So I turn around and like the guy who this is all for is standing there with like limp line with nothing on it, like blowing in the breeze out the tip of the rod and we're all like...

We get a load over here!

Screaming drags.

A solid three-minute deep dive on the walleye tournament scandal rocking the fishing world in America wedged right between the rugby

highlights and South Pacific weather.

There are people that like woodworking, like I do woodworking stuff, believe it or not.

What kind of wood do you work with?

Come on, man, cut and retry that. You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers and people that understand what I mean when I say no milk will ever be our milk.

And welcome to Cut and Retie, the fishing podcast that stuffs its VCR with Tommy Boy and Manicin 2 on the run and then tries to win Best Picture

at the Cannes Film Festival. I'm Joe Sirmelli. Happy Friday and boy, are you in for a treat today?

Now, not as much of a treat as I was in for because the undisputed king of Lake Erie walley's

Ross Robertson wasn't sleeping on your futon, was he? No, he was sleeping on mine? You wish you had the kind of pull to get Ross at your house, flossing his teeth in the bathroom your kids use, surrounded by rubber sharks and tubes of strawberry bubble gum toothpaste, but you don't. I had that pleasure, but you're at least lucky enough to hear about this recent visit today.

Now, anyone who's been following me for a while probably knows Ross, knows of Ross, shall I say.

He is tall. He is lanky. He is very ginger. He looks like Conan O'Brien and really has no filter between brain and mouth, which is why Ross is a good time.

He and I have been friends for easily a decade now,

I'd say, and we've shot, I don't even know how many videos together, going way back to the

Hookshots Days, and more recently, Ross and I capped off season three of Meat Eaters' Doss

boat. So you can go watch that. Now, the funny thing is, 95% of the shit that I've made with Ross has been

walleye related. Because as much as I like to give Ross a hard time, as well as just give

walleye fishing a hard time in general, he is truly the best at it on Lake Erie. He is a ringer.

He is the man. And I have the utmost respect for that. And if your dream, one of you listening,

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