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THREE DECADES of earnestly hunting smallmouth and I still marvel at the places I find them. The obvious spots—in deep runs; throughout pools; in riffles and depressions behind boulders; and in eddies that trout would relish—all make perfect sense to that part of my mind that understands trout streams.
But I’ve also found them well off from a river and utterly