Author: Mike Cheatham
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Berkley Hot Rod and me….
My retirement will be welcomed one day; yours leaves me saddened and a little lost. How do you say goodbye to an old friend? What words can be written to capture the joy, the number of smiles that a friend was a part of? When for over twenty five years, we…
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Not the only way….
I wish I had time to make a video for the CAKBFG guys today since many have told me they have no idea how to catch crappie and bluegill with artificial bait. I have done it so long…guess I just assumed everyone had an idea how to do it. All…
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Hypothesis…it ain’t me…I can fish…??
Yesterday, my need to prove something helped me to a 13th place finish. That story…….. I have fished most of my life, starting on our family’s drive to Alaska back in the late 60’s up until this morning (so far). Not really competitively, but just to fish….there had been two…
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who gives a duck……
I have been asked several times about the duck mounted on the Engel cooler I carry on back of my Hobie. So………. 2011 I married my Joy. My Joy’s favorite holiday is Christmas. Every year there is a stocking taller than Dishrag full of everything from silly putty to a…
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….dude…you can’t….
I had convinced myself that I should not fish the Hobie Open; a little voice in the back of my head telling me again and again, “you can’t fish on Ky Lake”. “Dude, you don’t know how to ledge fish….you don’t know where to start fishing big water…you don’t know…”…
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Dude…I am fishing here…
I realize to you, I am just some other person in a little boat. I realize I don’t appear to be as serious as you without a 20ft, 250 hp fiberglass boat. I realize that you cannot see the hours I put in learning to fish the same patterns as…
Topwater Moon 