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Welcome to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Liver. We are going to talk about bass fishing and Bass Master opens EQ week rolls on with a guy who is, well he's a professional angler, he just decided, hey, let's just go fish, nine tournaments.

Make a lot of money. Catch a lot of big fish and transition from the BPT over to the Bass Master Elite

series.

He made it look easy.

Well, we'll talk about it. From the outside, he made it look easy. Well, we'll talk about it. From the outside he made it look easy. I did see him walk off

stage one day where things did not look easy, but there's a cool story. He doesn't even know about this that I talked to to a guy about about this but it is none other than Dakota E bear.

Dakota thanks for jumping on VTL.

You bet man, thanks for having me as always.

I'm I brought you and I made it so easy.

Did it feel like I mean in one of the hottest anglers and professional fishing for the last couple of years and they roll over one and done nine tournaments seventh place

Bass Master Elite Series 2025 here we go.

Yeah it sounds all good man but you know as well as I do there was nothing easy

about it man it was a it was a

fight the entire year you know and it it just uh it was a lot of fun man

honestly like I'll be able to look back and reflect on this this fall you know and

really see hopefully how much I grew as an anger both on and off the water I mean it's uh it was a

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