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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.

Busy time in the world of professional bass fishing, we have a lot of things that are winding down.

Actually kind of coming up, I guess, the last major tournament that we have is a Toyota Series championship that takes place on Grand Lake and then a couple of MLF team series that we have.

But other than that, the Bassmaster Team Series championship will give one last spot to the

Bassmaster Classic Champion and then one more Bassmaster Open EQ to decide the 10 anglers who are moving

on to the 2026 Bassmaster Elite series season. But we're kind of getting to that time of the

year where we're seeing how the 2026 season is going to take place, how it's going to form new rules and regulations.

It's been really interesting to watch kind of from inside the industry and then also as an

angler who fishes a lot of tournaments.

There's been changes every off season, regardless of what you fish, kind of moving forward as anglers and

organizations and sponsor companies all try to kind of navigate with the technology and social

media, both on and off the water. There's just a lot of stuff happening right now. I felt like,

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