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Wow, Puerto Rico is awesome.  We spent 5 days fishing the SW corner of the island on foot and we rented a boat for a couple of days as well. The main goal was tarpon but we'd take anything we cou …

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Little Black Stones are out!  Use a size 16 black copper john to imitate. Take a black sharpie and make the gold bead black or just tie them up with a black bead!  Midges are still very …

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Joey Paxman, a customer of Bob Mitchell’s Fly Shop, hooked up on this huge carp this summer in the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis. The Grain Belt sign in the background brings out the ora …

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A good day of muskie fishing is just seeing a fish, usually in the form of a follow. An epic day of muskie fishing is actually being able to hook one and bring it to hand. My good friend Rich Hohne fr …

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Having been a guide in Montana, cranking out 100 days straight on the water was the norm, and I didn’t get too many personal days on the water. Every great once and a while I would have a day off in t …

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Last year around this time I wandered over to the Kinnickinnic River in Wisconsin to do a little exploring. It was -10 below zero when I left Saint Paul that morning, and I was really just curious wha …

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