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

And we have a good one today. I've been thinking, I've been mulling over this topic of discussion probably for the past six months and it finally

Don I said we're gonna do it we're just gonna do it and when I first got into this game, covering this stuff as an intern for Mark Jeffries, I remember you'd

sit around and everyone you'd have like anglers mixed in and you'd have like an outdoor rider and you'd be at a media vet and they say well who's

the best flipper out there that's oh it's Denny Brower oh but I watched Biffel in

97 breakdown a row of bushes and there is no one who could break down a row of

bushes like Biffle and then they go oh yeah or remember in 98 that flipping tube he you know

Denny Brower on High Rock Lake introduced the flipp he's got to be the best

flipper and then you know you get into the mid 2000s and the debate was the best offshore

structure guy well did you see Timmy Horton on Champlain

how he broke that down?

He was eating pizza by 10 a.m.

And they say, yeah, but look what Kevin Van Dam

did on Kentucky Lake.

He didn't even go to his best offshore stuff until 2 PM so no one would see.

So it dawned on me right now we're in a completely new era of bass fishing. We got guys that are winning

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