The Inside Line

On Saturday I set out for a local lake, anxious to put my forward-facing sonar to the test after months of plowing through the Potomac’s thick grass in less than 4 feet of water. Just one problem – i …

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The Upper Mississippi is nothing like its “Big Muddy” version in the south. Its northern waters are generally clear and lush with vegetation. Among its manmade features are wing dams …

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As the Bassmaster Elite Series entered the final leg of the season, I couldn’t help but think of what was at stake. New York was good, but not great. And, as a result, I was hovering just …

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How can they call it the “World Series” if only American teams are invited? That was more or less the conundrum that bass fishing suffered from for a long time. Even though like baseball, the spor …

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We’re into the stretch runs of both major tours in season number four of the post-divorce bass world and things seem to have equalized. The Bass Pro Tour is in New York, and the Elite Series is e …

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No stop on the Bassmaster Elite Series excites me more than the Thousand Islands in Upstate New York. It’s beautiful there, and the fishing is fantastic. Both smallmouth and largemouth are plentiful …

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