Sunday Classic / High Point

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Tim looks like he has swallowed his tongue. He's pale, eyes dilated, the corners of his mouth twitching. He's soaked in sea water, eyes burning and red. His fingers digging into his seat bottom, he squints and stiffens like a corpse preparing for the next...

Sunday Classic / Tarpon On The 4 Weight

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Let me be clear on this…I am not a dumb ass. Well, at least not a big enough dumb ass to try and catch a tarpon on a four weight. But I did buy a new four weight reel the other day and a ten...

Gary Merriman Ties The Tarpon Toad

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I'VE KNOWN GARY MERRIMAN FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT HE WAS THE CREATOR OF THE TARPON TOAD. The Toad is a great pattern and almost anyone who has fished for tarpon has tied one on at some point....

Sunday Classic / Conch And Beer For Dinner Again?

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By now I'm back from the Bahamas long enough to stop grumbling about the cold but not quite long enough for the line burns to have healed. I've done my best to rid the world of Conch and Kalik but if you can find any...

Bonefish On Bamboo

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I'LL BE HONEST, WHEN BROWER MOFFIT PUT THIS BEAUTIFUL, FLAMED, THOMAS AND THOMAS NINE WEIGHT SALTWATER PROTOTYPE CANE ROD IN MY HAND MY EXPECTATIONS WERE LIMITED. Saltwater bamboo? This has got to be a gimmick, I thought. A rod designed to separate some wealthy fellow from...