Welcome back to the Country Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast.

Well, this is Hal Herring.

We're sponsored now by Sitka Gear.

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I'd also like to invite all the listeners to the podcast of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

and Anglers' seventh annual rendezvous. Gonna be the biggest gathering of conservation-minded hunters and anglers in our country.

And this is happening April 12th through the 14th in Boise, Idaho.

Meeting people like Stephen Ronella, Remy Warren, Randy Newburgh, Hank Shaw, Hank's one of the best

wild game cooks in the world.

And you being able to rub shoulders with the hundreds of other public land owners and public land

sportsman. It's always been a really good time. Tickets are on sale now and they

cover all kind of activities there. You've got the Brewfest, the Camp Chef Cookoff, there's all kind of seminars.

What's growing in popularity has been the headline in storytelling event.

It's really, it's just really a good time, it's not to be missed if this is the kind of kind of lifestyle you lead.

Your tickets are now available at backcountryhunters.org

Good morning. This is a backcountry hunters and anglers podcast and blasts. I'm

Hal Herring and I'm here today with a good old friend of mine Tony Bonham Tony is uh and I'll take the risk of embarrassing him here and don't care Tony's

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