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Dave Mercer Announces Winner of Hook, Line and Subway® Contest
October 19th, 2011Hamilton, Ontario – Dave Mercer announced the grand-prize winner of the 2011 Hook, Line & SUBWAY® contest earlier today. The recipient, David Baker, was presented with his prize this morning at the Subway located at 101 Queenston Road in Hamilton. Dave Mercer drove up to the SUBWAY® restaurant with the bass boat, a Skeeter FX20 [...]
No shrimp on the Barbie for you!
October 14th, 2011Reports out of Queensland, Australia have indicated that both commercial and recreational fishermen in the area had been afflicted with mysterious skin boils and lesions. According to one industry rep, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of local commercial fishermen broke out in what can best be described (by me) as the worst type of [...]
Let it snow?
October 3rd, 2011I’ve fished tournaments in the snow before, but the coldest I’ve ever been while in a boat was on a day when it WASN’T snowing. It was the first day of the 2008 Bassmaster Classic on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell. When I think of SOUTH Carolina, it’s warm weather, good fishing and good food that [...]
Calamari Fiesta
September 28th, 2011According to the Los Alamitos Seal Beach Patch (that’s a hard newspaper name to digest), there’s some good news: Humboldt Squid (also hard to digest) have invaded the waters off Huntington Beach, California and are ripe for the picking. The paper tells us that one boat out of Long Beach Marina “encountered the 2-5 lb [...]
Split Personality
September 22nd, 2011Little Davey Wolak had a big payday at Lake Champlain this past week, earning $125,000 for his efforts. But in many ways it was a joint effort – not only did is the lake split between New York and Vermont (as well as Canada), but Dave’s 80+ pound catch was part smallmouths and part big [...]
Just finished a 8.50KM run along the Arkansas River in down town Little Rock #CommitToFit http://t.co/PSunyIv5
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