On today's episode, we take a hard look at when and why the flash of your lure matters.

We discuss the single most important feature of a Nico rig with some help from Elite Series Pro

Easton Fathergill. We get to see who is your favorite professional fishing league right now,

and we discuss the importance of vertical versus horizontal action and drawing power

in the wintertime. All that and more on this episode of Tackle Talk.

Hello, everybody. I'm Bill Dance, and you're back to an absolutely jam-packed episode of the Tackle Talk podcast here on this fine Tuesday. We've got an awesome show for you. I feel like I say that a lot, but I promise this one is a good one.

We've got a great main topic for you all. We also have all three of our in-show segments,

the pro tip, the fishing pole, and the mailbag all lined up and ready to go. But before we get

into everything, I just want to give a really quick shout out to the fellas over at Bass After Dark. About a week and a half ago now from when you're listening to this episode, I had the

pleasure of hopping on for, I don't know, either the third or fourth time that I've been lucky

enough to head over and do an episode of Bass After Dark. And it's always a fun time because you get

to be a little bit more off the cuff, and we get to explore some topics and some

opinions that I probably wouldn't normally voice here on Tackle Talk. So I'll drop a few snippets

in here really fast. You can hear what a little bit of that sounded like and some of the many

topics that we discussed over at Bass After Dark. Let me start with this. Andrew, the statement from AI was pro bass fishing will become more entertainment than sport. Just off the cuff, do you agree with that statement or disagree with that statement? Yeah. When I first heard that I, like my mind immediately jumped to yes, but then I had to sit there and think about why it was yes so fast.

And I kept, like I danced around it for a little bit. And what I kept coming back to is this

feeling that substance doesn't sell anymore. Like that is that is not. And the fishing industry,

old school is very much like it's about the substance. We, we fight this fight all the time. You talked about it earlier in the fishing industry, old school, is very much like it's about the substance.

We fight this fight all the time.

You talked about it earlier in the episode where we both run shows that I think we put a lot of effort into and we try really hard.

And there's hours of prep and all this stuff that takes so much time.

We're not just flipping on a microphone and BS.

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