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    Reeling ‘Em In: Hard luck at the fishing...
    By Nick Varney • July 9, 2025 2:30 am

    The action wasn’t as hot as in the past, but neither was the run.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Fair weather expected for 4th...
    By Nick Varney • June 30, 2025 1:30 am

    Keep a heads-up approach when in traffic during the holiday — you don’t know who you’ll run into.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Kudos to anglers who adhere...
    By Nick Varney • June 26, 2025 2:30 am

    Line launchers mimicking the scofflaw’s method is one of the reasons fish get spooked and quit biting.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Old-timers cast their lines
    By Nick Varney • June 18, 2025 2:30 am

    The grizzled gentlemen have been coming down to Homer for over 35 years to ambush flats from their modest skiff in “secret holes” east of the Spit.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Tourism season shifts into overdrive...
    By Nick Varney • June 10, 2025 1:30 am

    On weekends, keeping your head on a swivel is a must.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Tough times all around
    By Nick Varney • June 3, 2025 2:30 am

    The lagoon wasn’t exactly a hotspot for king-popping last week even for the couple of fish-stealing thug seals that showed up.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing yarns and crowded shores...
    By Nick Varney • May 28, 2025 2:30 am

    The Spit resembled an Indie 500 parking lot and the road was a whack-a-mole experience.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Back on the fishing beat
    By Nick Varney • May 21, 2025 2:30 am

    Angling-famished fanatics are heading our way.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Back on the fishing beat
    By Nick Varney • May 21, 2025 2:30 am

    Angling-famished fanatics are heading our way.

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: It can’t be break-up ‘cause there...
    By Nick Varney • March 20, 2025 2:30 am

    I meditate a lot. Sometimes up to several seconds at once.

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: Winter ya gotta be kidding me
    By Nick Varney • February 20, 2025 2:30 am

    This “winter” has been an anomaly to say the least.

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: Trouble brews with Super Bowl approach
    By Nick Varney • January 23, 2025 1:30 am

    Alert! On Feb. 9, a certain segment of our population will come close to an OD on saturated fats and…

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: The little tree that could
    By Nick Varney • December 19, 2024 2:30 am

    Each year I receive emails requesting a repeat of a piece I wrote years ago about being away from home…

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: A butthead named Baster
    By Nick Varney • November 27, 2024 2:30 am

    Time now for the Baster saga that took place a few years ago

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    Nick Varney
    Unhinged Alaska: The Beast
    By Nick Varney • October 17, 2024 1:30 am

    We first noticed what looked to be trouble brewing in the far hinterlands of the Bering Sea while watching the…

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: So long and thanks for...
    By Nick Varney • September 5, 2024 2:30 am

    ‘Reeling’ concludes for this year, will return in 2025 summer

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