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The Plan

By Kevin Short
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, August 24, 2009

The plan was pretty simple: spend a few days in New York before the Elite Series event at Oneida Lake. Get in tune with the smallmouth. Learn a little more about the ways of the brown fish. Become one with my brown, Northern brothers. Yeah, well, that didn't work out so well. Smallmouth in the North are not quite like smallmouth in the South. SM in the North relate almost entirely to their food, as do SM in the South. The Northern smallmouth (NSM), however, rarely hang with their green cousi ...

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