The Inside Line

When I entered elementary school, Happy Days was the hot show on TV. I must’ve started watching it around 1975 or 1976, and even though it purported to take place just two decades earlier, that seemed …

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Most of us – no matter how much we’d like the honor – are never going to be inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame. There’s a high bar for future entries, as there should be. However, unlike …

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Like most bass anglers I am always on the look out for the latest and greatest. When I first saw the Yamamoto Covert Craw, I knew this was a bait that I wanted to have in my arsenal. Measuring 2.5” i …

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For several years my wife Hanna’s primary fishing goal has been to catch a marlin. She’s had brushes with opportunity: on our first trip to Guatemala in 2020 we spotted one patrolling a school of …

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Amidst all of the acrimony and complaining about the state of professional bass fishing, I’d like to inject my once-a-decade ray of sunshine. We have the path forward, a model for what things cou …

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There’s a lake that I’ve fished since late 1995 that is effectively bereft of vegetation. There are some lily pads in the backs of pockets, but most of them are in less than a foot of water and r …

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