The Inside Line

I have a lot of bass fishing memorabilia in my home office, some of it theoretically valuable on the open market, some of it valuable only to me. Of course, it includes lots of lures – one signed …

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Just six weeks until the Bassmaster Classic, the second time the big show will be held in Knoxville, and while there’s lots of fishing to go before the competitors launch their boats, at the same …

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Hang around the fishing world long enough and you’re going to run into some world-class talkers. Heaven help you if they’re your partner on the stressful day of a big tournament. The best you can …

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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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"If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?" -Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas  I’m not going to go so far as to say that the Bassmaster Cl …

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When the Bassmaster Classic was rescheduled from March to June last year, it put me in a bind – I was already scheduled to host a group at Lake El Salto that week. Even if the two events hadn’t overl …

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