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Depends On The Bite

YOU EVER GET a topwater bite that makes you pee your pants a little? I got one of those last summer when a buddy of mine, Paul Michele, invited me to fish some south Florida canals out of his canoe. That said, a bass is not what caused my temporary incontinence.

“Have you ever caught a snakehead?” Michele asked a month before my trip to Florida.

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