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Whether you’re into fly fishing, bass fishing, salmon, jigging, popping, blue marlin, Power Bait or crawdads, this issue’s for you. It’s a guide to five disciplines: bass, inshore, freshwater fly, heartland and offshore. Fishing newbie? No problem—we give you the lowdown on all the gear you need to go. Completely obsessed? Check out the latest rod, reel and line setups. This ain’t Bubba’s fishing rag or some elitist fly journal. This is Hooked’s Fishing Annual.
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FEATURES
48) Kings & Corn
Up in the wilds of Alaska, Olympic gold medalist Tommy Moe and freeskiing rock star Jeremy Nobis guide clients to fat king salmon and sweet spring skiing. We sent a Colorado adventurer north to hop a helicopter with Chugach Powder Guides and see if he could hang with the big boys. By Isaac Woods Stokes
BASS: Think bass fishing is just for bubbas? Meet the new school of bucketmouth masters.
56) Be Like Ike
Love him or hate him, Michael Iaconelli is out to make the sport of bass fishing cool. The tattooed, break-dancing bad boy of bass wants to see the sport grow with more diversity, women and young anglers. The only problem is that everything that makes the New Jersey native so much fun to watch threatens to bring him down.
By Doug Schnitzspahn
59) Setups
64) Where to, Hot Bites, The Ride
65) Gear to Go
INSHORE: You don’t have to paddle out far to do battle with ferocious fish.
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67) Low-Ridin’ Fish Findin’
The sport of kayak fishing is booming, but most of its adherents are anglers who have just learned how to paddle. So we entered a lifelong paddler who had never fished out of her boat before in a kayak-fishing tournament. Now she’s hooked. By Kari J. Bodnarchuck
69) Setups
72) Where to, Hot Bites, he Ride
73) Gear to Go
FRESHWATER FLY: Nothing is more classic than fly casting for wild trout on quiet mountain streams.
75) The Singletrack to Paradise
Poor Buddy loved fishing for native cutthroat in northern Idaho’s Kelly Creek, but he never had the time to get to the deepest recesses of the drainage. Until one day it hit him: He could mountain bike in to the best honey holes. By Buddy Levy
77) Setups
80) Where to, Hot Bites, The Ride
81) Gear to Go
HEARTLAND: Here are big fish, big lakes and none of the snootiness or crowds you find in other parts of the country.
83) Faith Lies in the Boundaries
Smell something? This Midwesterner has a bad habit of getting skunked. So he decided to take a group of buddies to a place that never fails to deliver—even for him: Minnesota’s Boundary Waters. Did it work? By Jason Daley
87) Setups
90) Where to, Hot Bites, he Ride
91) Gear to Go
BIG BAD OCEAN: If you’re ready to take on the biggest, meanest monsters of the deep, head out to sea.
92) The Ballad of Señor Steve
Baja. For fishing bums from the US, it’s a mythical land of deserted beaches, sleepy fishing villages—and the best saltwater fishing on the planet. At least that’s how it used to be. Can an offshore angler ever find heaven these days in Cabo San Lucas? By John Byorth
94) Where To, Hot Bites
98) Setups, The Ride
99) Gear to Go
OUTTAKES
20) Deep (Cut)throat
Call it fish porn or call it the hottest new trend in adventure filmmaking, but a few bands of young anglers are making fly-fishing movies geared to Generation X.
23) The Big Uneasy
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita wiped out the sport fishing industry in Louisiana’s bayou country, devastating the livelihoods of local charter boat captains. The fishing is still fantastic, but will the tourists ever return?
32) The Big Picture: Angler-stomping cattle and tarpon at eye level
28) Sport x Sport
Tidbits from the world of outdoor sports: Lance Armstrong raps about retirement and fishing; joining the catfish brotherhood; bass fishing crime; fishy numbers; and more
37) My Backyard: The Cure Is in the Cast
When Dave Ames was diagnosed with prostate cancer he sought out opinions for treatment from every doctor he could find. But not one of them suggested the thing that gave him the most hope: fly fishing.
Last Updated: Apr 20th, 2006 - 12:29:54
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