Good morning and welcome to the first guide day of the 2025 season.

If you remember, he kicked this off last year.

I think we ended up doing 14 shows with guides across the United States all the way.

We did Captain Benny Florentino saltwater fishing for

calico bass from California we did upstate New York with Travis Manson and big JP we did Florida

with captain Justin Jones we did Texas we did all over all over the place. And it was one of the

shows that I just kind of did additional BTLs to get to know some of the guides that are across

the country, mainly bass, but we mixed in a bunch of different species. I know Justin Jones, he was talking

about catching clown knife fish and all sorts of stuff. But the whole purpose of guide day was

to get people more comfortable with potential fishing trips in their areas. If you're traveling

for work and had a day to jump in the boat

in Arizona or you wanted to do the trip of a lifetime on thousand islands. And it's a lot of

money. I mean, when it comes down to it, you're putting your hard-earned money to it. And I know there's so

many good guides out there. And the more you can get to know them, the better you can get to know them, the more

comfortable you are developing a relationship with that guy going out and having a memorable

day on the water.

So glad to have Omnia back as the title sponsor of Guide Day, hopefully working on some really cool stuff with them moving forward,

utilizing some Omnia maps on Guide Day today. And we are going to kick things off with a guy

that I've gotten to know. He's good friends with a lot of guys that I'm good friends with,

but right in the heartland of America. We're talking, uh, Arkansas. And you don't

think of big bass in Arkansas, but we had a bass master open on Lake Washington last year. And I remember

a couple days into practice, getting off the water and running into my buddy Austin.

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