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    Back to Schoolies

    Oct 17, 2020 3 minutes
    BY JAMES JOINER

    THE 2020 CHEEKY Schoolie Tourney was a bloodbath. Not for the fish, but for the fishermen. Nearly 500 fly anglers casting into, out of, or around 25 mph north winds, with gusts to nearly twice that, at times made the event something of a contact sport between anglers and their whizzing, wind-resistant bait patterns.

    Successful fly casting on Cape Cod’s coast is not something typically experienced by those lacking spirit or

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