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And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

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Hello and welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast, Rich Natoli here, back again with another episode.

And this one is going to be a little bit different.

So rather than having a co-host or a guest with me in this one, I'm flying solo and I'm

flying solo on a topic that was sent into me by one of our insider members.

And he suggested that I do an episode on pre-trip planning and the process that you go through

when you want to make sure that you have the best possible day out on the water.

So I'm going to go through that here, very simple steps, but very important steps.

And I know a lot of people know what these steps are, but we can all do with a reminder.

And maybe there's someone here that you haven't used in the past and you want to start using

moving forward.

So I'm going to go through what I use as a pre-trip planning process generally speaking.

And I'm going to talk specifically about different types of fish or different species

of fish.

And you can apply this process to anything that you're going out there to look for.

So sit back, take it in, I'm going to go through the pre-trip planning process right now.

And the way that I'm going to start this is let's start at the top.

Before you're going to get out there on the water and before you start this pre-trip planning

process, you really need to identify what the species is that you want to target.

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