I told him, shut up.

Not everything's free of this world.

Like, you lit up at the prospects of fishing the dirty spoonway.

Yeah, I love that stuff.

Come on, man. Cut and retry that. You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers, and people who love it when someone calls them big dog at the gym, but not at the Golden Corral.

And welcome to Cut and Retie, the fishing podcast that will call you My Guy if you slip a couple extra shiners in its minnow bucket. Hey, happy Friday, my guys and girls. I'm Joe Cermelli and all that nonsense I just spewed will come full circle. Dots will be connected within this episode. You'll see. But I'm going to move a little fast here to get to the meat of the program because joining me today is the tattoo legend himself. You know him, you love him. You have his stickers all over your shit. Mr. Drew Wilson, aka at Druler on the gram. And Drew and I talk kind of long. And that's a good thing. When that happens, it means we're having a really good conversation which was the case but it's also just been

a while since we've chatted right a while like the week cut and retie launched a while drew was one of

the very first guests ever on this show so after a misconnection last year that we'll tell you about

because it's just plum goofy uh i was pumped when he said hey man i'm headed back east and I have a day. Let's get together. So we did. But what did we do? Well, I told you guys last week we were entering the summer of the snake. I warned you, Susan. And thus it begins. Though honestly, that was my call. Snakes were my call, not Drew's. Drew would have went fishing for whatever I said we're going fishing for, right? But when I have limited time and someone's here in the, you know, middle of the summer, they're kind of my go-to if I'm forced to stay pretty local to the bunker, right? Now, the funny thing is, I'm the biggest promoter of fishing in your own backyard. You guys know this, and I believe in it deeply. But I also had this realization. I have tons of local spots I fish that I've been fishing since I was a kid, but I mostly

fish them alone, right? believe in it deeply. But I also had this realization. I have tons of local spots I fished that I've

been fishing since I was a kid. But I mostly fish them alone, right? These are quick hitter spots.

And I cherish and value them very much. But then when you have someone from out of town and you have to go

to those places, I get this feeling like, Jesus, my close to home spots are so unimpressive. Like they they're so weak. You know what I mean? Like, it's fine when it's just me, but embarrassing for guests. Not that Drew felt that way at all. In fact, it was quite the opposite. We had a smashingly good time, and I think he really dug the spot I took him to. But I had to laugh because not long ago, I shared a meme that one of you guys sent me,

and I never share those, right? It's not my style, but it just hit very hard. It's a video clip of a clown receiving an award, and the narration is like, for nine years in a row, Bonzo has been voted number one clown, but the meme caption reads, me going to that lake I hate for the third time this week, but it's close to the house. Like, man, that just got me right in the field.

Sometimes I feel the same. The meme caption reads, me going to that lake I hate for the third time this week, but it's

close to the house. Like, man, that just got me right in the field. Sometimes I feel the same way. Anyway, what I also felt was joy during this visit. And I got to give a shout out to Drew's buddy Gabe Lloyd, who fished with us as well. He did not join us for the show, but he had been carting Drew all over the East Coast for the last few days

prior to us meeting up, and he even delivered Drew to me from very far away. So I was like, dude, hang out and fish, right? Which he did. And it was great. We had a scream. So Drew's a fly guy, and that's what he did today. So we'll see how that went. We'll tell an endearing kid with no frogs to shut up and get a job.

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