Sorry this one's a litel late, 1 guy to cover 2 tourneys! 😁 Long email, lotta good deets – let's do it!

And gitcha Blaster social fix here:

What can you say about this guy that hasn't been said already? It's literally not a surprise when he wins a tournament or AOY, which is a mind-blowing statement. His bud Dustin Connell called it history in the making, and it is. Here's how Thanos won this time in "Avengers: Endgame." 😁

Going in and practice

> "I really came into it mindset-wise that I was gonna play the smallmouth-largemouth combo. First and foremost, my goal was to win AOY. If I made the top 20, I would automatically solidify AOY and I could go and have fun in the Knockout Round [which is the top 19].

> "Day 1 of practice I spent the whole time fishing for smallmouth. I knew it'd be a fairly calm day 1 of the tournament. So I found enough smallmouth where I thought in a period I could separate myself, where I could mix largemouth in day 2 and throughout the tournament....

> "Day 2 of practice [2 days only] I went for largemouth – it wasn't that good. I caught a few fish and here and there.

> "I finally went into this area and I found a group of fish in some reeds, I found another group in some reeds – I found like 3-4 groups. Those were the winning fish.

> "To me, you don't know what you've got til you actually hunker down. I had several bites the last afternoon of practice and I found several good zones. My mindset was the 1-2 punch for sure.

> "My day 1 plan was those [smallmouths] were really isolated and fairly deep. So my first goal was to go out in the 1st period and catch as much as I could, and then fish largemouth the rest of the day."

Tournament

> "Day 1 I couldn't have scripted it any better. I caught 50-some lbs of smallmouths and was in 2nd place after period 1.

> "Then I ran 45 minutes to 1 hour away where my best largemouth area was, and...ended up with 90-some lbs after the 1st day of competition. So I knew if I caught 20 lbs the next day I'd pretty much locked up AOY.

> "Day 2 I started on one of my top 2 stretches of largemouth – another competitor started there as well. I caught 18 lbs in 30 minutes and basically made the cut...basically locked up AOY.

> "So I just went practicing. I sort of milled around. I wanted to make sure...some of the areas I found that had been receiving pressure were just as good as had left them.

> "The 2nd period I sort of locked in and fished around. Midway through the 2nd period I put the boat on the trailer [which they were allowed to do in this one] and go check those smallmouth 1 more time because I'd already locked up AOY. And I had an FFS period left....

> "That 3rd period was really tough smallmouth fishing. I caught 3 or 4 and I realized that maybe the smallmouth were going away.

> "...the wind changed directions. ...you had a lot more S, SW, SE in the tournament [it was the opposite in practice] which changes the way the smallmouth position on the Great Lakes big time. I never relocated them.

> "I still had in the back of my mind that I potentially might go out there...because it was flat calm.

> "The Knockout Round – gotta make the top 9. I locked in to fishing one stretch – one of my top largemouth stretches – and caught basically 90 lbs.... I stayed there the whole day...caught 'em frogging, caught some on a Bronco...90% of my bass came frogging. ...locked up my top 9....

> "The last day I started on the [same largemouth] stretch. ...it'd received a lot of pressure so I knew I could not win the tournament there. I figured I could get almost 1 good period out of it. I started on what I thought was the best stretch and caught 29 lbs...Todd Faircloth had 50 lbs [ish].

> "So I realized pretty quickly I wasn't going to be able to win the tournament there. I went to a spot I was basically saving for the final day – I thought I could catch 40 lbs there the 2nd period. I could run into it, but it was a long way to get back out of it – a foot, foot and half of water everywhere. So once you got back there, you were really committed.

> "I go to one of the best stretches and had a 3.5-lber. It wasn't as good as I thought it was. So at the end of the 1st period I had 30-something lbs and I was almost 20 lbs back....

> "I was actually contemplating – do I go back smallmouth fishing? Could I have a 50-lb period and get back in this thing? I had 2 more [largemouth] places I needed to check, but I was unsure how it was gonna play.

> "...started the 2nd period and fished the 2nd-best stretch...I caught 1 bass there. I'm like, Oh no I might be in trouble. So I made my move to my last stretch...and I catch 2. It was a place I hadn't fished [in the tournament] and the wind was blowing – I thought the fish might have repositioned.

> "I cast out there and one bites my frog...cast out there again and catch another one...I relocated the school and where they were setting up. In that 2nd period I had 42 lbs and ended up being neck and and neck with Todd.

> "The 3rd period...I knew if I stay here for like 2 hours I won't be able to get back out to another stretch out there. So I decided to leave that stretch...to let it rest.

> "...I started trolling on my way out to my next pod of fish, and by the time I got there I'm down like 7 lbs. I catch 12 lbs and I'm tied basically with Todd at this point. I have an hour and 15 minutes left. Edwin [Evers] is 3 lbs out, Todd is ounces out...we're all within 3 lbs.

> "This is the reason why I left that stretch...let it rest. Now I'm going to go back in there and I'm putting all my chips in. That's all I got. I go back in, set back up...had 10 bites while I'm Power-Poled down in that stretch. 6 fish in 10 bites.

> "Then I knew they had reloaded and had re-set back up. In the 2nd period I could see wolfpacks of fish swimming in and out of those reeds.

> "...it was no more than 14-16 inches deep and really clear water. You had to make long casts, and basically when you'd hook one it would spook 4-5 more bass in that area. So they needed to set back up and reposition so I could catch them again.

> "Then I started to gain a little bit, then a 5-lb lead, then a 7-lb lead, then I caught 1-2 more. And that was the end of the event."

Baits

Largemouth

> Frog: SPRO Bronzeye 65 Frog (killer gill), 50-lb Sufix 832 Braid (low vis green), Shimano Curado MGL 150 Reel, 7' 6" Duckett JW 2.0 Rod.

> "All those frogs are not created equal. I have like 4 out of 50 in my tournament box – 4 special ones." [He wouldn't tell me what makes 'em special!]

> Flip rig: Rapala CrushCity Bronco Bug (gp blue), 4/0 VMC RedLine HD Flipping Hook, 5/8- and 3/8-oz VMC Tungsten Weights ("depending on the cover"), 50-lb Sufix 131 G-Core Braid (low-vis green – "that's the best punching braid on the market, it's really supple"), Duckett reel, 7' 11" XH discontinued Duckett Black Ice Rod.

> Toad (day 2 only): Unnamed toad (gp mostly, also black/red), 5/0 VMC Wide Gap Hook, 50-lb Sufix 832 Braid (low vis green), Shimano Curado 150 MGL Reel, 7' 2" MH Duckett JW 2.0 Rod.

> "[Toad was for] when fish were on the outside of the cover early. As the sun got up, the further into the cover they would go. Mornings they would sit a lot looser to the cover."

> Wacky rig: Rapala CrushCity Pig Stick (gp magic), 1/0 VMC Weedless Neko Hook, 10-lb Sufix Revolve Braid (neon lime) to 10-lb Sufix Advance Fluoro, Shimano Stradic Spin Reel, 7' 1" M Duckett JW Select Spin Rod.

> "I caught a couple on the Pig Stick...several key fish on it. When I got around fish I could see in open holes, I'd fish it wacky style in those areas."

Smallmouth

> Dropshot: Rapala CrushCity Salted Ned Roll (gp and gp goby), #2 VMC RedLine Finesse Neko Hook, 1/2-oz VMC Teardrop Dropshot Weight, 8-lb Sufix Revolve Braid (neon lime) to 10-lb Sufix Advance Fluoro, Shimano Vanford Reel (2500), 7' M Duckett JW 2.0 Spin Rod.

> "The big key with that was pitching it out there and letting it stay still – allowing the bait to wash in the current. Those fish would just go down, you could take your time and slowly pick up, they start easing off with it and you set the hook.

> "I really did not want to impart a lot of action. The water was really clear and I felt like less movement was better. If I did anything I would drag it. I wouldn't shake it. To me I think smallmouth like more subtle movements."

Electronics

> "Of course Lowrance ActiveTarget 2 was a huge player day 1. It never really played the rest of the tournament but...it gave me breathing room to be able to focus on largemouth the rest of the day. The 1st day really set me up for the whole week.

> "Lowrance C-Maps...had a lot of detail on the smallmouth stuff and super-good detail in the deeper stretches of water – even in backwaters – for the largemouth. It gave you a better understanding of #1 where the deeper reeds and the cover was, and #2 where you could get up on pad and be more efficient with your time.

> "...that Ultrex QUEST – that trolling motor is insane. To be able to roll through all those reeds – I'm not sponsored by Minn Kota but they make a really good trolling motor.

> "Power-Poles were a huge deal, especially the final day when the wind was blowing in the 20s. Locking into that 1-2' of water, basically letting the boat float...stealthy as I possibly could. I'd inch up 20-30' and drop the Poles, inch up 20-30' and drop the Poles.

> "I think that Poles are the most underrated piece of equipment. We just take for granted how efficient we are now in shallow water and how inefficient we were back in the day."

Shoutouts

> "The biggest shoutout is to my wife Alicia. She's awesome. I asked her in the middle of the season because it's a team effort...I didn't have a goal set to really focus on AOY. She knows show much time goes into pre-practice when I get into this AOY mindset. So I straight up asked her...do you want me to win AOY or if it happens, it happens. She's like, 'We gotta win.'

> "...there's a lot of sacrifices...like when summer vacation's happening, that's probably 2 extra weeks I wouldn't [be there]. She understands that. So having someone at home who's all in and pushes me to be better day in day out, I can't describe how grateful I am for that."

😁 Let's go:

1. What's tougher – win 4 AOYs in 5 years, become President of the United States or get a hole in one?

> "I would say...it just depends who it is. For [pro golfer] Scottie Scheffler, a hole in one would be the easiest thing. For me it's AOY. For Donald Trump, it's being President.

> "For me, President of the Unites States would be a tough battle [laughs]."

2. What happened at the Potomac River? [He finished 34th, his worst finish since a 75th at Murray in 2023.]

> What's crazy is it was decision-making. Long story short, we had a of of rain and wind that blew out several of my key areas on the river. And my other area I go to to start on day #2 ended up being the exact area where Ott won the tournament...I couldn't fish around all those guys.

> "Basically...I just had to salvage it. J had to salvage my season in my period 3 on day 2. I won AOY because of how I fished the final period on day 2."

3. KVD used to get mad at 'em. I know you get mad too – at who or what?

> "...there's a moment that really motivated me in the tournament to win the event. I was pretty content with winning AOY. I'm not going to get into it...after this happened, I put every ounce of energy into this tournament I possibly could to win....

> "I hate losing, trust me."

4. Did you design the Canada-only CrushCity baits?

> "I did not. So actually that was some of my friends...from Australia. My friend Timmy down there, a friend of Karl Jocumsen's, designed those baits down there for the fresh and saltwater species they have down there. So like The Jerk came from those guys down there.

> "Canadians cannot claim that [laughs]."

5. Since you got married in 2017 and didn't really hit your stride til after that, can we assume that Alicia is a drill sergeant-type motivator? 😁

> "[Laughs] Yeah. Alicia, she's all in and very competitive as well. She likes winning as well. Who doesn't enjoy winning?

> "...she's definitely one that's on my team and pushes me...on the water but off the water as well. My wife is a very strong-willed independent woman.

> "I know that if I do something that she'll check me. And that's something for me that is invaluable. Because there's a lot of...yes-women or yes-men in your life, but you need people that hold you accountable...."

Jacob drops a lot of juice when he talks, including on his YT. Here's some stuff I thought was interesting – the details and how he thinks about the details.

Why a frog

Since frogs tend to have a low strike to land ratio:

> "I just felt like it was the most efficient. They were reacting to it better. These fish were a little bit pressured, and I could trigger them into biting by the way I was working the bait. I knew where they were sitting any given part of the day [so it was] more efficient than any other bait in the box.

> "It was super thick. I could catch a few fish flipping, but I couldn't get the fish to react [taht way]. I don't know why – they would react to that frog better than any other thing that I had.

> "I was pitching in little tiny holes in the reeds. [Sometimes pitching to a hole way back in the reeds he] couldn't even see my frog. I had to envision how I'm working it...hear the blowup.... That happened 3 times in the Knockout Round."

How he triggered them

> "I don't walk my frog at all times, I don't bob it at all times. It's all dependent on the cover and the situation I'm dealing with. [He gave different various of walking, bobbing, burning, stopping.] You're just making the fish react.

> "It's never the same repetitive motion when I'm working the frog. It's a gut feeling – reading the cover, reading where the fish are at, and adjusting the cadence accordingly to make the fish react."

Did he lose many on the frog?

> "No, which is crazy. I bet you like I was 90% hook to land ratio.

> "I'm definitely very meticulous in my selection...every frog is not created equal. Some are softer and have the right kind of feel to them [and some] hook better. There was a lot that went into that.

> "I can't just pull a frog out of the box. I'm tweaking hooks and doing a couple things that help increase the hookup ratio for sure.

> "I swapped my hook out on a frog twice in the Knockout Round because I didn't like the way it was going through the cover – and the way it set on the frog as well."

Working the frog with the wind

> "...really important [he was] upwind and working the frog into the wind. If you worked it cross-ways or with the wind, the frog would go through the strike zone way too fast."

Finding the winning fish

> "This was way back in a marsh area with 100 different things to cast at. It was a 100-yard stretch [in water that looked all the same] – you could easily miss it."

He said the key was finding voids in the grass.

About the new CrushCity Salted Ned Roll

His smallmouth dropshot bait:

> "We added a ton of salt to it and it has 3 times more scent than any other CrushCity plastic. So basically we maxed out the scent and maxed out the salt but it's still TPE [durable floaty plastic] so it's still super-efficient. It's a high-floating material but not as high-floating as the BLT.

> "We wanted it to work great as Ned Bait as well...it was more of like make the bait neutrally buoyant but still have durable TPE material so it's super-efficient."

How does Trey McKinney win? He didn't do the college fishing thing, he wasn't a disciple of Jacob Wheeler, he wasn't born with a fishing rod in his hand – what's the deal?

I think you'll see from this that like a lot of the younger cats who have risen to the top ranks of bassin', Trey thinks differently, fishes differently, has a ton of confidence and just flat catches 'em. Here's how he led every day at St Clair, MI and sealed the deal...on a community hole.

Going in and practice

> "I had a mediocre practice. I figured I'd finish 10th-25th – somewhere around there.... It was a good practice if I could randomly get a big bite. I felt like I would secure a good points finish. But...I realized – fine-tuning my area – that more big fish were there than I thought....

> "Map study is huge, looking at the lake and seeing how it lays out. I didn't even realize I was fishing a public hole. In my time fishing, public holes always have the most, it's just tricking them into biting is the hardest task.

> "Where I found them was I saw a river coming out and was like, Okay this is the coldest river around...where is this water going to go when it disperses into Anchor Bay. I kinda followed that line – I knew it was gonna be 2-3 miles of this bay.

> "It's all flat, there's no contours...this cold water's gonna go somewhere out there and in 3 miles there's gonna be somewhere that has better than average-class smallmouth. I just gotta find it.

> "In a day and half of practice I figured that out. Once I found the little area where they were, it was great but there were boats all over it. So I was like, Okay hopefully I can get enough to bite to get good points....

> "...that was definitely the nerve-wracking part of it. These fish are the smartest fish out there, and every day it's gonna get tougher. I didn't know it was going to be as consistent as it was.

> "The whole bay is the same depth [16-18'] so...it's a really hard place to figure out where that upper class of fish will be. ...there's no reason because all the cover is the exact same – it's all grass and sand.

> "What I figured out was just keeping myself in the higher-percentage areas, which was a grass, sand grass and tall grass mixture. ...I knew if [big bass] would be anywhere, that was the highest percentage.

> "Fishing to me is always about fishing the highest-percentage stuff you can find, and I was just able to keep my boat...in that area that I knew was the highest-percentage area around.

> "...these fish would move [every day]...a little bit farther, a little bit left, a little bit right. I would just roam in that high-percentage area every day to find where the best place was."

Tournament

Since he fished the same area every day, the name of the game was getting the increasingly-pressured fish to bite:

> "It's kind of all off a gut feeling. When fishing's that tough, every fish likes it a little different. It's like people, not everybody wants pizza. They might want some chicken, they might want some ribs, they might want some steak. You had to figure it out....

[Some people don't want pizza every day?? 🤯😁]

> "They were so hard to get to bite. I would chase these fish down and present every tool and idea til I found what they were the most responsive on. Then [when he figured that out] I had to find out the right cadence. And then when I got closer and closer to that cadence, they got closer and closer to biting til I finally perfected it to be able to catch that one fish.

> "Then I'd have to restart when I found the next one.

> "The cadence changed every day. That was a key I had to find. You could throw the same bait, but if the cadence wasn't right they would run away from it. They'd see it 15' away, turn around and not even give you a chance.

> "If you didn't have the right cadence and didn't bring it across right way, were gone completely. And every day I had to figure it out...."

Asked him if the cadence got slower the last 2 days because of all the pressure:

> "Actually it was getting faster. A lot of times slower is a more moderate action. If they want to eat it they're gonna eat it. The faster it gets, the more they're instinct takes over – that allowed me to trick a lot of these smarter fish into biting.

> "Slower can also turn the tables as well. It's like either go big or really small – inbetween is so moderate and they see it so much that sometimes you gotta go polar opposite: outrageously slow or outrageously fast.

> "...I had to pull out every trick in the book. You made one wrong twitch, one wrong move [with the bait] – they were gone. It was probably one of the toughest weeks of fishing I'd ever had. Just mentally draining.

> "Every move, every big fish I saw my stomach just tense up because I knew if I didn't do every move exactly right it wasn't gonna bite – no matter what you were throwing."

Baits

How he picked his baits:

> "I always start with something a little bit more firm – a 5-6" [6th Sense] Shindo...a minnow we're coming out with [they already have it for saltwater and is sold on TW]. In practice that was the bait I found and caught them on.

> "That's a more aggressive take and then I would go more to the slow-falling [baits]...."

> 5-6" 6th Sense Shindo Shad (ghost pro shad, perch) on a 3/16-oz tungsten ball head with a 3/0 hook, 18-lb braid to 10-lb Seaguar Tatsu or Seaguar Gold Label fluoro ("Tatsu is the overall one I throw 24/7 no matter where, but I went to Gold Label because of the pressure – 10-lb Gold Label has a diameter of 8-lb Tatsu"), Lew's spin reel, 7' 1" M St Croix Legend Tournament Spin Rod.

> Leader length: "The longer the leader, the less feel and less response you have. Normally [length] is on the edge of my reel. If I want more action and sensitivity I shorten it down to halfway up the rod."

> Rod action: "To me that is one of the best minnow rods of the St Croix lineup. It has the right tip action to get any action I want whether it's a soft shake or hard shake, and it throw light, heavy and everything inbetween...."

> "Your rod is a very important factor for any kind of minnow bait that you're throwing. If it's too soft, it doesn't have the automatic pullback to make the minnow oscillate or roll. The main thing with the tip is you want it just light enough and just stiff enough that you can get a back and forth action. I call it recoil.

> "When I shake it, the butt of the rod hits my arm which adds another shake. So I can work half as hard and get just as much action as someone shaking it with their hand. I bounce it off my arm [so] 1 gets 2 [shakes], and 2 gets 4."

> 6th Sense prototype dice bait (gp and gp/red), #4 and #1 Gamakatsu G-Finesse Circle Hook ("if I got 'swerved' [the fish didn't commit] on the #1 I went to #4"), 1/32-oz 6th Sense Tungsten Nail Weight, 18-lb braid to 10-lb Seaguar Tatsu or Seaguar Gold Label fluoro, 7' 1" MF St Croix Legend X2 Spin Rod ("it's the lightest rod we've ever had – usually when you get lighter you get more feel but it becomes brittle...this is durable").

> He says 6th Sense is testing out several different dice-type baits (I think this means different shapes?) and the one in the Bassmaster pic is not close to final.

> "Definitely mayflies are a huge part of their diet...a slow-falling presentation. We have prototype dice baits at 6th Sense...trying to key in on that. They've been eating so many mayflies at a slow-falling rate, some fish just prefer that.

> "A slow-falling dice would replicate a bug, a creature...the same deal as a slowly-dying mayfly."

He acknowledged using other baits/techniques as well, but did not want to detail them for sponsor reasons.

Electronics

> "I had [FFS] 120' out on my Garmin LVS34 [trannie]. The crazy thing was is I had to catch them close to the boat because I could control my bait action a lot better closer to the boat."

> Color palette : "I like moss and Caribbean, but to me there's not one best color palette. [Every person has] different eyes and for me it's not important. My suggestion is to go play with them."

He said he hasn't changed his FFS settings since the start of the season, and does not change any settings based on the conditions.

For mapping he used Garmin shaded relief and Lowrance mapping as well – he has Lowrance for waypoint management.

Shoutouts

> "Bass Cat, Mercury – that's one of the most important things, getting me here and there. That boat rides good. It's not just a fast boat, good in rough water...and calm water...handles turns in tight rivers, and handle giant waves and swells."

Yeah he's not the IL Karate Kid, he's gotta be with Cobra Kai! 😁 Some good stuff, let's get to it:

1. The wins you got before were when you found fish other people didn't. This time you were on the same fish as a bunch of other people. So what was different this time, just getting the bigger ones to bite?

> "Where I was fishing basically was where everyone was fishing. Everybody knew about it. The last day 10-15 local boats were fishing all around me...it was definitely not a secret spot. This week...I was able to get those fish to bite."

2. Do you set your FFS significantly different than other people?

> "I do not. I feel like a lot of people are getting so good with it....

> "I have the same settings from the beginning of the year and still haven't really changed them. I might tweak them a little bit just to see if it makes a difference, but the only thing I might change is distance."

3. What's the key to being really great on offshore fish?

> "They key to being really good is to understand what your bait is doing, not just see a dot and throw at it – which everyone still thinks and that is not the case.

> "LiveScope [fish] for me are honestly getting tougher to catch than shallow fish. Because if you find the fish up shallow, a lot of times you flip in somewhere and they eat it on the fall. It's a lot of just getting it around the fish. Finding the fish is the hardest thing to do up shallow.

> "Offshore fishing the hardest thing to do is getting them to bite – just because everybody knows how to use [FFS] now and the pressure is significantly higher. So there's really no advantage nowadays to finding fish offshore because they most likely have been fished for, at a place like this, by half the world."

4. A lot of guys your age have gotten good fishing the FFS-heavy college circuits. How has your route [skipping college] helped you?

> "I wouldn't say it helped me. College is a great thing. A lot of travel and expenses are covered by the college. Me and my family took a risk...all out of pocket. If it didn't work out, I was out that money.

> "But college...you can get your travel and gas covered, which allows you to learn lot more freely, and not worry about...making a check in the next tournament to pay for you being on your own."

5. Would you ever think about growing a bassin' 'stache?

> "I mean heck my body really doesn't allow me to, but I'm trying to grow some stragglers right now. I kind of did it as a joke. ...my facial hair is kind of ridiculous and looks funny...I just went with the approach that I'm just gonna rock it and just go with it."

1. Tie at the top of the Elite AOY points

Here's the top 10:

1. Trey McKinney -- 690

2. Chris Johnston -- 690

3. Kyoya Fujita -- 650

4. Jay Przekurat -- 648

5. Patrick Walters -- 638

6. Taku Ito -- 629

7. Will Davis Jr -- 627

8. Tyler Williams -- 577

9. Logan Parks -- 570

10. Paul Marks -- 558

Next one is the Upper Mississippi out of LaCrosse. So classically not an offshore event, but Aaron Martens showed it's possible!

2. Ed Loughran got a day 1 DQ at St Clair

He finally punched John Crews after running up on him in a creek!

😆

Bahaha just kidding! Actually he was caught buying/smuggling Canadian "darts" for Seth Feider...

🤣

Okay, just messin'. It happened after a 3-hour inconclusive polygraph...

🤣🤣

Lol! Turns out Ed needed 3 licenses instead of 2 – he did not have the the Walpole Nation license and sounds like he didn't think he needed it. Never heard of needing a Walpole Nation license on the Great Lakes...? Then again, I've never fished St Clair.

3. GA: Cloudy day topwater bite on at Oconee...

...due to cloudy and cooler temps. Bass are schooling with stripers. GON post says the Rebel Pop-R (silver/blue back) and Zoom Fluke are the deal.

Line of the Day

AI was used for research, writing and editing.

Would you read that post (about Door County, WI smallmouth regs) if you saw that? Before you answer, check this:

Unless Reddit, Wikipedia, etc are populated mostly by all the geniuses in the world, I would say that "AI" is still very "A". #nogracias

"My hands hurt and my ribs hurt from setting the hook...."

- Nick Hatfield after winning the BPT's Knockout Round on Saginaw Bay. Sounds amazing. I think I've had one of those days in my life. You?

Insane in the membrane pic posted by @damikifishing on IG. Not sure what el smallio is about to do, but he sure is giving that Damiki Fat Armor Shad a serious check:

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