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I then bind tightly over the shank of the hook and trace to stop the keeper hook sliding and allowing the bait to bunch up

Thru-hikers can burn 5,000-plus calories a day, and all that energy needs to be replaced so you feel energized on the trail

Where a lure-specific rod is stiffer and alerts the angler (and in some ways the fish) to even the slightest bit of tension change, bait rods like the Bigwater are much softer, indicating a subtle strike to the angler while offering enough play that, at least for a split second longer, the fish wont detect that there might be something wrong with this too-good-to-be-true offering

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Suspecting a record, Dembeck and his co-angler weighed the fish on a hand scale before taking it to a certified scale at Gibbys Seafood, where Maryland DNR staff confirmed the species and official weight