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    • Surf Fishing vs. Pond Fishing
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    • Fish Stories
    • Shallow, Deep or In Between
    • Early Worm Gets the Fish
    • Good Days and Bad Days
    • Varying Your Retrieve
    • Fishing During Fascism
    • Fishing in a Moment of Victory
    • Setting Your Drag
    • Fish Here Now
    • A Good Day
    • Cleaning Up Hooks and Lines
    • Breaking Tradition
    • Angler in the Afternoon
    • Fishing with the Family Dog
    • Worms Work
    • Dreaming of Fish
    • Apres Fish
    • Ask the Locals
    • Practicing Patience
    • Angling with Aristotle
    • Casting for Accuracy or Coverage
    • The World is a Fish
    • It’s Not a Competition
    • Using the Wind
    • The Thrill
    • Fishing for Cats in the Balkans
    • Gear
    • Local Lures, Global Solutions
    • Catch and Release
    • Sharing the Jetty
    • Wonder Bread
    • White Man Fishing on the Cape
    • One Last Cast
    • Packing Up for the Season
    • It’s Called Fishing, Not Catching

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Gone Fishin’

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.  – Jesus of Nazareth, recruiting anglers to be activists,  Matthew 4:19 For everything there is a season.  On Cape Cod, where I do much of my fishing, the legal season varies from fish to fish and whether you are fishing in freshwater or salt, but… Continue reading Gone Fishin’ →

Study the Shoreline

The first thing I do when I find a new place to fish is study the shoreline. When I first started fishing I’d just show up, cast out anywhere and catch nothing, then watch as other people reeled in fish after fish. Now I’ve learned to hold back and look. Where are the shady spots?… Continue reading Study the Shoreline →

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