Welcome to the Fish Strong Podcast! Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it, prepare

to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way, and on

occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. Here are your hosts, Joe

and Luke Simons.

Hello, Fish Strong and Salt Strong Nation. It's Joe Simons back for another episode of

the Fish Strong Podcast, this episode, like all the prior ones, sponsored by the Salt

Strong Insider Fish and Club. The only club showing new spots, nutrients, and the best

tips every single week all year long, so you can start predicting where the fish will

be any situation, good or bad, and speaking of good or bad, because there's going to be

some pros and cons on this episode, we've had a lot of people ask us, and there's been

a lot of post about what's going on in that Indian river, banana river, mosquito lagoon

area, and if you're not familiar with that, that's, you know, it's one of the mechas. I

mean, it's one of like the places to go catch trophy in your fish. I mean, people from

all over the country and even the world go here, and it kind of looks like Texas water.

I mean, it's brown, and I've seen pictures. I believe I'm going to be over there here

in just a couple of days, so I'm not seeing it personally, but I'll be there shortly.

And there's just a lot of confusion. And so we started asking, like, all right, who's

the pro? And it's like, who's the expert? Who knows really what's going on behind these

scenes, where some of the money's being allocated, like, and what really is the problem?

And this captain named Captain Alex Goritsky, hopefully I didn't kill that from local line

charters. They're out of Cape Canaveral. It seems to be the go-to guy. So Captain Alex,

are you there, my friend? I am here 100%. Yeah, baby. So before we get into it, take us

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