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Sometimes I wish I could say fishing isn’t nearly as philosophical as we make it out to be, that fishing is merely a hobby, and the end result is all we look for. No, actually, I don’t wish I could say that. If I did, and if I was willing to, then the insanity I have b...

It’s been a couple weeks, or maybe months, since the last “Meat and Potatoes” article, but spring is well on its way so I thought I’d throw another list together. These are some of my favorite bluegill patterns that always seem to work. But, there are a lot of factors...

There's a lot more than just the altitude that makes high mountain lakes different than Midwest farm ponds. Not many of them hold schools of bluegill being stocked by bass and the occasional blue cat.  Maybe there are, but nobody knows because all they do is fish for t...

This past summer Bill Butts, a good friend of mine, showed me an excellent streamer pattern called the Shuttle Cock while we were chasing hybrids on Truman. It's a popular fly pattern for temperate bass and I can personally confirm that largemouths hop all over it as w...