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Shove Your “Unwritten Rules”

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In recent weeks we have seen Major League Baseball get embroiled in another round of unwritten rules childishness thanks to the baseball police, as Yermin Mercedes, a professional baseball player who is paid to hit the ball far, hit the WRONG ball far. The prudes and self-appointed “protectors” of baseball arrived on the scene to tell the rest of how it is “supposed to be done.”

Not calling how you’d like? Running and gunning? Using a shotgun you wouldn’t? Those aren’t unwritten rules.

Hey, Mr. Unwritten Rules Guy. Shove it.

And while we’re at it, let’s talk about how that same unwritten rules mindset exists among too many hunters and anglers, and why those people can shove it too.

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In Search of an Inshore Slam

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Being landlocked in Northeast Indiana doesn’t mean we don’t have water to fish. We’re blessed with a variety of small glacial lakes to chase fish of all sorts, but the grass is always greener somewhere else. I’ve really never been able to do much inshore fishing. My trips to such areas have been too short or too busy to get away, but the desire to chase shallow-water snook just kept deepening, along with desire for an inshore slam.

Tim Lesmeister surveys the water along an mangrove island in Gasparilla Sound

Then I got my chance.

I found myself travelling to Punta Gorda, Florida for a few days in late March this year, and inshore fishing was on the agenda. My mind instantly jumped to those feisty linesides that would be bulking up in preparation of the spawn, but I couldn’t help it, I got greedy. I wanted my inshore slam; snook, redfish, speckled trout.

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