The Inside Line

My wife and I have one main goal in retirement: We want to be the people who pounce on the deal when the airline representative announces, “We’ll give you a flight tomorrow and a thousand-dollar …

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Anyone who has been around professional angling or professional anglers even a bit knows that life on tour is not an easy one. No matter how talented you are with a rod and reel, it still takes s …

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The St. Johns River lies within an hour of my home in north-central Florida, but the only time I fish there is when B.A.S.S. schedules an Elite Series event. So, by no means am I an expert on tha …

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Do you remember the great Elite Series Falcon tournament of 2008? Records were set and hearts were broken when they averaged 25 pounds a day and didn’t make the cut. The top 12 anglers all …

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The Harris Chain of Lakes lies within an hour of my hometown, yet I rarely fish there. It’s not that I don’t like that waterway, I do. It’s just that there are so many other options closer to hom …

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When I first joined a bass club in 1995, there was a guy named Steve who kindly invited me to fish with him quite often. Steve only had three, or maybe four, places that he ever fished. One of th …

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