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A Mother of a Trout

By Gregg Patterson
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, May 12, 2008

It was a late Saturday night when I answered the phone. "Gregg, I caught a big trout today. You have to get up here. I think it's a line-class world record." It was my friend Howard "Rip" Collins calling. It was also Mother's Day weekend 1992. I remember telling him it was Mother's Day the next day, and I'd have to spend it with my wife and our 6-month-old son. (What?!? You have to be kidding me. You can tell I was newly married and stupid.) The old military man was kind to tolerate my indis ...

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