Thanks a bazillion for watching and always being here. I truly appreciate all the support and compliments.. Makes the endless nights and effort 100% worthwhile. Looks like the weather might be starting to give in a little... let's keep our fingers crossed. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. Glad you enjoyed. Always a true pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a boat load for watching and leaving some excellent feedback. Glad to hear you enjoyed. I truly appreciate the support for the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a bazillion for watching and leaving some excellent feedback. Glad to hear you like the setup. Always a true pleasure to hear from you and have your great support for the channel. I truly appreciate you always being here. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate it and your support for the channel. Glad to hear you found it useful. Tight lines & take care ;)
Great video,very educational and explained to little details. Thanks captain, your channel is my favorite saltwater channel and your videos helps me to catch more fish.
Thanks a boat load for watching and leaving some most excellent feedback. I truly appreciate the compliment and your support for the channel. Glad to hear you found the info useful. Thanks again. Tight lines &take care ;)
Thanks a bazillion for watching and always being here. I truly appreciate it and your most excellent support for the channel. Makes all the endless effort completely worthwhile. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Hi Alex. thanks a million for watching. Yes sir, love the king fight. Especially that initial run. However, the best part of kingfish is the smoked fish dip :) Always a pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a ton for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate you always being here and supporting the channel. Make all the endless effort and sleepless nights 1000% worthwhile. Avi says "Hello sir" and "Thank you". you're correct he is a king slayer. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. A pleasure t hear from you and have your support for the channel. I truly appreciate it. Tight lines & take care ;)
Getting ready for this week! Do you use wire to wrap the top of the strip bait? Best videos by far! What other strip baits can work besides the Bonita if I run out? Thank you!
Great video. In NE FL, we traditionally troll live bait so this gives me another method to catching. It’s also grueling trolling live bait so slow in the summer with no wind.
Thanks a million for watching and sharing. I'm not knocking live baiting at all, definitely productive also. But once you give planer trolling a try and find your groove, you'll have out a planer line everytime you go trolling. Thanks again for your support of the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Great video full of valuable information 👍🏼🔥 I also enjoy tying my own sea witches and Mylar skirts. No better feeling than catching a nice fish on something you made yourself
Thanks a million for watching and sharing. I love making my own rigs too. That way when something goes wrong, I only have myself to blame. I truly appreciate your support for the channel and compliments, makes all the endless effort and sleepless nights completely worthwhile. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. It's just sort of an eyeball thing and experience with using certain lures. The bigger the lure the bigger the hooks you want to use. The key factor is that your trailing hook hangs out just beyond the end of The lure in the strike zone. I use the bigger hooks that way they are not buried inside the lure. Having hooks buried inside your lure is what causes short strikes. Hope this helps. Thanks again for all your support and always watching videos and asking great questions. Curiosity is what makes the greatest anglers. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing I went out couple days ago and no luck. I tried using downriggers and discovered the weights just can't take the speed then switched to planers and trolled for an hour over an area that had hard bottom structure with ledges but no luck. I was out in blue water and I have listened to people who said kings are caught in green water? Does that mean I could have been too deep? The lures used were the skirts I made just like the ones you showed how to make. The bait might have been too thick for trolling. The strips were a bit over 1/4 inch thick. What is the ideal thickness and portion of the bonita strip fillet? The silver part? does it matter? I figure next time troll over a public reef and see where that takes me. I'm new to trolling for king fish and not sure of the local areas for success. I might try offshore the Tampa Bay channel. Any advice for venturing out for the first time to locate possible areas for success? I did later catch a huge bull shark bottom fishing. Thanks in advance for the advice!
Great video Heath. I’ve been learning quite a lot from your videos. I’m fishing in the Caribbean ocean thanks for sharing your insights on trolling. There’s one question I need a ask you. How do you run your line through the double rollers? Is it straight through the rollers, or is it over the rollers through the middle?
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Typically, you lay your line on top of the roller, that way when the rod bends over, it activates the rollers and they spin to assist the line peeling out... also they provide less friction when retrieving the line. You don't want to go in between or underneath them. Hope this helps. Thanks again for all your support of the channel. Glad to hear you are learning. Good luck in your fishing journeys. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Thanks for your assistance Heath. I greatly appreciate it. I would really like to see you do a video on how to run the line on the double rod rollers. I’m still not sure what’s the correct way. I’m not sure if it’s the roller closest to the rod is referred to as the bottom or top roller. I’m not sure which one I string the line over first. I’ve been trying to see a demo video on the issue but I haven’t. Thanks again for your assistance
hi heath watch all you videos and has helped me for sure , i have a question you may be able to help with , when trolling with a lure like a concave head how do i keep the dark colour of the lure at the top and the light colour at the bottom , i heard that the hooks naturally point up but intrigued to know how to keep the lure as mentioned many thanks john
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. First, hooks do not naturally travel point up. More often than not, they lay flat on their sides or point down. They do make an apparatus called a hook stop, which can give your hook directionality and stop it from swaying while trolling. Or you can use heat shrink around the eye of the hook and a little bit of the leader. This does not promise the hook to point upwards. The real way to get the hook point up, is to get lures that are made to troll that way, for example Ilander lures have a leader hole that is offset from the center, making this the top of the lure.... So if you use that and some sort of hook stop to face the hook the same way, you'll get your desired hook facing up presentation. Hope this helps. Thanks for all your support. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Hi Heath thankyou for the reply that's a great help , i was experimenting with the hook position and came up with an idea to insert a small piece of mono alongside the leader in the lure head , this reduces the hole size and you can twist the hook into the desired position , the lure will still slide too , i'm going to give it a try , what do you think?
Once again an awsome video! I see you use the garmin gt23. I just installed this unit my self and still have to test it. What is the maximum depth you managed to spot fish at? (not sea bottom, but fish)
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Good catch on the technology I use, thanks for noticing. I've marked fish in 1400 feet. Swordfish to be exact. I don't really ever mark anything that deep, but when it showed up I was blown away. It's great for deep dropping in 800 too, finding structure for rosies and snowy grouper, or the mud flats for golden tiles. The factory transducer works great, very little time delay, I troll at 8 knots in 650 in it still reads without going silent. Hope this helps. Thanks again for your support of the channel, I truly appreciate it. Tight lines & take care ;)
WoW! wealth of info, thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they are greatly appreciated. I have a question, fishing this technique, what other species might we catch, I know depth and season may have yield different species. Say hey to Avi,
Thanks a boat load for watching and asking a great question. I typically describe planer trolling as meat fishing, because that's what it is. The range of species it catches reaches far and wide. I've caught mutton snapper, blackfin & skipjack tuna, dolphin (mahi), barracuda, sharks, blue runners, almaco jacks, bonito, sailfish, wahoo, and white marlin. yes, depth and time of year do play a part, but more importantly, you are fishing the water column. I've always believed that fish aren't always feeding up on top. This gets you down there, where you can't see. Avi says "Hello". Thanks again for always being here and your most excellent support of the channel. I truly appreciate it. Hope this info helps. Tight lines & take care ;)
Hi Heath, Great information for you South Florida fishermen. It must be nice to fish in an area that has fish all year long. Hope everyone's well, Mickey
Hi Mickey, thanks for watching. Florida is a great fishing state, the weather however, for the last couple of months has been nasty. Waiting for a turn around, so I can start getting back out, before spring, when the strong Southeast prevailing winds take over. Oh well.... That's mother nature in control. Everyone is well here, hope the same for you and your family. Take care :)
All your videos are very well done and packed with information - Thanks. Most lures, swivels, hooks etc I have been able to figure out the manufacture. But the mylar sea witches in this video have me stumped. Who makes them? Ill be fishing Marathon first week in June. Hopefully I'll get to yell "Dolphin in the boat".
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate your support for the channel. The mylar sea witches I get them from West Marine, couldn't find them online, I believe the manufacturer is Sea Striker... Next time time I head there I'll be sure to take note of it, as I take them out of the package and put them in the tackle box as soon as I purchase them. Good luck on your trip. Hopefully you do run into some nice dolphin. Hope this helps. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Keith - thanks for the timely reply. I leafed through a seastriker online catalog and came across 1/4 oz "ballyhoo" and 1/8 oz tinsel dusters with fluorescent red heads. Tinsel can be made of mylar and these look right - perhaps these are them. For the 1/4oz pearl (fd242prl) see www.tackledirect.com/sea-striker-tinsel-dusters-ssr-0075-3.html.
Thanks for looking. No, that's not it. That's a duster. that's good for trolling over a ballyhoo. Hopefully, I hit up West marine soon. I'll definitely get back to you on it. I have 2 unused ones in my tackle box, but I already took them out of the package :/
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Hi Heath - hope all goes well. I have sons in florida they found these mylar skirts at west marine. likely not exactly the same but i can put them oh backwards to make them - sea witches. the mylar looks like the witches you have in your video bluewatercandy.com/product/feather-weight/
Thanks a million for writing back to me on this. First, yes, what you found is pretty much the same thing and it will work. Next, literally, yesterday, I was at West Marine and thought about you.... So, I picked up a few more... They are from the company Sea Striker, and they are called Ballyhoo Dusters (weird because they're actually sea witches, but that's just name branding) here's the link for the next time you are looking for them: www.tackledirect.com/sea-striker-ballyhoo-dusters.html Thanks again. Good luck in your fishing journeys. Tight lines & take care ;)
Love your vids man. You should get into affiliated links, i myself have purchased the planners blue spoon and a bunch of things that I've learned from you. 💪 No bull work on those links I'd be all over those.
Thanks a million for watching and sharing your idea. Going to get on it. Hopefully, some of the more specific links I have for certain products, have an affiliation program. Don''t want to mislead anyone. Thanks again for your support of the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Here's a link to a wahoo seminar I did a few months back: th-cam.com/video/aX7lU6adTVE/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps. Tight lines & take care ;)
Hi Alex. Thanks a million for watching and always being here. Still waiting on the weather to turn around. Ready to do some slow pitch. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. Not complicated at all. If you break everything down to it's simplest components, it's not intimidating. If you try to absorb the entire method, yes, it can seem daunting. The only thing I can promise, is that once you get into the groove, you'll have a planer line everytime you hit the edge. definitely one of the more productive trolling methods. Always a pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks again for watching another one. You were on a roll. So, this info should be helpful on that Ft. Pierce trip, as I've caught more Kings in the area than anywhere else along the Florida coast. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)
Hey Heath another great video with tons of useful detail! Keep up the killer content!
Thanks a bazillion for watching and always being here. I truly appreciate all the support and compliments.. Makes the endless nights and effort 100% worthwhile. Looks like the weather might be starting to give in a little... let's keep our fingers crossed. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Awesome tutorial Heath..... keep them coming!
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. Glad you enjoyed. Always a true pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Good experience , thanks for sharing this info .
Thanks a boat load for watching and leaving some excellent feedback. Glad to hear you enjoyed. I truly appreciate the support for the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Nice setup captain 👍🏾
Thanks a bazillion for watching and leaving some excellent feedback. Glad to hear you like the setup. Always a true pleasure to hear from you and have your great support for the channel. I truly appreciate you always being here. Tight lines & take care ;)
Great instructions!!!
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate it and your support for the channel. Glad to hear you found it useful. Tight lines & take care ;)
LIKE all the way!! Good job!
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. I really appreciate it and your support for the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Great video,very educational and explained to little details. Thanks captain, your channel is my favorite saltwater channel and your videos helps me to catch more fish.
Thanks a boat load for watching and leaving some most excellent feedback. I truly appreciate the compliment and your support for the channel. Glad to hear you found the info useful. Thanks again. Tight lines &take care ;)
Great vid. Thanks!
Thanks a bazillion for watching and always being here. I truly appreciate it and your most excellent support for the channel. Makes all the endless effort completely worthwhile. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Nice video, I love how hard they fight
Hi Alex. thanks a million for watching. Yes sir, love the king fight. Especially that initial run. However, the best part of kingfish is the smoked fish dip :) Always a pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
You da man bro! Tell Ari we all said hello!!! I'm sure he's a King Slayer!
Thanks a ton for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate you always being here and supporting the channel. Make all the endless effort and sleepless nights 1000% worthwhile. Avi says "Hello sir" and "Thank you". you're correct he is a king slayer. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)
I am back is good to see you video captain.!!
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. A pleasure t hear from you and have your support for the channel. I truly appreciate it. Tight lines & take care ;)
Getting ready for this week! Do you use wire to wrap the top of the strip bait? Best videos by far! What other strip baits can work besides the Bonita if I run out? Thank you!
No wire to wrap the strip... just double hooks. Keep it simple. Barracuda straps if you run out of Bonito. Or just use a drone spoon. Good luck
Great video. In NE FL, we traditionally troll live bait so this gives me another method to catching. It’s also grueling trolling live bait so slow in the summer with no wind.
Thanks a million for watching and sharing. I'm not knocking live baiting at all, definitely productive also. But once you give planer trolling a try and find your groove, you'll have out a planer line everytime you go trolling. Thanks again for your support of the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Great video full of valuable information 👍🏼🔥 I also enjoy tying my own sea witches and Mylar skirts. No better feeling than catching a nice fish on something you made yourself
Thanks a million for watching and sharing. I love making my own rigs too. That way when something goes wrong, I only have myself to blame. I truly appreciate your support for the channel and compliments, makes all the endless effort and sleepless nights completely worthwhile. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
When do you use the 5/0 hooks vs the 8/0 hooks ? Thank you for a great source of information and willingness to share.
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. It's just sort of an eyeball thing and experience with using certain lures. The bigger the lure the bigger the hooks you want to use. The key factor is that your trailing hook hangs out just beyond the end of The lure in the strike zone. I use the bigger hooks that way they are not buried inside the lure. Having hooks buried inside your lure is what causes short strikes. Hope this helps. Thanks again for all your support and always watching videos and asking great questions. Curiosity is what makes the greatest anglers. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing thank you for taking the time to reply. Enjoy your channel
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing I went out couple days ago and no luck. I tried using downriggers and discovered the weights just can't take the speed then switched to planers and trolled for an hour over an area that had hard bottom structure with ledges but no luck. I was out in blue water and I have listened to people who said kings are caught in green water? Does that mean I could have been too deep? The lures used were the skirts I made just like the ones you showed how to make. The bait might have been too thick for trolling. The strips were a bit over 1/4 inch thick. What is the ideal thickness and portion of the bonita strip fillet? The silver part? does it matter?
I figure next time troll over a public reef and see where that takes me. I'm new to trolling for king fish and not sure of the local areas for success. I might try offshore the Tampa Bay channel. Any advice for venturing out for the first time to locate possible areas for success? I did later catch a huge bull shark bottom fishing. Thanks in advance for the advice!
Great video Heath. I’ve been learning quite a lot from your videos. I’m fishing in the Caribbean ocean thanks for sharing your insights on trolling. There’s one question I need a ask you. How do you run your line through the double rollers? Is it straight through the rollers, or is it over the rollers through the middle?
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Typically, you lay your line on top of the roller, that way when the rod bends over, it activates the rollers and they spin to assist the line peeling out... also they provide less friction when retrieving the line. You don't want to go in between or underneath them. Hope this helps. Thanks again for all your support of the channel. Glad to hear you are learning. Good luck in your fishing journeys. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Thanks for your assistance Heath. I greatly appreciate it. I would really like to see you do a video on how to run the line on the double rod rollers. I’m still not sure what’s the correct way. I’m not sure if it’s the roller closest to the rod is referred to as the bottom or top roller. I’m not sure which one I string the line over first. I’ve been trying to see a demo video on the issue but I haven’t. Thanks again for your assistance
hi heath watch all you videos
and has helped me for sure ,
i have a question you may be able to help with , when trolling with a lure like a concave head
how do i keep the dark colour of the lure at the top and the light colour at the bottom , i heard that the hooks naturally point up
but intrigued to know how to keep the lure as mentioned
many thanks
john
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. First, hooks do not naturally travel point up. More often than not, they lay flat on their sides or point down. They do make an apparatus called a hook stop, which can give your hook directionality and stop it from swaying while trolling. Or you can use heat shrink around the eye of the hook and a little bit of the leader. This does not promise the hook to point upwards. The real way to get the hook point up, is to get lures that are made to troll that way, for example Ilander lures have a leader hole that is offset from the center, making this the top of the lure.... So if you use that and some sort of hook stop to face the hook the same way, you'll get your desired hook facing up presentation. Hope this helps. Thanks for all your support. Tight lines & take care ;)
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Hi Heath
thankyou for the reply that's a great help , i was experimenting with the hook position and came up with an idea to insert a small piece of mono alongside the leader in the lure head , this reduces the hole size and you can twist the hook into the desired position ,
the lure will still slide too ,
i'm going to give it a try , what do you think?
Sounds good to me. Out-of-the-box thinking is the only way to make advancements sometimes.
Once again an awsome video! I see you use the garmin gt23. I just installed this unit my self and still have to test it. What is the maximum depth you managed to spot fish at? (not sea bottom, but fish)
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Good catch on the technology I use, thanks for noticing. I've marked fish in 1400 feet. Swordfish to be exact. I don't really ever mark anything that deep, but when it showed up I was blown away. It's great for deep dropping in 800 too, finding structure for rosies and snowy grouper, or the mud flats for golden tiles. The factory transducer works great, very little time delay, I troll at 8 knots in 650 in it still reads without going silent. Hope this helps. Thanks again for your support of the channel, I truly appreciate it. Tight lines & take care ;)
WoW! wealth of info, thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they are greatly appreciated. I have a question, fishing this technique, what other species might we catch, I know depth and season may have yield different species. Say hey to Avi,
Thanks a boat load for watching and asking a great question. I typically describe planer trolling as meat fishing, because that's what it is. The range of species it catches reaches far and wide. I've caught mutton snapper, blackfin & skipjack tuna, dolphin (mahi), barracuda, sharks, blue runners, almaco jacks, bonito, sailfish, wahoo, and white marlin. yes, depth and time of year do play a part, but more importantly, you are fishing the water column. I've always believed that fish aren't always feeding up on top. This gets you down there, where you can't see. Avi says "Hello". Thanks again for always being here and your most excellent support of the channel. I truly appreciate it. Hope this info helps. Tight lines & take care ;)
Hi Heath, Great information for you South Florida fishermen. It must be nice to fish in an area that has fish all year long. Hope everyone's well, Mickey
Hi Mickey, thanks for watching. Florida is a great fishing state, the weather however, for the last couple of months has been nasty. Waiting for a turn around, so I can start getting back out, before spring, when the strong Southeast prevailing winds take over. Oh well.... That's mother nature in control. Everyone is well here, hope the same for you and your family. Take care :)
All your videos are very well done and packed with information - Thanks. Most lures, swivels, hooks etc I have been able to figure out the manufacture. But the mylar sea witches in this video have me stumped. Who makes them? Ill be fishing Marathon first week in June. Hopefully I'll get to yell "Dolphin in the boat".
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. I truly appreciate your support for the channel. The mylar sea witches I get them from West Marine, couldn't find them online, I believe the manufacturer is Sea Striker... Next time time I head there I'll be sure to take note of it, as I take them out of the package and put them in the tackle box as soon as I purchase them. Good luck on your trip. Hopefully you do run into some nice dolphin. Hope this helps. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
Keith - thanks for the timely reply. I leafed through a seastriker online catalog and came across 1/4 oz "ballyhoo" and 1/8 oz tinsel dusters with fluorescent red heads. Tinsel can be made of mylar and these look right - perhaps these are them. For the 1/4oz pearl (fd242prl) see www.tackledirect.com/sea-striker-tinsel-dusters-ssr-0075-3.html.
Thanks for looking. No, that's not it. That's a duster. that's good for trolling over a ballyhoo. Hopefully, I hit up West marine soon. I'll definitely get back to you on it. I have 2 unused ones in my tackle box, but I already took them out of the package :/
@@SouthFloridaSaltwaterFishing Hi Heath - hope all goes well. I have sons in florida they found these mylar skirts at west marine. likely not exactly the same but i can put them oh backwards to make them - sea witches. the mylar looks like the witches you have in your video
bluewatercandy.com/product/feather-weight/
Thanks a million for writing back to me on this. First, yes, what you found is pretty much the same thing and it will work. Next, literally, yesterday, I was at West Marine and thought about you.... So, I picked up a few more... They are from the company Sea Striker, and they are called Ballyhoo Dusters (weird because they're actually sea witches, but that's just name branding) here's the link for the next time you are looking for them:
www.tackledirect.com/sea-striker-ballyhoo-dusters.html
Thanks again. Good luck in your fishing journeys. Tight lines & take care ;)
Love your vids man. You should get into affiliated links, i myself have purchased the planners blue spoon and a bunch of things that I've learned from you. 💪 No bull work on those links I'd be all over those.
Thanks a million for watching and sharing your idea. Going to get on it. Hopefully, some of the more specific links I have for certain products, have an affiliation program. Don''t want to mislead anyone. Thanks again for your support of the channel. Tight lines & take care ;)
Any good wahoo videos !
Thanks a million for watching and asking a great question. Here's a link to a wahoo seminar I did a few months back:
th-cam.com/video/aX7lU6adTVE/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps. Tight lines & take care ;)
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Hi Alex. Thanks a million for watching and always being here. Still waiting on the weather to turn around. Ready to do some slow pitch. Tight lines & take care ;)
Thanks for the video.. looks complicated :/
Thanks a million for watching and leaving some great feedback. Not complicated at all. If you break everything down to it's simplest components, it's not intimidating. If you try to absorb the entire method, yes, it can seem daunting. The only thing I can promise, is that once you get into the groove, you'll have a planer line everytime you hit the edge. definitely one of the more productive trolling methods. Always a pleasure to hear from you and have your most excellent support for the channel. Thanks again for everything. Tight lines & take care ;)
A lot of French clips 🤔
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Very informative Heath! Great job
Thanks again for watching another one. You were on a roll. So, this info should be helpful on that Ft. Pierce trip, as I've caught more Kings in the area than anywhere else along the Florida coast. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks again. Tight lines & take care ;)