On this week’s show, 2x Bassmaster Elite Champion Pat Schlapper is back talking about his season on the highest level of fishing. He talks about his two victories, how he made an epic comeback in the Angler of the Year race and what he did to battle back and have a great season. Pat also reacts to the new Bassmaster Forward-Facing Sonar rules for the 2026 season. Bret Amundson, David Eckhardt, and Dan Amundson discuss duck and goose numbers and season dates again, and Joe Henry has some stories from the latest veterans event at Lake of the Woods.

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