EP 490: Catching GIANT Blackfish (With IGFA World-Record Holder Ken Westerfield)
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by the current holder of the IGFA World Record for Blackfish (Tautog), Ken Westerfeld. We talk through his experiences on the water, his approach to targeting trophy tautog and much more. Ken shares his favorite rigs, baits, rod and reels as well as the mindset required to entice a world record fish to take your bait.
Enjoy and tight lines!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This fish ain't it's in my soul |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast |
| 0:08.0 | Disrupting Fishing Entertainment |
| 0:10.0 | As you know it, Prepare to laugh |
| 0:12.0 | Prepare to get to know fishing legends |
| 0:14.0 | in a whole new and unfiltered way |
| 0:17.0 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing |
| 0:20.0 | Here's your host, Joe Simons |
| 0:23.0 | Like Diamonds |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to the |
| 0:28.0 | Salt Strong live stream and podcast |
| 0:30.0 | My name's Rich Natoli, I am the regular host of this show |
| 0:34.0 | Normally joined by the lovely and talented Ed Gobo |
| 0:37.0 | But he is off tonight and he's actually going to be off next week as well |
| 0:41.0 | When we bring back the salt strong coaches and we do the coaches show |
| 0:45.0 | But tonight, man, this is this is going to be a good one |
| 0:48.0 | I want to first of all thank everyone for sticking by |
| 0:51.0 | We had a little bit of an audio issue going on |
| 0:53.0 | But hey, it's live, it's what happens |
| 0:55.0 | And when you have two content creators, you can usually get through it |
| 0:58.0 | And we got through it |
| 0:59.0 | I'm going to give Ken a lot of credit for fixing this one |
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