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

Three saltwater fishing tackle mistakes to avoid here in 2026.

I am Joe Simons like diamonds, and we got Luke Simons like diamonds.

We violated all three of these mistakes ourselves and it costs us a lot of money and time.

And I feel like we've talked about most of these before, not all three of these,

and prior podcast in the fishing school, on videos, on live podcasts.

And yet we continue to keep seeing the same mistakes over and over and over again.

Not just from newer beginners, even hardcore weekend warriors.

Even people who have been in our club for a while have kind of maybe sometimes fall back in this routine.

So we'll hit them up one at a time.

The last one is kind of got a few different pieces of it.

But the first one, and this is specifically for, you know,

we're talking about insured saltwater fishing for all these.

And this is for a saltwater spinning reel.

And it's the myth, you will about having the highest drag I see people who man this reel has got the the best dragger it's

got 35 pound well like I mean sarcastic but just crazy drag when you're fishing with 10 pound braid

to get your redfish or trout and I'm like do you

think you need that ever and I don't think a lot of people understand why you would never meet

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