Fishing Articles - Dave Masterson
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An Angler's Sanctuary
Anglers tend to collect equipment and gear over the years more so than other sports if you ask me. I have yet to see someone that's lets say is into football, does he have a 5000 football count in his garage?….Or box upon box of Football cards that he has...
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Back to Basics
Do you ever wonder how the fishing was back in the old days?
Before the $300.00 dollar reels, $500.00 dollar rods and $35,000.00 dollar bass boats. Back before the titanium spinner baits and super braided lines.
When I was a kid some of the best...
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Carolina Rigging
Because I guide on both Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn the Carolina Rig is a main stay for me. You will find two or even three set-ups on my rods if you were to open my rod box at any given time.
The reason a CR is so effective on these lakes and others is...
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Check Your Scales
Back when I was a kid we use to do something called pond hopping. I had this little husky trail bike at first, and then graduated to a Honda Trail 70, we knew every dirt road there was.
My dad cut the handle off an old feed car to make my muffler, which...
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Meet Dave Masterson
Biography: David Masterson
David Masterson lives Center Texas, a small town in East Texas. He is 46 years old and has been married to his wife Mary for 20 years, has two children Michael, 13 & Michelle, 15, and 3 big yellow labs. He retired from a...
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One More Cast
When I left for the lake that chilly Thursday afternoon I knew that a storm was brewing just west of Nacogdoches about 35 miles away. It was late November and was, in my book, and maybe yours, a perfect day to go bass fishing in East Texas. Upper 50s,...
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Outdoor Therapy
When was the last time you went camping? I mean really camping, like up in the mountains, deep in the woods near your favorite lake, or on some remote beach where the trout and redfish play.
If you ask me, in today's world of cell phones, pagers and email, ...
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Rocky Point in Panama
My story begins as I board a gutted out Fed-X plane on the outskirts of Panama City, Panama. The planes hold 3 across and is really quite nice for a gutted prop plane. As we start to take off, Panamanian men to the left and right of me did the cross and...
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Sabine Lake
We had decided to meet around six by the Pleasure Island Restaurant on Sabine Lake. Today I was going to be filming a segment called KTBS Outdoors, in Shreveport Louisiana. I was fishing with some friends of mine for big specks and I could not have picked a...
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Snake Charmer
I guess it was back in the early eighties when Billy Palmer decided to drain his lake and dig out around the banks. It was a classic East Texas farm pond, with one exception, the cows didn't have access to the whole lake.
It had all the classic features....
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