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    The Monster Buck Tale

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Dr. Bill and the Monster Buck My friend and one of my favorite fishing buddies, Dr. Bill, was a Dentist. He was also a master yarner. I don't think he liked anything better than fishing, but story telling had to be second place. On this particular day we...
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    Blue Water and Golden Fish

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell From late 1981 till the Summer of '83 I lived in Ft. Lauderdale with Sunshine, my 1966 Boston Whaler Sakonnet 16 and an assortment of mostly fresh water tackle. Sunshine was a great boat for trolling in the Gulf Stream. Her Johnson 70 would put-put her...
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    The Search for the World's Finest Fishing Hole

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell I started fishing when I was about 7. I have told here in previous columns how I was introduced and coached by an ancient mentor. There were other mentors who tutored and coached me along the way and they took me to many fishing holes. "My" pond was (and...
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    The last voyage of the Julia Dean

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell December 22, 1858. On "The Africa Station" cruising for slavers. U.S. Sloop of WarVincennes, Comdr B. I. Totten, USN, Commanding. Vincennes has stopped and boarded a US flagged vessel, the barque Julia Dean. Leading the inspection/investigation team is...
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    Tom and the King of Lake Michigan

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Summer of 1981. In those days Lake Michigan was stocked with both coho and chinook (king) salmon. One of the stocking points was in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. After three or four years the mature fish returned to their stocking point to spawn. For several...
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    Summer Camp 1945

    I was 9 years old in the summer of 1945. A generous relative had arranged for me to spend my second summer at Camp Kingsley on Crescent Lake, Maine. Camp Kingsley was located on a peninsula where breezes protected us from the ubiquitous mosquitoes that plagued southern Maine. Crescent Lake was...
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    The Fathers' Day Present

    Father's Day, 1983. I was living in a townhouse in Treasure Cove on the Dania Cutoff Canal, south of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. My 1966 Boston Whaler Sakonnet 16, Sunshine, was moored in a slip a few steps from my door. I had owned her for some years and had fished with her all over the upper Midwest...
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    The wonderful SportYak II

    In mid 1964 I found myself boatless, living in town (Arlington, VA) with no garage or even a driveway. I parked on the street. I was tired of renting boats and there weren't any good shore fishing sites that I liked. I was raising 4 small ones and had very little to spend on fishing. We...
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    The Worst Boater I Remember

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell I think it was July 3, 2003. My son, John, and I were at the Angle Outpost Resort on the northwest angle of Lake Of The Woods. The northwest angle is a detached part of Minnesota but only a few miles from Ontario, where we did most of our musky hunting. We...
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    Mentors

    [Editor's note: We know many of our readers enjoy JB's articles. With his latest article, here's a chance to get a little personal insight into our friend and columnist "JB" and how mentors have influenced his life.] I was in diapers when my parents were divorced and 7 when my second step-dad...
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    Bass - One that got away and one that didn't

    As a young fisherman I fished for pan fish because I could catch a dinner string in a few hours. I occasionally saw bass in the gin-clear waters of my pond, but I considered bass fishing low productivity. Don't get me wrong, I would have liked to catch nice sized bass but I didn't think I had...
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    Catch One, Get One Free

    I suppose I was one of those small town characters everyone knows. Third of five children, of an aristocratic but impoverished widow, everyone knew that I lived to fish. When I returned from an expedition with a bike basket full of fish and my pole sticking up from the bike like the antenna on...
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    Evolution of a Musky Hunter

    From about 1970 to 1978 we took our summer vacations at Pine Ridge Resort on Big Sissabagama Lake at Stone Lake, Wisconsin. The resort was owned by my good friend and pheasant-hunting buddy Les Saumweber. I had read a lot about musky fishing but had never fished for them until Les invited us up...
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    The Fly Rod

    I was pretty happy with my willow pole, worms and a bobber for several years. The war was over and we had moved from the country to town, so I had to bicycle a few miles to my favorite fishing holes. I guess I was a pretty familiar sight cruising down Main Street on my bike with my pole sticking...
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    Troubleshooting

    Parts changing is the most used, most expensive, least effective and least efficient troubleshooting method known to man. Over the past 8 years I have probably read pleas for help from tens of thousands of people who have problems with their outboards. Most of these problems could have been...
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    Memories and Wild Tales

    Several years ago in 2003 I visited my old stompin' grounds of Southern Pines and Pinehurst, NC. I walked around an elegant golf course and stopped at a water hazard - a spring fed, crystal clear, partially lily pad covered pond of about three acres. Sixty-five years ago it was an isolated...
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    How To Winterize Your Boat: Part 1

    Maintenance & Repair > How To Winterize Your Boat: Part 1 Every winter, I'm the last guy around here to put the boat into storage. I'm the guy still taking her out, right into December, canvas up, sweater and layers bundled. It's probably one of the reasons I love my outboard so much, since I...
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    How To Winterize Your Boat: Part 2

    Maintenance & Repair > How To Winterize Your Boat: Part 2 Winterization of an outboard doesn't have to be hard and there isn't Voodoo involved. Here are some things to keep the innards and outtards of the engine in good shape during winter lay-up. Lower Unit Lower Unit - Before draining the...
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