Ladies and gentlemen, on today's episode, we get to announce our brand new partnerships for the

2026 season of Tackle Talk.

We have some awesome news coming out of the state of Arkansas as they tried to beef up their

trophy fishing potential.

We ask you, the listeners, about your experience with fuzzy baits so far, and we crack open

the mailbag.

All about it more on this 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 the Tackle Talk podcast. I hope you all had a great, happy new year. And now, as we settle back into our everyday lives after family events,

and maybe some time off work if you were lucky, some traveling maybe. Today,

we have a lot to cover as we start the new year here at Tackle Talk. So first off, a very quick

PSA. We'll have more to come on this in the next few weeks. But just to let everybody know,

the Columbus Fishing Expo is quickly approaching Friday, January 30th from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday, January 31st,

from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, February 1st, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

I will, of course, be there again this year. We'll have the Tackle Talk booth,

and the plan is just to hang out and meet as many of you as possible and talk some fishing.

That is, like, my number one objective these three days is to hang out and meet as many of you as possible and talk some fishing. That is like my

number one objective these three days is to hang out at the booth. But I'm also planning on having

a little bit of like a bass fishing yard sale at the boot this year with some of my old rods

and reels and a ton of baits and maybe some new and used batteries and like all kinds of stuff

at a great price if you're wanting to pick up something on a little bit more of a bargain. So we'll have a little bit of something for everybody. And as always, we'll still be doing our seminars that weekend as well. I don't know the seminar schedule yet, but as soon as that's finalized, I'll make sure to let you all know so you can kind of plan out when and where to be at certain times and the topics that those seminars will be and all that good stuff too. But I just wanted to put that out there. I know we've still got a few months to go, but I'd love to see you guys at the Expo January 30th through February 1st in Columbus, Ohio. Again, the booth will be there all three days, seminars, gear for sale, the whole nine yards, so come hang out. And if you need more info on it, I'll leave the link to the Expo website below in today's show notes, just in case you want to buy tickets ahead of time, which I strongly encourage so that you don't have to wait in the box office line. If you know, you know, if you've been to this expo before, it is so nice just to have your tickets ahead of time and walk right in. So you can click the link below, January 30th through February 1st in Columbus, Ohio. Looking forward to seeing you all there. All right, next up here today, since it is our first episode of the year, I have some really exciting announcements about Tackle Talk as a whole to make to you all

now that we're past January 1st. And I feel like I've been pretty open and honest the past few years

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