Welcome to the Fish 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 are your hosts, Joe

and Luke Simons.

Hey there, so strong Fish Strong Nation, Joe Simons back! Another episode of the Fish

Strong Podcast. I am here in the lovely Winter Haven, Florida for those of you that might

have missed it. We moved to office. My brother is still in Tampa. Will is still over there

in St. Pete. Nick, Donald Braydenton, Tony's in Orlando, and Trays in Orlando. By myself

and Carol now in Winter Haven, Florida, if you're wondering why the heck Winter Haven

floored it? Well, I was born in Tampa, but you know, spent most of my younger years like

high school years and middle school in Winter Haven, Florida. I still have a ton of family

here, and my wife and I had our third child, I guess, two years ago now. I'm losing track

with three young kids of seven, four, and now just turned two this past month, and we

were in Tampa, and we were right there on the water, which was awesome. I could literally

walk out my back door and catch red fish and stoke and trout in Florida. It was awesome.

And I love that part of it, but of course being on the water is super expensive, and you

don't get much home unless you have a ton of money, and we didn't, and we were still

running. You know, my brother and I sold everything to start salt strong, and I just, I look

back at my past, and maybe you're like this, and maybe you're not, but I certainly was,

and I know a lot of people have shared with me that they were similar in the fact that

they grew up with, you know, some land and some yard, and there was just fond memories

of going back into backyard and playing with the neighborhood kids, and, you know, getting

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