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The Fishin' Hole's swan song

By Sam Eifling and Kyle Carter
ESPNOutdoors.com — Jan. 10, 2007

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Mark Zona (right) takes his shots at Jerry McKinnis (left) with Tommy Sanders, Kevin VanDam and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the background. On the verge of retiring as a television personality, Jerry McKinnis, the host of The Fishin' Hole on ESPN, recently took a moment to lean back from his desk, cross his legs and reflect on the past 40 years. "I am not anything fancy or special," he said. "And I never tried to be." The sheer longevity of The Fishin' Hole, though, suggests McKinnis was ...

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