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You know, one of my mom's friends, husbands i don't even know it's like well your son

fishes and he passed away i have and you're like oh my god here we go it's happened to me twice

and each time like i don't have the heart to be like this is dog shit your husband really

fished with some garbage talking roadkill squirrels here 100% 100% and it's like keep a pair of shears in my truck, and there's this beautiful, just head smashed

in the kind of squirrel, sniff that tail off, and it's currently in the freezer going through

a week's worth of sub-zero temperatures.

On one hand, it was the first salmon he ever caught that might be worthy of a hickory

bath from the Lord Jensen Big Chief instead of fertilizer or feeding Ripper Cody and Desert Eagle,

his three German shepherds.

Come on, man.

Cut and retry that. You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers, and people who act like they reinvented the wheel

every time they add a new ingredient like whiskey, cran apple juice, or Mr. Pibb to their fish-smoking brine.

And welcome to cut and retie, the fishing podcast, the regrets to inform you. It cannot taste the difference between a simple salt and sugar brine and And welcome to cut and retie the fishing podcast that regrets to inform you,

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