Ladies and gentlemen, on today's episode, we tackle a ton of different topics here on the show,

from budget crankbait rods to dealing with wind in the kayak, to how to fish areas with a ton

of leaves on the water in the fall and in the winter, replica mounts, fishing electronic brands,

Texas rigs versus jigs, and more on today's episode of Tackle Talk.

Hello, everybody. I'm Bill Dance, and you're listening to Tackle Talk.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Tackle Talk. Today, we have quite a bit to get to.

We have a ton of mailbag questions. We have a really interesting listener poll and a whole lot more.

But first, I at least want to say thank you to all of you listening for all of the positive feedback from the news that broke earlier this week about American Legacy Fishing.

And I'm sure most of you have heard that really quick update episode and the remarks that we played from Brian.

It obviously sucks that ALF went out of business.

But I am glad that we got to hear it all straight from someone directly involved versus having to kind of go around the rumor mill. And now we have a much better idea

of what's actually going on and what's going to happen moving forward, including for those

of you out there that might have an outstanding order. Now, American Legacy Fishing, like we said,

obviously went out of business, but it sounds like Brian, the previous vice president, is going to step up to the plate and carry

the torch by starting his own tackle shop and retroactively honoring all of the orders for those

people that might have got caught in the crosshairs of American Legacy Fishing closing and are

still waiting for their orders. So some good news on that

front, and I'm sure we'll hear more here soon, but the messages that we've got and the feedback

was like 99% positive. And it's just cool to see the fishing community kind of all come together

and root for the good guys. And Brian and his crew really were the good guys in the tackle space.

And it's been kind of cool to sit back and see all of the comments come in of people saying

something along the lines of like, hey, you and your team were incredible to work with in the past.

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