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If You Knew It Was Your Last For A While
The fall didn’t end on such a hot note. The decent weather sandwiched between Noreasters left little windows of fishability. If you weren’t in a position to capitalize on those slots on the quick then,...
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FLORIDA: Horse Country Rambling
“The pie and cake is mine to take,” –Don Edwards, Saddle Tramp There is irony in the fact that some of my best opportunities to catch native wild freshwater fish exist in manmade drainage canals...
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The Third Piling Far Right Is Paydirt
The buoy data reads NNW 20 and that’s that, the salt is taken off the table, but the fishing option portfolio is strong to very strong if you make an effort.
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Travelin’ Light
My new gig takes me on the road with a Pelican case full of gear. Checked bag fees make it hard to swing packing extra and carrying on a rod tube is questionable some days. Still the rule is a rod...
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Suburbia
Extreme couponers are stealing my recycling. Once I put it to the curb it’s in the public domain, I suppose, but when a black Ford Econoline creeps slowly in front of the house at 3am, it creates...
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Sing Me Back Home
I would never argue they’re the most challenging fish or that casting from a mowed patch of St. Augustine equates with an emerald bonefish flat, but it’s something I like to do. And on the technicolor...
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FLORIDA: The Ditch Slam
The whole thing started with the least of expectations. I had a rod and some time to kill due to a delayed appointment. I made some casts. I caught nothing. I drove to the appointment. Delayed again,...
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Accidental Triploid Encounters
As it swims closer along the bank it becomes apparent we are dealing with something of more substantial immensity than the chunky black bass standing sentinel over the drain pipe. It makes the heart...
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Color Safe
If I lived there still I might get tired of it. Maybe. (If I lived there I’d do everything possible to be in the express lane passing through Whitewater Bay.) But if I’m down there and I have a free...
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Orvis New York, This Thursday
I traveled. I fished. I caught fish. Hear the extended version at ORVIS NEW YORK this Thursday at 12:30 pm at 44th and 5th. Meanwhile, here’s a 50-second GoPro synapsis from two years ago.
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This One Time in Cuba
When the rain stopped the tarpon started running along the edge of the mangroves in numbers so thick they looked like they were being poured into the water, shimmering in the current like a silver...
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How To Make Cuban Coffee
The convenience store at the gas station had an aromatic little kitchen tucked into the corner, behind the registers, so there was no way to resist buying an empanada. I have heard two working theories...
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