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Miss out on the last lure swap or looking to add to your custom tackle collection? Spread a little holiday cheer by joining our "Secret Sander" tackle exchange! Works like most "Secret Santa" exchanges, All US residents are welcome to participate. (Due only to timing issues and being late in the season) If successful, we will plan one worldwide earlier for next year. How it works: All participants will randomly receive the name and address of another participant to make for. Participants aren't paired or reciprocal, they will simply be chosen at random. You will not know who is making for you and vice versa. The recipient won't have a clue who you are unless you elect to tell them, you have the option of remaining anonymous by not leaving a name on the package. General rules: Must be functioning (usable) fishing tackle, made by yourself or your outfit. Must be US resident. Must be able to ship via USPS priority mail which includes free delivery confirmation. If you CANNOT ship by the posted deadline simply DO NOT sign up. Try and adhere to a fair market value of $10-$15 product total. Going over is fine if you're feeling generous. How to participate: FIRST Check the following link & make sure your postal address is available and updated in our system. We will pass your postal address to, and only to, the one member randomly chosen as your "Sander", otherwise your complete postal address remains hidden to the public as usual. After your postal info is available "Like" this post, to sign up. The "Like" button is located lower-right of this post. We will use this as our list of participating members. After cutoff, you will be privately assigned another random participating member to make for. Make and mail your gift before the postal deadline. Await your gift to arrive shortly after Christmas! The most important thing is to follow through with your gift. It only works if everyone sends something and gets something in return. Signup's are open from now until Sat. Dec. 17th. After which you will receive your addressee via PM. Merry Christmas Everyone! Jerry "redg8r" p.s. I know the name "secret sander" is corny, feel free to pass along a funnier name if you come up w/ one

This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about Sonny. And just because some group has the words conservation or environment in their name doesn't mean they are actually trying to help fish stocks or improve wildlife habitat. To them conservation means only one thing and that's to ban all hunting and fishing. And just because you see or hear about WalMart donating to some conservation or environmental group doesn't mean they're trying to help the wildlife. Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to get the whole story. A lot of these groups know they can't win a straight up fight where both sides are aware of what the other is doing so they prefer to hide behind these so called eco friendly names so they can accomplish their goals without alerting anyone but the most vigilant. The question has been brought up as to why WalMart would sponsor one of the premier tournament trails and still donate money to people trying to put an end to all hunting and fishing. While I can't answer that question it doesn't surprise me in the least to think they would do this. How many times has one corporation donated money to both sides in an election? They don't care who wins. They just want to have their hooks into whichever side does win. The coast line seems to be where most of the effort is being placed right now, but once they get what they want on the coast do you actually think they will stop there? I personally don't think they will. It's ours to win or lose. I just hope that future generations will still have a place in the outdoors to learn to fish and hunt. Ben