Popping The Ball, Why Guides Release Fish

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By Brian Kozminski If you popped a basketball every time you make a basket, you might be missing the point. It's a burning issue, and hot topic across the midwest right now. Nothing new for me, really. I received a call from a potential client the other...

Don’t get yourself caught in a tight spot!

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By Justin Pickett "MY MOUTH SPEWED WITH EXPLETIVES. MY BUDDY’S FACE WAS BLANK. I KNEW THAT IT WAS THE RESULT OF SEVERAL POOR DECISIONS." Recently, I headed up north with a great friend of mine to fish a small stream in north Georgia. Over the past couple...

River Of Dreams

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By Louis Cahill I DREAM OF WAKING IN A FOREST. Or where a forest had been, now sooty black. Smoke swirls, orange eyes peer from hunks of coal. Charred trees accuse the sky. White ashes whirl in the air, angels lifted to heaven. I've slept through some...

A Southern Angler in Patagonia

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By Kevin Howell AS THE VOICE OVER THE INTERCOM SAID, "EN PREPARACION PARA EL ATERRIZAJE" (IN PREPARATION FOR LANDING) I STARTED TO GET THAT FEELING IN MY STOMACH. Was this trip going to be worth the travel and the money, what was the weather going to be...

The Road To DIY Bonefish

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If I live to be a hundred, I'll never forget the first bonefish I caught on my own. I can't tell you how rewarding it was to wade a flat and feel like I knew where the fish would be and when. To have all the...