Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.

Prepare to laugh.

Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

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

Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Ten harsh fishing truths, saltwater fishing truths.

I wish I knew in my 20s.

Joe Simons, like diamonds, got Luke Simons, what's up, dude?

Not much, ready to talk through some things that I wish I knew earlier.

We wasted a lot of time. And I think in general, the cycle of an angler, if you will, someone who's been fishing since they were young.

Sure off young, you don't know Dilly Squat. You get a little confidence. You try new things. Your teens, you've got a ton of time. You don't have much money, but you got a lot of time. And I remember, you know, we'd have times where we could go out eight hours on a Saturday and then do it all again on a Sunday. I remember being out in, you know, Little Gaspera Island and Port Charlotte, Charlotte Harbor area. and we could spend the entire weekend and not even think twice about it. We had no jobs. It's really easy when you're 18 to spend a lot of time figuring it out. Then you get mid-20s and 30s and you get your first job and you start making a little bit money. Then all of a sudden get families and buy your first house and all of a sudden now you've got way fewer time. I've got a little bit more money, but the time just starts just getting smaller and smaller and just contracting and contracting. And then, of course, by time you retire, you got a whole lot more time and hopefully some money. Same point, you might not have a ton of money or time, and you still might not

have figured it all out. And I think the beauty about fishing, I think you'll agree with me, Luke,

it's a forever learning sport. It's something that every year we have new aha moments and even guys

like Peter Deeks, who we put up there as one of our living legends

and the Bill dances of the world, who is certainly a living legend,

still says he learns something every year.

That's something new about fishing.

Someone who's been fishing for 80 years now.

And so this particular podcast, or the 10 things we're going to talk about in this podcast are the things

that we wish we did know.

And number two, it's the things that we keep seeing is just recurring mistakes from not just

newer members, but weekend warriors and people that are going out there and having a frustrated

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