Good morning and welcome to another edition of Guide Day here on BTL.

This is actually the third Guide Day of the 20-24 season, a new addition to the BTL family running.

We're starting every Friday.

Eventually it's going to peel off to be probably every other Friday,

but I wanted to kind of get in the swing of things,

talk to a bunch of different guides from across the country,

kind of give people an idea of what they can expect, if they're traveling for business,

if they're looking to take a destination trip.

We kicked off with some exotics and the Florida fishing with Captain Justin Jones down in Florida with the cloud knife fish and the peacocks and the

Okachobe bass, both on artificial and the golden shiners.

And then we transition to Big J.P. who is up in New York who kind of does the

destination trip for the giant small mouth. And now we're going to get right into the

guts of it, right into the middle of the country what I would consider just based on my knowledge and the people that I know in that part probably one of the toughest but also most rewarding places to guide and that is on the TVA.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, the river systems, there's a bunch of lakes down there and a guy who's

been doing it for a long time both in the

tournament scene and the guiding scene is Jimmy Mason who we have joining us Jimmy

thank you we're taking advantage of this weather you got some time off the

water thanks for jumping on guide day.

Hey man, thanks for having me on. Is that a fair assessment? One of the toughest now, I know you're probably going to be a little bit biased,

but you know you look you guide on Wheeler Wilson

Pickwick Gunnersville to me there are tons of guides there are tons of guys

who fish that who think that they could be guides and there's just a lot of competition and a lot of different

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