The Inside Line

The first time I tied on a Whopper Plopper in Mexico, my longtime guide gave me the side eye and then laughed. Five minutes later, he wasn’t laughing. The fish had clearly never seen anything lik …

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For most of the past decade, my wife, Hanna, and I have been fortunate enough to take two trips a year to Mexico for bass. Usually the first one comes in January or February, just to escape the c …

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Thirty years into the industry, I’m under no illusions that anyone is ever going to ask me for serious feedback on what lures to produce, how to make them better, or what colors they should add t …

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Through all of my trips to Mexico to fish, we’ve focused on the prolific tilapia as the forage of choice. After all, they fill the shallows and treetops, and pretty much every other trip we fin …

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After another week of topwater exceptionalism in Mexico, I have to decide whether to rehabilitate or euthanize on …

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Every second or third trip to Mexico we seem to happen upon two star-crossed lovers who died in a forbidden embra …

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