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Outdoors: Good things come in threes

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 08/09/09

"the fish find us. If they're in an eating mood, we have a good shot at catching them."

Mark Smapson ­- For The Capital Chris Toner of Joppa poses with the 72-pound cobia he caught near Ocean City. The catch set a state record for the species.
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It's a given that fishermen set out to catch fish on every trip. There are occasions (relatively few) when we have a legitimate shot at landing a personal best catch. And then there are those rarest of times when a very large fish hits and we briefly entertain notions of greater glory: Catching a state or - dare I say it? - even world-record fish.

At some point during the day, the realization hits that the best we'll manage is dinner or a good yarn. True, the odds are stacked against anglers in the record-breaking...

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