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Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: Tough times all around

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

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Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing yarns and crowded shores usher in summer in Homer

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

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Reeling ‘Em In: Back on the fishing beat

Angling-famished fanatics are heading our way.

Nick Varney

Sports

Reeling ‘Em In: Back on the fishing beat

Angling-famished fanatics are heading our way.

Nick Varney

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Unhinged Alaska: It can’t be break-up ‘cause there was no winter

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

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Unhinged Alaska: Winter ya gotta be kidding me

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

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Unhinged Alaska: Trouble brews with Super Bowl approach

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

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Unhinged Alaska: The little tree that could

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

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Unhinged Alaska: A butthead named Baster

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

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Unhinged Alaska: The Beast

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

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Reeling ‘Em In: So long and thanks for all the fish

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

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Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing strategies — fake or real?

I mentioned last week that there are some unique challenges to writing this column because many of the…

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Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing tale as old as time

I’d like to indulge in a bit of nostalgia by sharing a column extracted from a dusty disk…