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It’s not often that I get to spend a day on the water with my wife Tamara, but we do fish together on occasion. She’s by no means a die-hard angler but she has areal knack for the sport when she does it. In this video, she’s got a nice king salmon hooked up…
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Casting hardware for king salmon is a popular pastime on freshwater streams from California to Alaska to the Great Lakes tributaries. This time around, we’re going to take a quick look at s of the basics of tossing lures like No. 3-5 Mepps and Blue Fox Super Vibrax spinners as well as spoons like Little Cleos, Cohos, Pixees and BC Steels.
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It’s high time we started thinking hard about the way we manage our fisheries. The way things have been run in the past just aren’t working.?? We finally need to realize the incredible economic impact sportfishing has on this country…
As Kevin Costner kinda put it in Field of Dreams:: “If we build it, they will come.” In this case, the “it” part is healthy recreational fisheries and the “they” are dollar bills.?? Sportfishing is a gigantic business and can pump lots of money into local economies.
An entire tackle store arrived at my house the other day. When I found it, the shop looked cramped in my mailbox – the postman had obviously rolled it like a burrito to get it to fit and now its edges were curled halfway up the inside walls. As I pulled it from the box, the tackle store sprung proudly back to shape, revealing a glossy green cover that glowed brightly in the sun. And on that cover was printed the magic word – the one that makes your pulse rate quicken, your mind wander and your wallet quake in terror – Cabela’s.
You’ve heard the triumphant tail, er, tale of Steelie Dan, the homeward-bound steelhead, and a salmon named King and its tragic story of unfuilled destiny.??Now, it’s time to sit back and learn the ballad of the huge bass they called Jaws…
