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Cut & Retie

Ep. 169 - A Musky Fool's Errand

Cut & Retie

Joe Cermele

Wilderness, Sports

4.9697 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan Donovan and Josh "BamBam" Smeltzer of the Musky Fools get all horned up about banging respectable water bears, we have a legal discussion on common law boat ownership and why it's a bad idea, reject any sorry excuse you've ever had for losing a fish, and really want to go home but refuse to be the ones to say that. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

If the movie Roadhouse was a fishing reel, it would be the new third generation Cabo from Quantum.

0:07.0

For more than 20 years, Cabo has been synonymous with punishing monster fish in the harshest

0:13.0

environments from the beaches to the canyons, and I can tell you from experience, the new Cabos go harder than ever.

0:19.0

Sealed to IPX8 standards, sand, sand nor salt nor grit is getting inside the high-strength

0:25.6

aluminum body while the CFX-200 carbon fiber drag system is designed to take years of torture.

0:32.6

I fully expect my new Cobbos to hit like brass knuckles season after season for a long time.

0:38.9

So if you're ready to take a swing with a tough, dependable sidekick, visit Quanimfishing.com.

0:51.2

Dan, as his boss, if you will, or whatever you want to call it, are you that guy who's

0:55.1

like, are you working today?

0:56.1

Are you signed on?

0:57.1

Is your green light on Slack?

0:58.6

Oh, no.

1:00.6

We just have a mouse tracker and a keyboard tracker on him.

1:04.1

Oh, no.

1:05.1

Yeah.

1:06.1

He doesn't know that.

1:06.8

He just found that out right now.

1:09.1

What was really going through your head during the diatribe on why Dan missed the musky three times?

1:14.6

For sure, dude.

1:16.6

Especially we had all four cameras rolling.

1:19.6

Batteries are just draining and I'm like, how many fucking chances do you need, dude?

1:25.6

This is where Josh and I also diverge a little. I have no interest in banging up respectable fish, whatever that means, sexual metaphor. Like, I, like, like, come on, man, cut and retry that. You know that's never going to work good morning friends degenerate anglers

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