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Only about 10 percent of the energy at one level of the food chain passes on to the level above. It means that fish face an energy crisis pretty much all the time. Dr. Hal Schramm explains how food chains and webs relate to a water body’s carrying capacity, and why the abundance and size of gamefish are influenced by much more than angling pressure.
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Blue Cat Map
Cody Mullennix, a former blue catfish world-record holder, knows his stuff when it comes to tracking down trophies. We gave him a Navionics HotMaps Premium chart of an impoundment brimming with big blues and asked him to give cat hunters a glimpse into how he would attack it from midsummer through the month of September.
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 Light-Tackle HeayweightsSometimes you need to target oversize largemouths with light gear. Pro angler Gerald Swindle calls it “Hunting bears with a BB gun.” Here’s how he, Dave Lefebre and other top sticks fish drop-shot rigs, shaky heads and other small baits on light line to pick off the biggest bass in the area.
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