Ladies and gentlemen, on today's episode, back by popular demand, we have our seventh year in a row of our New Year's resolutions episode.

So this is an episode where we will recap the past six years of resolutions and give you five brand new ones for 2026 to hopefully help set you off on the right foot as we head into the new year and give you all some great goals to strive for all that and more on this episode of Tackle Talk.

Hello, everybody. I'm Bill Dance, and another episode of the Tackle Talk podcast. Before we get started

here today, I hope you all had a wonderful, safe, healthy, memorable Christmas with your

family and your friends out there. So we get so caught up,

I think, sometimes in our day-to-day life and the stress of work and everything that we've got

going on. And I hope that you guys at least got to set aside some time to spend with the most

important people in your life and celebrate and laugh and pray and reminisce and whatever the holidays

mean for you. I know that the holidays can be a mix of emotions for some people. Some people

have new little ones joining the family for the first time this year. Others, this is the

first Christmas without somebody important in our family. But regardless of what this past year

brought, I think it's important

to have that sort of mental reset with your family and your friends as you finish out 2025 and

head into 2026. So I hope you all were able to do just that over the past week. Now, that leads us

into our episode today, which is, if I have counted right, I believe the seventh year in a row that we will be doing our annual New Year's Resolution episode.

And I've talked about this before, so I won't beat this Dead Horse too much.

But this is important to me because I feel like a lot of times as anglers, we set goals that are kind of out of our control, right, that are left

a little bit to chance and to luck. And I don't think that's what a resolution should be. I don't

think a resolution should be, well, I hope to catch my PB this year. That's great, but that is

something that there are a lot of outside forces that determine whether or not

that will happen. That is not something that you have the ability to fully control. And I like

my resolutions to be something that I can control. And the resolution itself, if it is something

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