The Inside Line

For years, I was jealous of my wife Hanna, not only because she seemingly caught big fish effortlessly, but because she had so many new ways left to catch them. She didn’t catch her firs …

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I was beginning to think that the fishing world was in freefall. We had two semi-major professional events recently – a Bassmaster Open on Oklahoma’s Lake Eufaula and a Tackle Warehouse Invitatio …

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The Sabine River features one of the largest playing fields on tour. It stretches along the Texas Gulf Coast, from the Louisiana state line to Houston and miles inland. Yet, with all that wa …

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Thirty years into the industry, I’m under no illusions that anyone is ever going to ask me for serious feedback on what lures to produce, how to make them better, or what colors they should add t …

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I’m in Mexico this week, at Lake El Salto, doing some of the painful research necessary for my job as an outdoor writer.  I’ll be honest, we go in June every year (since 2013, with the excep …

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I just got back from our annual trip to Lake St Clair in Michigan.  We stay in a beautiful cottage on Harsens Island which requires us to take a ferry across the St Clair River.  The cottage is o …

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