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Don't post big ads. In February some @$#^%@ in California posted a 150K gif of a fish tackle collectors convention 3500 miles away from the members of this regional discussion.
Sorry not to purge this at the beginning of the month. I was standing on the bow of a skiff in the backwaters of North Eleuthera casting at and not catching bonefish.
David Churbuck