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That was the case with all of the western reservoirs – Mead, all of them.”
He also misses the comparatively easy runs that dominated his left coast days. In a bad wind, he could run the protected side of a lake, but on many of the timber-laden lakes of the Lone Star State you have no choice but to run the boat lanes: “That was a major adjustment and a lot of times you just have to get the crap beaten out of you.”
Those same trees are often the reason that he can fish in a more concentrated area in his adopted home state. Even when he’s fishing an outside tree line with forward-facing sonar, he’s casting at or around something. In his “previous life,” however, he had to “move around a lot because there’s not a lot of structures, just long, tapering points and mud points, which is why those fish tend to suspend a lot.”
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