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

and I'll just get it out of the way right off the hopper.

So the show is at 7.30 PM Central Time on Tuesday evening, September 10th, and I get a call approximately 20 minutes ago from a very

befuddled Mark Jeffries, founder of the bass zone and BTL and he said quote

Have you been living under a rock? And I said well what do you mean? I just got off the water got the the boat put up, was getting all the invitations set out for tonight's

MLF mega show where we're going to talk about their recent press release that hit the

presses on September 6th, announcing the forward facing sonar rules

for 2025 from the high school

all the way through the BPT level.

And he said, dude, the debate.

And I said, yeah, I guess I have been living under Iraq. Now, I mean, listen, when I was in high school, I was a page in the Illinois House of Senate. I have gone to Washington, D.C. and talked to the legislators on

behalf of 4-H and the 4-H Club, Head Hard Hands and Health. So I am fully committed

into our democratic process. But but yes the show was booked and we are

doing the show on the night of the debate so if you're catching the replay not an issue if you're

catching it live greatly appreciate all of you who are tuning in for it.

So we did this on the Bass side when Bass announced all of their forward facing

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