you can talk to me if that's easiest doesn't really matter but I guess walk me
through a little bit of like what's the right setup for you in order to go
what do you need to have in your boat what do you have you can kind of like
move around show and tell if you need to but what what makes the best set up
all right well as I was saying before every situation is different for us we
like to we like to troll so our number one thing is trolling if we got a jig we
got a jig if it's that rough and that that dirty that's what you got to do you
got a jig but yeah for trolling wise yeah the main thing is yeah you just the
boards the boards are huge you know and I give it up for church tackle we might
have fight them a little bit or little we use different clips we take all their
hardware off and then we use our you know different hardware from different
spots we we started this probably give or take 10 years ago wish I would have
put a patent on it but I didn't or I should say we didn't and yeah and as you
probably seen earlier you know you just clip it on twirl it twirl it three times
and click it on but the best the best part about this is when the boards are
out there you get a fish on all you got to do is snap it so you don't have to if
this is outside board you don't have to bring in them first to like on regular
boards or it doesn't matter it could be these boards too but if they don't have
these clips you have to bring them first two lines and rods and to get that fish
on the outside board with these the way we do it you just clip it or snap it it
goes back falls right behind the motor done you bring it in you don't have to
you don't have to you're you're fishing you know all the time so that's huge
that's a one big part of it why we did that
yeah yeah and you're not fighting the board you know sometimes we we don't we
don't snap them purposely because if it's you don't want to change direction or
pattern or whatever that fish is doing if it's coming in like consistent
leave it alone you don't want to do nothing to aggravate it if you want to
say but as far as like you've got the engine set up you've got a trolling
motor multiple motors like how to how do all those work together for you yeah
so with the and then you got the kicker motor in the front or I mean the ball
mount in the front so you always use a ball mount for your steering and then
you put it on north for your heading and then you always use a kicker to help
it along so you're not using all the battery power so that's huge having a
kicker on the back yeah of course a ball mount because otherwise if you don't
have a ball mount you're constantly steering and then if you got fish on if
you got multiple fish on at once then you're you're offline really quick in the
graphs the graphs are huge I use the Lorentz in the front that's I use that
for my my heading all my coordinates blah blah blah which is good Lorentz is
very very good but Garmin the pixels in the Garmin are way better more defined
and you got panoptics you got live scope you can all do on that screen alone
and then you got the rot you know then I can I could scope out 120 feet and
then see the fish you know if you want to yeah and rods
I mean if you picked someone else up and put them in here you wouldn't someone
else's boat I mean that would just throw everything off right yeah yeah we were
just talking about that earlier I'm I got a fishing buddy that I was with last
week and then the aim series and he's got a nice setup it's all nice but
everything is different you know he's got different clips you don't have
clips like we have the the pen reel he's used he uses big pen reels that's a
little bit if they're heavier the clickers on the the whole system is
different than what I use you know mine is a little bit more in my eyes is
simpler it could be mine my stuff could be way different in his eyes too
which you know it's it's different
yeah other than that yeah yeah every boat is different I mean most guys got
other ants and in garments you know a lot of the guys got a lot of the same
stuff you know trolling rods jigging rods they're all pretty much we're all
pretty much using the same thing but a little different you know everybody has
a different feeling to every piece of equipment you know I try to go with the
easiest the lightest quickest that's in my eyes because every minute console
there when you're when you're in a tournament if you're fun fishing you
don't need this stuff that I have you know you can go you can go to flea farm
and buy you know whatever you want that's fine but the stuff that we use yeah it
costs a lot more money but it lasts a little bit longer you know like the
rods the Denali rods we use all Denali's detention you can feel that you know
like earlier you probably seen you know I knew that I I felt that little that
little head jerk in the rod you could feel it in my hand and I knew exactly
what was gonna you know gonna happen but other than that what's the test
pound we use 14 14 pound test sunlight for our main but then that goes okay
that's different too you know with the we don't run a snap swivel or any of
that we just run it direct to the bait but when you run in harnesses that's a
different story then you have a leader then you have a leader with a swivel on
it and then then you use 20 pound fluorocarbon that we use on that
three years now yep and I mean is there like a sentimentality to being in this
well comes down to money at this that that time yeah I'd like a new boat but
no no this is treated us very well multiple tournaments that were in every
year it's yeah no I can't you know I love you it's my baby you know but yeah
other than that yeah no it's I love the boat Lund Lund has got a great
boat my whole family owns boats which you've seen earlier now when we first
started my brother was the side of us he had a lung and my other brothers got
a Lund yeah no you said you used to fish with a cousin who's a longtime fishing
partner yeah Jason Gable yep that was a big part of your fishing experience
yeah yep I started with him about 20 years ago and he was yeah we were we
were like brothers we knew we were like actually like twins because we were
thinking always the same thing all the time if I told him I put on a bait he
already had that bait on before I even even said it you know we were always
thinking the same thing you know kind of like me and Shafer Kevin you know in
Mikey blank we're always all my teammates Mike hit my son Tristan yeah
we're always it's just I don't know I don't want to say it like that or
anything but or break or anything but it's you know I taught these guys quite
a bit you know and we fish now we all fish together you know and they taught
me Mikey blank Shafer every all of us they we taught each other you know
which is huge and then when especially when you're in a tournament you ain't
got to sit there and bicker or blah blah blah or any you know anything like
that you know everybody's got their own you got your job you do your job and it
pays off like today today it paid off yes do we wish we were in the tournament
today very yes so much but it is what it is yeah you said before that you had
your partner with you yeah yep yep I got my buddies ashes in the boat
in the glove compartment actually we dumped we dumped the ashes in a few
places one of our best spots in Erie twice and then up up at up north by my
cabin in his deer hunting spot and then and another spot I can't really say but
anyways yeah no he's always with us it don't matter you can come to my house
have a urn there his pictures yeah and then if you go in my garage you'd
really like that
all our fish so when he passed away all our fish was in his in his house so now
they're in my garage and I got his jersey with his name on it and all our plaques
there yeah it's he's always there he's he's fishing with us all the time and
then like last weekend all we did was pray to hey come on much give us a
couple good ones you know and he did and he did it we did very well can't
complain about that but yeah yeah I miss them we all miss them some a little bit
more than others but yeah no that was that was like my brother you know and his
mom that's like my second mom but yeah but other than that yeah that's pretty
much pretty much our experience and fishing in a fishing world or tournament
world I should say not fishing I think it's all we need now we're good thank
you at some point we'd like to come to