It sure won’t make the pages of a fishing publication, but I was feeling my oats – a couple days growth of beard, unshowered, standing in “pooty” water swinging a nymph past a waterlogged couch..

That ain’t hardcore – hardcore is tying a magnet to the end of the line and fishing for slag. As the price of metals increase, Chinese anglers are doing just that – fishing magnets in local streams for iron ore.

No, it isn’t catch and release, it’s catch and eat, and my only question is what kind of retrieve works best. I’m guessing it’s strictly a downstream presentation – but is it the “hand twitch” or the “steady strip?”

Pure Hardcore. I promise to quit whining about the Little Stinking being off-color, and am scared to ask what these stalwarts are standing in..

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