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Untagged  23 Nov 2007 9:54 PM
Of Alcohol and Albacore by Tom Bie
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If I've had better domestic fishing trips, I can't remember them. Blitzing Albies, fish from the beach, pool and locol luches at the BT, fantastic food and one questionable movie night. Others have made posts on the forum, but now, you get to the REST of the story... 

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Untagged  6 Oct 2007 2:16 AM
Five Reasons Why I Love Fishing and Hunting News by Tom Bie

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1) Because there's just something about a dude wearing camo, holding a bloody bear carcass. (Headline inside: "Do Goldilocks a Favor.") Sure, you might not ask him to take your SATs for you, but when your gutless little hippy car slides off the road in a snowstorm, guarantee this dude rolls up in an F350 and pulls your pansy ass out. 

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Untagged  26 Sep 2007 1:46 AM
And Now, Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Fishing by Tom Bie
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I'm sick of waiting for Bie to make a new blog post. He's been fighting that shark for like two months. So here's a quick rundown since July, like Berman's Fastest Three Minutes:

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Untagged  3 Jul 2007 10:51 PM
San Diego Shark Attack by Tom Bie

I'm fried. Fighting butt buried deep in my belly, my left hand bends backwards on the foregrip of a 12-weight while my right hand palms the bottom of a Tibor, trying desperately to slow the spinning. The 80-pound blue shark at the end of my line is heading deep for another run (again), and I saw my backing knot disappear into the depths a long time ago.

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Untagged  23 Apr 2007 5:57 PM
One Wing, Two Wing, Red Wing, Blue Wing by Tom Bie

by Tom Bie

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Blue-winged olives are sometimes called “drab”—defined by Webster as “monotonous” or “dull.” But I think that’s a wholly inappropriate term. Winter is monotonous. Waiting for bugs is monotonous. Frozen lakes and rivers are monotonous. Bluewings are the bridge leading away from monotony, not toward it—they’re almost always...

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