The Inside Line

I know that 2020 and 2021 were tough on a lot of people, and I don’t mean to make light of anyone’s tragedy, but for me so far 2022 has sucked in a lot of ways, at least in terms of fishing. Back in …

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Back in the day, when I was more attuned to the college scene, occasionally you’d see a shirt that said something like: “Michigan: The Harvard of the Midwest” or “Vanderbilt: The Harvard of the South …

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My first encounter with the Yamamoto Senko came many years ago. I was fishing as a AAA at a Clear Lake WON Bass Pro-Am Tournament and at this time, the Senko was just taking off on the West Coast …

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As I write this, my friend Terry Battisti – who wrote for Yamamoto before I did, and was actually the one who recommended me to the then-powers-in-charge – is waging a tough war on behalf of bass …

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Some of you may not be old enough to recall that before The Inside Line became an online publication, it was actually a glossy, full-color magazine, and before that it was a professional-style n …

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The first and only time I went to Lake of the Woods, straddling the Minnesota/Canada line, was in the summer of 1984 or 1985. A friend and I had attended the aptly-named, Lindner-affiliated Camp …

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