The Inside Line

When I caught my personal best smallmouth in Michigan earlier this month, I was fishing with Keith Combs, a resident of Huntington, Texas. When I caught my personal best largemouth in Coolidge …

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I love it when I start to feel that cooling in the air, because I know fall is arriving and the fishing’s gonna pick up. The fall season is my favorite time to throw topwaters, especially on western f …

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Over the course of the last two weeks I fished with a total of seven anglers who make their living on the water. They ranged in age from 24 to 68, with the majority of them in their 40s and 50s …

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Why do I write about fishing, sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of words a week? It’s first and foremost …

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On Wednesday I caught my personal-best smallmouth while fishing with Texas pro Keith Combs on a lake in the north …

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I just spent a couple of days in Missouri fishing with Chad Morgenthaler and getting a very preliminary introduction to the Garmin electronics I’ll have on my recently-ordered boat. Watching hi …

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