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Good evening. And welcome to an exciting edition of BTL Bas Talk Lava.

We are going to talk about bass fishing. Yes, it is Bass Master Open Week on Lake

UFala in,, you follow Oklahoma.

Fortunately, that is only about an hour and 10 minutes from the house, so

I practice today yesterday and Sunday, but uh, got off the water and then headed back home to the studio for an evening show and this originally wasn't going to be live.

We'll bring him in just right off the hopper here.

This originally wasn't going to be live.

But if you listen to the BTL episode that we did with Thomas Allen from In Fisherman that Matt

Stephan came on to talk about how honored he was to be in in Fisherman and he was

only supposed to be on for like 10 minutes well an hour and a half later we ended up with this convoluted plan.

What did it start out as Matt? Thanks for jumping on this evening. I greatly appreciate it by the way.

Yeah we got a lot of work to do. Yes we we got a lot of work to do. Yes, we do have a ton of work to do. So it started out as I chow-

I was on the NC Sherman website and I was like, holy cow, they still have the master anglers which the master angler awards at least for me growing up like every fish I caught from the ages of probably 9 to 15 that was you know what you're fighting it the thought crosses my mind I

wonder if this is a master angler fish are you the same way yeah the if you grew up

in the Midwest you you determined whether or not the fish you caught were big by what the master angler award length limit or pound limit was. So if I went out and I caught you know and it was almost always like

especially if you caught a new fish for the first time like I remember the first time I caught

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