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Good morning and welcome to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Live where we are going to talk about bass fishing.

I might be a little bit fuzzy. The the gremlins in the machine are real. The internet does not like the the

internet does not like sub zero actual temperatures here in Oklahoma so I've had

had multiple people out to the house

multiple trucks on multiple cables leading into the studio.

So I think we've got it going where we got a full week of shows lined up,

a show that I'm very excited to get to today. I really don't know much about Brian Evans. He took over Bastrix. We all know what Bastrix is in 2021. He's been running it ever since.

But to me, Bastrix goes back to those mid 2000s,

J J J J Ellis, Skeet Reese, Steve Kennedy, that type of thing,

and then it's been kind of a little bit of a mysterious company.

So I know they made a comeback, so I was talking with my buddy Todd Klein, rest-in-piece dolphin. Sorry to that didn't go very well.

But he was like, hey, I know the contact here ended up getting hooked up with Brian, so we're going to get him on here in a couple of seconds.

Over the weekend, big news did go down on the Bass Pro Tour.

Dakota E-Bair drops out of the BPT and makes the move to the opens, which opens up a spot for

Giacopo Galalei, I might not have said that, right, to move into the BPT, but here's the wild thing.

So E-Bare has between 15 events on the BPT and the MLF Pro circuit.

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