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These are my top producers when fishing sheltered waters without taking a ton of tackle with me

But I rented a small fishing boat from a marina on the western shore and headed back toward the bay of my youth

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The Retrieve When fishing with surface lures, a slow, steady retrieve with gentle rod taps (the walk-the-dog action) tends to attract those takes