Congrats Optiker!!

General Fishing Discussion
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I know how much hard work you and Ralph have put into your business, glad to see things are going well.

https://www.sportfishingmag.com/top-saltwater-jig-heads#page-12

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Thanks Andy! We are really fortunate for our partnership with Z-Man. It’s truly an honor to be associated with them.
Looking forward to our weedless jigs being brought into their fold early next year and are hoping they are a huge success.
They are very popular in FL, MS, LA, TX due to the amount of weeds they have.

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

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To great people come great things.

My only issue with this “list” is the fact that the TE is #10 of 10. Come on!!!

Congrats to you Dave and to Ralph.

God bless the “ignore” function.

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Awesome news! Congratulations!

Fishing Nerd

“skilled labor isn’t cheap, cheap labor isn’t skilled”

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Man that’s great! I just hope Dave doesn’t forget about all of us when he is rich and famous.

“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?

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Now thats funny. Fishing business is a not-for-profit

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

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Originally posted by Optiker

Now thats funny. Fishing business is a not-for-profit

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

PREACH!!!

God bless the “ignore” function.

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Originally posted by Optiker

Now thats funny. Fishing business is a not-for-profit

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

Glad for your success! and if you do make a profit couldn’t go to a better person. In all sincerity, you have given some great help and insight to me on trout.

The old beginning slogan of this sight “we won’t leave you fishing for answers” has your name and a few others (sellsfish, cracker larry, Courtland, +more) While many post pics of fish and allude to what they did to catch them, or flat out make it a hidden joke, you actually tell people what you did.

You seem not to hold back. Most do, I do! I’ll help many if I can and share honest information, but I’ll never give away my personal favorite spots unless you are close family. Family not always pertaining to blood but deep ties.

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Thanks Fred! I’ve learned a ton from this sight myself, and others (notably Bob Sanders and Ralph Phillips - my top 2 mentors) and just enjoy paying it forward. I will tell anyone techniques and strategies, but won’t give up my spots on the internet. But anyway, most people it wouldn’t matter if you gave a spot, because “a spot ain’t worth nothing until it’s time to be there” - and, you gotta know how to fish it…

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

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Originally posted by Optiker

I will tell anyone techniques and strategies, but won’t give up my spots on the internet. But anyway, most people it wouldn’t matter if you gave a spot, because “a spot ain’t worth nothing until it’s time to be there” - and, you gotta know how to fish it…

1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.eyestrikefishing.com #predatorsstriketheeye

No doubt. I’ve got a couple of spots that if you drift your cork or retrieve your grub 2’ off course you’ll never do anything. Time on the water is any fisherman’s best friend.

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Are you guys going to be at shallow water expo again this year?