EP 208: The Future Of Gator Trout
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's speckled trout time! Not just any speckled trout, we're talking gator trout. In this episode, I have Eye Strike co-founder Dave Fladd on the show to discuss Release Over 20" (a new conservation initiative to help bread more large trout). Dave shares some wild stats on trout over 20 inches along with his thoughts on the future stock of speckled trout, etc. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This fish ain't it's in my soul |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast |
| 0:08.0 | Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it |
| 0:11.0 | Prepare to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way |
| 0:17.0 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing |
| 0:20.0 | Here's your host, Joe Simons |
| 0:23.0 | Like Diamonds |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, soft strong nation, Joe Simons |
| 0:29.0 | Like Diamonds, we are back |
| 0:31.0 | Got my friend Dave Vlad from Ice Strike on the call with me |
| 0:35.0 | This is going to be a really cool one |
| 0:37.0 | We are going to talk a little bit about jigheads and colors and all that |
| 0:40.0 | But the main focus here is going to be gator trout |
| 0:44.0 | And really obviously it's not just gator trout |
| 0:47.0 | Because depending on where you are, a gator trout could mean you have to be 27 inches or more |
| 0:52.0 | But really talking about this release over 20 |
| 0:56.0 | So that we do have more gator trout all over from Texas to North Carolina, Virginia |
| 1:03.0 | Wherever you might be fishing for speckled trout |
| 1:06.0 | And Dave has done something really unique with this release over 20 |
| 1:10.0 | I've been hearing about it quite a bit |
| 1:12.0 | And I reached out to Dave and I was like man we got to get you on the podcast to discuss what's going on |
| 1:17.0 | So first and foremost, welcome to the show Dave |
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