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1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

                  I take offense at @snagged in outlet 3 remark about the Neanderthal. 23 and me said I have 45% more Neanderthal DNA than other 23 and me participants. The Neanderthal part of me feels violated. Punish him!  hahahahhahhahahahahahahah

   Before anyone else says it, this might explain why I am like I am. 🤪🤪🙃

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

As much as Kamala is black. So yeah 👍 

If we can decide what gender we are, then why can't we decide what race we are ?

Elizabeth Warren did it 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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36 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

                  I take offense at @snagged in outlet 3 remark about the Neanderthal. 23 and me said I have 45% more Neanderthal DNA than other 23 and me participants. The Neanderthal part of me feels violated. Punish him!  hahahahhahhahahahahahahah

   Before anyone else says it, this might explain why I am like I am. 🤪🤪🙃

Mine says 46% more so……😁

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1 minute ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Mine says 46% more so……😁

           All righty then makes sense now. 😆

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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This video should be titled "YouTube fisherman learns about corporate consolidation 40 years after the rest of the world".  Basically every industry has been highly consolidated so that just a few companies own the majority of sales.  It has been U.S government policy to incentivise mergers since the 80s. The niche products (bill norman top dollar) get nixed because they arent profitable enough.  That's capitalism baby! 

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1 hour ago, top_dollar said:

This video should be titled "YouTube fisherman learns about corporate consolidation 40 years after the rest of the world".  Basically every industry has been highly consolidated so that just a few companies own the majority of sales.  It has been U.S government policy to incentivise mergers since the 80s. The niche products (bill norman top dollar) get nixed because they arent profitable enough.  That's capitalism baby! 

You’re exactly right! Everyone adapts. The fishing industry has much more supply than demand at the moment. Free, voluntary trading will find the trade off set point. 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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I would imagine that packaging and distribution is where the little guys fall short.   All bass baits, except for jigs, are seasonal (2-3 months at best) and everyone's favorite jig changes every other year it seems.  

When I realized that Professional Fishing was too much of a gamble for me, the only niche in the fishing world that I felt was a solid career choice was to become a Marine Technician.  That has worked out fabulously for going on 30 years now, but my last year of "up to date factory training" was 2009.....and I refuse to go back to school to get tight on 4-strokes. 

I figured my usefulness would peter out completely somewhere around 2021....but there's still a bunch of 2-strokes out there.  They aren't teaching anybody to diagnose & repair them. And the dealerships are so swamped with obligatory warranty repairs on the junk they are selling nowadays that they all turn the older 2-strokes  away.....to end up HERE. 👍

Who knows how much longer they'll last, but as for now I've got plenty of work to do, and it's still coming in. 🤷‍♂️

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1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I have to respectfully disagree.  Not all.  Cranks are year round for me.  

Pete’s middle name is Bandit 😂

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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