The Inside Line

How Far We’ve Leapt

How Far We’ve Leapt

Posted by Pete Robbins on Aug 27th 2025

In the first club tournament I won on a hollow-bodied frog, I fished it on 20-pound test monofilament, a line that I’m guessing most Capital-S-Serious bass anglers don’t even own today. Br …

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A Robotically-Shaped Writing Career

A Robotically-Shaped Writing Career

Posted by Pete Robbins on Aug 13th 2025

Thinking back on it, I shouldn’t be surprised that I still hold Roboworm’s original straight tail worms in such high regard. They were critical elements in the first two Classics I covered …

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Be Like Mike

Be Like Mike

Posted by Pete Robbins on Aug 8th 2025

I’m old enough and still sentient enough to remember when Mike Bucca was “Triton Mike” on the old Bass Fishing Home Page. Always positive, always helpful, but not yet a full-time mem …

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Dying to Fish

Dying to Fish

Posted by Pete Robbins on Aug 1st 2025

How many times have you heard the following phrase: “No fish is worth dying for”? I started tournament fishing 30 years ago and I’ve heard it a bunch – in local derbies, at the …

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Tak Deserves to Be in the Hall

Tak Deserves to Be in the Hall

Posted by Pete Robbins on Jul 23rd 2025

At the end of this month, baseball will focus on Cooperstown, New York, to watch the induction of the class of 2025. Five deserving retired athletes will join the limited fraternity of inductees. CC S …

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Talking a Good Game

Talking a Good Game

Posted by Pete Robbins on Jul 8th 2025

I have had a fair amount of opportunity to work with Jacob Wheeler lately. In recent years that hasn’t necessarily been the case because he fishes/dominates BPT while most of my work is for BASS …

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