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So while before we started this man, I was admiring everything that's on your wall back there. You got some pretty good accomplishments man. I think you know, there's a lot of people out there that haven't got that far into one of those kind of those big checks that you got hanging back there. So congrats on that buddy. Thank you man. Appreciate it. Good how much? You won so far this year. I had it up earlier. I think I'm just under 9,000 roughly. Yeah gone nine boys, man. That is crazy hang and how are you? How old are you? 15 years old man. All right. That's what grade are you in school? I'm gone into sophomore year sophomore 10th grade making nine G's on the Tournament Trail 15 years old and I said, okay. So here's here. It is man. Just just remember me because when you get up to the big time, I just want to sign like Jersey or something. Do you think you can hook that up? Just give me a signed jersey. Yeah, I can hook you up. All right, my man. All right, you don't have to do that. It's just right. It's that guy. Well, hey, man. Um, so why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself about how you got an efficient? You know, what keeps you motivated some keep moving forward. Well, I especially in ever since I can really remember of always always just love the sport and for my sixth or seventh birthday. My dad got me a sit-in Perception Kayak and to float down like current river and Jacks Fork to do like the river trips and I would always take a fishing pole with me. And that's really where I fell in the love of kayak fishing. But and like last year and a half is when my dad actually showed me kvf and kite bass fishing tournaments and we're like, well what's to do it and that's what kind of where it all started but started off kind of strong. I finished my first tight bass or kayak fishing tournament. It was actually in the whole B series and the youth division the A that I got my kayak in the mail. I got it. Well, I mean when we got it and went to Kentucky like and I ended up getting second place in that. So that was good big confidence booster right off the start and that's probably that's where it all started and it just snowballed from there. Yeah, so Dad planted the seed or dad has contributed to a lot of what you know about fishing. Both rally is planned to seed with showing me kayak Bass Fishing and showing me. Hey, like this is how this works and do that. And of course from there. I've learned of other stuff that keeps going on and my dad my grandpa was always taking me crappie fishing off the bank and that's pretty much work started, but I've learned a lot from my dad and my grandpa. Oh, that's very cool. Now you dad dad. A new kayak to is that right? Didn't I? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Chad Hoover gave our chat Hoover and Kai basses you gave my dad a Jackson. Let's go nice could kayak ju loved that boat. That is probably my favorite Riverboat for sure. Yeah. I'll actually I stole it a couple times to go down some Rivers. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice, isn't it? Yeah, it's it's like it's super stable. I mean, it's pretty fast paddler. I mean, you know, and you can lean over the side. Anything and not have to worry about falling in. That's stable. So what are you fishing out of? I'm in a Native Watercraft item 12 Irish. Wow big kayak good for you man. Is that what you're sticking with now? I've tried a couple other Kayaks with the pedal system and Native is my favorite one so far. I got another pedal kayak that's always on the trailer when we go to tournaments just as a backup, but the native the native. Yeah native Titan is my favorite so far nice right on very cool man heard. That was a great kayak a guy. I know it's on the Jackson team now he used to use the pedal of native and he said a lot of good things about that too. There are Huge boats for sure man, but I heard they were awesome. So basically is as big as they are they turn and they got pretty decent speed and the turning radius I heard was real sharp mistakes, especially if you get the upgraded writer I can turn on a dime. Yeah. I heard that that is awesome. So what do you pack it with me and you have you carry? Like how many rods I mean? What's your what's your Loadout for tournaments? Well, I just got a new Rod because it was on sale and I was like, well, I can't turn that down. So now I'm carrying eight rods with Me so many they are those do you keep a couple for backup or do you have like each Rod set up with a certain bait man, or is it just like, you know, I fish five Carry Three is back up. I fish with all of them all of them kind of have their certain styles of Base. I like to throw on like frog in and crank baits and finesse and all that. So they're all kind of they all have their specific uses. Yeah. And I thought I carried a lot I carry seven if it's like a local tournament. It's three if it's like a big tournament 7, I don't know. What about you Jay? Yeah, I'm going around like 6 to 7 only because I'm too lazy to retie. Yeah. Yeah, like I'll go out there and go he's better work. Yeah, because I'm sorry Ty anything I see I actually feel like I do better when I have three rods because then I'm constantly time something doesn't work if Forces me to like change Bates and then you know on the water especially the water conditions get Rocky tying. It can be a little bit of a challenge fan. So last time I was out with Aaron Steiger fish and he goes dude your time leaders on the water. I'm like, yeah man, like I just got second nature to it. So I prefer only carry three and I made his only have three from and period just because it's I always carry a few as a backup inside the pontoons, but three is my really go to one spinning rod Into Cash. Singing I'm all right with that personal preference. I'd agree to I mean, I'm kind of like these days. It's real similar to one. We fished out. Um out at a common Lake. I'm pretty much forced myself these Plastics these days, you know, I'm so much of a power fisherman that I know I lack in patients. So so now I'm like constantly diet like a waitlist tied up. I've got a simple cone wait usually a little bit lighter than Weightless, maybe a ribbon tail, you know, I'll even throw up to like a 10 or 12 inch worm. You know, I've never thrown one that big before. Oh, yeah, we caught some nice fish on those big worms Oh well, but yeah, I mean those can be really deadly to I mean usually I find that those work really good in the grass. But you know point being is that like these days I know I lack so I'm like, I'm only taking like three to four rods out and they're all Plastics especially during the summer. I don't want to give myself a chance even if Hitting topwater, you know, I'll throw a wacky rig and just working on the top water if they're going to be going for that. But you know, you do anything similar like that Dylan. Recently, I've been really getting into soft Plastics because it's getting into the it's been somewhere in the really hot out deep but last year my dad said I know I always had a plastic on but I'd never throw it. But this year I always keep like the little empty bags. I have a stack of them that I've gone through. So you're doing kind of the same thing. It's like, you know, it works. So you're forcing yourself to get out there and do it. Yeah. So if you can't I'll go ahead go ahead. Sorry. I was gonna say see your power fisherman first. Dylan I lost you for a second. No. No, are you a power fisherman first? Yeah, always powerful Sherman. I'd rather be a power efficient than the Finesse. You just keep it busy just slinging Bates man and just ripping them drives me nuts. I hate like you like you like okay just slow slow and then I'll find myself power fishing Plastics, which I think works. Like it works - yeah, you know people like you can't do that. I mean you can say what you want but works what's your go-to if you had if you had to only bring three rods in three base, what would be your top three? Well, I'm always going to cover the three bottom columns. I'm going to always have probably a top water like a walker popper or a frog probably Walker Clopper first, and then I'm going to probably work the middle is going to be a lipless crankbait and then bottom is a Texas Rig creature bait. Yeah. What about you Jay? For me dynamite dynamite, it'll be all three now, you know, it's changed from year to year. I was pretty heavy into spinnerbait. I mean, I was going to spinnerbait all year long when you're catching fish left and right and then that turned into a ChatterBait which turned into like a paddle tail, but I still switch off with that as one of the main Bates and I guess everyone last but Wind spinner that things are knock out in a matter where you throw it they catch fish simply and then the other would be like, I guess some type of the top water on. I mean a buzzbait or Whopper plopper even sometimes even some of those like little like chatter topwaters with like the double the double props the one on the front one in the back. I got one of those too that just makes a Ruckus and that usually will do something but Yeah, I mean, that's usually when I'm throwing what are you throwing well? It's a good question. I like the Whopper popular, but I've never caught a fish off of Opera Pauper. So that one's out like I love throwing it and I love the action against like when we were at Callan Lake I was using a frog and I was having just a lot of action on that but I wasn't using any certain frog there was a particular frog that I was using that created a lot of commotion. So I use that but I wouldn't say that's my go-to. My number one go-to is going to be a jig on natural crawl with the trailer. I just think a jig You know when a dog gets a jig out hashtag jig Masters right there. Nice little pitch there for Cody. Yeah. So I like The Jig and specifically his GX. I think they're great and I definitely spinnerbait. I've never I think honest honestly, I've fished chatter baits for probably two years. I've landed one fish on a ChatterBait. I pulled the Spinners back out and I'm smashing them. On spinnerbaits, right? So interesting enough interesting enough and not just any spinnerbaits bright colored ones, white and chartreuse either one of those and a willow blade and Colorado blade on each one. So that that's pretty good for me. And then I'm going like Dylan said Texas Rig I'm not going to go Texas Rig, but I'm due a weightless fluke. I'm so and you On a light spinning rod with about four pound braid about probably six pound fluorocarbon on that and I'm going to just going to Twitch it, you know rip and twitch rip into which I've had a lot of luck with the flukes. So, you know, man, that's my three. Yeah, please do pretty good man. I've used them quite a few times. They've got me place in the top 10. Yeah, underestimate a billion people don't really miss him anymore. And they forget how deadly are specially in a way to do you do a light wire hook on that man weightless and you throw that and smack it against the bank and rip it off a bank like around cover dude, it gets demolished, you know, so it's a good one. You can ask Gina we need they don't call him the fluke Master for for no reason, right? Yes, and I don't know if you ever saw it like on wired2fish. They there's this I don't know if it's a new way of rigging but it definitely caught my attention. I haven't done it yet. But they use a rivet casing. Let's say and they use a treble hook and what it does is you basically use the stem of the stem of the rivet. You put it through the nose, you know through the the open slot of the body where the hook is we're hooked. and then you put in like the casing of it and then you can run your line, you know through the actual casing and in the tie off a split ring and then a treble hook and then you just shove like one of the hooks and you want to use like a number for I think a size number four I think on it and I usually like 5 inch 5 inch flute, but then you put one of the hooks like into the body to keep it in place in the split ring will keep the line from pulling all the way through like with the hook, but now you have a Reusable bait instead of because you know if you Texas Rig, you know a fluke. It's pretty much tore up and like two hits. Absolutely, you know, unless you're melting it back together is there's I mean, I've tried that with some of the butane lighters it works kind of but you know, it starts smelling really funny on your boat. He started doctor stuff up water. Absolutely. You know, one thing I found out that work for me real well to specifically account like tournament is that when I everybody else went deep, you know, Dylan just said, hey man, it's They're hanging out deep. I'm going to throw, you know, Carolina or not Carolina, but Texas break. So I went like shallow and shaded then Kalin Lake and I got a lot of I lost the monster against the one that haunts me the monster. I lost on got tangled up in a lily pad, but I had a Carolina rig because I was fishing rocks and I was throwing a Carolina down and dragging it with a googan trench hog on the back of it. And so when I saw everybody out and in the Deep parts of the lake house, like I'm going to lily pads re see back there seems like a bacteria was just like boosh boosh boosh. She was like an orchestra, you know, they're hidden. I got super pumped up man. So I didn't have a frog title him, but I didn't want to miss that window then blowing up. So I threw that Carolina rig and the lily pads are so huge back there just plop down on there and I hopped it like a frog and it when 10 seconds later just got demolished. So I was like, that's not a bad idea man. If you don't have a frog you can throw that and just hop it you know that you can bait trench hog works really good and the actions phenomenal on So I know there's a lot of controversy about Google Bates, but they catch fish they can yeah. Yeah extra just bought a pack of trench Hogs. I put it on a Carolina rig I can tuck you like. Yeah. I caught one on it. But that's first time throwing a Caroline Oregano's definitely a different style of bay that felt weird when the fish would bite it it was yeah, it does feel weird man. It feels like the kind of nibble. Why did they like they suck it up like a bluegill little bitch then boom. Yeah, you know, it's Stephen I like the Google beat the bandito bugs are probably my favorite, you know, I think those on a jig like trailer those with the and and put like, you know, they make some good color receiving the like one of my favorite color jigs of the June bug and I'll put a black and blue gear can bait on there and it's just man that's nasty and some muddy staying water one of my favorites. Well Dylan, you know, you're only 15 right and I think at the time we met you were only 14 right you had a birthday. I guess I was there. Okay? Yeah because meet you know, I last time I saw you was Madison for the kbf which I'm pretty sure you won that one. Good job on that. What? Yeah. What I what I think is interesting though. It's like, you know, you're 15, you can't drive so your dad drives you all you know around. We're happily to help you pursue. You know, this is Passion you have for fishing. You know how to I mean, how does what's the Dynamics obviously really good between you two like what are some of your your favorite points about doing that and I mean because you know, and I'm a father and you know, I would love it if my kids love fishing, you know, and I would be there for him, you know and take them through it but they like videogames a better but that's just me. But yeah, I've lost 2 Xbox and YouTube but I mean, you know, what's that like for you and You know, how do you guys decide how you're going to approach the traveling for all your tournaments? Well, it's kind of just a system that we got. Well, he drives and I watch YouTube is pretty much. How how is this a lot of times but wait, it's every trip that we get in an argument, but it's we get over it because the past is the past but it's always it's always fun. It's always a next experience. We always try to learn something from each term. Dad and grandpa is safe. You just want he learned something from one tournament. It was successful if that learning was good or bad if you did something right or wrong, but we always get along. We just travel together even sleep in the back of the truck. So I mean if we're mad at each other kind of just like rolling over to the other side and facing him. It's right you guys sleep you guys sleep in the back of the six foot bed. I ever that because we're not very tall so weak that that's great man. So what are you watching on YouTube where you watch him fishing videos or use kind of take a break from fishing watching my other stuff. It's act always fishing. That's it. That's my that's all really the only thing I do. Yeah laterally on I can dig it. My wife gets on me sometimes because she's like, do you ever not look or watch fishing anything? I'm like no. It's always fishing even scrolling through Instagram. It's people with fish. She goes a normal husband would be looking at checks. You know, she's like you get that dudes on kayaks. I'm a little concerned. Yeah, that's what I don't like most of my photos do they're all fish. And then yeah, I'll be like every now and then there's a dog butterfly like it's some kind of nature of egg. You know. What though? Yeah. Well he did. So how do you handle like the the Newfound the like Yes, I want to release a new but how do you handle all the just the popularity in the fishing world now, I mean, what are your buddy say and have your on YouTube with Chad Hoover's you know the Boss Hog the whole show man. I mean, how is that affect you outside of this whole thing here? It's awesome. Like I haven't had one bad experience with anybody else of saying hey, you should stop doing this or you try to put me down everyone in the kayak Community has been super kind to me boat ramps the weigh-ins Captain's meeting even even at a rest area. We saw a couple of kayakers and so it's all that. Yeah, it's awesome. I like the attention. Sometimes I'd like to kind of hey this guy won this tournament. So congratulate him. Yeah, right. No, I can do it. Yeah, so it's it does get overwhelming at times, you know, like people don't that you don't know come up to you. But hey, man, you're Dylan, you're kind of like, you know, is it ever get creepy or is it ever too just like exhausting or do you just love it? I love it. There's been a girl creepy ones like over Facebook Messenger, which I'm like guac. All right, man. Well what kind of creepy we talking about? I don't know like there's some that are like hey, thanks for accepting my friend request and I don't want those are kind of weird to me. Yeah, I always give Mike a thumbs up and they keep going on and on about stuff and asking me where I live and I was like walk. Yeah, that's weird happens. Probably once a week all that is that was weird. We don't even ask grown men that but hey, buddy, what's going on? Hey, where do you live? It's like hey, man, did any level congrats on that tournament? I saw you and you too. Can I have your address? Yeah, I'm like, yeah, but most of em, hey, where do you live is asking like the general area and said, hey, you're only an hour away from each other. Let's meet in the middle and go fishing which there's been a lot of that which that I like. That's that's cool going up at school people and see see how they set up their kayaks and how their system works and see if I can learn off of their system to make my system go smoother. her or vice versa good Everything besides that I love it. Yeah. So your kayak, is it the load out on him? And you is it like clean or is it just me? I mean, there's stuff everywhere like pre-fishing week. It'll get pretty nasty. There will be like soft Plastics under my seat and hooks and gets kind of unorganized but that's actually what I did today. I cleaned out my kayak got all the old soft Plastics out. Out and I retied all my stuff ready to leave for a tournament in a couple days. Yeah and reorganize my tackle because a lot of times I'll if I'm cutting something off. I won't take the time to put it back in The Tackle Box, especially on tournament day because the that 30 seconds could cost you a fish, especially when the fish are biting so I'll just cut it off and put it under my seat and sometimes I'm like, hey, where did that go? And I had to lift up my seat and there it is. So, yeah, so that's yeah. I have a ram cup holder you guys know? Ram screw cup holders a that's my bait holder man. So any soft Plastics that are expelled. I'll throw in there when I'm changing Bates. I throw in there and that's just my go-to man. I put everything in there. So I feel it. My kayaks got to be clean and it's got to be neat and organized because even when I'm fishing, I don't want stuff everywhere. You know, I just I feel it makes me feel chaotic. I can't, you know, get my side. I lose focus man. I started feeling just like I'm not organized. I'm not going to catch anything and it drives me insane if I see some dudes. There's like three inches of mud in their Cheeto rappers, you know dirty socks. I'm like how in the world. Do you guys do that? I don't even understand it man. Oh drives me nuts. Yeah, but actually I like to keep my kayak clean. But if there's a little bit of dirt in it. Oh, well if because it's going to get wet so kind of wash out but I kind of got a funny story about that up in st. Clair on the tournament. We were pretty efficient. And whoever was there they all know the carp respond and then they were up on the bank. Splashing and of course, I was like, I gotta catch one of them and I had my dip my Landing that I went up to it and I just scooped one up. It was probably about 30 pounds or so. It was a big one and they're spawning and I should have put two and two together. So I brought in the boat eggs went everywhere and they were everywhere over me my net everything. There's actually probably still eggs. Like like there's like a chunk of like this big come out at once. I don't know how that's possible. I won my gear tracks and they're all in the gear tracks and it's just so gross. Oh man. That's got that bug me and it stunk real bad. Oh, I've probably never put a carp back in which kayak again. Yeah dress and I was lying lawyer everywhere. But dude its lime is serious. We are Kentucky Lake my buddy Glenn during the national championship hook into an Asian carp in this thing was probably like Three pounds or so maybe a little more we couldn't even land. It took two of our Nets and I'll tell you what that's slime. That's not like would not come off my net. It doesn't it would not end. It stinks so bad. It was such a nasty smell. Yeah, he's just like, yeah, it's just his wretched. Yeah. I helped land a carp or real in a carp a couple of months ago. Actually probably last last spring or so. We're down below, Kentucky, Kentucky down. The water was kind of spilling over and they had the gates open and everyone was just snagging them and there's Brown them in killing them and throwing them because I guess that's what you do with them, but we brought one in and I could lift it up, but it was almost taller than me and I'm 5 9 well, so it was a big old big head. It was big and I got all slimy and we didn't really plan on touching the fish. We kind of just made a run down there because it's like 45 minutes or just kill him sometime. And I was just covered in that fish line and it was so gross like we went we had plans to go out to eat and I was like, no I'm not going inside like this. It was disgusting. Everybody would have known to yeah, that would be like, yeah pretty good. Oh, yeah. They're they're fun. But yeah that that entire. Yeah, especially if you like snag him in the tail or something and we used to do a lot of catfish. Forward like before these tournaments below Kentucky dam sometimes and even had her bait on bottom and there's so much cart down there like a carpet just get tangled up in your line and start running say thank you have one and he reeled up and it's a 10-pound carp and Kentucky lake and a little bit of Berkeley is just full carb like infested with them. It's bad. It's bad and especially if you scare them if you scare them there they'll Jump Right In Your Boat and never knew that I never knew can. I thought you liked was infested like that. It's terrible do we was about like two years ago one of our buddies. Well, actually a bunch of friends were getting taking pictures of their sonars and just in one shot even on like a little like a little 5-inch Raymarine there was like over a hundred you just saw the swoop swoops and then like just the fact that I mean it was so difficult for anybody to fish that they were burning crankbaits dude, you would Can the one yeah, you'd be be bouncing off of them in the school's. I mean, it's it was bad then and now it's exceptionally bad. I mean they're I think you know, there's federal assistance and everything going on right now to help eradicate. Yeah. There's those. Wow, you know, they're taking big Nets with boats and just bringing them in. I mean, it's insane how many carp they're bringing in. Yeah and a couple of our last week. I was on Kentucky Lake and we were fishing in this Cove and I was I was going along and I was I was actually looking on my phone. I don't know what I was doing. But I was looking on my phone or just paddling because I knew I was going straight and they just started jumping around me and I was like, whoa, did they come into the lane in your boat or not? No minded in my vote. Thank goodness. But yeah, it's bad like bad bad. I have never had any or not any good. I've never had very good luck on Kentucky or Berkeley like Any of the Tennessee and Columbia River system Lakes, but it's just it's just bad of the Carper they're there. So they're going to be there for years. So yeah, what were you saying? Yeah cut you off on accident buddy. Sorry about that. No. No, you're fine. Oh, I was just kind of going on the same thing, but it's you know, after seeing the immense the immensity of the carpet mean it's just it's just dumbfounding. How many are in there? Now and it's actually sad because you know, you know dang well if things are in Lake Michigan, you know, yeah only a matter of time, you know, but you know, we've been trying like as I'm right outside Chicago and like, you know, we have like these electric barriers that have like 50,000 volts and you know, I mean in the canals to stop these things from coming up the canals into the river or into the lake. Oh, wow. It's pretty bad. See how pie It's like Peoria's pretty much that line Peoria Illinois down, you know down the was the Illinois like there's just turn toxic carbon. They're made just like they even have like these contests know. I don't know if you've seen with there's a bunch on YouTube or they think what it's called, but they got like John boats and there's a big like, you know, 50 gallon garbage can in the middle and everybody dresses up in costumes. The one on YouTube is the Clockwork Orange. Guys, I always see them and they literally have Nets in everybody just buzzing down the river and all these carpet just jumping everywhere and they're just catching up with Nets. Some guys are like hitting them with bats. I mean, it's insane. Yeah, it's a dude. It's skinny water man. It is not like it's sketchy. No problem. Ice hockey, it's crazy. I'm sorry that sounds like a freaking blast. That's something I would love to do traveling football pads and a helmet and just go to town. What heard the police station but read. Hey, you can take as many as you want. Well, actually you don't have to take them. I don't think just kill him. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean you want to put it like you want to be respectful I guess to the other fishermen because I can tell you know, I'm sure we've all been there you pull up to a launch sometimes and you can smell that they've been efficient like right off the bank and its sting so bad. It feels like it is but but yeah, I hope I Puri I mean you can go bow fishing off the back of boats and then when they jump in the air you can shoot him in the air. It's pretty crazy. I'd like to go do that. I haven't done that Nissan speaking of Kentucky Lake one of our co-host John Graves co-host of the real down the segment. We do with tournament Recaps and stuff ran into you and your dad a Kentucky Lake for the Hobie bass open. So I think you were actually you were either in the truck. You weren't feeling too well at Kentucky Lake when that was going on. Yeah, that that's kind of funny. But like the reason I wasn't feeling too well because we had some Little Caesars Pizza like pepperoni is a great choice. Yeah, I was I was wearing my favorite shirt National Championship shirts from Louisiana and I like it because I like and I was I was feeling real sick and we were only about 30 minutes from home and it was raining. No, it wasn't raining that trip or maybe was I don't know and I was just feeling so sick and I was like, well if you have to puke go out the window and I was like, I don't need to I don't know. No like I couldn't stop it or anything all over the truck all over the - window myself and I stuck my head. I stuck my head out the window and I was just puking for like a half a mile. It was gross. Oh, that's terrible, man. And you still fish that tournament I still finished it. Yeah. Yeah, dang man. That's hardcore. Yeah, he was he was at one area and he had his camp set up you guys pulled in and and I guess you're like nah, this isn't like a good area and he left and he left and he sat there and he goes I should probably follow those guys like yeah, they don't think this is a good area to fish. I should probably follow them. You know. Yeah, it was kind of funny. No, that's actually a great. Sorry. The cover. Oh, well, I was going to say that's a good segue into you know, I've always wondered just because you know, you've got like what to but know you have three top you got three top or jeez. I can't talk today. You've won three tournaments this year right first place. So I was wondering like and these are you know, different bodies of water, of course, and in this question applies to lakes and rivers, you can split it up if you like When you you know, come to you know, when we come to like a new body of water, what's your approach, you know to break it down to to get a game plan for game day. Well, that's a good question. I get asked a lot but I do a lot of Google Earth and avionics and YouTube and they're trying to figure out the key stuff and like when you can watch the Youtube videos and kind of figure out just a little bit of what they're throwing that they're throwing a certain color and that certain time of year. But when I get there, I always had the all three water column and I like to switch up all the time. So if Walker went working switch up to a frog and see if that works. And just retie Andre time. We will I recently kind of just started going less than a mile away from the boat ramp just to keep that that area like I have to break down this body this area of water. And if I do that say one day because we like to get there about a week before the tournament. This area ain't working. Let's go to this spot and check this spot and we just boat ramp hop all week until we find out. Hey, I caught a 20 inch fish here, but I caught three 18s over here. So this one fish. It win but this spot might behold more and then we've picked that spot and we break it down and dad doesn't fish during the tournaments just to say just to kind of keep out the hey his dad caught us fish for him. But during the week, he'll free fish. I just kind of just use it as an advantage. I have another angler Fishing and he's gonna well he's going to use the black worm like always and so if he's tearing them up, and I'm not Just use that to my advantage and that's how we kind of break it down. We work together as a team. And so all the stuff that he figures out. He'll tell me and then we kind of just work together and break down the area of water. Well nice, man. That's very cool. Yeah, that's a real smart way to do it. I mean actually when I go fishing with Brian a lot will do that, you know, I'll throw opposite colors or something. Maybe that's just got a little bit of a different profile. Maybe I'll even throw a different kind of lure just to see what's going to bring him in first if there any like specific colors you like to throw I mean, you don't think giveaway in your secret trying to of course, but you know, I mean, it seems like everybody says green pumpkin white or black. I'll tell you those. My colors, I mean it they are but it's really I have these like play nosy wraps and especially if I'm throwing soft Plastics. I have two of them. Like I got creature Bates flukes all this kind of all the different types of stuff and I'll take it and I'll put it in the water and if it doesn't match the water if it Blends into well, or if he even stands out too, well, I'll find that right color and I have like 50 pack. The same type of creature break that I like and I'll find that color that I think might work and then I'll throw it if it doesn't work. I'll find the next the next best color that I think to and color isn't always a major factor for other Anglers, but I think for me it is because if you go to a place and there are black crawfish and you shouldn't be throwing a red one. They're going to eat a black one because it's the most natural color and that's for Bluegill shed. and all the other types of debate and / all the Main forages of the bass now that's smart. I've even thought of and I don't know. I think it's some states might be illegal. But you know, if you were in a fishing tournament you can you can actually make these really cheap and easy crawdad traps even with like a three liter or two liter bottle and you just put like a little dog food in there and you lit toss it in the water and let it sink and then I've heard of guys doing that and then they pull it up in the morning just to see what the crayfish look like and then They you know toss them all back and then that's what they'll throw close to. So there's a little secret for you. Yeah, I've never thought of that but that's actually a pretty good idea. It was good idea never thought about that either I steal I mastered. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to say Dylan. Also, I always look down the basses throat and say it's A bluegill down their throat or Shad or crawfish or I've seen a lamprey eel down their throat before. Yeah, that's things of a creepy never do that. I never look down massive throat demons. Really. Do you gotta be careful of snakes? I never do that. Never. May I'm just like aah, I caught him on this is what he's eating, huh? Not yeah and sometimes if you're lucky like if they're like really fat and like they're like they're eating a lot you can kind of feel like the shape or how hard it is and only if it's hard it's a crawfish and kind of just feel it. I mean, you don't have to be like, what are you eating? But how do you be like massaging the bass on your boat man? Yeah the exact legal. Kentucky boys. Yeah you guys doing there below the the IAT equator man. Oh, that's great. So do you ever like does your does your buddies have fishing kayaks that you go out on do they ever like? Hey man, you know teach me how to do this or show me how to do this and do our do they show interest like kayak tournaments with you or anything like that? Well, if you're talking like my buddy's like my age age to be honest, I don't really haven't. Yeah, I'm home. So I I'm homeschooled. So and I live out way out in the country. My driveway is a half a mile long from the road. So it's all hidden back here. Oh well, so I don't really I don't want to talk to anybody from my old school because I just started doing homeschool my 8th grade year the beginning my eighth grade year. And like all kind of faded off so they're not. They are not want to hang out. So hey, yeah. Oh, well, I can live without him right on man. It might be a blessing in disguise. I mean Yes, that's what we're guessing. No, I well that but I'm just saying like it leaves like all that room for dedication, you know to what you're doing right now. So I mean because I'm pretty sure because I remember being your age if your is deep into this is any of us were into anything. We like you're probably eating sleeping and breathing fish. All right, I'm sucking it all in and it's you're the perfect age to Really harness this skill because you can you can take in so much right now and obviously the Dividends are paying off but I mean you're going to have something to take you know to take way farther into your life that you could even turn this into a career. Have you thought of doing that that that's actually always been my dream even before kayak fishing. They off are Beyond it a bass boat, but now that I'm gonna kayak I like kayak even more than boat. It's like I used to do basketball tournaments with a guy as a co-angler and I was always dodging his lure when he was casting. So it's actually looking at him longer than I was fishing. So it's kind of in the kayak you just man in your own boat. So that's what I like about it the most that's cool man. I could see you doing that dude. I could see you going really far in this, you know, what's good about it, even at your age. I dig your attitude man. You have a great attitude. I know we talked let me anacin like you. Very humble, and that's huge, you know, because either way I mean the more you when people are going to hate you so get used to that, you know, but it's like it's not a big deal. It's just because of jealous and they want to be there too. And I don't even think you know, it's not like, oh I hate that dude is just I hate that he's winning, you know, but dude, I'm telling you right now, man. You got what it takes to get there. I would just keep your head down do your thing, you know partner up with as many people as you can, you know, and you know have some fun with it. Dude, actually, I'd like to see you come up here man with me and Brian, you know, get sufficient up north. Yeah. I actually if you said your you said you were near Peoria. Yeah, I'm only about like two hours away. Well, actually I was in Canton, you know, if you know where Canton is I got really close family members are really close friends up there and we were there for a couple of hours because we were driving back. Let's turn what was that? I guess it's down on the internet. Yeah, we're down there and there's this place is called giant goose Ranch. I'm not sure if he can like publicly fish there. I got in my bed. You can't but that place is awesome. They got like 60 likes on one property that they all have boat ramps and they're all stocked with fish and we were there for a couple hours, but we just hung out took a break off the road. Yeah to my knowledge. You actually have to make reservations to get into that place. I haven't done much research because you know down down. Where you're at, I mean you've got like a plethora of reservoirs and lakes and stuff that we don't even see up here. It's completely different up here than it is down by you but you know, I've never met you know, what was it Crabtree Lake? My right is down there and I'm really close to Crab Orchard Prime workers. Thank you. Grab words. That is like you Primo. I mean, you know, of course you've got, you know all the Your ones like the cooling lakes that are down there. I mean is there still is amazing Fisheries down there that had a Tremor really? Yeah, it's you. Yeah, there really is actually where my whore my dad's house is where I'm at right now is if they're if we could put a Bass Pro Shop right here, it would just be thriving because all right behind me is awake like of Egypt the power plant wake you have ears and like like right in front of me about I don't know ten miles or so. There's a lake that's called Devil's Kitchen and I was kitchen is 90 foot deep with standing Timber from bottom to top and you can actually look up into the woods and say hey there's a dead tree. It has a whole bunch of just where the leaves to fall off and you look down the water and you could see that whole tree. It's just under water. It's like they took that tree and put it under water. Oh well and like I'm not like two miles from here. There's a lake it's called Little I say and it's shallow and grass and then literally one turned out of my driveway you're at this lake is called Crab Orchard and it's deep. You can pretty much walk across the whole lake without getting your shirt wet. So I have every type of Fisheries right around me within the I think 30 minutes is the farthest boat ramp from me. And so I think that's how that plays a major role just having the different styles of Fisheries, really. Close to me, like well, they're not In Crowd were treating right now because it's five foot deep in the deepest hole somewhere, but I can go to little grassy and they're 90 foot deep Earth. That was kitchen. I mean, I'm sorry. So, you know, it's crazy. You really are a middle of it. Yeah and plus all the little reservoirs. There's a little Reservoir 3 minutes. I think from my house. It's lily pads. And there's a the Unity swimmin hole is actually I can climb which pretty much climb a tree and see the like and and that's where everyone goes swimming. So I'm right in the middle of them. There's amazing Fisheries Kentucky lakes 45 minutes away. I'm just in like a prime location for fishing better get good. God no excuses man. No excuses. I have rooftops. Tons of rooftops and then there's a hole with water it somewhere. Yeah, and actually they're not sure you guys heard of on his name is Trey McKinney and he is an absolute phenomenal young angler like myself. I think we're actually the same age and I knew about his name, but I didn't really know who he was and I stalked his Instagram one day and he actually lives I think like Minutes away from me and he'd rescue for his address. Now. I didn't I didn't do that. But he is I don't know what the exact name of it is, but I think he's a regional champion and a national champion and like the FLW stuff or I don't know exactly what it is, but I know he's in a extremely good angle as well. So it's kind of weird that too. I'm not going to say really well really good Anglers live really close together and we didn't I didn't know it maybe he did I didn't but it's kind of weird to different worlds man. He's you know, big bass boat and you're on a kayak, you know. Yeah, and I'm not for sure but he lives down this road. Like I can actually I can see where the road hits the main road right here. So it's pretty easy you ever think about going big bass boats or is this Your jam is all you want to do. I like kayaks better. Like I said, I did bass boat before and I didn't like him and I never really have to worry about my motor not working when I get to the ramp. So because my Motors me and if I don't work, my motor ain't working. Yeah looking I'd look up that other kid and see me. Maybe you guys do a collab or something just for you. I really need to and I know he's local because he's he's posted photos of fishies can't I be like, hey, I finished that spot all the time. So yeah. So you YouTube channel man. I see you I watch your videos on there too. How's that going for you man? Are you starting to make Revenue off of it or is it still like a bit of a challenge? It's actually that's not my main priority. I'd rather be at fisherman and that has a YouTube channel and then then besides a YouTuber that fishes. Hmm, so I actually last week I was downloading some Cards from up in the river pool tournament couple weeks ago and I was downloading those cards and that day I caught over 45 fish during the tournament now is downloading them and I had them all downloaded and I was going to move them to a different folder to work because where I keep all of them not deleted them and it sucked but hey it is what it is. So I could have edited the day but I just didn't want to so I know that's probably not the greatest attitude for it, but that's not not a man priority of mine. Hmm. Yeah, that's where I falter to I'm a little too easy for it. Sometimes they just can't sit down and start. Yeah. Yeah lips. Yeah, it gets born is born. So you've got to win, excuse me, you just gotta win more and then you can hire an editor. That's right. Yeah, if you want to do it someone you can just be like, yeah like that kid. You just move that over here and then maybe make it like flash or bling or something. Yeah, there we go, and I'm not that great at it. I if I took my took more time on it and I'm Knoxville. I'm learning a new program, which I couldn't make them better but It is what it is. So I'm not worried about hey, I just fished a tournament. I have to have tournament video uploaded the next day after I think my latest video was Madison, Wisconsin that was almost three months ago and I was just posted it like last last week and it's not kind of make my sounds myself kind of sound lazy, but it's just I'd rather look up a tournament or look up the lake where I turn it is. and learn that Lake and said of hey, look what I did last week two weeks whatever ago so I gotta keep going forward in this winter after I downloaded all the footage then I could do it but that got another main stuff I want to do. Yeah, I don't think that makes you sound lazy man. You just have other priorities and like you said, you know, I'm not a YouTuber the fishes on the fishermen. So I would just keep going with that pump out content when you can, you know, we have we have colder months. Maybe you can put more time towards it then if you're feeling it, you know, I mean, it's not at the top of my list either, you know, I'm actually more happy being the cameraman being in the moment, but I don't, you know sitting Down and doing the editing sometimes as a struggle and I got some good footage man. I just have it. I mean, I caught a sturgeon, you know, I haven't even edited that video and it's I'm about ready to go back out. Yeah, dude, there's some great stuff to and me crashing into Steve's kayak because the things is dragging me around now now I'm going to ride you on that one. Yeah. I want to see that now. Yeah, now you're gonna think post that see put my is that you're most like memorable fish that you've got would you say? Oh me six. Yes, the sturgeon 6-foot sturgeon. Yeah this point. I mean like I caught like a person, you know, it's like, you know, he's six and a half feet spree large could have been bigger. You know, like the first time I was out there. I lost a bigger one, but still a six and a half foot or mean. I mean, it was a lot of work it and that's another thing to people don't realize how much work goes into that the physic the physical aspect of being on the Snake River current 2,000 foot. Shinola higher than where I am here, you know plus I'm out of shape. So that always helps. Yeah, believe me. It doesn't I'm a cheater rappers and muddy cards. No. Yeah. That was my trophy Pike. I caught two years ago. That was probably my most memorable. Yeah. What about you yelling? What's if you had one fish. You think it just stands out man? What catch would it be? That's a hard question asked. Yeah, I don't think I could answer it. I really have stands out. I don't know like I got a last year I think in like late August or so. There was a tournament on Pomme de Terre Lake in the in a little Club tournament and I went up there and I fished a tournament and I got second in it and I went to my aunt's wedding and it was kind of cool because we got to skip the boring part of the wedding because I was fishing in the tournament. We got to go to the after-party. Yeah the wedding and I met some cousins. I've never met before and they were they were super country as well and the next morning we woke up and we were he was like asking if there's any ponds around and he was like, yeah, we can go take the side by side down to this pond. So we did and we ended up catching he caught over a 10 pounder. I caught multiple sixes and there's three of us and like a 10-foot John Doe. I think we caught like probably 70 feet. And like a two acre Pond and they smallest one was probably four pounds. Like I don't know why that pond was so loaded, but it was just absolutely full and monsters. I'm your front top water frogs. So that just makes it even more Yeah, the more fun in this Pond was Tiny like it's a pond bass. So it's gonna be bigger because it's in a pond and a private pond for that matter as well. But it was just fun. That's probably my most fun fishing trip I've ever been with And it was like raining and stuff. So that just has fun. Yeah, right on man. I definitely I don't look at that. I don't think I've caught anything number five. I don't think I'm cutting anything over for my public like personal best is like 573 which that was in Santa Cooper, South Carolina. Yeah, and I was like, this is a monster and actually that actually I got the fish pulled up right here on my computer and it was 21 inches and I thought it was a Giant which it is, right? It is a big mess. Yeah, and I wish I wish we would have measured the fish that like that 10-pounder that he caught actually it was like 10.9 or something like that. I don't know it was last year, but I was probably 25 inches or longer. It's not any that is like it was like if I can say it was like that fat it was Monster. Well, I would have been geeking you heard me for a mile whooping hollering. Yeah, me too. Especially if is during a tournament. I'll be like well, I guess I'm kind of be like if I was surrounded by people like why - oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Yeah, right not only do you start paying a tournament. You really start panicking because you got to put it on that damn board and that's when things go wrong right then and there. Yeah, so actually sometimes Actually in the map my Madison video I didn't put it in the video, but I'll have my dad come over and like since you had to have the fish face and left. He'd have to come on my left side. Yeah, we'll just put his kayak right there and I'll click or I won't clip to it. But he like so put his leg in my kayak or something to hold it there. Yeah, and that's saved. I think it's saved like six fish and the past year where they jump off it and I land in is cry. So that's like that another Advantage for me or he'll come over and hold my neck. And that's That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah who I saw somebody today on Instagram. He was Facebook, but they had their net in the in the hog trough was kind of inside of the net. So if the fish flop left it would flop right back into the net and I was like, yeah, that's a good idea. It's a really slick idea there. So that's where I always have trouble especially like Jay and I fish is a small tournament Kalin Lake a few weeks ago in the fish were just meaner and hell that day like they did not want to To cooperate even the small ones like there were there were Fins Up and soon as you put them on the board man. Their gills were starting to flare. They're flopping like they're just wound up and and it was impossible to keep them on the board impossible. Yeah. It's the fish around here are pretty aggressive for how cold the water gets during the winter. But like I said, there's a power plant like about a mile and a half from here and if you go up to the dam when the hot water discharge is going you can find fish. You can't get him to stop and what with my native with my native. Titan is so wide that my catch board. I can kind of like go like this with it so I can have the fish leaning down and also ice. And then sometimes also if you can like push their eye and especially if it's a bigger one, or I'll kind of be bulging either head. You can kind of just push it in really really gently and that will cool them down. You could get all your stuff ready like holding her eye in when you take a photo. Of course, you have to move it but that would calm him down a lot and yeah actually, yeah. I've never heard of the I think either I mean I I've heard of the slant in the board and then also which I didn't do it. Kawan, which I guess Durbin did is getting the board wet the same temperature as the water. Yeah, because you know because we're like sitting out all that sun. There were hot it was it was like, yeah. Yeah. It's terrible the boards were hot. You know, they had those boards had to be steaming. I mean fish were not Cooperative. That's that's about the only I didn't do it. I think well, I did do the eye. Thing but I never knew about that but see the dip in your Bunk Boards never work for me. It's I get the same reaction no matter what I can usually take my hands off and not even I don't even normally I don't have to use my hands. Yeah. Yeah. I've been having such issues lately. I use my NRS fishing gloves man, and I'll just put it on there because that leaves gives you some kind of friction where you can hold them down, you know, and then they seem to be calmer because they can tell I think they can tell that they're not going to go anywhere, you know. But man, it's I've definitely lost some of that that well I lost one last weekend on the river same way just fell over to side. So yeah, I definitely have issues with that. That's probably my number one struggle keeping them on the board. The I trick definitely works like because it because the other eyes facing down so it can't see anything. Is it so dark? I think that just the darkness calms him down. All right, you don't have to push their eye and you kind of just put your hand over it. Yeah. Interesting. Where did you learn that YouTube? I think no, I don't know where I learned that at bat. I just knew it was oh man. Dad. You taught me something. I didn't know that. So now, you know next I'm going to carry some like Gorilla Tape or something. Yeah, like who knew Dylan's like secret weapon was blindfolding the band's that's funny. It's like it's like it's like an alligator. Man, you know, I have the have a blast, you know watching you at tournaments and stuff like that man and and we'll watch and leaderboards while you're fishing obviously, but yeah, man, it's awesome. You you've got a big name in the community and I think you got a lot of guys like like us that rally you and support you. Would you know wish you the best of luck and things like that? Definitely no hate on our end. And if you do experience. Hey, man, I think that's ridiculous. I think that in today's world man has a lot of young dudes be doing a lot of other stuff. But here you are schooling a lot of people out there, you know, and I think they should be supportive of that. And I mean that's that's what this Sports really about supposed to this community man. You know, I think it's you made the comment, you know, hey, you know, you didn't want people saying that your dad was catching. Any fish for you? I think man if that's people are saying that I think they probably just need to be smacked. I mean that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life, you know, but if that's what you get, I'm sorry that you have to get that but it sounds like from what I have seen and what I have heard everybody, you know, we all love you man. We stand behind you. You're an angler your brother and that's what we like man. We got you back for sure. So, you know anybody's talking smack. He called Jay. He's got to Chicago Connections. He knows a guy right now. Jay I know a guy I know if you guys know it's like you were not too far, you know so I can try. Yeah, and I think I got a good friend from st. Louis. So, who is it Nelly now? It is DJ the guy from st. Louis. We're both in this little local club called SI K. See it stands for Southern, Illinois. I like hiking Club. Yeah, and we're the tournament director divide a couple people out just to go fishing at his secret spot, which is actually a really good spot and we are in the State Challenge together and I didn't know him and he didn't know me and his name is DJ and that day I caught two fish and no one else caught anything and I call it a 19-3 quarter and a 17 and a half I think and I submitted them to the State Challenge and DJ looked at his phone and he said man this D Fuqua, but That's not how you say. My last name is is keeps catching fish. And I said who he said D Fuqua and I said, that's me. And so it's kind of cool meeting now now he's really cool. He's from st. Louis and stuff and he he he's a cool dude. That's correct. So are you are you real secretive about your fishing spots or are you? Hey, man, I'll show you my spots that you just got to beat me fishing them. Are you that type of anger or you like man everything? Is hush-hush blurred background on your fishing photos before the tournament, especially if I'm with a couple other guys like camping out or some I won't tell them but after about like yeah, that's where I went. That's where I went. Yeah, like I said governments they all went up in the Missouri to for that wedding and that tournament a couple weeks ago. I had a guy ask me I say he said hey, do you mind telling me where you fit? Just and I was like, yeah, actually I have a map of the lake right here and I just took a photo of where I fish I said, yeah, I found this tree right here. I found this rock and this and this I don't mind telling them that now if it comes to tournament and they come up and ask what I'm fishing with. I'm like a buzzbait or a pink circle. Yeah pigs and a pink TRD a banjo banjo I heard that, you know, I can attest to the vagueness to because I remember we were like you Brian Sam Jones Alan Reed, you know, everybody's you know, pretty much you know, what was unique about that. I think everybody that was there was top five and you guys were all like super vague and I was purposely trying to get you guys to say something specific because I had no skin in the game. I didn't care, you know, so I'm like, yeah, so we're you fish. And it was just so funny how they would like start talking and then pause and think and then say something completely vague or just Anonymous and you're just like, you know, it's like you guys just can't help yourself. I was like, I'm not even fishing it as like I'm it's all good. Just how much trouble hook. Are you throwing treble hook get all mad long on them. Yeah. I knew you were gonna say that dude, but you know what? I'm doing different. I'm throwing a red one, but I still write not getting caught. That's right. That's great. That poor guy. He's not gonna live that down. Oh gosh. Oh man. I had a pleasure speaking with you brother. Yeah. It's been fun. Yeah, is there a so ring were pretty much going to wind it down now, is there anything any like words of wisdom that you want to say to everybody and make sure to plug yourself? Like if I have any words of wisdom is what just from my experience is try to at least learn one thing from a tournament or even if you don't fish tournament one fishing Excursion, is that the right word? Yeah, that's right word and just learn something. You should always try to learn something even if it's good or bad. Hey, I shouldn't have done this or hey, I should have done this or hey, I did this right don't do that again and actually got caught. A really quick story last week was the Kentucky Lake Trail and I went down and I pre fished for I think two and a half days and I caught four fish and I was like, well, I don't have the right amount of fish and the right size of fish to end of the tournament and I just didn't end because it's kind of expensive to enter a tournament especially if you don't have the confidence in yourself that you need to compete in a higher-end tournament. I didn't know we were close to home. I can't home. I threw in the towel before the first thing and I let the other Anglers who figured more stuff out compete and not save me a little bit of money. So this learn try to learn one thing and that's all you do. I think it's a successful trip out on the water like that. I like that a lot. Yeah, it's pretty insightful for such a young guy. I know man, we're working. Everybody finds you on social media. I got Facebook and Instagram, they're both Dylan Fuqua. Oh, actually, I think my Instagram is Dylan underscore few Coy and also I have a YouTube channel. It's that kbf and kid. So I like that I like that. I like the name, but I'm I have I don't have to Change it, but I'm going to change it. I got like 90 days before I could change it because that name caused so much controversy. When I first did it it I'd just rather not have the drama. So wait, how did that caused controversy? Because it says K BF n and they said it was what is it? They know not vague. It alludes to the swear word. Yeah, that's that's it. And am I still on frame my face? You're good. You're good. Yeah, we can still get posted. Okay? Well, it just caused controversy and I'd rather just not have the drama. So got like 90 days. So people who don't like it. They can watch it for 90 more days. Do you do anything which I think that's pretty that's pretty stupid. I think is stupid. It is to be I'll tell you what you're going to change your name and somebody's not going to like them. That's just how it is. I'm just going to change this to my name. So if they don't like my last name Name or my first name or whatever they could suck it up or something. That's right. I kind of think it's weird because I'm not going to say who but a higher name person in kayak Bass Fishing didn't like it and like they insulted me and I was like dude or woman. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. Hey, who cares? It's amazing. It's like Brian said to you know, if there are people who don't like this like you, uh, sir, you're not doing anything, right? Yeah, that's crazy. In this industry, if you're if you're high up and you have somebody who is a young Ambassador the sport who loves the sport doing everything he can to grow to teach and to be humble and you have to dis him because of his YouTube channel name kbf and kid, I think that's I think that's awesome. Then the problem is you whoever that individual is the problem is you and I have a pretty good idea of who it is and the problem is you Not this young man, you know, so and hey, we got your back brother. You keep doing what you're doing. You keep doing you man. And you got a lot of followers out there and we got your bag. Yeah, definitely. Well, alright. Yeah. And so yeah great having you on the podcast seeing you again. I hope that your tournament goes well this weekend. What tournament are you doing Mark twine and its really close to Hannibal, Missouri. And actually that's where my grandma my dad is all from so we got some I got some property up there the couple camp for a camper up there. So that's where I'm gonna stay. So, uh, and I think good luck. Yeah. Sorry, is this a good luck at that? I know you'll probably do pretty well since something around there or company or at least familiar with it, but great man. Yeah everybody and as always, you know, be sure to check on our real downswing it with bread Hicks and printed Johnny. They go over the latest Tournament results and talk to guests and have good chats also be looking out for Susie roll off. She's in have a new segment. Coming out with us as well and we'll be releasing that and there's another one coming down. The pike is on top of that. So yeah, and as usual like to thank our sponsors you got rocked own adventures. Also, be sure to be on the lookout for the rocked own Adventures fishing team. Brian Schiller is currently building that and the teams looking pretty cool. There's a lot of good names on there from around the area and a lot of good people to learn from Loveland canoe and kayak we got hammered lures also make sure to participate in the recycling Plastics program with hammered lures for disabled vets and First Responders and all that. The address will be in the show notes Coyote sunglasses. 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The letter N infant I cam you can email us email us at paddle and in at gmail.com and check us out or social media, of course on Facebook and Instagram and with that gentlemen, I bid you farewell Dylan. Once again, thank you very much for coming on. Thanks for having me and everybody. Thanks for listening and Brian's favorite saying tight lines and smooth pedaling.
  In this episode Jay & Ricketts chat with the KBF Kid. Get the inside scoop on how he crushes the competition . He sares his insights on tournament fishing. 