The Inside Line

I’ve traveled pretty widely to fish, both domestically and internationally, and while there have been times when I haven’t had the right tackle (or enough of the right tackle) I can categorically …

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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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I’m in Canada this week, just over the border from Minnesota on sprawling Lake of the Woods. Other than trips to St. Clair, which feels much more like Detroit than the Great White North, …

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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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I’ve spent enough time in the boats of top pros to know that there are dozens of reasons I could never compete at the top level. Most of them do just about everything better than the weekend angl …

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I’ve never been a Princeton fan, but for decades I’ve been a fan of their longtime basketball coach Pete Carril, who died this week.  Those of you who think that basketball begins and end …

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